An actor using the handle ChimeraZ claims to be selling a dataset from LOOF (Livre Officiel des Origines Félines), the French organization that registers pedigree cats and maintains official feline genealogical records. The listing advertises about 654,000 lines, roughly 330,000 animal records, about 40,000 people and 90,555 files totalin…
In August 2026, French intellectual property software and services company Questel was targeted in a ShinyHunters "pay or leak" extortion campaign. The group published a large corpus of data it claimed to have taken from the company. The data is largely corporate contact information tied to sales leads, support cases and marketing activit…
In May 2026, the French holiday rental network Gîtes de France suffered a data breach affecting some of its departmental branches. The incident exposed hundreds of thousands of customer records, including roughly 118k unique email addresses. Have I Been Pwned added the dataset on 18 Oct 2026, with 117.6k affected addresses. The article do…
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…
A threat actor using the handle Alduin claims to be selling a customer dataset from Climb Up, described as the largest network of indoor climbing gyms in France. The listing advertises approximately 151,000 records covering customers across 29 locations, with data spanning January 2016 to March 2026. The seller asks for offers in XMR only…
An actor using the handle Shenron claims to have released a dataset tied to APICRYPT Messaging, a secure healthcare messaging system created in 1996 and managed by the APICEM association. The listing advertises 852,757 rows covering 60,911 users, and marks the breach and release as occurring in 2026. The visible sample contains healthcare…
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,…
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…
Episode 484 of the Smashing Security podcast, hosted by Graham Cluley with guest Danny Palmer, covers several security stories. The lead item is audio fingerprinting: a user named Matt found that an open AliExpress page, playing silent audio at zero volume, kept his multipoint Bluetooth headphones from switching to his phone. The episode …
A 40-year-old Nigerian national, Chukwuemeka Victor Amachukwu, was sentenced to eight years in prison by a US federal court for a 2019-2023 scheme that combined hacking of US tax preparation businesses, filing of fraudulent tax returns and fake investment fraud. He used identities stolen from victim organizations to file false returns wit…
Infoblox attributes the long-running Help TDS traffic distribution system, active since at least April 2017, to Hotejka, a small Russian-language affiliate program that appears to be a rebrand of ROI777 (exposed in 2018). The TDS fingerprints visitors and redirects them to browser-lock tech support scams that push victims to call centers,…
F5 Labs reports a scanning campaign observed on its Honeynet in March 2026. It recorded 1,897 session-grouped attempts (2,821 raw events) tied to CVE-2018-14028, a WordPress 4.9.7 unrestricted file upload flaw, and the CVE entered the monthly top 10 after being absent in February. Instead of exploiting the upload flaw, the operator probes…
F5 Labs honeynet telemetry shows overall hostile activity rising 55.5% month over month in June 2026, a return to the levels of the earlier-year spike. Highlighted is CVE-2024-44000, an unauthenticated account takeover flaw (CVSS 9.8, CWE-522) in the LiteSpeed Cache WordPress plugin, which rose by 1,128 to 2,603 attacks (8). Scanning is i…