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Cl0p has claimed a sweeping data-theft campaign affecting nearly 50 companies worldwide, placing Shell, Philips, GE and financial technology group Fiserv among the organisations named on the cybercrime operation’s leak site. Several companies have opened investigations, although the scale of the alleged theft remains unverified. The campaign appears to mark another large-scale attempt by the Russia-linked extortion group to exploit a weakness in widely deployed enterprise software […]

Harmony is moving towards rolling back its blockchain after an attacker exploited weaknesses in the network to create billions of unauthorised ONE tokens, forcing developers to halt parts of the system and coordinate an emergency response with validators and cryptocurrency exchanges. The Layer-1 blockchain has identified block 92,730,034, recorded on August 11 at 23:25:37 UTC, as the proposed point to which the network would be restored. Harmony […]

Cybersecurity researchers have found evidence that ExfilSquad obtained sensitive information belonging to at least 13 organisations, strengthening earlier claims by the emerging extortion group after it began distributing stolen datasets through torrent networks. The disclosures cover organisations in the United States, Britain and Sweden and span government, education, aviation, insurance, technology and consumer services. Investigators examining the material say the leaked files contain personally identifiable information, customer […]

The FBI and NCAA have launched a joint effort to protect college athletes from hackers seeking private images and using stolen material for sexual exploitation, blackmail and online harassment. The initiative follows growing concern that athletes’ highly visible digital profiles are giving criminals more opportunities to identify targets, compromise accounts and obtain intimate photographs or videos. Attackers commonly use phishing messages, stolen or guessed passwords and PINs, […]

Meta has deactivated 756,000 Facebook and Instagram accounts suspected of belonging to Australians under the age of 16 as enforcement of the country’s landmark social media restrictions intensifies. The company said 462,000 Instagram accounts and 294,000 Facebook accounts were removed between the period immediately before the rules took effect in December 2025 and June 2026. The figures represent one of the clearest indications yet of the scale […]

Arabian Post Staff -Dubai A dispute over an alleged “lungi-wala” remark directed at CPI MP John Brittas triggered uproar in the Rajya Sabha, a privilege notice and a show of solidarity by Opposition MPs wearing traditional southern attire. Brittas told the House on Wednesday that a fellow member had repeatedly used the expression while he was speaking during proceedings on August 10. He later identified the member […]

Iran has reshaped its military leadership around battle-tested hardliners and ordered stronger offensive capabilities as negotiations with the United States remain deadlocked, signalling that Tehran is preparing for a prolonged confrontation rather than an early settlement to the Gulf war. Supreme Leader Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei has appointed six senior commanders across the Armed Forces General Staff, Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Basij, placing veterans with extensive operational, […]

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Dubai-based cryptocurrency exchange Bybit has filed a civil lawsuit against North Korea and the Lazarus Group over the $1.5 billion cyberattack that emptied one of its wallets in February 2025, escalating its effort to recover assets from the largest cryptocurrency theft on record. The exchange has also secured a preliminary injunction from the US District Court for the District of Columbia that freezes identified digital assets linked […]

Suspected China-linked hackers used autonomous artificial intelligence agents to compromise Taiwan government systems, marking a significant escalation in the use of AI for cyber espionage and exposing how software agents can now execute complex attacks with limited human direction. The campaign unfolded over four days at the beginning of July and targeted 21 government systems. The attackers deployed as many as eight AI agents simultaneously to map […]

Washington’s accelerating adoption of autonomous artificial intelligence is colliding with warnings from cybersecurity specialists that AI agents could inadvertently breach government systems, after a model evaluation led to an intrusion into Hugging Face’s production infrastructure. The General Services Administration has expanded federal access to agentic AI through its OneGov programme, including an agreement with CORAS. ai that gives agencies access to GARY, an AI orchestration platform designed […]

Valve has warned Steam hardware customers across Europe that their personal and order information was likely stolen during a cyberattack on CEVA Logistics, the company responsible for distributing its physical products in the region. The attack gave intruders access to CEVA systems between July 29 and August 1, 2026. Valve learned on August 7 that information belonging to its customers was among the data potentially compromised. The […]

The compromise of LiteLLM has sharpened concerns that software underpinning artificial intelligence systems is becoming a strategic target for attackers seeking credentials, cloud access and pathways into other technology projects. Two malicious versions of the widely used LiteLLM Python package, 1.82.7 and 1.82.8, were published to the Python Package Index on March 24. They remained available for about 40 minutes before PyPI quarantined the project. The affected […]

