Browsing: Hackers

Lev Shevtsov23 August 2026 12:21

The outage did not threaten Britain’s electricity supply, but officials saw it as a warning about vulnerabilities in critical infrastructure.

Attack marks first known case of a British power facility being brought offline by Iranian-linked hackers, The Telegraph reports

A British power plant was forced offline for four days in whatThe Telegraphreported on Saturday was an unprecedented cyberattack linked to Iran.

A UK power generatorwas forced to shut down for four days after it was targeted in an Iranian cyber attack, it has been reported.

Ransomware attacks are increasingly shifting their focus toward medium-sized businesses, with cyber-criminals identifying these organizations as potentially lucrative and comparatively less protected targets, according to a study by risk management firm Black Kite.

Hackers, reportedly from ransomware cybercriminal gang Clop, broke into product lifecycle management tools commonly used by manufacturers in recent attacks at Shell, GE, and Philips that exploited vulnerabilities in PLM software from vendor PTC.  

Onstage at the Black Hat cybersecurity conference in Las Vegas, researchers Netanel Rubin and Dan Avraham pulled up an AI shopping assistant — the kind that’s available inside most major retail apps to answer questions, compare products and help shoppers navigate a store’s enormous catalog.

Threat actors have begun targeting internet-facing Microsoft SharePoint servers with exploit code for a critical authentication-bypass vulnerability less than 24 hours after detailed technical research and a public proof of concept were released.

Israeli cybersecurity firm Dream documented what looks like the first fully autonomous, end-to-end AI hacking operation against a government target. Over four days at the start of July, according to the Financial Times, suspected Chinese hackers ran a tool built entirely from publicly available AI agents that mapped 21 government systems, hunted for vulnerabilities, and…