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Police arrest 10 suspected members of Black Axe cybercrime gang

A coordinated police operation in Switzerland has targeted suspected members of the Black Axe criminal network. On 28 April 2026, authorities carried out house searches across …

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ShinyHunters claims it stole 1.4 million records from Udemy

The ShinyHunters group claims it has breached the Udemy, one of the world’s largest online learning platforms. According to Have I Been Pwned, the leaked dataset contained 1.4 …

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Alleged Chinese hacker extradited to US over cyberattacks targeting COVID-19 research

Chinese national Xu Zewei was extradited from Italy to the United States to face charges tied to an alleged cyber espionage campaign that breached thousands of computers …

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Open-source privacy tool BleachBit 6.0.0 upgrades code signing across Windows and Linux

System cleaning utilities have grown more relevant as web browsers stockpile larger volumes of cached data, tracking artifacts, and site storage on local disks. The …

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OpenAI releases Symphony to automate Codex work through Linear

Engineering teams running coding agents at scale find themselves managing dozens of parallel sessions across browser tabs and command-line windows. OpenAI has released an …

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ICS intrusion detection has blind spots that complicate plant security

Industrial control systems on plant floors run alongside a growing layer of monitoring software meant to catch intruders before they reach a turbine, a valve, or a chemical …

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500,000 UK volunteers’ medical data listed for sale on Alibaba

Medical data from around 500,000 British volunteers in the health research project, the UK Biobank, was offered for purchase through the Chinese marketplace Alibaba, the …

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Hackers claim millions of records stolen in ADT breach

ADT, a Florida-based provider of alarm monitoring solutions, confirmed that hackers breached its systems and accessed a portion of customer data. According to a company …

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Users advised to drop passwords and make room for passkeys

In a decisive move that could reshape how users log in online, the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) is urging consumers to abandon passwords in favour of passkeys, …

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Compromised everyday devices power Chinese cyber espionage operations

China-linked threat actors have shifted from individually procured infrastructure to large-scale covert networks, botnets built from compromised routers and other edge …

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OpenAI’s GPT-5.5 is out with expanded cybersecurity safeguards

Competition to release stronger AI models is accelerating, and just weeks after the release of GPT-5.4, OpenAI has introduced GPT-5.5, pointing to expanded safeguards in the …

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Hacker with a special interest in breaching sports institutions ends behind bars

French police have arrested a suspected hacker linked to a series of data breaches affecting organizations in the country. Citing authorities, Le Parisien reported that the …

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