Japanese media group Nikkei (publisher of The Nikkei and the Financial Times) disclosed a data breach affecting about 1.83 million records held in a cloud service used for system development. On the morning of October 7, attackers used previously compromised credentials to access the service. About 1.68 million records held only non-ident…
An actor using the handle 0xRune claims to have uploaded roughly 20 GB of data belonging to Cast AI, described as a multi-cloud, multi-region infrastructure backup and development environment. The listing references AWS Lambda deployment packages, S3 backups, infrastructure-state data, billing exports and a GitLab backup dated October 5, …
U.S. Army soldier Cameron John Wagenius (alias Kiberphant0m), 22, was sentenced in Seattle to 70 months in federal prison and ordered to pay $294,978 in restitution. He had pleaded guilty to hacking multiple telecommunications companies and stealing call and text metadata for more than 100 million AT&T customers in 2024. Working with co-c…
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…
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…