Category: Cyber
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Attackers Tampered with AOMEI Backupper’s Update Servers for Minutes to Deliver a Backdoor
Attackers repeatedly changed the files that AOMEI Backupper fetches from the vendor’s own update servers, in windows of five to ten minutes at a time between May and July 2026, so that any copy of the Windows backup program that checked for an…
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UAT-11985 Uses Fake Event Invites to Target Taiwan Research Affiliates With Google AitM Phishing
Ravie LakshmananOct 16, 2026Phishing / Artificial Intelligence Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of an advanced persistent threat (APT) spear-phishing campaign that has targeted individuals affiliated with Taiwan research…
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Security Guard Assaulted in What Police Call a Hate Crime
A security guard was punched in the face twice, held in a chokehold and told to “go back to [his] country” in an attack police have labelled a hate crime.The security guard, a 49-year-old man from Covina, was escorting two trespassers out of…
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AI Hacking Breach Hits 16 Financial Institutions, Leaks 100,000 Records
The financial sector was recently targeted by an AI hacking attack, leaking approximately 100,000 personal records. The current known total of impacted institutions is 16, including banks, virtual asset companies, and electronic financial…
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Cybersecurity incident at BAE Systems disrupts US bankruptcy court system
A cybersecurity incident at BAE Systems has halted the production and delivery of bankruptcy notices for every federal bankruptcy court in the United States, disrupting a core administrative function of the judiciary with no announced…
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OpenAI Claims Model Helped Solve Insider Threat Concern
An OpenAI engineer allegedly hid an audio recording device in an executive conference room at one of the organization’s San Francisco offices. Abdulrahman Alfozan, 35, allegedly queried a “productivity agent” and an AI chatbot for several…
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Proofpoint lines up $6.3 billion deal for Varonis’ data security
Cybersecurity giant Proofpoint says it will acquire a similarly long-running company, Varonis, in an all-cash transaction worth $6.3 billion. “The combined company will serve more than 16,000 enterprises and millions of organizations…
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OpenAI Research Model Spent 3rd-Party Test ETH Without Permission to Deploy Smart Contract
Ravie LakshmananOct 16, 2026Artificial Intelligence / Web Security OpenAI has disclosed seven new incidents in which its artificial intelligence (AI) models exhibited misaligned behavior, including one case where its research model, after…
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Moscow police detain suspected DataSuckers hackers linked to breaches in Ukraine and Russia
Russian authorities have reportedly detained three suspected members of the DataSuckers hacking group following a cyberattack on a popular restaurant chain that exposed vast amounts of customer information. A Moscow court on Wednesday placed…
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Baltimore suburb confirms August data breach after ransomware claims
Officials in Anne Arundel County, Maryland, confirmed that hackers stole files from government systems during an incident in August. A county spokesperson told Recorded Future News that they discovered “irregular activity” on August 28…