Robbie Meredith reports: An IT system used by schools across Northern Ireland has been targeted in a cyber attack, the Education Authority (EA) has said. On Thursday, schools received a message that as part of “work to manage an IT security issue” the EA would be carrying out a password reset for all users. An……
Maxwell Zeff, Zoë Schiffer, and Lily Hay Newman report: Meta has paused all its work with the data contracting firm Mercor while it investigates a major security breach that impacted the startup, two sources confirmed to WIRED. The pause is indefinite, the sources said. Other major AI labs are also reevaluating their work with Mercor as they……
Bill Toulas reports: Threat actors are exploiting the recent Claude Code source code leak by using fake GitHub repositories to deliver Vidar information-stealing malware. Claude Code is a terminal-based AI agent from Anthropic, designed to execute coding tasks directly in the terminal and act as an autonomous agent, capable of direct system interaction, LLM API……
Phil Tenser reports: A cybersecurity attack is affecting several Massachusetts towns that share a regional emergency communications center. The cyberattack affecting the Patriot Regional Emergency Communications Center and associated towns was identified early Tuesday, according to statements from affected towns. The towns of Ashby, Dunstable, Pepperell and Townsend also said their police and fire departments……
Edith Lin reports: Hong Kong’s privacy watchdog and police are investigating a large-scale data leak involving over 56,000 patients served by the Hospital Authority, which reported the unauthorised retrieval of a variety of information. The authority on Saturday apologised to affected victims – patients of hospitals in Kowloon East – for the breach that compromised……
Matt Binder reports that Mac users have a new malware threat to be on the watch out for. According to a new report by Malwarebytes, Infiniti Stealer is a new malware attack targeting Mac users that utilizes social engineering tactics and, once the payload is delivered to the device, is very difficult to detect. The hacker’s……
Abdelaziz Fathi reports: Blockchain analytics firm Elliptic said the $285 million exploit of Solana-based Drift Protocol shows multiple indicators associated with North Korea’s state-sponsored hacking groups. The firm’s assessment is based on onchain behavior, laundering patterns, and network-level signals that align with previous incidents attributed to DPRK-linked actors. The attack is the largest crypto exploit……
From the Garante’s press release, below, it sounds like the banking group experienced an insider-wrongdoing breach in which an employee improperly accessed 3,573 customer accounts over a period of two years. Data breach: The Italian Data Protection Authority fines Intesa Sanpaolo €31.8 million for unauthorized access to the banking information of over 3,500 customers for……
Zack Whittaker reports: American toy-making giant Hasbro has confirmed a cyberattack, and the company says it may take “several weeks” before the incident is resolved. The owner of properties including Transformers, Peppa Pig, and Dungeons & Dragons said in a legally required disclosure with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on Wednesday that it detected an intrusion……
DysruptionHub reports: North Attleboro Public Schools in Massachusetts said Wednesday it is responding to unauthorized activity on its network after what the superintendent described as a cybersecurity incident over the past several days. The Sun Chronicle reported that Superintendent John Antonucci said the district had responded ‘over the past several days’ to unauthorized activity on its network…….
