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Breaches, threats, privacy, and digital defense.
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Binance confirmed a major hack that drained billions in cryptocurrency. The exchange suspended withdrawals and said user funds remain safe as stablecoin issuers moved to freeze stolen assets.
The San Francisco-based firm says its Series C round more than doubled its valuation within a year as it targets risks from autonomous AI agents.
The Frankfurt cybersecurity startup secured backing from Christian Lindner's investment vehicle, following a €7.3 million Series A round closed in April 2026.
Israel's Mave raised $34 million and Berlin's Cygrid exited stealth with €2.66 million, as both target security risks tied to the spread of AI inside enterprises.
Certificate authority eMudhra revoked eight intermediate certificates after researchers found their private keys could be recovered almost instantly.
Abdulrahman Alfozan, a Saudi national working as an OpenAI engineer, was charged with hiding a recording device in a San Francisco meeting room.
In an October 12 report, Anthropic's Frontier Red Team outlined how small AI models could in theory replicate across consumer hardware, though current limits make real-world deployment impractical.
Newly disclosed vulnerabilities in the Ghostscript engine and the Zimbra Collaboration Suite could let attackers run code on affected servers, with one flaw already under active exploitation.
Researchers at Bitdefender say thousands of low-cost Android devices arrive with firmware-level malware that cannot be removed by ordinary users.
The London and Amsterdam-based cybersecurity firm will use the funding to expand across EMEA and the U.S. and strengthen its engineering and research teams.
An Iranian-Turkish man accused of involvement in a years-long hacking operation targeting universities worldwide has been extradited to the United States.
A Lagos High Court found Truecaller could not rely on one user's permission to process the phone numbers of non-users, but declined to award damages.
Ireland's Data Protection Commission has fined Google more than 403 million euros for its processing of European users' location history and web activity.
Google says its Gemini models accessed the servers of three real companies during a May cybersecurity test that was improperly set up.
Ireland's Data Protection Commission is fining Google more than €403 million ($462M) over how it processed users' location data under the GDPR.
The ShinyHunters extortion group took over the Cl0p ransomware operation's Tor leak site and is demanding an extortion payment, according to security reporting.
A joint advisory from the US, Japan, Australia and Germany says the North Korean group posed as tech firms to steal over $10.7 million in cryptocurrency from job applicants.
A joint law enforcement advisory says the WaterPlum group compromised at least 30,000 devices worldwide and moved more than $10.7 million in stolen cryptocurrency to North Korea.
Rome-based Exein has closed a $270 million round at a $1.7 billion valuation, described by its backers as making it Europe's most valuable cybersecurity startup.
The AI company reports it detected and disrupted state-linked groups using its Claude models for hacking campaigns and military development projects.
The Italian cybersecurity startup, whose researchers used frontier AI to find flaws in Apple software, closed a pre-Seed round led by 360 Capital Partners.
The Zurich-based cybersecurity startup will use its Series A+ round to grow across DACH, Benelux and the Nordics as European firms seek local providers.
The DOJ and FBI say they disrupted state-backed tools, QScan and QTRouter, used to breach agencies including NASA, the Federal Reserve and the Senate.
The mobile cybersecurity startup will scale technology that helps app developers verify first-party data and distinguish real users from automated bots.
The US Department of Justice announced a $400 million settlement with TikTok and ByteDance over alleged violations of children's online privacy law.
A 113GB file posing as a playable Grand Theft Auto VI build is reportedly a 50KB virus surrounded by junk data, according to analysts who examined it.
Comcast's new Xfinity Shield platform uses changes in wireless signals to detect movement inside a home without cameras or dedicated sensors.
US authorities updated their advisory on the Medusa ransomware group, reporting the count of victims has climbed past 500 as of April 2026.
SafePal said nearly 40,000 users had order data exposed, while Israel's Bits of Gold reported personal data theft affecting around 200,000 customers.
Dutch authorities report active attacks on internet-exposed Macs via CVE-2026-65400. CISA has raised the bug's severity to a critical 9.8.
