Lying liars continue to lie: Babuk2 ransomware group claims more bogus victims. databreachtoday.com/blogs/fake-out…

China borrows from feds' anti-hacker psychological playbook: supposed Taiwanese nation-state hackers get unmasked by China's Ministry of State Security databreachtoday.com/blogs/china-bo… Oleg Shakirov Valentin Weber

We're all human. Who among us hasn't lost a thumb drive or added a journalist to a consumer-grade encrypted app group chat devoted to White House war planning and military operations? databreachtoday.com/blogs/white-ho…

Weekly Cryptohack Roundup —Abracadabra loses $13M to hack —U.S. Treasury Department lifts Tornado Cash sanctions —South Korean faces prison for stabbing crypto CEO —Hollywood director charged with using investments into his TV show to buy crypto databreachtoday.com/cryptohack-rou…

Experts warn Congress another Salt Typhoon attack is coming, and that the Trump administration's use of unsecured platforms and third-party messaging apps such as Signal could leave serious government secrets wide open to foreign adversaries. databreachtoday.com/experts-warn-c…

Attackers maintaining access to fully patched Fortinet gear thanks to symbolic links they've already planted to give themselves read-only access. Fortinet has released a new set of patches designed to find/block these symlinks. databreachtoday.com/attackers-main…

Naughty AI: OpenAI's o3 spotted ignoring shutdown instructions databreachtoday.com/naughty-ai-ope…

Infostealer malware targeted by police via Operation Secure, with 32 suspects arrested across Asia-Pacific during Interpol-coordinated crackdown. databreachtoday.com/infostealer-ma…

Victims who share intelligence about #ransomware attacks are helping police to directly disrupt the criminal syndicates involved, says Magnus Jelen, lead director of incident response for the U.K. and EMEA at Coveware/Veeam® Software. Watch here▶️ databreachtoday.com/shared-intel-h… Infosecurity Europe

Israel-Iran War: Hacktivist groups' claimed activity surges, in what typically amounts—at most—to psychological operations databreachtoday.com/israel-iran-wa…

French police reportedly bust five administrators of the notorious site BreachForums, which facilitated the buying and selling of breached databases, hacking tools. databreachtoday.com/french-police-…

Looking tough: Russian officials trumpet Pro-Ukraine hacker arrests, seeking positive PR Stories as Putin's war drags on. govinfosecurity.com/looking-tough-…

Academics are introducing the phrase "potemkin understanding" to characterize how large language models that excel at conceptual benchmarks can't grasp the ideas they seem to master. databreachtoday.com/ai-models-pote…

Seychelles Commercial Bank notifies customers their personal data was breached. Hacker claims to have exploited flaw in Oracle WebLogic Server, sold stolen data. databreachtoday.com/seychelles-com…

View to a patch: As Google tweaks its vulnerability disclosure, experts laud Project Zero's push for greater transparency and getting patches into end users' hands more quickly databreachtoday.com/view-to-patch-…