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Georgia Wells and Joseph Pisani report: Rogue AI models have hacked companies and tried to break into government websites. Now one has submitted a fake tip for an unsolved crime. Police in Philadelphia say Anthropic alerted them this week that one of i… Continue reading Anthropic AI agent gives fake murder tip to US cops in global breach
On Tuesday, cybersecurity professionals began investigating an onion site that appeared to contain internal chat files from Silent Ransom Group. On Thursday, Silent Ransom Group said the leak was fake, but is it? A bespoke site called “Luna Moth… Continue reading Silent Ransom Group claims “Luna Moth Files” are fake. The data suggest otherwise.
The Asahi Shimbun reports: IDC Frontier Inc., a SoftBank subsidiary that provides cloud services, said Oct. 7 that a ransomware attack caused a system outage affecting 495 corporate and local government customers. The Tokyo-based company said it is sti… Continue reading Cyberattack at IDC Frontier disrupts services around nation
Odia Kagan of FoxRothschild writes: “It wasn’t me, it was the AI agent” may not help companies avoid civil or criminal liability under a new bipartisan legislative proposal. U.S. Senators Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) and Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) have announced th… Continue reading It Wasn’t Me, It Was the AI Agent” May Not Avoid Liability Under New Senate Proposal
The Coupang breach in South Korea has stayed in the news cycle for nine months and may offer a useful case study in how not to respond to an incident. In December 2025, South Korea’s largest online retailer, Coupang, apologized for a November bre… Continue reading KR: Coupang files lawsuits against 620 billion won fine over data leak
Here’s another case where the folks who were supposed to be the good guys helping you may be harming you. Zohar Pinhasi, 50, also known as “Zack Silver” and “Zack Green,” a U.S. and Israeli national, was arraigned today in the Eastern District of… Continue reading Known Cybersecurity Expert and Owner of Florida Ransomware Remediation Company Charged with Defrauding Clients
DataBreaches has reported extensively on Silent Ransom Group in 2026, often including material provided exclusively to this site by the group. Now, what appears to be a leak of their internal chats may shed additional light on their success. DataBreach… Continue reading Can you really make more than $200M in six months without encrypting victims? It seems Silent Ransom Group can.
Jonathan Greig reports: The alleged mastermind behind a strain of malware used to empty ATMs of millions of dollars appeared in court for the first time after being apprehended by federal authorities. Anibal Alexander Canelon Aguirre pleaded not guilty… Continue reading Alleged ATM malware creator appears in Nebraska court after arrest
The Star reports that the DeKalb County government fell victim to a cybersecurity incident for the second time in little more than a year. This time, it paid an invoice sent by threat actors impersonating a vendor: “On Thursday, October 1, 2026, DeKalb… Continue reading De Kalb County, Indiana fell prey to vendor impersonation billing
Sergiu Gatlan has an update on a case previously noted on this site. A former core infrastructure engineer at an industrial company headquartered in New Jersey was sentenced to 32 months in prison for locking thousands of devices on his employer’… Continue reading Engineer sentenced for locking over 3,000 devices on employer’s network