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Source: CSO Vishing involved in two of three breaches against Korean subsidiaries of prominent luxury brands impacting more than 5 million customers in total. South Korea’s data protection authority has handed down a combined KRW 36 billion ($25 million USD) in administrative fines to the local sub

Eurail confirms stolen traveler data is on sale in the dark web

Source: TechRadar Pro Hackers have begun selling the data they stole from Eurail in a recent cyberattack. Eurail is a Dutch company that sells train travel passes for European railways. Around Jan. 10, it confirmed cybercriminals accessed its servers and pulled sensitive customer information to a t

Washington Hotel in Japan discloses ransomware infection incident

Source: BleepingComputer The Washington Hotel brand in Japan has announced that that its servers were compromised in a ransomware attack, exposing various business data. The hospitality group has established an internal task force and engaged external cybersecurity experts to assess the impact of t

Over 500K VKontakte accounts hijacked through malicious Chrome extensions

Source: The Record Cybersecurity researchers have uncovered a malware campaign that reportedly hijacked half a million accounts on VKontakte — Russia’s most popular social network — through Google Chrome browser extensions disguised as customization tools. In a report published last week, researche

EU Parliament blocks AI tools over cyber, privacy fears

Source: Politico The European Parliament has disabled AI features on the work devices of lawmakers and their staff over cybersecurity and data protection concerns, according to an internal email seen by POLITICO. The chamber emailed its members Feb. 16 to say it had disabled "built-in artificial in

Phobos ransomware affiliate arrested in Poland

Source: Help Net Security Officers from Poland’s Central Bureau for Combating Cybercrime (CBZC) detained a 47-year-old man suspected of creating, acquiring, and sharing computer programs used to unlawfully obtain information stored in computer systems. He faces a potential prison sentence of up to

Pennsylvania City Paid $500K to Ransomware Perpetrators

Source: York Daily Record A cyberattack last summer that cut York City in Pennsylvania off from its computer systems resulted in a $500,000 ransom payout. Former Mayor Michael Helfrich confirmed the details, saying the attack began Jul. 8, 2025 and seized control of the city's IT infrastructure – s

Japanese sex toys maker Tenga says hacker stole customer information

Source: TechCrunch Sex toy maker Tenga notified customers of a data breach Feb. 13, according to an email obtained by TechCrunch. The Japanese company said that “an unauthorized party gained access to the professional email account of one of our employees,” which gave the hacker access to the conte

Luxury Outerwear Brand Canada Goose Investigates Alleged Data Breach

Source: News4Hackers A prominent data extortion group, ShinyHunters, claims to have compromised over 600,000 customer records belonging to Canada Goose, a high-end outerwear brand. The leaked dataset, which totals 1.67 gigabytes in size, contains detailed e-commerce order records, including sensiti

Amazon’s Ring cancels controversial partnership with tech company Flock amid privacy concerns

Source: CMToday Ring, the Amazon-owned video doorbell company, has canceled its partnership with technology firm Flock Safety, the company said last week. The termination comes after weeks of backlash over the partnership and Ring’s Super Bowl commercial which advertised a feature for finding lost

Blockchain Lender Figure Confirms Customer Data Breach

Source: Decrypt Figure Technology (NASDAQ: FIGR) confirmed Feb. 13 that it suffered a customer data breach after an employee was targeted in a social engineering attack. The hacking group ShinyHunters claimed responsibility, saying Figure refused to pay a ransom and that it published 2.5 gigabytes

Hacker linked to Epstein removed from Black Hat cyber conference website

Source: TechCrunch Vincenzo Iozzo, a renowned hacker linked to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, is no longer listed on the website of Black Hat, one of the largest cybersecurity conferences in the world, nor on the Japanese security conference Code Blue. He was still listed on both pages as

Ransomware attack halts online payments for 70K Bryan Texas Utilities customers

Source: KBTX 3 Bryan Texas Utilities (BTU) customers continue to experience disruptions from a ransomware attack tied to third-party payment processor BridgePay. It’s six days into the incident, and thousands of customers remain unable to pay their bills online using credit or debit cards. The outa

Dutch mobile phone giant Odido announces data breach

Source: The Record The largest mobile phone provider in the Netherlands announced a cyberattack on Feb. 12 that led to the theft of customer information. The company Odido, told a local news outlet that 6.2 million people had information stolen. In a statement about the incident, Odido CEO Søren Ab

Leaked Docs Show China Rehearsing Cyberattacks on Neighbors’ Critical Infrastructure

Source: Homeland Security Today China appears to be using a secret training platform to rehearse cyberattacks against the critical infrastructure of its closest neighbors, according to a cache of leaked technical documents reviewed by Recorded Future News.The leaked materials, which include source

New York Sent MFA Tokens to Its Towns, Counties and Schools

Source: Government Technology New York state is sending physical security keys called multifactor authentication (MFA) tokens to 161 of its cities, counties, school districts and other public-sector organizations. MFA tokens, which are about the size of a novelty keychain, generate one-time codes o

Police arrests distributor of JokerOTP password-stealing bot

Source: Help Net Security The Dutch National Police arrested a 21-year-old man from Dordrecht, a city in the Western Netherlands, as part of a cybercrime investigation by Team Cybercrime Oost-Brabant. The suspect is believed to have distributed a tool known as JokerOTP, a bot used to intercept one-

Thailand Moves to Seize $420 Million Assets Linked to Scammers

Source: Bloomberg Thailand plans to seize $420 million in assets linked to alleged cyber scam operators as authorities intensify a crackdown on a global online fraud network. The assets, including luxury condominiums, yachts and cars, were frozen by the Anti-Money Laundering Office in Dec. 2025 aft

Ransomware attack hits Long Island ferry boat operator

Source: Shelter Island Reporter The North Ferry company sent an email to all users of passes noting that on Feb. 6, the payment processor for the company had experienced a “system-wide service disruption” and online payments are not possible at this time. North Ferry General Manager Bridg Hunt told

Hackers steal nearly $500K from North Carolina town in cyberattacks

Source: WECT News 6 Town officials announced that nearly $500,000 was stolen from Carolina Beach, N.C. during two recent cyberattacks. The first incident was discovered Dec. 31, 2025 and the other in early Jan. 2026, town manager Bruce Oakley said during a press conference this week. The Carolina B

Georgia healthcare company data breach impacts more than 620,000

Source: The Record A cyberattack last year on a prominent Georgia-based healthcare company leaked the sensitive information of 626,540 people, according to a new filing with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. ApolloMD notified customers of a data breach in Sep. 2025 but provided fede

Google recovers “deleted” Nest video in high-profile abduction case

Source: ars TECHNICA Google’s Nest cloud-enabled home security cameras don’t provide long-term storage unless you pay a monthly fee. That video may not vanish into the digital aether right on time, though. Investigators involved with the high-profile abduction of 84-year-old Nancy Guthrie have rele

WhatsApp is now fully blocked in Russia

Source: Engadget After warnings from lawmakers last year, WhatsApp has been blocked in Russia for as many as 100 million users, the Financial Times reported. Russian authorities removed the app from an online directory, effectively wiping it from Russia's internet. The government has previously sai

OpenAI Executive Who Opposed ‘Adult Mode’ Fired for Sexual Discrimination

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Source: The Wall Street Journal OpenAI has cut ties with one of its top safety executives after she voiced opposition to the controversial rollout of AI erotica in its ChatGPT product. The fast-growing artificial intelligence company fired the executive, Ryan Beiermeister, early last month. Her ous

Germany prepares to attack cyber enemies