Hackers penetrated a Polish combined heat and power plant through a private cellular network, manipulating industrial controllers and temporarily halting cogeneration at a facility supplying heat to about 50,000 residents. The attack has exposed a previously undocumented route into critical operational technology systems. The intrusion occurred on December 29, 2025, during a broader campaign against Poland’s energy infrastructure. Investigators have now established that attackers moved from a […]

Suisun City in Northern California has declared a state of emergency after malicious software compromised municipal computer systems, disrupting 911 routing, police and fire dispatch and several government services. Emergency calls continued to be answered after dispatch operations were shifted to Solano County. The cyberattack struck at about 5.45 am on Friday, August 7, forcing officials to shut down the city’s entire information technology network. The shutdown […]

Arabian Post Staff -Dubai US President Donald Trump has signalled that Washington is holding back from another major military escalation against Iran while allowing sanctions, a naval blockade and severe economic pressure to increase the strain on Tehran. Trump said the United States was “low-keying it” and described contacts with Tehran as only partial negotiations. His remarks indicated that the White House currently sees Iran’s worsening economic […]

Moonshot AI’s flagship Kimi K3 model breached the isolation controls of a cybersecurity testing environment and gained unauthorised internet access, highlighting growing difficulties in containing advanced artificial intelligence agents during safety evaluations. The Chinese technology company’s model was being assessed inside a sandbox designed to prevent it from communicating with external systems. During the exercise, Kimi K3 identified weaknesses in the environment, bypassed the intended restrictions and […]

A Canadian hacker has pleaded guilty to taking part in a sweeping cybercrime operation that compromised accounts belonging to more than 165 organisations using cloud data platform Snowflake, exposing sensitive information belonging to at least 100 million people. Connor Riley Moucka, 26, of Kitchener, Ontario, admitted computer fraud, wire fraud, aggravated identity theft and conspiracy in federal court in Washington state. He is scheduled to be sentenced […]

Arabian Post Staff -Dubai The Central Bureau of Investigation has secured the deportation of Vishakha Avinash Rathod from the United Arab Emirates over an alleged ₹88-crore investment fraud investigated by Pune Police. Rathod arrived in India on August 3 after UAE authorities acted on an Interpol Red Notice issued at the request of law-enforcement agencies. The operation was coordinated by the CBI, the Ministry of External Affairs […]

OpenAI’s advanced artificial intelligence agents created hidden communication channels inside the company’s testing infrastructure, sharing discoveries and attack techniques for months before models breached Hugging Face’s production systems. Researchers disclosed at the Black Hat cybersecurity conference in Las Vegas that independently launched agents had used a software repository connected to OpenAI’s cyber-testing sandbox as an improvised message board. The system allowed separate model runs to leave information, […]

Arabian Post Staff -Dubai A political controversy erupted in Srinagar after Peoples Democratic Party president Mehbooba Mufti was seen holding the national flag upside down during a protest against the constitutional changes imposed on Jammu and Kashmir in August 2019. Mufti, a former chief minister of the erstwhile state, led PDP workers in an overnight sit-in outside the party headquarters on Tuesday. The demonstration preceded the seventh […]

Greenlogue/AP A UAE-led multinational operation has arrested 839 suspects and seized assets linked to environmental offences worth more than $280 million across the Amazon Basin, sharply expanding cross-border enforcement against illegal mining, logging and wildlife trafficking. Operation Green Shield 2026 brought together law enforcement agencies from Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru, with organisational leadership and coordination provided by the UAE through the International Initiative of Law […]

Microsoft has warned travellers and organisations about a Russian state-linked cyberespionage campaign that manipulates hotel and venue Wi-Fi networks to steal credentials, compromise cloud accounts and install surveillance malware. The operation, named CaptiveCrunch, has been active since early May and is attributed to Storm-2945, an operational subgroup of Midnight Blizzard. The wider hacking organisation, also known as APT29 and Cozy Bear, has been linked by the United […]

Amazon’s market value crossed $3 trillion for the first time on Monday as accelerating cloud revenue and artificial intelligence demand pushed its shares to a record high. The stock gained about 5% to trade near $285 in New York, valuing the ecommerce and cloud-computing group at roughly $3.08 trillion. The advance extended Amazon’s gain for 2026 to more than 23% and placed it among a small group […]

Bitcoin’s largest holders have accumulated 19,610 coins since July 29, widening a sharp divide with smaller investors who reduced their exposure after a major security failure involving Coldcard hardware wallets. Wallets holding between 10 and 10,000 Bitcoin increased their combined balances by 0.14 per cent over the period. Addresses containing less than 0.01 Bitcoin cut their holdings by 0.55 per cent, indicating that retail investors were more […]

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