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…
Ahold Delhaize, the Dutch-Belgian grocery group, is restoring services disrupted by a cyberattack that began on October 12, when it took systems offline in response to a security issue. The outage hit online orders and deliveries for most of its brands across Europe and the United States, though all stores stayed open. The company has not…
Ahold Delhaize, one of the world's largest food retailers, confirmed that a cyberattack discovered last week forced it to take systems offline, including brand websites and apps, in Europe and the United States. Affected brands include Albert Heijn, Etos and Gall & Gall in the Netherlands, Delhaize in Belgium, and Stop & Shop in the US, w…
Episode 486 of the Smashing Security podcast (host Graham Cluley, guest Dave Bittner) covers two main stories. An Auckland store's vibe-coded website reportedly let the public edit its inventory, and bogus listings appeared within hours, including socks, an $850 banana and New Zealand's national parks. A hacker collective also physically …
Episode 488 of the Smashing Security podcast, hosted by Graham Cluley with guest Paul Ducklin, covers several recent security stories. The lead item is the arrest by the FBI of an executive at a ransomware negotiation firm, reportedly at a cybersecurity conference, in connection with the investigation into the ShinyHunters gang. The hosts…
Unknown attackers compromised thousands of internet-exposed refrigeration controllers late on Sunday, raising temperatures to as high as 122°F (50°C), spoiling food and causing fires at nearly 700 French supermarkets. France's ANSSI warned of widespread compromises of Danfoss controllers and a day later added Copeland and its Dixell brand…
Ahold Delhaize, the Dutch grocery group behind Food Lion, Giant Food, Stop & Shop, Hannaford, Martin's and Albert Heijn, confirmed that a cyberattack caused by "malicious actions of others" forced it to proactively take IT systems offline, including websites and apps. The incident was first disclosed on October 12 and affected most of the…
A reader comment on Schneier on Security (Clive Robinson, 14 Oct 2026), posted under a thread about connected fridges in France, cites a Stars and Stripes report of refrigeration outages at US military commissary stores. Army CID's Cyber Field Office and the Air Force Office of Special Investigations confirmed active investigations, with …
A Chinese-speaking operator used the open-source AI agent framework Cairn to run autonomous attacks against more than 1,200 sites, reaching websites of over 100 companies, including Deere, SharkNinja and Cummins. Researcher Snorre Fagerland of NorForge found the operation around 2 October 2026 by scanning for about two dozen exposed Cairn…
A Chinese-speaking operator used autonomous AI agents on the open-source Cairn platform to compromise the websites of more than 100 companies. NorForge tracks the most active campaign as AIA0001: over 1,100 attack projects across 14 dashboards, and more than 1,200 break-in attempts overall. Targets were e-commerce businesses in the United…
Trend Micro published its Holidays, Scams, and AI survey of 6,536 consumers across the United States, United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, Singapore and Taiwan (2,100 in the U.S.), conducted 31 October to 10 November 2025. It shows a gap between scam-spotting confidence and actual exposure: 56% of Americans are very or extremely confid…
Censys observed a 71% drop in internet-exposed Danfoss StoreView control panels in France in three days after the October 11 cyber-attack on hundreds of French supermarkets. The attack targeted refrigeration controllers that Danfoss confirmed were mostly older models without security updates (AK-SM800, AK-SC355) or newer models on outdate…
Threat actors are abusing the open source AI platform Cairn, an agent-coordination engine usable as an autonomous penetration testing tool, to automate attacks on hundreds of websites worldwide. AI security firm Norforge found the activity after threat actors left their Cairn panels exposed, following a Gambit Security report on attackers…
This weekly recap covers several concurrent incidents. ConnectWise disabled seven application identities and suspended Cloud Backup after unknown actors abused them to compromise Microsoft 365 tenants. China-nexus Armory Castle (UNC5221 / Warp Panda) exploited BeyondTrust Remote Support flaw CVE-2026-102764 (CVSS 9.3) as a zero-day in lat…
This SentinelOne weekly roundup covers three developments. The FBI arrested Edward Dubrovsky, a former CYPFER executive, on conspiracy and extortion charges. Kash Patel described him as a suspected co-conspirator of ShinyHunters, though he has not been officially named as one. The FBI says the group breached more than 140 organizations an…
A still-unknown actor hacked thousands of remote-controlled refrigeration systems across hundreds of French grocery stores, spiking temperatures, spoiling food and sparking fires. The incident fits a broader trend of extortionists and other attackers going after physical systems to maximise real-world pressure on victims. Earlier examples…
The weekly InfoStealers report for 12-19 October 2026 summarises stealer-log telemetry on compromised machines, credentials and sessions. The United States ranks 8 by country of infection with 438 machines. Gmail is the most affected email provider with 1,225,748 users, followed by Hotmail (90,554) and Yahoo (33,493). Sessions and saved c…
This SentinelOne weekly roundup (Week 39, 2026) covers one law enforcement success and two active threat campaigns. A US court sentenced Armenian national Karen Serobovich Vardanyan ("Maneeken"/"Karl Lagerfeld"), an initial access specialist for Ryuk ransomware, to two years in prison and over $1.2 million in restitution. SentinelLABS ide…