A press release from the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) today: Today, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) unveiled the updated cyber incident reporting form, an enhanced web-enabled questionnaire available on CISA’s Incident Reporting Portal for reporting cyber incidents. By improving data quality, the more robust form strengthens the effectiveness and efficiency of...

Shmulik Cohen and Matan Giladi write: Apiiro research found 2,539 real secrets in 1,994 public GitHub repositories: database passwords, cloud keys, API tokens, SSH root logins. Among them: a database vendor’s own admin-level cloud key, a production Azure Postgres password, a Square production token, and the owner password of a medical-records database. 63 organizations, mostly...

From Norway’s aid agency, Norad, November 3: Norad has been targeted by a cyberattack in which the perpetrators may have gained access to the names and email addresses of 20,614 registered users of Norad’s Grant Portal. In addition, they extracted information related to grant applications submitted by at least three organizations. Norad is still working...

November 3, 2026: ROCHESTER, N.Y.-U.S. Attorney Michael DiGiacomo announced today that a federal grand jury has returned an indictment charging Ryan James Roach, 35 of Saskatchewan, Canada, and Mathiew James Stubbings, 41, of Ontario, Canada, with conspiracy to obtain information from a protected computer and to cause damage to a protected computer, obtaining information from a...

Ahmad Umar Agha (also known as Th3Pr0) had spent more than a decade as a fugitive for targeting of Western media entities, businesses, NGOs, and U.S. and allied government entities October 29 – Today a federal district court in the Eastern District of Virginia sentenced Ahmad Umar Agha to 42 months in prison for his...

Multiple Ontario Crime Stoppers organizations have suspended use due to Navigate360’s data breach and unacceptable incident response; U.S. state education departments are collaborating to seek more answers from Navigate360; an update from DataBreaches.net. Toronto Crime Stoppers didn’t take long to respond after Valérie Ouellet and Michelle Allan dove into the Crime Stoppers data in the...

Connecticut Attorney General William Tong has been active in litigating data breaches. The press release below relates to a 2024 breach of Frontier Communications by RansomHub: Attorney General William Tong today announced a $625,000 settlement with Frontier Communications Parent Inc., resolving an investigation into an April 2024 data breach that compromised the sensitive personal information,...

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Bojan Lepic reports: A cyber extortion group has threatened to publish data it claims it stole from 38 shipping, port, and logistics companies unless they pay multimillion-dollar ransoms by October 19. Cybersecurity firm SOCRadar said the group, known as n0n, added the 38 organisations to its dark web leak site in a single batch on...

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40 + 40=80. That’s how old Raheim Hamilton will be when he gets out of prison if he serves his full sentence. There’s an update to a previously reported case. October 7, CHICAGO — A Virginia man who co-created and operated “Empire Market”—a dark web marketplace that enabled users to anonymously buy and sell illegal...

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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 New York on wire fraud charges relating to Pinhasi’s false representations...

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Natalie Dreier reports: A Florida man who calls himself a “cybersecurity engineer” on TikTok and Twitch was arrested after police reopened an investigation closed earlier this year. Mark Asea was held in the St. Lucie County Jail in Port St. Lucie, Florida, last week on a count of an offense against computer users, WPEC reported....

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Justin Doubleday reports: The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency is continuing to offer cyber pay incentives to retain skilled technical staff, but less employees will qualify for the program under revised criteria that ties eligibility to job series and performance ratings. The revised policy has sparked some concern that CISA could lose more staff after...

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Jana Winter, Raphael Satter, and A.J. Vicens report: A key member of the ShinyHunters hacking group, ‌which claims to have stolen data on every FBI employee, was detained this week in Jordan, three people familiar with the matter told Reuters. Two of ​the sources said he was cooperating with the FBI to identify ​his fellow...

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Zack Whittaker reports: Epic, the software technology giant that makes the widely used MyChart software for accessing patients’ medical data, has paused most of its product development as the company works to protect its software and systems from cyberattacks. Judy Faulkner, the founder and chief executive of Epic, told Modern Healthcare last month that the...

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DataBreaches has reported on a group known as KillSec for almost two years. This time, we get to report on their arrest.  The European Union Agency for Criminal Justice Cooperation issued this press release today: An international group of authorities from nine countries, coordinated by Eurojust and Europol, has successfully shut down a ransomware group...

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Anyone following the recent arrest of Pepijn van der Stap, the previously convicted hacker known as “Umbreon,” was likely shocked today when the prosecution announced that he was being charged with two counts of attempted incitement to murder. Here’s what we know so far. A 24-year-old Dutch national who previously served time for hacking-related crimes...

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Roxanne Libatique writes: An OpenAI agent accessed Australian government health data in June 2026. The government was not told until September. That gap – nearly three months between breach and disclosure – is not just a political problem. It is a cyber insurance problem, and one that brokers with public sector and health sector clients...

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A Dutch non-profit that has helped so many over the years has discovered it become the victim of what appears to be an agentic AI-powered attack. DIVD, the Dutch Institute for Vulnerability Disclosure, announced the attack on LinkedIn. Consistent with their ethics and history, they didn’t try to minimize the problem: Security people always say...

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From the DOJ: Ardit Kutleshi, 28, a Kosovar national, pleaded guilty to charges related to his creation and operation of Rydox, an illicit website and marketplace for cybercriminals to buy, sell and trade stolen personal information, and to access devices and other tools for carrying out cybercrime and fraud. “The guilty plea of Ardit Kutleshi...

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The EU built an early-warning system to catch the next major cyberattack before it spreads. Roughly 20 months later, auditors have found it still is not fully switched on. Jonathan Bent reports: Brussels has allocated €1.4 billion to defending Europe from cyberattacks. Its own auditors found that when that funding is passed on to third...

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