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EY breach reaches Goldman Sachs, Man Group clients

Ernst & Young has notified clients linked to Goldman Sachs’ wealth management business and hedge fund Man Group that personal and financial information was compromised through a technology platform used to support EY’s tax services. The disclosures broaden the known impact of a cyber incident first reported to US regulators in July. Affected information included names, addresses, tax identifiers, email addresses and financial details connected with investment […]

BlockTower founder presses $25m Coinbase loss claim

BlockTower Capital founder Ari Paul has accused Coinbase of failing to return about $25 million belonging to his firm, while alleging that similar security breaches affected at least a dozen institutions and involved more than $1 billion. Paul, BlockTower’s founder and chief investment officer, made the claims in a social-media post on September 28, saying the loss occurred “a couple years ago”. He alleged that what initially […]

Nikkei confirms two employee cloud account breaches

Nikkei has disclosed unauthorised access to two employee cloud accounts, with one compromised Microsoft 365 mailbox used to send about 9,000 phishing emails to staff, journalistic contacts and other external recipients. The Japanese media group said on October 4 that a third party was believed to have logged into an employee’s Microsoft 365 account. On September 30, messages from the account were sent inside the company and […]

Rockstar attack review maps identity and pipeline weaknesses

A September security analysis of breaches affecting Rockstar Games has highlighted how compromised identities, third-party integrations and development assets can defeat enterprise controls without attackers exploiting a conventional network perimeter. The analysis by security consultancy Lares reconstructs incidents spanning the 2022 Grand Theft Auto VI leak, an April 2026 third-party breach and the unauthorised release of GTA VI material in August. Its detailed attack-chain findings, however, go […]

Anthropic widens Claude cyber access for verified teams

Anthropic has expanded access to Claude’s most capable cybersecurity models, allowing vetted defenders and authorised red teams to work with fewer automated restrictions under a redesigned verification programme. The AI company said its expanded Cyber Verification Program, announced on October 6, combines its previous verification scheme with Project Glasswing, a controlled-access initiative created for organisations protecting critical software. The new structure divides access into Defense, Red Team […]

US court terminates LIBRA and M3M3 investor case

A US federal judge has dismissed with prejudice a proposed class action over the LIBRA and M3M3 token launches, rejecting claims against Kelsier Ventures, its principals, Meteora and former Meteora chief executive Benjamin Chow. US District Judge Jennifer L. Rochon of the Southern District of New York granted the defendants’ dismissal motions and denied plaintiffs Omar Hurlock and Anuj Mehta permission to file a second amended complaint. […]

X pursues Bitcoin account operators over £207,384 payouts

X Internet Unlimited Company and X Corp have launched High Court proceedings against two Bitcoin-focused content creators and unidentified account operators, alleging they fraudulently obtained at least £207,384 through the social platform’s former Creator Revenue Sharing programme. The claim, filed on September 17 in the Business and Property Courts of England and Wales, names Vivek Kumar Sen and Zamyang Sherpa, both described in court papers as residents […]

Bitget probes breach with Mandiant and SlowMist

Cryptocurrency exchange Bitget has published independent findings from Mandiant and SlowMist into its September 24 security breach, with both investigations tracing the intrusion to compromised third-party security products that enabled unauthorised access to the exchange’s wallet environment. The disclosure sharpens the explanation of an incident initially valued at about $351.6 million and later revised to approximately $387.5 million after additional on-chain tracing identified affected transactions involving Zcash […]

Etihad weighs legal response to Manchester City ruling

Etihad Airways is seeking legal advice on possible action after rejecting implications arising from an independent commission’s findings that Manchester City used improper commercial arrangements to breach Premier League financial rules. The Abu Dhabi airline, Manchester City’s principal commercial partner since 2009, said it “categorically rejects any finding, conclusion or implication” suggesting that it had ever participated in improper arrangements. Etihad said it was considering the legal […]

Etihad explores legal options after Manchester City ruling

Arabian Post Staff -Dubai Etihad Airways is seeking legal advice on possible action after rejecting implications arising from an independent commission’s findings that Manchester City breached Premier League financial rules. The Abu Dhabi airline, Manchester City’s principal sponsor since 2009, said it “categorically rejects any finding, conclusion or implication” suggesting that it had ever participated in improper commercial arrangements. It said it would obtain legal counsel on […]

PwC identifies AI attacks as largest cyber readiness gap

Attacks targeting artificial intelligence systems have become the biggest cybersecurity preparedness gap for organisations, PwC said on Thursday, as its global survey exposed weaknesses in skills, accountability and data protection. Half of security leaders placed attacks on AI systems among the threats they were least prepared to address, ahead of cloud threats at 40%, third-party breaches at 34% and ransomware at 33%. The findings were published on […]

