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Hackers are abusing Microsoft Teams chats to impersonate IT support, gain remote access, move laterally, and steal company data, Microsoft warns.
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From the FBI breach to the DarkSword iPhone exploit, these are the biggest cyber attacks and security failures that have shaped 2026 so far.
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Criminals extorting money online have created huge businesses, complete with branding and HR
The birth of ransomware was a stunt that got out of hand. In 1989, an evolutionary biologist called Joseph L Popp Jr was working part time for the World Health Organisation on the Aids epidemic. He was a difficult man. When he was denied a permanent job, he decided to punish his peers while shocking them into acknowledging another kind of infection: the computer virus.
Popp wrote a questionnaire promising to help minimise the risk of contracting HIV, duplicated it on to 20,000 floppy discs, and sent them to researchers in 90 countries. Each disc contained a Trojan virus. Once it was inserted, a malware timebomb eventually made the computer unusable until the user paid a “licence fee” of $189 to a PO box in Panama. Popp’s primitive “Aids Trojan” was quickly identified and he was arrested for blackmail. Intending to make a point rather than a profit, he was mortified to learn that some of his targets had overreacted by wiping their hard drives: one Italian Aids organisation lost a decade’s worth of vital data. Popp experienced a psychological collapse and was deemed unfit to stand trial. The criminals who developed his crude innovation into a global business would not be so scrupulous.
They can intercept user credentials while providing real-time context that helps attackers convince victims to approve MFA challenges during phone calls..
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The campaign targets customers with urgent "maintenance" alerts designed to steal master passwords within hours.
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Alleged scam kingpin Chen Zhi was arrested in Cambodia and extradited to China, bringing a dramatic close to one of Asia’s largest criminal networks.
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At the heart of this plan sits a new Government Cyber Unit, designed to coordinate the UK's scattered cybersecurity efforts into a unified force.
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The European Space Agency confirmed a cyber incident after a hacker claimed to access and steal data from external collaboration servers.
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French intelligence agencies uncovered what appears to be a coordinated foreign interference operation targeting the GNV Fantastic.
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The Chinese threat group, tracked as UAT-9686, has deployed a collection of custom-built hacking tools to maintain persistent access to compromised systems.
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