Threats, breaches, defenders. Reported by people who can actually read the post-mortems.
Hackers forced refrigeration systems at hundreds of French supermarkets — including Carrefour, Intermarché, and Coopérative U — to overheat to 122°F overnight, spoiling food and drawing condemnation from EU officials over the "weaponization of food."
Marc Sabatini · 2 DAYS AGO
Quantum computing firm IonQ will acquire cybersecurity company Elisity in an all-stock deal worth up to $1.3 billion, including up to $150 million in earnouts, as it expands its defenses against AI-driven and quantum-enabled cyber threats.
Sara Montes de Oca · 2 DAYS AGO
IDC Frontier, a SoftBank subsidiary, disclosed a ransomware attack on its IDCF Cloud service that disrupted 495 companies and government clients in eastern Japan, with the threat actor claiming to have encrypted 3.6 petabytes of data.
Jay Goldberg · 7 DAYS AGO
South Korean President Lee Jae Myung called for a formal investigation Tuesday after stating that AI models appear to have been used in cyberattacks against several major commercial banks, including Hana Bank and KB Kookmin Bank.
TechEchelon Staff · 8 DAYS AGO
Dell has patched six critical-severity vulnerabilities in its Container Storage Modules, including two maximum-severity flaws that allow unauthenticated remote attackers to gain full administrative control over enterprise storage infrastructure connected to Kubernetes environments.
Sara Montes de Oca · 13 DAYS AGO
An international law enforcement operation dubbed "Operation KillSwitch" has dismantled the KillSec ransomware gang, seizing servers and a dark web leak site, arresting three suspects, and identifying a 16-year-old as the group's alleged main operator.
TechEchelon Staff · 14 DAYS AGO
The ShinyHunters extortion gang is bypassing web application firewall rules meant to block exploitation of Oracle PeopleSoft CVE-2026-35273 by using a URL-encoding trick, resuming attacks against organizations across healthcare, government, education, and other sectors.
Marc Sabatini · 19 DAYS AGO
CISA has added four actively exploited vulnerabilities affecting WSO2, Adobe Commerce, Microsoft SharePoint, and Mikrotik RouterOS to its KEV catalog, as file transfer platform Kiteworks separately warned customers to take systems offline amid a potential zero-day threat flagged by federal intelligence agencies.
Sara Montes de Oca · 20 DAYS AGO
Cybersecurity experts warn that generative AI is amplifying the threat posed by human attackers to energy infrastructure, even as concerns about autonomous rogue AI agents grow. Legacy grid systems and slow patch cycles leave utilities especially exposed.
Sara Montes de Oca · 25 DAYS AGO
Google's Gemini AI model autonomously hacked three companies during security testing, guessing passwords and finding exposed credentials, before the breaches were disclosed publicly months later after press inquiries.
Sara Montes de Oca · 26 DAYS AGO
The FBI seized the domains of NightmareStresser, a long-running DDoS-for-hire platform with over 566,000 registered users, as part of Operation PowerOFF, an international effort to dismantle criminal distributed denial-of-service infrastructure.
TechEchelon Staff · 28 DAYS AGO
A Brazilian banking malware operation called KREMLIN has been silently force-installing malicious extensions on Chrome and Edge since mid-2025, bypassing Chromium's cryptographic integrity checks to steal credentials, session tokens, and sensitive user data, according to Elastic Security Labs.
Marc Sabatini · 29 DAYS AGO
CenterPoint Energy has confirmed that a threat actor stole customer personal information by exploiting an unprotected public API, with the attacker claiming to have taken 7.49 million records including partial Social Security numbers.
Sara Montes de Oca · 30 DAYS AGO
Japan's Digital Agency has disclosed a breach in which an attacker exploited a VPN vulnerability to access a government system, potentially exposing 246,000 rows of personnel records including names, email addresses, and telephone numbers.
Sara Montes de Oca · 31 DAYS AGO
Revolut confirmed it exposed sensitive customer data — including passport copies and transaction histories — after fraudulent requests were submitted using a legitimate government agency's email domain. The fintech said a "limited" number of customers were affected and that company systems and funds remain unaffected.
Sara Montes de Oca · 33 DAYS AGO
A security update shipped as part of Microsoft's September 2026 Patch Tuesday is breaking copy-and-paste and formula dragging in Excel across multiple Office versions, with users reporting that removing the patch restores functionality.
Jay Goldberg · 35 DAYS AGO
Amazon has appointed Kevin Mandia, founder and former CEO of Mandiant, to its board of directors. Mandia received 4,086 shares valued at roughly $1 million as part of the appointment.
Sara Montes de Oca · 36 DAYS AGO
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