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Source: Gov Info Security Cyberthreats targeting the defense industrial base are expanding beyond traditional espionage into supply-chain attacks, workforce infiltration and battlefield-adjacent cyber operations, according to a new threat intelligence report published this week by Google. Google's

Spanish Police Arrest Hacker Who Booked Luxury Hotels For One Cent

Source: Barron's Spanish police said Feb. 18 they had arrested a 20-year-old man who allegedly hacked a hotel booking website to reserve luxury rooms for as little as one cent, in the first known cybercrime of its kind. The suspect is believed to have manipulated the site's payment system, altering

DEF CON bans hackers, technologists named in Epstein documents

Source: NEXTGOV The DEF CON hacker conference has banned three people involved with the organization whose names appeared in recently released Justice Department files that exposed their ties to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. The conference banned Vincenzo Iozzo, Joichi Ito and Pablos Holm

Hackers stole 2 quadrillion bytes of data from Israelis in recent years

Source: The Jerusalem Post Israel National Cyber Directorate (INCD) Chief Yossi Karadi told The Jerusalem Post that Israel is among the three countries most targeted by hackers worldwide. A stunning two petabytes (two quadrillion bytes) of data has been hacked from Israelis in recent years, Israel

Hacker accessed data from 1.2 million bank accounts, French Economy Ministry says

Source: Le Monde The French economy ministry said Feb. 18 that a hacker gained access to the FICOBA national bank account database and consulted information on 1.2 million accounts. Since the end of January, the hacker used the stolen credentials of an official to access and consult "parts of the f

Adidas investigates third-party data breach after criminals claim they pwned the sportswear giant

Source: The Register Adidas is investigating a third-party breach at one of its partner companies after digital thieves claimed they stole information and technical data from the German sportswear giant. "We have been made aware of a potential data protection incident at one of our independent lice

Cyberattack Causes Leak of 115,000 Sets of Info from Asahi Group

Source: Nippon.com A ransomware attack at Japanese food and beverage giant Asahi Group Holdings Ltd. last September led to the leak of 115,513 sets of personal data, the company has said. Of the total, 110,396 involved the names and phone numbers of client companies’ executives and employees, and 5

Citizen Lab links Cellebrite to the hacking of a Kenyan presidential candidate’s phone

Source: Cyberscoop Researchers have found forensic evidence suggesting that Kenyan authorities used Cellebrite’s phone-cracking technology on the device of a prominent human rights activist after arresting him, according to a report published Feb. 16. The University of Toronto’s Citizen Lab said th

Aussie fintech platform youX confirms data breach as hacker shares massive dataset online

Source: cyberdaily.au A member of a notorious hacking platform has claimed responsibility for a hack impacting hundreds of thousands of Australians. Australian fintech platform youX, the victim of the hack, confirmed this week that it had “identified unauthorized access to its systems, by a third p

Russian Hackers Target Ukraine’s Starlink Authorization Service

Source: The Caspian Post Russian hackers have reportedly compromised Ukraine’s government digital platform Diia, which is used by Ukrainian military personnel to authorize Starlink devices and by civilians for services such as registering online marriages. Members of the hacker group, PalachPro, ac

Identity Emerges As A Primary Attack Vector

Source: Digit News AI is shrinking attack timelines, identity is now a primary attack vector, and extortion is moving beyond encryption – according to Unit 42’s Global Incident Response Report. The Palo Alto Network researchers analyzed over 750 major cyber incidents across 50 countries in every ma

Germany's Railway Operator Deutsche Bahn Recovers from Cyberattack

Source: Devdiscourse Germany's railway operator, Deutsche Bahn, announced that its booking and information systems are once again fully operational following a Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attack that disrupted services on Feb. 16. The company reported Feb. 17 that its "Information and book

Password managers’ promise that they can’t see your vaults isn’t always true

Source: ars TECHNICA All eight of the top password managers have adopted the term “zero knowledge” to describe the complex encryption system they use to protect the data vaults that users store on their servers. The vendors all make a bold assurance: that there is no way for malicious insiders or h

South Korea fines Louis Vuitton, Christian Dior, Tiffany $25M for SaaS security failures

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