Tag: security
Private equity giant Apollo confirms data breach saw personal info stolen
Apollo confirms July 2026 cyberattack via social engineering exposed PII in its cloud environment Data included names, DOB, contact info, addresses, and Social Security numbers Firm offers two years of identity protection; no evidence of dark web leaks yet Apollo, one of the biggest private equity firms in the world,…
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Why are ‘paranoid’ Claude agents launching a turf war and deploying self-replicating malware against each other? The experts weigh in
Three Claude agents set up to deliberately conflict with each other in Anthropic testing started behaving in a very strange way by essentially starting a ‘turf war’ over their tasks. Upon launching the experiment the agents began conflicting with each other, leading to some of the agents deliberately sabotaging their…
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Experts warn 2,000 hacked WordPress sites were secretly running a global crime ring
Researchers uncover vast cybercrime ring running on computers and infected domains where outdated versions of WordPress were installed The StopAndProtect investigation revealed the WordPress content management system was key to the ring’s success; both the core software and third-party plugins were subverted Around 2,000 WordPress sites were hijacked by the…
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Experts warn expired credit cards can be brought back from the dead to make contactless payments
Researchers show how an expired contactless card can still complete a real purchase because the expiry date the terminal reads is not covered by its signature The attack needs physical possession of the discarded card and two ordinary smartphones, and results vary per bank, with Visa cards being susceptible in…
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Massive supply-chain attack sees terabytes of data belonging to some of the world’s biggest and most sensitive organizations leaked online
More than 2,500 organizations, including Cisco, Samsung, AWS, Airbus U.S. Space & Defense, Thales, and the London Stock Exchange Group, have credentials harvested during a supply-chain attack on LiteLLM LiteLLM was not directly hacked by the hacking group TeamPCP, which found their way in thanks to a compromised build of…
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Over 9 million facial recognition images leaked in major breach at reverse image search and identity verification service
Researcher inds ClarityCheck’s exposed 450GB database with 9M+ user images Leak included faces, profiles, and photos, risking identity theft and phishing abuse Company secured access quickly; no evidence of dark web distribution or misuse so far An online reverse-lookup platform has inadvertently leaked millions of faces on the internet, putting…
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