 | Hackers are trying to steal Signal users’ backups in new wave of phishing attacks | 2026-05-28 | True | Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai | True | | |
| UK Visa Portal exposed thousands of applicants’ passports and selfies — then called the lawyers on us | 2026-05-27 | True | Zack Whittaker | True | | |
| CrowdStrike and Google take down botnet used by hackers to target open source software developers | 2026-05-27 | True | Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai | True | | |
| UK Visa Portal spilled thousands of applicants’ passports and selfies online — and hasn’t fixed the leak | 2026-05-26 | True | Zack Whittaker | True | | |
| Ghost hackers: the cybersecurity mystery that nobody has solved | 2026-05-26 | True | Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai | True | | |
| Iranian hackers blamed for breach of Los Angeles transit system that took weeks to recover | 2026-05-26 | True | Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai | True | | |
| 7-Eleven data breach affects over 185,000 people’s personal data | 2026-05-26 | True | Zack Whittaker | True | | |
| These special phone and app features can help protect you from spyware | 2026-05-23 | True | Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai | True | | |
| Kash Patel’s clothing brand website shut down after reports it was hacked | 2026-05-22 | True | Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai | True | | |
| Trump Mobile confirms it exposed customers’ personal data, including phone numbers and home addresses | 2026-05-22 | True | Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai | True | | |
| Law enforcement shuts down VPN service used by two dozen ransomware gangs | 2026-05-21 | True | Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai | True | | |
| Scammers are abusing an internal Microsoft account to send spam links | 2026-05-21 | True | Zack Whittaker | True | | |
| Customers say Trump Mobile is leaking their personal information | 2026-05-20 | True | Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai | True | | |
| GitHub says hackers stole data from thousands of internal repositories | 2026-05-20 | True | Zack Whittaker | True | | |
| Hackers have compromised dozens of popular open source packages in an ongoing supply-chain attack | 2026-05-19 | True | Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai | True | | |
| US cyber agency CISA exposed reams of passwords and cloud keys to the open web | 2026-05-19 | True | Zack Whittaker | True | | |
| NYC Health + Hospitals says hackers stole medical data and fingerprints during breach affecting at least 1.8 million people | 2026-05-18 | True | Zack Whittaker | True | | |
| Open source tool maker Grafana Labs says hackers stole its code, refuses to pay ransom | 2026-05-18 | True | Zack Whittaker | True | | |
| A hotel check-in system left a million passports and driver’s licenses open for anyone to see | 2026-05-15 | True | Zack Whittaker | True | | |
| OpenAI says hackers stole some data after latest code security issue | 2026-05-14 | True | Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai | True | | |
| A spyware investigator exposed Russian government hackers trying to hijack Signal accounts | 2026-05-14 | True | Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai | True | | |
| Cisco cuts nearly 4,000 jobs to spend more on AI, reports ‘record quarterly revenue’ | 2026-05-14 | True | Zack Whittaker | True | | |
| Ransomware hackers claim breach at Foxconn, a major electronics manufacturer for Apple, Google, and Nvidia | 2026-05-13 | True | Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai | True | | |
| US lawmakers demand answers from Instructure after Canvas data breaches | 2026-05-13 | True | Zack Whittaker | True | | |
| Google launches new Android security feature to help uncover spyware attacks | 2026-05-12 | True | Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai | True | | |
| US bank discloses security lapse after sharing customer data with AI app | 2026-05-12 | True | Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai | True | | |
| Instructure strikes deal with hackers who breached it twice | 2026-05-12 | True | Zack Whittaker | True | | |
| Poland says hackers breached water treatment plants, and the US is facing the same threat | 2026-05-08 | True | Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai | True | | |
| US defense contractor who sold hacking tools to Russian broker ordered to pay $10M to former employers | 2026-05-08 | True | Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai | True | | |
| Hackers deface school login pages after claiming another Instructure hack | 2026-05-07 | True | Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai, Zack Whittaker | True | | |
| Hackers hack victims hacked by other hackers | 2026-05-07 | True | Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai | True | | |
| How Anthropic’s Mythos has rewritten Firefox’s approach to cybersecurity | 2026-05-07 | True | Russell Brandom | True | | |
| Police arrest SMS blaster crew that sent malicious messages to thousands across Toronto | 2026-05-07 | True | Zack Whittaker | True | | |
| DOJ says ransomware gang tapped into Russian government databases | 2026-05-06 | True | Zack Whittaker | True | | |
| AI evaluation startup Braintrust confirms breach, tells every customer to rotate sensitive keys | 2026-05-06 | True | Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai | True | | |
| Kaspersky suspects Chinese hackers planted a backdoor into Daemon Tools in ‘widespread’ attack | 2026-05-05 | True | Zack Whittaker | True | | |
| Hackers steal students’ data during breach at education tech giant Instructure | 2026-05-05 | True | Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai | True | | |
| U.S. government warns of severe CopyFail bug affecting major versions of Linux | 2026-05-04 | True | Zack Whittaker | True | | |
| Hackers are mass-exploiting the cPanel bug to gain control of thousands of websites | 2026-05-04 | True | Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai | True | | |
| US healthcare marketplaces shared citizenship and race data with ad tech giants | 2026-05-04 | True | Zack Whittaker | True | | |
| Ubuntu services hit by outages after DDoS attack | 2026-05-01 | True | Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai | True | | |
| Hackers are actively exploiting a bug in cPanel, used by millions of websites | 2026-04-30 | True | Zack Whittaker | True | | |
| Dental practice software maker fixes bug that exposed patients’ medical records | 2026-04-30 | True | Zack Whittaker | True | | |
| Sri Lanka discloses another missing payment, days after hackers stole $2.5M from its finance ministry | 2026-04-29 | True | Zack Whittaker | True | | |
| Paragon is not collaborating with Italian authorities probing spyware attacks, report says | 2026-04-28 | True | Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai | True | | |
| Hacker who allegedly carried out cyberattacks for China is extradited to US | 2026-04-27 | True | Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai | True | | |
| Critical infrastructure giant Itron says it was hacked | 2026-04-27 | True | Zack Whittaker | True | | |
| Another spyware maker caught distributing fake Android snooping apps | 2026-04-24 | True | Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai | True | | |
| Vercel says some of its customers’ data was stolen prior to its recent hack | 2026-04-23 | True | Zack Whittaker | True | | |
| Surveillance vendors caught abusing access to telcos to track people’s phone locations, researchers say | 2026-04-23 | True | Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai | True | | |
