In a first for Google, the company confirmed that its AI model, Gemini, breached the security of three other companies in May. The hacks occurred during a cybersecurity evaluation by AI-security firm Irregular. Irregular, an Israel-based startup that scrutinizes the security of advanced AI systems, was also at the center…
Ransomware attack on Kansas county will affect some services | #ransomware | #cybercrime | #cybersecurity | #hacker
WICHITA, Kan. (KSNW) — A Kansas county’s government says it has been hit by a ransomware attack. Ellis County discovered the attack on parts of its information technology systems Thursday morning. Officials said they “immediately took steps to contain the disruption” by isolating the affected systems and enlisting the help…
Hackers used Anthropic’s Claude to breach OpenAI: Report | #hacking | #cybersecurity | #infosec | #comptia | #pentest | #hacker | #cybersecurity | #hacker
A three-person cybersecurity research team used Anthropic’s Claude Opus 5 to exploit vulnerabilities in an OpenAI community forum, take control of employee accounts and demonstrate access to the company’s private code repository. The operation began on July 23 and was conducted by researchers from Hacktron AI, who disclosed the vulnerabilities…
NightmareStresser Goes Offline in Global DDoS-for-Hire Crackdown | #cybercrime | #infosec | #cybersecurity | #hacker
NightmareStresser Goes Offline in Global DDoS-for-Hire Crackdown Pierluigi Paganini September 17, 2026 The DOJ seized domains behind NightmareStresser, a DDoS-for-hire service tied to hundreds of thousands of attacks since 2022, as part of Operation PowerOFF. Renting a DDoS attack used to be as easy as renting a movie. Pick a…
The present and future of the UN cybercrime convention | #cybercrime | #infosec | #cybersecurity | #hacker
The United Nations Convention against Cybercrime (Hanoi convention) is a widely signed new legal instrument that was agreed by consensus at a time of geopolitical fragmentation. The potential benefits of the convention are considerable, as are the potential risks if it is misused. This policy brief reviews the history and…
Weekly Intelligence Report – 18 Sep 2026 | #ransomware | #cybercrime | #cybersecurity | #hacker
Published On : 2026-09-18 Ransomware In Focus CYFIRMA Research and Advisory Team would like to highlight ransomware trends and insights gathered while monitoring various forums. This includes multiple industries, geographies, and technologies that could be relevant to your organization. Type: RansomwareTarget Technologies: Windows OS Introduction:CYFIRMA Research and Advisory Team has…
EU proposes social media ban for children under 13 in new Kids Act | #childpredator | #kidsaftey | #childsaftey | #cybersecurity | #hacker
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen has unveiled one of the European Union’s most ambitious youth online safety measures yet — a social media ban for under-15s. The EU Kids Act comes after over a dozen member states proposed social media bans of their own, putting pressure on the…
Inside Immutable Backup Architecture: How Air-Gapped and WORM Storage Actually Stop Ransomware | #ransomware | #cybercrime | #cybersecurity | #hacker
Most ransomware operators don’t bother trying to break into a backup system. They go after whoever already has the keys. That’s not a new problem. In the 1870s, bank robbers found the same shortcut. You didn’t necessarily have to defeat a vault. You needed the person who knew how to…
Beyond backup: Rethinking data infrastructure for the ransomware era | #ransomware | #cybercrime | #cybersecurity | #hacker
The backup used to be the safety nets, but now it’s being targeted. According to global cybersecurity company Sophos, backup compromise is now attempted in over 94 per cent of ransomware incidents, and succeeds in 57 per cent of them. Attackers have also gotten faster, as another cybersecurity…
Cyber Roundup: Who Controls the Data, Identity, AI Agents | #hacking | #cybersecurity | #infosec | #comptia | #pentest | #ransomware | #cybersecurity | #hacker
Cybersecurity has always been about control: controlling access, controlling risk, controlling data flows and controlling the blast radius when something goes wrong. But this week has shown how quickly that control layer is being redrawn. In the space of a few days, Spain’s data protection authority reported its first personal…