Podcast Episode · DISCARDED: Tales From the Threat Research Trenches · September 29 · 46m

A vulnerability in a popular line of products from Oracle is being used in a new campaign by the prolific ShinyHunters hacking group, which recently claimed credit for an attack on the FBI’s jobs site...

De 24-jarige Pepijn van der S. die 15 september was aangehouden op verdenking van betrokkenheid bij hackersgroep ShinyHunters, wordt ook verdacht van een poging van uitlokking van twee moorden.

The French president says he has tasked the government with protecting critical infrastructure and defence industry sites.

Happy Sunday! I am thrilled to say that Cryptid Hacker Force has reached its funding goal and there are still  ̶2̶4̶ 22 hours left to back the campaign.  You don’t want to miss out on s...

Issue #2 picks up from #1: the Cryptid Hacker Force must battle a pack of angry Wulvers then head to Paris to save the Cryptid Council!

A sample of 5,000 alleged agents seen by 404 Media includes names, addresses, phone numbers, and details on FBI employees' spouses.

Russia’s growing restrictions on mobile internet and cellular service are making it harder for people to receive warnings about incoming Ukrainian drone and missile attacks.

The ShinyHunters extortion gang breached the Clop (aka Cl0p) ransomware operation's data leak site, defacing the Tor site and allegedly stealing server data and the private keys for its onion service.

Issue #2 picks up from #1: the Cryptid Hacker Force must battle a pack of angry Wulvers then head to Paris to save the Cryptid Council!

Group claims to have spent months posing as law enforcement to obtain confidential data on hundreds of customers

The pro-Ukraine hacktivist group Hacking Cat has evolved from carrying out website defacements and data leaks to more sophisticated and destructive attacks on Russian targets, researchers said.

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The ID checking company said the data breach included people's full names and driver's licenses and other government-issued identity documents.

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Cybersecurity incidents over the Labor Day weekend forced the Springfield, Massachusetts, public school system and a Boston suburb's city hall to shut down for at least a day.

Patch Tuesday September 2026: Microsoft fixed 974 CVEs, including two vulnerabilities exploited as zero-days (CVE-2026-85880 and CVE-2026-81963)

Two populous states and two large cities are among the U.S. jurisdictions where leaders have taken direct action to address criticisms of automated license plate readers (ALPRs).

A group of cryptid hackers responsible for covering up cryptid sightings come up against their most fearsome threat yet!

From the very beginning of this recent obsession with identifying everyone online (yes, they like to call it "age" verification, but it always ends up as identity verification), we've been pointing out that it was a huge privacy nightmare waiting to happen. Or maybe it wasn't waiting. Maybe it was already happening. This week a...