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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…
In August 2026, Australian beauty retailer Oz Hair and Beauty was targeted in an extortion attack by the group xpl0itrs. The group subsequently published data allegedly stolen from the company. The leak contains roughly 2M unique email addresses along with names, phone numbers, geographic locations (suburb and postcode) and purchase recor…
In August 2026, clothing retailer Carhartt was targeted in a ShinyHunters "pay or leak" extortion campaign. The group published data allegedly taken from the company, including 12.9M unique email addresses, names, phone numbers and physical addresses. The leaked corpus also held millions of synthetic records unrelated to real individuals,…
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…
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 …
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…
A breach of the Mindbox marketing automation platform in August 2024 exposed data belonging to Burger King Russia customers. News of the incident broke in October 2024, and the dataset was added to Have I Been Pwned on 21 Sep 2026. It contains 3.2M unique email addresses along with names, genders, dates of birth, phone numbers and approxi…
An actor using the handle malconguerra2 claims to be sharing a dataset allegedly from KFC Venezuela, advertised at roughly 1.55 million records. The detailed description lists 1,542,021 JSON records totaling 17.5 GB. A visible sample shows customer and transaction fields: full names, email addresses, phone numbers, physical addresses, ord…
Hundreds of EU grocery stores reportedly lost millions of euros because the outdated OT firmware running their cooling systems was left unpatched. The stores had outsourced management of these systems to third-party providers. The source text is only a short teaser, so it does not name the affected vendors, the retailers, the firmware fla…
The UK Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) has issued a reprimand and an enforcement notice to the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) over governance failures in its use of the third-party Auror retail crime intelligence-sharing platform. Between March 2023 and September 2024, MPS officers and staff used Auror without formal approval, …
Scammers abused a legitimate spend-management platform as part of a fraud operation. They used its notification system to send phishing messages and its open-banking account linking to validate stolen banking credentials. Group-IB documented the activity in a client environment after the platform reported suspicious payment notifications …
Episode 487 of the Smashing Security podcast covers the hijacking of Microsoft's official X (Twitter) account, which has 13 million followers. The attackers used a Clippy theme to promote a dubious crypto coin, and a corporate apology that circulated was not from Microsoft either. There was no ransomware or data theft. The episode also co…
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 …
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 …
Flashpoint's first monthly insider threat report, drawn from its Primary Source Collection (PSC), identified 9,787 insider-related posts across 1,216 channels and 1,778 authors in September 2026. Overall volume fell, but threat actors kept recruiting insiders and advertising insider access, mostly to enable fraud. Flashpoint counted 857 u…
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…
Check Point Exposure Management researchers uncovered a large, multi-region phishing infrastructure that conceals active campaigns behind domains that look inactive. Root domains return blank or generic "Not Found" pages, while the phishing content is served only through concealed regional paths (for example /it, /de, /pa) and under speci…
F5 Labs' 2025 Advanced Persistent Bots Report analyzes more than 200 billion web and mobile API transactions from F5 Bot Defense customers between November 2023 and September 2024. It finds that 10.2% (21.22 billion) of requests were bots or automation. Of these, 4.8% were unwanted bots mitigated by F5, 3.5% were flagged automation and 2.…
