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Business email compromise cost victims $2.77 billion in reported losses in 2024 alone, according to the FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center, and the bureau’s cumulative tally for BEC scams between October 2013 and December 2023 now stands at $55.5 billion worldwide. Legacy spam filters were built for a different era of attacks. Today’s threats rarely…
Intel’s next desktop CPU generation just got a firmer date attached to it. A leaked internal schedule, first reported by Tom’s Hardware and corroborated by outlets including overclock3d.net, TechPowerUp, Wccftech, Club386, and PCGamesN, shows Intel starting mass production of its Core Ultra 400 “Nova Lake” processors in the fourth quarter of 2026, with the first…
Hacker group published roughly 550GB of data after MAG reportedly refused to pay a ransom demand; the group says it gained access via exposed admin keys. The post Manchester Airports Group Data on 8.8 Million People Leaked After Ransom Refusal appeared first on SecurityWeek.
In this video conversation, Dark Reading editors discuss some of the news they didn’t get a chance to cover, from the latest antics of ShinyHunters to new research about the prevalence (or lack thereof) of AI-generated malware.
A Chinese state-linked hacking group compromised executive laptops at an agricultural industry conference on Hainan Island this spring — not through phishing or a network breach, but by breaking into hotel rooms and booting the machines from a USB stick while the executives were at dinner. CrowdStrike, which tracks the group as OVERCAST PANDA, disclosed…
Thomson Reuters disclosed on Wednesday that an unauthorized party obtained files from C-Track, the court case management platform sold by its West Publishing Corporation unit, in March 2026, affecting courts in 11 U.S. states, the U.S. Virgin Islands, and Ontario, Canada. West Publishing said it discovered the activity on June 30, 2026. A subset of…
The incident demonstrates how frontier AI agents can dramatically compress an attack timeline and coordinate a large-scale breach, according to researchers.
Six years after Sony launched PSVR2 and three years after Meta shipped Quest 3, gaming’s VR hardware race has gone quiet at the top. Meta shelved its Quest 4 prototypes and pushed the real successor to the second half of 2027 at the earliest, according to leaked internal memos reported by UploadVR and confirmed indirectly…
Threat actors are leveraging the trusted Node.js JavaScript runtime in multiple cyber attacks as a way to deploy malicious payloads. According to a new report published by the Symantec Threat Hunter Team today, the attack method has been put to use in attacks targeting government departments, technology companies, and hotels since February 2026. “The technique’s…
The FBI confirmed on September 2, 2026, that it is investigating a report that digital scans of more than 153 million driver’s licenses from the United States and Canada surfaced for sale on a dark web marketplace. The disclosure, first reported by security journalist Brian Krebs of KrebsOnSecurity and picked up by Reuters, TechCrunch, and…
