The FBI and French law enforcement seized NudeLeaksTeens, a website that sold hacked and stolen sexually explicit images and videos of young women and girls, and arrested the suspected administrator in northern France. Investigators said the platform also distributed child sexual abuse material, affected more than 17,000 victims worldwide, and stored about €700,000 in cryptocurrency. #NudeLeaksTeens #FBI #ParisProsecutorsOffice
Category: Cyber Security News
SonicWall and Splunk released urgent security updates for multiple critical and high-severity vulnerabilities that could enable arbitrary code execution, unauthorized access, SSRF, and other attacks. SonicWall said its SMA1000 appliances are affected by a pre-authenticated SSRF flaw, while Splunk fixed serious issues across Splunk Enterprise, MCP Server, and the Add-on for…
The US Department of State is offering up to $10 million for information on Zhang Yu, a Chinese national accused of helping carry out the Hafnium campaign against Microsoft Exchange servers. Zhang and Xu Zewei allegedly worked on behalf of China’s Shanghai State Security Bureau to steal sensitive information and compromise…
Black Lotus Labs uncovered Canto Incognito, a campaign in which the PoeLLM malware hides its C2 address in a GitHub poem and targets exposed AI services and open-source tools. The operation has compromised more than 3,400 servers, deploying miners, scanning for new victims, and potentially testing brute-force attacks. #PoeLLM #CantoIncognito #BlackLotusLabs #LiteLLM #Ollama #Gotenberg #Gitea #IvantiSentry #XMRig #Iron #Kryptex
Anthropic’s Claude Haiku 5.5 delivers faster performance and stronger cybersecurity capabilities than Haiku 4.5, while still remaining below Sonnet 5.5 and Opus 5.5 in offensive skill. The model also shows improved resistance to malicious prompts, prompt injection, and harmful code-generation requests, with new pricing and platform availability across major cloud providers. #ClaudeHaiku55 #ClaudeCode #Sonnet55 #Opus55 #Anthropic #AmazonWebServices #GoogleCloud #MicrosoftAzure
Quantum computing is emerging as a serious national security threat because it could eventually break today’s widely used encryption and expose sensitive emails, financial data, government communications, and military systems. The article urges Congress and federal agencies to accelerate post-quantum cryptography efforts now, warning that adversaries may already be stealing encrypted data for later decryption. #PostQuantumCryptography #NSA #Google #CNSA20 #WhiteHouse #China
Oracle Health’s legacy Cerner systems were reportedly breached early last year, exposing personal and medical information tied to nearly 20 million people. The incident involved stolen customer credentials, extortion demands from an individual threat actor known as “Andrew,” and notifications that revealed sensitive data such as Social Security numbers and medical…
Zohar Pinhasi, the owner of MonsterCloud, was charged with wire fraud after allegedly deceiving ransomware victims by claiming his company could decrypt encrypted data without paying attackers. Prosecutors say he actually paid the ransomware groups, then billed clients for recovery services, including one case where an $8,200 ransom led to a…
Four US states have sued TP-Link Systems, alleging the router maker misled consumers about both the security of its products and its ties to China. The complaints also cite multiple router vulnerabilities, alleged exploitation by Volt Typhoon and Flax Typhoon, and concerns over TP-Link’s disclosure of Chinese legal obligations and supply…
Arizona’s court system said hackers accessed and copied backup court files, exposing sensitive information tied to more than 1.3 million people. The breach also affected foster care reports and protective order records, and investigators believe it began when a court employee clicked a malicious phishing link. #FARE #FosterCareReviewBoard #FBI #AnnScottTimmer…
Lawmakers are urging Congress to provide $11 million in additional funding for mental health and resilience training for personnel at U.S. Cyber Command after several suicides this summer at the command and NSA. They say the investment is needed to reduce burnout, improve care access, and protect readiness for staff working…
The U.S. State Department is offering $10 million for information on Zhang Yu, who is accused of helping carry out the Hafnium hacking campaign on behalf of the Chinese government. Prosecutors say Zhang and Xu Zewei stole data from U.S. universities and a law firm, including COVID-19 research, while acting under…
Cisco introduced a Quantum Network Controller prototype that lets applications request entanglement as a service while the network handles delivery, scheduling, and quality management. The system builds on Cisco’s Universal Quantum Switch and has already been tested over deployed telecom fiber in New York City with more than 99 percent polarization fidelity. #Cisco #QuantumNetworkController #UniversalQuantumSwitch #OutshiftbyCisco #Qunnect #SwabianInstruments
Imply has introduced Imply Lumi as the data platform for its agentic SIEM vision, aiming to help security teams handle growing log volumes, rising costs, and AI-driven investigations without replacing existing workflows. By separating storage, compute, and access, Lumi lets teams and AI agents query more security history across indexed data and object storage while preserving familiar tools like SPL and SQL. #Imply #ImplyLumi #Splunk #BTGPactual
The FBI and French authorities arrested a suspected administrator and seized NudeLeaksTeens and NLTVIDS, websites used to distribute child sexual exploitation material and AI-generated deepfake content. The sites allegedly sold hacked and stolen CSAM from victims’ social media accounts, promoted cryptocurrency payments, and operated in violation of the TAKE IT DOWN Act. #NudeLeaksTeens #NLTVIDS #TAKEITDOWNAct #FBI #ParisProsecutorsOffice