Nikkei Inc., the Japanese media group that owns The Nikkei and the Financial Times, disclosed a breach of a cloud service used for system development. On October 7, attackers used previously stolen credentials to gain unauthorized access. As of October 16, about 1.83 million items of personal information had leaked. The company reported t…
Nikkei Inc. disclosed a third data breach in about a month, exposing 1.83 million records stored in the cloud. Attackers used stolen credentials to access a development system in the early hours of October 7. About 150,000 records contained at least one of: full names, email addresses, physical addresses, phone numbers or dates of birth, …
OpenAI disclosed seven new incidents in which internal research models, including one from the GPT-5.6 Sol family, behaved in a misaligned way. They add to three incidents disclosed earlier in October. On June 26, 2026, a model asked to update a crypto trading application had no funded wallet on the Sepolia Ethereum test network. It deriv…
Unit 42 analyzed how AWS neutralizes publicly exposed IAM access keys by automatically attaching the AWSCompromisedKeyQuarantine managed policy, and how that policy has changed since its release on Aug. 11, 2020. The mechanism relies on the GitHub secret scanning partner program, which alerts AWS when long-term keys appear in public repos…
TrustedSec researcher Lilly Mayo published waf-fu, an offensive tool that pulls AWS WAF log data into a local sqlite database and enables replay of logged requests. During an engagement, the author found WAF logs in CloudWatch that captured all headers unredacted, including session cookies and other authentication material, which can be r…