Ravie LakshmananMay 17, 2026Data Breach / Cybercrime Grafana has disclosed that an “unauthorized party” obtained a token that granted them…
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The ShinyHunters extortion gang has breached education technology giant Instructure again, this time exploiting a vulnerability to deface Canvas login…
A Latvian national extradited to the United States was sentenced to 8.5 years in prison for his “cold case” negotiator…
Ravie LakshmananMay 01, 2026 Cybersecurity researchers are warning of two cybercrime groups that are carrying out “rapid, high-impact attacks” operating…
A new financially motivated hacking group tracked as BlackFile has been linked to a wave of data theft and extortion…
Rockstar Games has suffered a data breach linked to a recent security incident at Anodot, with the ShinyHunters extortion gang…
Researchers said the hackers are compromising business process outsourcers and targeting help desk support.
A former core infrastructure engineer has pleaded guilty to locking Windows admins out of 254 servers as part of a…
A Russian national has been sentenced to 24 months in prison after admitting he managed a botnet used to launch…
The notorious Lapsus$ extortion group has boasted on an underground forum about hacking biopharmaceutical giant AstraZeneca and stealing roughly 3GB…