Automotive AI startup IQ.Lvbs claims that between October 7 and 14, 2026 it faced repeated attempts to steal its NovaSpark driving model, access users' devices and private driving files, and exploit its sign-in system. The company says the first requests came from an IP address assigned to Comma.ai Inc., a rival whose camera hardware Nova…
A BushidoToken journal entry reviews four 2026 UK prosecutions involving teenage offenders at the intersection of cybercrime and online extremism. In July 2026, Thalha Jubair (20) and Owen Flowers (18), part of the Scattered Spider collective, were each sentenced to five years and six months for the late August 2024 breach of Transport fo…
Darktrace researchers documented a new campaign distributing CikaBika Bot, a Rust-based remote access trojan controlled entirely through Discord. The infection chain starts with a disk image named PropositionProjet.img, which contains a French-language decoy PDF and a Windows shortcut disguised as a Word document. A Nim loader extracts th…
In October 2026, the Discord server protection service Double Counter suffered a data breach attributed to a vulnerability in the Metabase analytics tool. The company's disclosure notice states that attackers accessed a subset of its data. That data was later published publicly and contains about 275k unique email addresses and Discord us…
The leaker CyberLeek, behind a series of leaks of Rockstar Games' upcoming Grand Theft Auto 6, has threatened to publish a complete, playable build of the game. The threat followed the release of about 25 minutes of new footage, which Eurogamer reviewed and judged to appear legitimate, noting it carried CyberLeek's emblem. Instead of dema…
Unit 42 analyzed the operational environment of a previously unreported, financially motivated, English-speaking actor using the handle BUGSTER. The actor ran the Hermes Agent framework with DeepSeek V4 as its reasoning engine and the Cursor IDE as a secondary tool, with safety controls disabled in both. With AI-generated scripts and reco…