Collaborate Disseminate
An international cybercrime operation targeting phishing, malware and ransomware has taken down more than 45,000 malicious IP addresses and servers. Law enforcement from 72 countries and territories took part in Operation Synergia III (18 July 2025 – 3… Continue reading 45,000 malicious IP addresses taken down in international cyber operation
Harvey Depledge-Kittle writes: In February 2022, a Ministry of Defence data breach exposed sensitive personal information relating to approximately 18,700 Afghan nationals who had assisted UK forces and applied for protection. The breach was not public… Continue reading The Broken Records: tracing the human cost of the 2022 British MoD leak
Lawrence Abrams reports: Canadian business process outsourcing giant Telus Digital has confirmed it suffered a security incident after threat actors claimed to have stolen nearly 1 petabyte of data from the company in a multi-month breach. Telus Digita… Continue reading Telus Digital confirms breach after ShinyHunters claims 1 petabyte data theft
Simon Sharwood reports: China’s National Computer Network Emergency Response Technical Team has warned locals that the OpenClaw agentic AI tool poses significant security risks. In a Tuesday post to its WeChat account, the CERT warned that OpenClaw has… Continue reading China’s CERT warns OpenClaw can inflict nasty wounds
Pierluigi Paganini reports: Nearly 238,000 individuals are impacted by a February 2025 Bell Ambulance data breach. Bell Ambulance is a U.S.-based emergency medical services provider offering ambulance transport, paramedic care, and patient support. It … Continue reading Bell Ambulance data breach impacted over 238,000 people
Korea JoongAng Daily reports: Lotte Card was fined 9.6 billion won ($6.5 million) by the Personal Information Protection Commission (PIPC) after 450,000 users’ social registration numbers were leaked. The PIPC decided to impose an administrative … Continue reading Lotte Card fined 9.6 billion won for leaking users’ social registration numbers
A.J. Vicens and Christy Santhosh report: An Iranian-linked hacking group on Wednesday claimed responsibility for a destructive cyberattack on U.S.-based medical device and services provider Stryker, according to messages posted to the group’s Te… Continue reading Handala claims responsibility for attack on medical device maker Stryker
Scottish Legal News reports: The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) issued the fine and reprimand after finding that a series of data protection failures resulted in the excessive collection, handling and unlawful disclosure of sensitive personal … Continue reading Police Scotland fined £66k for extracting and sharing mobile phone data
Emma Woollacott reports: While much emphasis has been placed on the rise of youth cyber crime over the last two years, new research shows hacker activity peaks much later. Orange Cyberdefense looked at the numbers and found that it’s actually thi… Continue reading The rise of teen hackers ‘makes for a good headline’, but cyber crime activities peak later in life
Emanuel Maiberg reports: Quittr, an app that promises to help men stop watching pornography, leaked intimate data on hundreds of thousands of its users, including their masturbation habits, and lied about its security issues, 404 Media can now reveal. … Continue reading Viral ‘Quittr’ Porn Addiction App Exposed the Masturbation Habits of Hundreds of Thousands of Users