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Oct 11, 2026Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a previously unseen variant of the DarkSword iOS exploit kit called P7 DarkSword. "Compared with the variants we usually observe, P7 reduces its on-device footprint, adds on-device keychain and cry...
Oct 10, 2026Canadian cybersecurity executive Edward Dubrovsky has been arrested in Pennsylvania in connection with alleged extortion activity that multiple reports have linked to the FBI's ongoing crackdown on the ShinyHunters hacking group. Dubrovsky, 54, has ...
Oct 10, 2026Criminal IP by AI SPERA, a cyber threat intelligence platform delivering decision-ready intelligence and attack surface visibility to security teams worldwide, will participate in GovWare 2026 in Singapore. As security operations increasingly move b...
Oct 10, 2026A Kansas City, Missouri man has been sentenced to 32 months in jail for crimes related to a ransom attack against his own company. The DOJ has announced the sentencing of Daniel Rhyne. He had already pleaded guilty to 'extortion in relation to a thr...
Oct 10, 2026Agents with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) on Thursday arrested an executive at a Canadian cybersecurity firm in connection with an investigation into the ShinyHunters hacking group that recently relieved the FBI of sensitive data on thous...
Oct 9, 2026The attack on the British retailer shows that compromising a single identity can lead to much deeper penetration of the corporate network. The hackers who breached ASOS this week unearthed a serious security gap around customer-facing marketing and ...
Oct 9, 2026Hackers are abusing legitimate Bing search-result redirects as click URLs in Google search ads to direct users to fake Claude installers that deliver ClickFix attacks. The technique, dubbed "Adception" by security researchers at Push Security, appea...
Oct 9, 2026### AI Scramble Drives Cybersecurity M&A Boom Welcome to another gangbuster year for strategic M&A activity in cyber, with 117 deals announced in the latest quarter. What's different: Many of the buyers are not your typical cybersecurity firms. Sur...
Oct 9, 2026Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of an ongoing credential-theft campaign that has compromised two high-profile open-source maintainer accounts to push a malicious workflow into over 340 repositories. "Using the account of Takashi Kit...
Oct 9, 2026The FBI has arrested another suspected co-conspirator of ShinyHunters, FBI Director Kash Patel said on October 9 in a post on X. ShinyHunters is the extortion group that said in September it had breached the FBI's jobs portal and stolen sensitive da...
Oct 9, 2026Cybersecurity In-Depth: Feature articles on security strategy, latest trends, and people to know. In this video conversation, Dark Reading editors discuss some of the news they didn't get a chance to cover, from the arrest of a suspected ShinyHunter...
Oct 9, 2026Cybersecurity In-Depth: Feature articles on security strategy, latest trends, and people to know. Those closest to executives must match their security postures because the weakest link in a family can become the entry point for attacks. An attacke...