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data leak
Hacktivists leak 41,000 DHS staff records, revealing undercover ICE agents

Names, offices, contact details and assignments of more than 41,000 U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) employees have been leaked by a hacktivist group calling itself …

Germany
345,000 email addresses stolen in cyberattack on Germany’s far-right party AfD

Over 345,000 unique email addresses were exposed in the September 2026 breach at German far-right political party Alternative für Deutschland (AfD). Breach notification …

US Department of Justice
FBI seizes Virtualine, bulletproof hosting provider that promised to shield criminals from police

The FBI has seized virtualine.net, the domain of a bulletproof hosting provider that laundered money for its criminal customers and kept a forum trading in child sexual abuse …

Sony
Data breach at Sony-owned internet provider compromises 2.6 million customer records

Attackers who broke into the So-net member database made off with personal information belonging to more than 2.58 million current and former customers, along with the email …

Microsoft Teams
Hackers bury inboxes in spam then show up on Microsoft Teams posing as IT support

Threat actors are flooding employees’ inboxes with spam and then contacting them on Microsoft Teams as IT support, offering to fix the problem they created, Arctic Wolf has …

University of Copenhagen
Cyberattack on University of Copenhagen exposes data of 525,000 people

The University of Copenhagen (UCPH) has ruled out a second cyberattack, saying the activity that led it to shut down several administrative systems on Monday is tied to the …

DreamHost
DreamHost incident triggers password resets, locks customers out of email and FTP accounts

DreamHost has brought its File Manager back online after an incident that disrupted several of its services, though some of its customers still can’t get into their …

AI vs human
Security pros reckon the biggest AI risk comes with an employee badge

Employees pasting company data into AI tools worry security teams more than AI-powered attacks do. Most-concerning risks of AI agents (Source: O’Reilly) AI-generated phishing, …

AI
AI coding agents fall for malicious instructions planted in the Downloads folder

A file that a website saves to the Downloads folder without approval can trick AI coding agents into installing a malicious npm package or handing over the user’s login token …

undersea cable
UK proposes 14-year jail terms for subsea cable saboteurs

Damaging a cable on the seabed off the UK coast could soon cost someone 14 years of their life behind bars, under plans the British government published this week. The …

email
Microsoft 365 accounts compromised at 79 organizations, no passwords needed

An attacker who spent ten weeks replaying stolen Microsoft 365 sign-in sessions broke into email accounts at 79 organizations and used hidden inbox rules to keep victims from …

gaming
Capcom data breach exposes 11.7 million account records

Players who signed up for Capcom’s online account service may want to look twice at emails that seem to come from the company. The company has disclosed that a third …

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