A vehicle belonging to school photography firm Pret-a-Portrait was broken into overnight on 6-7 October, and a camera bag containing SD memory cards was stolen. The cards may hold photographs taken at Priory School in Lewes, UK, plus images of QR code cards showing pupils' names and class names. The same equipment was used for three furth…
Flare research, published as sponsored content, describes how underground forums package services that defeat Know Your Client (KYC) identity checks. Offerings include forged identity and financial documents, manipulated photos and AI-generated videos, live deepfake tools, and accounts advertised as already verified. The article cites the…
Since mid-2025 the Kremlin has sharply escalated restrictions on digital communications, according to Insikt Group (Recorded Future). Measures include VPN blocking, state-managed regional internet shutdowns, throttling of Telegram and WhatsApp, promotion of the state-owned Max messenger, and expanded surveillance of Russian and foreign en…
Researcher Pedro Cruz (gankd) documents two Client-Side Path Traversal (CSPT) chains found in production bug bounty programs. The first turns CSPT into Stored XSS and account takeover on a payments platform's Angular POS single-page application. The second, found with Felipe Torres, triggers unauthorized account deletion on one of the lar…
A modular phishing campaign targets YouTube creators with personalized sponsorship offers from fake brand representatives. One variant impersonates Hollyland, a maker of wireless video transmission equipment, and also Nike and Spotify. Victims are led through a convincing fake collaboration platform to a bogus "Sign in with Google" page t…
Check Point Exposure Management reports that fraudulent voter-registration messages and legitimate political outreach are converging ahead of the 2026 US midterms, making it harder for voters to tell real messages from fake ones. Between July and September, election offices in Rhode Island and Washington warned of fake emails and texts as…
In October 2026, the Discord server protection service Double Counter suffered a data breach attributed to a vulnerability in the Metabase analytics tool. The company's disclosure notice states that attackers accessed a subset of its data. That data was later published publicly and contains about 275k unique email addresses and Discord us…
Troy Hunt of Have I Been Pwned (HIBP) analysed the leak that ShinyHunters attributed to Carhartt. The leak was claimed to hold more than 50 GB of customer and employee records. The initial extraction showed 24,876,077 unique email addresses. Closer review showed that a large share came from the TPC-DS benchmark dataset (tpcdssf1000) store…
Threat actor ChimeraZ claims to be selling a partial dataset from I-CAD, the French national identification registry for dogs, cats and ferrets. The listing advertises 2,948,630 lines in a 643 MB JSONL file, made up of 2,898,001 animal records and 50,629 veterinary records, with the price set to "make offer". The dataset's authenticity, s…
The European Commission has opened a formal investigation under the Digital Services Act (DSA) into Booking.com, a very large online platform with more than 45 million EU users. It will examine whether the company does enough to stop fraudsters from using the platform for fake listings, impersonation fraud, phishing and smishing (theregis…
Documents released by the defense team in the federal case against the Minnesota 15 show that a joint task force of six local officers and eight HSI Chicago agents surveilled an April 2 talk at the Co-Prosperity gallery in Chicago. The talk was part of a Crimethinc national tour in which Twin Cities anarchists discussed resisting Operatio…
Federal investigators examining ShinyHunters have uncovered potential links between the extortion group and executives at two ransomware negotiation firms, according to a KrebsOnSecurity report published on October 19. An executive at an unnamed U.S. consulting firm (reportedly 1,000+ employees) allegedly helped operate the group's extort…
Scammers are exploiting the annual Medicare Open Enrollment period (October 15 to December 7) as a pretext to impersonate insurers, agencies or Medicare itself. Contact comes by phone, SMS, email, social media and malicious Google ads that lead to spoofed, official-looking websites. Lures include plan changes, card replacement, lower prem…
An actor using the handle Feel claims to have leaked data tied to IAD France, a French real estate network that supports property buying, selling and rental. The listing references three JSONL files: 8,592 agent records, 112,780 property records and 8,592 user-photo records. A sample archive is advertised, and the full download is gated b…
The Eclipse leak site has listed Taiwan Otsuka Pharmaceutical, a Taiwan-based pharmaceutical manufacturer, and claims to hold about 832 GB of internal company data. The victim page shows a countdown to a claimed publication deadline. The listing gives examples of allegedly stolen material across many business functions, including finance,…
A threat actor using the handle ChimeraZ claims to have leaked a user dataset linked to ISEP, a French engineering school specializing in digital technology, computer science, electronics and cybersecurity. The listing advertises 5,091 lines covering 5,088 people in a 720 KB JSON dataset, with multiple download mirrors provided. The data,…
The UK Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) has reprimanded the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) and issued an enforcement notice. Between March 2023 and September 2024, officers registered about 500 free accounts on the retail crime platform Auror without formal procurement, a data protection impact assessment (DPIA) or data-sharing …
Ticketmaster confirmed a security incident that exposed personal data of customers in Brazil who bought tickets in 2025. The company notified affected users by email and reported the case to the Brazilian data protection authority (ANPD). According to the company, the incident involved a third-party data analytics tool. The investigation,…
Mid Florida Dermatology & Plastic Surgery, a 33-location medical group in central Florida, reported to the HHS Office for Civil Rights a breach affecting 85,585 individuals. An unauthorized third party accessed its network from March 26 to March 30, 2026, and patient files may have been viewed or acquired. Two other healthcare incidents w…
Boston Children's Health Physicians (BCHP) and its managed IT provider XTIUM (formerly Axispoint Technology Solutions Group) settled with the New York and Connecticut Attorneys General over an August 2024 breach affecting almost 890,000 individuals. The settlement carries a $4 million penalty, of which $2.7 million is payable (New York $2…