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The prolific hacking collective ShinyHunters has launched an attack on rival cyber criminals Clop amid a long-running feud between the gangs.

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The first known case of Google’s Gemini AI autonomously hacking into three companies’ systems was brought to light byThe Wall Street Journal(WSJ) on September 18.

A hacking group calling itself FulcrumSec has come forward to claim credit for the Manchester Airports Group (MAG) data breach, telling BleepingComputer in an August 30, 2026 report that it exfiltrated roughly 86 GB of data from the airport operator’s systems. The claim lands just three days after MAG confirmed that data tied to about…

Berlin’s state government has become the newest name on a ransomware leak site. The Rhysida ransomware group posted an entry titled simply “Berlin, Germany” on its dark web portal on August 28, 2026, claiming to hold 5.79 terabytes of data lifted from the city-state’s IT network, spanning roughly 1.44 million files. The group is demanding…

The Accountant 2 has quietly become one of the biggest streaming hits of 2026 — posted to Prime Video’s worldwide top 10 for two consecutive weeks as Jon Bernthal’s career-defining summer drives viewers back to the 2025 thriller — and the reason it holds up on rewatch has less to do with the action and…

US authorities are investigating a data breach at a small maker of water utility technology, highlighting infrastructure cybersecurity threats, even though the Kansas firm was apparently not part of a suspected Iranian-affiliated campaign against water plants in Minnesota and other states that began in July.

A notorious cybercrime group has once again exploited a critical zero-day vulnerability on a large scale, claiming it stole data from dozens of organizations, including some of the world’s largest publicly traded companies.

Japanese cloud and data center provider Sakura Internet is investigating unauthorized access to a sales management system that may have exposed personal and contract information linked to as many as 1.36 million customer accounts. The company says the final impact is under investigation and large-scale data exfiltration hasn’t been confirmed.

The June breach, which also exposed employees’ information, underscored the supply-chain risks facing the healthcare sector.