Iran’s cyberattacks on Israel tripled in a year, Israeli cyber chief says
Iran’s cyberattacks on Israel tripled in a year, Israeli cyber chief says

Israel logged roughly 4,800 hostile cyber incidents in June 2026, up from about 1,600 a year earlier, the head of its National Cyber Directorate told a German newspaper. The fighting between Israel and Iran has a ceasefire. The fighting in cyberspace d…

FBI says Russian intelligence hackers have a new trick for reading your Signal messages, and it works even after you change phones
FBI says Russian intelligence hackers have a new trick for reading your Signal messages, and it works even after you change phones

The FBI and CISA have warned that Russian intelligence hackers are now targeting Signal users’ backup recovery keys, an escalation of a phishing campaign that has already compromised thousands of accounts worldwide. The updated advisory, published Thur…

Russian hackers were behind the Jaguar Land Rover attack that cost the British economy two and a half billion dollars
Russian hackers were behind the Jaguar Land Rover attack that cost the British economy two and a half billion dollars

Russian hackers were behind last year’s devastating cyberattack on Jaguar Land Rover, according to a New York Times investigation published Thursday. The breach, which began on 31 August 2025, shut down production across JLR’s factories for nearly six …

A single config file in a cloned repository could steal your AWS credentials through Amazon Q Developer
A single config file in a cloned repository could steal your AWS credentials through Amazon Q Developer

A high-severity flaw in Amazon Q Developer allowed a malicious code repository to silently execute commands on a developer’s machine and steal their AWS credentials. Wiz Research discovered the vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-12957, and reported it …

Xprize founder says global surveillance is a good thing because humans behave better when they are being watched
Xprize founder says global surveillance is a good thing because humans behave better when they are being watched

Xprize Foundation founder Peter Diamandis has joined a growing list of tech executives who believe global surveillance is a good idea, writing on X this week that “humans behave better when they’re being watched.” In a Substack essay titled “Visibility…

France’s statistics department hit by cyberattack on staff directory
France’s statistics department hit by cyberattack on staff directory

The institution that counts France found itself counting victims this week. INSEE, the national statistics department, said a cyberattack had exposed personal data belonging to about 12,800 current and former staff, along with members of the civil-serv…

Hackers stole three million dollars from Polymarket users through a compromised third-party vendor
Hackers stole three million dollars from Polymarket users through a compromised third-party vendor

Polymarket confirmed on Thursday that hackers stole funds from users after a third-party vendor was compromised, allowing malicious code to be injected into the prediction market’s website. Blockchain monitoring firm PeckShield estimated the losses at …

Klue says the hackers who stole its customer data are deleting it, but now a second group is making threats
Klue says the hackers who stole its customer data are deleting it, but now a second group is making threats

Klue, the market intelligence firm whose breach earlier this month exposed customer data at LastPass, HackerOne, and nearly a dozen other companies, says the hacking group responsible is now cooperating and deleting the stolen data. But a second, unnam…

Russia cracked an activist’s iPhone with Cellebrite, months after the firm said it left
Russia cracked an activist’s iPhone with Cellebrite, months after the firm said it left

A Citizen Lab report puts forensic evidence and a Russian court document behind a familiar problem: surveillance tools do not come home when the seller asks. Russian government unit broke into the iPhone of a detained opposition politician using a fore…

Anthropic accuses Alibaba of running the largest distillation campaign yet against Claude
Anthropic accuses Alibaba of running the largest distillation campaign yet against Claude

Anthropic has accused Alibaba of waging the largest distillation campaign yet against a US AI company, telling senators and White House officials that operators linked to Alibaba’s Qwen AI lab used nearly 25,000 fraudulent accounts to extract Claude’s …