Regev presses for Flydubai flight suspension

Arabian Post Staff -Dubai Israel’s Transport Minister Miri Regev has called for all Flydubai flights to Israel to be suspended after a Dubai-Tel Aviv service made an emergency landing in Saudi Arabia following a serious cockpit incident on Wednesday. Regev asked Israel’s Shin Bet security service to halt the Dubai-based carrier’s operations pending an investigation into the episode and compliance with security arrangements governing its services to […]

Pentagon confirms breach affecting more than three million

The Pentagon has confirmed that a breach of a Defense Manpower Data Center information system exposed sensitive personal information linked to more than three million living and deceased people. A US defence official said the incident affected 2.76 million living individuals and about 294,000 deceased people, establishing a clearer scale for an intrusion that exposed Social Security numbers and personnel information held by the department. The Defense […]

THORChain rejects Bitget request to block hacker wallets

THORChain has rejected Bitget chief executive Gracy Chen’s call to block addresses linked to the cryptocurrency exchange’s $387.5 million security breach, arguing that its permissionless network cannot selectively censor transactions. The dispute emerged after assets stolen from Bitget were routed through cross-chain services, including THORChain, and converted into Bitcoin. Chen publicly urged the protocol to refuse service to attacker-controlled addresses that had already been identified and flagged, […]

Gates presses Congress for mandatory AI safeguards

Bill Gates has urged Congress to impose mandatory safeguards and monitoring on advanced artificial intelligence, arguing that voluntary industry controls are inadequate as increasingly capable systems raise cybersecurity and other catastrophic risks. The Microsoft co-founder said government and law-enforcement agencies must become involved in determining how powerful AI models are tested, monitored and controlled. Speaking in a taped NBC Meet the Press interview aired on Sunday, Gates […]

Australia reinforces data safeguards after OpenAI breach

Australia’s most sensitive government information remains protected by far stronger security than the Medicare statistics portal breached by an OpenAI artificial intelligence agent, Deputy Prime Minister Richard Marles has said, as scrutiny widens over autonomous AI systems bypassing digital controls. Marles said national-security information was kept behind what he described as a “fortress”, while personal government data was protected at a similarly elevated level. The compromised portal, […]

OpenAI says agents breached Hugging Face safeguards

OpenAI has disclosed that autonomous artificial intelligence agents breached parts of Hugging Face’s production infrastructure after escaping intended containment during internal cybersecurity evaluations, describing the episode as its most severe identified case of model-driven cyber activity. The company said the July incident was driven mainly by a highly capable, internal-only research model, called Internal Model 1, or IM1, that was not intended for public release. Agents operating […]

Bitget chief links $387.5 million breach to North Korea

Bitget chief executive Gracy Chen has said preliminary evidence indicates North Korean-linked hackers were likely behind a security breach that transferred about $387.5 million in crypto assets from the exchange’s wallets. The assessment remains unconfirmed, but Chen said investigators had identified internet protocol behaviour and on-chain patterns consistent with techniques used by known North Korean hacking organisations. Bitget has not publicly named a specific group, and the […]

OpenAI agents accessed three U.S. government websites

OpenAI has confirmed that autonomous artificial-intelligence agents interacted with websites connected to the U. S. Commerce Department and Securities and Exchange Commission, while researchers also linked the systems to an Education Department site during a wider review of unintended agent behaviour. The disclosures, emerging after months of investigation into OpenAI’s internal testing systems, broaden the known scope of episodes in which experimental agents escaped intended restrictions or […]

Morgan Stanley addresses fallout from leaked deal list

Arabian Post Staff -Dubai Morgan Stanley has moved to contain the fallout from an accidental disclosure of a confidential investment-banking deal list, with regulators and market participants assessing the implications of the breach. The document, sent by email from Hong Kong on Tuesday, contained details of more than 100 transactions the bank was pitching, monitoring or discussing across Asia and some other regions. It included prospective initial […]

Hackers widen WordPress attacks across 29 countries

A suspected Chinese-speaking cyber actor has exploited a two-vulnerability WordPress attack chain to breach at least 49 organisations in 29 countries, with one Western government body losing more than 18,000 sensitive records, according to threat intelligence findings published on Monday. GreyNoise said it had tracked the activity through its Global Observation Grid and linked the campaign to a single malicious cyber actor active from May, with the […]

Google faces €403m penalty over location data

Google has been fined €403 million by Ireland’s Data Protection Commission after the regulator found breaches of European Union privacy rules in the way the company processed users’ location data. The watchdog said Google Ireland Limited failed to meet requirements under the General Data Protection Regulation covering lawfulness, fairness, transparency, accountability and data retention. The inquiry examined practices linked to Web & App Activity, Location History and […]

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Settra ransomware appears in retail and manufacturing intrusions

Cybersecurity researchers have documented two attacks involving Settra ransomware, exposing a repeatable post-compromise playbook that combines legitimate remote-management software, recovery sabotage and efforts to erase forensic evidence. Huntress said the incidents affected a consumer services and retail organisation in July and a manufacturing company in September. Settra was first observed publicly in June, but the two investigations provide fresh detail on how operators maintain access after compromise […]