In yet another significant cybersecurity incident, Whole Foods Market, the grocery chain recently acquired by Amazon, has reported a credit card data breach that potentially impacts customers who shopped at specific locations. This announcement came after Whole Foods confirmed that…
AI-Based Attacks, Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning, Critical Infrastructure Security Also: AI-Driven Deception, Cyber Deterrence, and Resilience Anna Delaney (annamadeline) • December 26, 2025 Clockwise, from top left: Anna Delaney, Mathew Schwartz, Michael Novinson, and Tom Field The ISMG editorial…
Coupang’s Customer Data Breach Sparks Official Response from South Korea’s Ministry of Science and ICT On November 30, 2025, during an inter-agency government meeting held at the government complex in Seoul, South Korea’s Minister of Science and ICT, Bae Kyung-hoon,…
A significant cybersecurity threat has emerged as the Kinsing group exploits a severe vulnerability in Apache ActiveMQ servers, leading to infections of Linux systems with cryptocurrency miners and rootkits. This critical flaw is identified as CVE-2023-46604, categorized as having a…
Image credit: Times of Israel. Aleksei Burkov, a 29-year-old hacker from Russia, recently pleaded guilty to numerous charges linked to the operation of two illicit online platforms, enabling cybercriminal activities that led to over $20 million in credit card fraud.…
The Equifax data breach has intensified, revealing that an additional 2.5 million U.S. consumers were affected, raising the total number of potential victims from 143 million to 145.5 million. This data breach, initially reported last month, involves the exposure of…
Finance & Banking, Fraud Management & Cybercrime, Fraud Risk Management Limited Advances in Mandating Customer Compensation for Financial Scams Suparna Goswami (gsuparna) • December 26, 2025 Ken Palla, Fraud Expert and Former Director at MUFG Bank In 2025, financial scams…
On December 25, coinciding with global Christmas celebrations, the Everest ransomware group released a statement on its dark web leak site alleging a breach of Chrysler systems, a prominent American automobile manufacturer. The group claims to have extracted a staggering…
Recent cybersecurity alerts highlight the exploitation of a critical vulnerability in Citrix NetScaler application delivery control (ADC) and Gateway appliances by numerous threat actors, including affiliates of the notorious LockBit ransomware group. This new wave of attacks takes advantage of…
Emotet Malware Adopts New Wi-Fi Hacking Methodology Emotet, an infamous trojan responsible for numerous botnet-driven spam campaigns and ransomware attacks, has evolved its attack techniques by exploiting already infected devices to identify new victims connected to nearby Wi-Fi networks. Researchers…
