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A series of data breaches at Shinhan Bank, KB Kookmin Bank and Hana Bank, three of Korea’s largest commercial banks, has heightened concerns in the financial sector over increasingly sophisticated cyberattacks using artificial intelligence (AI).

Sept 28 (Reuters) – The US Federal Reserve’s in-house watchdog said on Monday that a former staff member was found multiple times trying to remove confidential information before retiring from the central bank, but these apparent breaches did not ultimately trigger a formal misconduct finding.

Cybercriminals do not only target companies and public institutions. They can also attack each other. Although some groups collaborate for their malicious activities and others emerge as small ‘offspring’ of larger collectives, it can also happen that two formations have their rivalry and even engagein relentless battles over victims, money, reputation, and other things.

Target ACA Pescara Domain aca.pescara.it Country Italy Attacking Group TheGentlemen Date Reported September 15, 2026

Data breaches are so common in the U.S. and around the world that many Americans never follow through with claiming their share of a settlement when it happens to them. The reasoning comes back to several factors, including that how it affects individuals is usually delayed and the harm feels almost invisible – until it…

If anything, 2026 has made clear that cybersecurity is no longer a background concern. Today, security is at the front and center of many conversations, woven into almost every major story of the year. 

Personal and medical information — including physical and mental health records — is increasingly being compromised in cyberattacks, with an average of 136,300 people affected per breach.

Russian-speaking cybercriminals spent seven weeks this spring running a coding assistant like a junior pentester, and it worked. According to an exclusive Reuters report published August 27, 2026, and a companion investigation from Tel Aviv-based Gambit Security, an affiliate of the Aurora ransomware operation used the AI agent inside Cursor, the code editor SpaceX now…

How many times has a cybersecurity expert here on IndustryWeek told you the importance of patching your systems to maintain cybersecurity hygiene?

When attackers breached an AI system this year, they usually reached it through an exposed API or a misconfigured cloud bucket sitting right next to the model, not by defeating the model itself. IBM’s 2026 Cost of a Data Breach report, conducted by the Ponemon Institute across 600 organizations worldwide, leads its coverage with AI-enabled…