David Hyde of Vanderbilt University weighs in on a major cybersecurity breach targeting U.S. telecommunications firms, with potential ties to Chinese state-sponsored hackers.

US money transfer giant MoneyGram has recently confirmed to customers that their personal information (PII) may have been stolen in a data breach incident.  The firm posted a notice on its website yesterday.

According to Europol, police investigators from across the globe joined forces recently in a digital operation to identify human trafficking suspects and victims.

Aqua Security researchers are warning of a new malware family named "perfctl" that targets Linux systems. It establishes persistent access and hijacks resources to conduct cryptocurrency mining.

Qualcomm has released security patches to address a zero-day vulnerability in the Digital Signal Processor (DSP) service, which affects dozens of chipsets.

The popular "LiteSpeed Cache" WordPress plug-in, installed over 6 million times, is impacted by a Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) flaw that allows attackers to escalate privileges and install malicious code.

Researchers at NSFOCUS discovered a new botnet malware family named "Gorilla," also known as "GorillaBot," which is based on leaked "Mirai" source code.

The Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) group "GoldenJackal" launched a new set of attacks on government organizations' air-gapped systems.

MITRE has announced a new Artificial Intelligence (AI)-incident-sharing project that allows organizations to share intelligence regarding real-world AI-related incidents.

Due to a cyberattack, American Water, the largest publicly traded US water and wastewater utility company, had to shut down some systems. The company stated that the attack forced it to shut down MyWater, its online customer portal, and pause billing.

Permiso researchers reported that attackers conducted Large Language Model (LLM) hijacking of cloud infrastructure for generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) to run rogue chatbot services.

Assistant Professor and Associate PUR-1 Director Stylianos Chatzidakis and a team of researchers from Purdue University's School of Nuclear Engineering conducted a project titled "Characterizing Nuclear Cybersecurity States Using Artificial I