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A 360 Privacy survey reported by Dark Reading finds that more than 8 in 10 security and wealth professionals believe cybersecurity and physical security can no longer be separated. The research suggests high-profile executives feel "untouchable" even as their digital exposure turns into physical risk. The excerpt available does not descri…
ESET WeLiveSecurity published a guidance article on 'nudify' apps, which use generative AI to turn images of clothed people into synthetic nude images. The resulting non-consensual intimate imagery (NCII) is used by fraudsters, bullies and cybercriminals, including for blackmail. An Institute for Strategic Dialogue (ISD) and AI Security I…
The UK Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) issued a reprimand and enforcement notice to the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) after officers and staff shared personal information through the unapproved third-party platform Auror without adequate data protection safeguards. The platform was used between March 2023 and September 2024, w…
California has settled with 23andMe for $6 million over the 2023 credential-stuffing breach. The breach exposed personal and genetic data of about 6.9 million people, including 855,000 California residents. The settlement follows a July 2026 $18 million settlement with a coalition of 42 state attorneys general, which California did not jo…
A Nigerian national, Chukwuemeka Victor Amachukwu (aliases Chukwuemeka Victor Eletuo and So Kwan Leung), 40, was sentenced to eight years in prison for his role in spearphishing attacks against US tax preparation businesses between 2019 and 2021. He pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit computer intrusions and wire fraud after being extr…
Trend Micro published its 2025 security predictions report, The Easy Way In/Out: Securing The Artificial Future, warning that highly customized, AI-powered attacks will supercharge scams, phishing and influence operations in 2025 and beyond. The central prediction is the emergence of malicious "digital twins": breached or leaked PII used …
A Forbes Technology Council expert panel, republished by Proofpoint, lists the emerging AI security risks that business leaders should address as AI adoption grows. The main themes are sensitive data leakage through prompts, shadow AI and third-party model integrations (OpenAI, Anthropic), and AI agents with excessive permissions that act…
AI voice-cloning scams are now cheap and convincing, and a Hiya report from March says one in four Americans received a deepfake voice call in the past 12 months. A further 24% say they cannot tell a cloned voice from a real one. The article describes virtual kidnapping scams, in which attackers clone a relative's voice from a few seconds…
The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) opened a rulemaking in September asking whether platforms should be required to stop impersonation scam ads from reaching consumers, citing ad tools that generate copy, images and video and optimize targeting regardless of whether an ad is legitimate. The article reports that nearly one trillion scam …
ESET WeLiveSecurity warns that scammers are exploiting demand for Robux, the virtual currency of Roblox, to steal credentials, personal information and money, with children and younger players the main targets. Roblox states that no legitimate free Robux generators, tricks or codes exist. Only earned routes are legitimate, such as officia…
F5 Labs published its 2026 cybersecurity predictions and scored its 2025 forecasts at 6.5/8, by its own assessment. The 2025 review cites AI-powered botnets, attacks on AI model APIs, AI side-channel attacks on cryptography, APT use of hacktivist personas, and expanded Roskomnadzor powers to isolate or reroute Russian internet traffic fro…
Analysis by Bridewell of reports to the UK Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) found more than 26,000 data breaches caused by human error between 2020 and 2025. Annual human-error breaches rose from 3,847 to 5,496 (+43%). The leading cause is data emailed to the wrong recipient (11,214 incidents, up 62% from 1,519 in 2020 to 2,459 in …
Jefferson County Health Department (Hillsboro, Missouri) has agreed to a $2.25 million settlement of a consolidated class action over a 2022 data security incident. An unauthorized third party accessed its network between October 31 and November 15, 2022, and may have viewed or obtained personal and protected health information. The breac…
A $6,438,578.20 settlement has been agreed to resolve the "Other Labs Track" of consolidated litigation over the American Medical Collection Agency (AMCA) breach. The defendants are AMCA clients Sonic Healthcare U.S.A., Aurora Diagnostics LLC, Clinical Pathology Laboratories, Inc. and Austin Pathology Associates. AMCA, a subsidiary of Ret…
AI-assisted "vibe coding" is lowering the barrier to app development, but it is also producing apps with common security oversights that app marketplaces do not necessarily flag. The article cites a report that 84% of developers were using or planning to use AI tools, and a Lovable-hosted app in which a researcher found 16 vulnerabilities…
Publicly reported data breaches in the US reached an all-time high last year, with over 3,300 incidents and nearly 280 million victim notices. The Identity Theft Resource Center (ITRC) reports that over 471 million notices went out in the first half of 2026, but only 24% described the attack vector, the lowest rate it has recorded. The ar…
