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Ransomware attackers target families as artificial intelligence spreads

Ransomware gangs are threatening employees’ families while deploying artificial intelligence in attacks on corporate systems, a global survey published on Wednesday found. Cybersecurity company Semperis said 37% of respondents who experienced intimidation reported threats against relatives or friends, while 84% of surveyed ransomware incidents involved attackers exploiting artificial intelligence. The findings underline how criminals are combining technical intrusions with personal pressure to extract payments. The 2026 Ransomware […]

Meta notifies 1,500 after GitHub code theft

Meta has begun notifying approximately 1,500 people after attackers accessed its GitHub repositories using stolen employee credentials, obtaining software code and personal information belonging largely to employees in the United States. The company said notifications began on Tuesday, 13 October, several weeks after its security team discovered the intrusion. An outside group had used credentials stolen from an employee to enter repositories containing business information associated with […]

Amit Shah’s Prediction Of Big Win For BJP In 2029 Lok Sabha Polls Has To Be Taken Seriously

By Arun Srivastava BJP’s second in command, Amit Shah has been aggressively deploying tactical counters and localized statecraft to retrieve his long-standing “Chanakya” reputation following recent legislative and coalition challenges. While political shifts after the 2024 Lok Sabha elections forced a more collaborative alliance approach, his October 13 observation that the Congress party will face […]

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Fake Marketplace adverts exploit users’ names to solicit replies

Cybersecurity researchers have identified a text-message scam that places recipients’ names on fabricated Facebook Marketplace listings, encouraging them to respond to enquiries about goods they never offered for sale. The scheme, described by Malwarebytes researcher Pieter Arntz on 6 October, uses an apparently ordinary buyer enquiry accompanied by an image resembling a Marketplace advertisement. The message asks, “Is this still available for purchase?”, while the supposed seller […]

Qilin and Settra exploit patched Palo Alto VPN flaw

Ransomware operators Qilin and Settra are exploiting a five-month-old vulnerability in Palo Alto Networks’ remote-access software to penetrate corporate networks, cybersecurity company ReliaQuest warned on 9 October. The activity targets CVE-2026-0257, an authentication bypass flaw affecting certain configurations of GlobalProtect, the virtual private network service used by organisations to give employees access to internal systems. Palo Alto Networks issued fixes on 13 May, but attacks against unprotected […]

Ledger reseller investigation widens as theft estimates rise

Ledger is investigating suspected cryptocurrency thefts involving wallets sold through Southeast Asian reseller CryptoBilis, as blockchain investigators raise their estimated losses beyond $86 million. The hardware wallet manufacturer has asked CryptoBilis to suspend sales and shipments while it examines complaints from customers whose digital assets disappeared. Ledger has not confirmed the total stolen, established how many people were affected or identified the cause of the reported losses. […]

Dubai Police study flags growing threat to digital evidence

Arabian Post Staff -Dubai Dubai Police has warned that increasingly convincing artificial intelligence deepfakes could undermine confidence in genuine photographs, videos and recordings, creating new obstacles for criminal investigations and digital security. A study prepared by the force’s Future Foresight Centre says the challenge is expanding beyond identifying fabricated material to establishing that authentic content has not been manipulated. It identifies potential consequences for public safety, information […]

Malicious GitHub workflows expose credentials across hundreds of repositories

Hackers have compromised hundreds of GitHub repositories by inserting malicious automation workflows designed to steal SSH keys, cloud credentials and access tokens, with security researchers confirming the theft of 26 secrets from 13 repositories. Cybersecurity company GitGuardian identified 772 affected public repositories belonging to 373 users and organisations during an attack campaign spanning August 31 to September 30. The malicious workflows targeted 2,577 secrets, although the overwhelming […]

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 […]

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 […]

Opposition MPs March To ECI On The 5th Day Of Anti-CEC Protest

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 […]

Battle Over CEC Enters Consequential Phase, A Political Flashpoint

By Dr. Gyan Pathak On the very first day of the protests on October 2, by INDIA bloc and other opposition political parties, Cockroach Janata Party (CJP), Civil societies, and common people against CEC demanding his resignation across the country, particularly in Delhi and Mumbai, the campaign entered a consequential phase and at a political […]

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‘CEC Is PM Narendra Modi’s Tool’ Is The New Political Narrative

By Dr. Gyan Pathak The new political narrative brought forward by the opposition INDIA bloc is that CEC Gyanesh Kumar is PM Narendra Modi’s tool through whom electoral democracy of India has been hijacked. No wonder, BJP is trying their best to defend CEC Gyanesh Kumar, to defend PM Modi, who is now in the […]

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‘Save Democracy’ Rallies From Oct 2-8, INDIA Bloc March To ECI On Oct 6

By Dr. Gyan Pathak On the morning of September 30, 2026, Delhi witnessed display of a series of hoardings, unclaimed by any organization but believed to have been put on behalf of the BJP, that targeted leaders of opposition before INDIA bloc meeting, and claiming rift among their leaders. BJP separately criticised Leader of Opposition […]

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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 […]

BotHelper RAT gives attackers live Windows screen access

Cybersecurity researchers have identified a previously undocumented Windows remote access trojan that can continuously stream an infected computer’s display to its operators while supporting command execution, downloads, clipboard monitoring and other remote-control functions. Point Wild’s Lat61 Threat Intelligence team named the malware BotHelper RAT after the Bot. Helper namespace found in its. NET assembly. Its analysis, published on September 24, traced a multi-stage infection chain beginning with […]

Kiteworks eases shutdown after isolating security flaw

Kiteworks has withdrawn its broad precautionary shutdown recommendation for most customers after an emergency security review isolated a critical vulnerability to its Advanced Forms product, while installations using that feature were advised to remain offline pending a fix. The secure file-transfer and private-data communications company had asked customers worldwide to take systems offline during a weekend window after receiving what it described as credible intelligence from federal […]

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, […]

Researchers trace phishing domains before AliExpress campaign

Security researchers say they identified 10 suspicious domain names weeks before they were registered, then watched the addresses become active as disposable gateways to an AliExpress-themed phishing operation. EfficientIP Research Labs said the. cyou domains were identified on June 9 and added to its DNS Threat Pulse intelligence feed. The addresses were registered and began resolving to internet protocol addresses on July 2, allowing investigators to connect […]

Salesforce patches Agentforce flaws enabling zero-click data theft

Salesforce has patched three vulnerabilities in its Agentforce artificial intelligence platform that researchers said could have enabled unauthenticated attackers to extract sensitive customer relationship management data without victims clicking malicious links. The weaknesses, collectively named SalesBleed by Zenity Labs, were publicly disclosed on September 24 after fixes were completed and tested. Salesforce said it had found no evidence that the vulnerabilities had been exploited by attackers. The […]

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 […]