Binance’s $6.36bn Hack: Only Coins With an Off Switch Were Stopped
Tether and Circle switched off $1.8bn of the stolen Binance money in 40 minutes. The $2.4bn now sitting in ETH and BTC is headed for North Korea, and nobody can freeze it.
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MonsterCloud Allegedly Paid the Ransoms Police Hired It to Refuse
Police departments and sheriff’s offices that would not give taxpayer money to criminals hired MonsterCloud, a Florida ransomware recovery firm,…
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Hackers Used Staples’ Own Help Desk to Mint $5M in Gift Cards
Hackers got into Staples’ internal customer-service system from outside the company. There they took over the logged-in sessions of its…
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Fake Americans on TikTok and ‘Truth Social’ Cost Under a Cent
On October 15, 2026, the phone number a bot farm needs to open a TikTok account cost less than a…
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Danfoss Stopped Patching. Hackers Cooked French Supermarket Fridges
On the night of 11-12 October, attackers heated the fridges and freezers at Intermarché, Carrefour, Monoprix, Leclerc and Coopérative U…
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All Quiet on the Right Wing as Russia’s Data Centres Go Dark
For four days in October, some of the loudest voices online went quiet. Between October 8 and 11, Ukrainian drones…
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38 Deepfake-Abuse Sites Ran on Cloudflare, Google and Proton
Cloudflare, Google and Proton supplied services used by 38 sites dedicated to sexual deepfakes made without their subjects’ consent, researchers…
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Scammers Used Google Ads on 284 Sites to Fake Locked Computers
Scammers used Google Ads on at least 284 legitimate websites to make Windows and Mac users think their computers were…
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OpenAI Model Accessed Medicare Portal; Australia Told 84 Days Later
An OpenAI model researching Australian public healthcare costs reached areas of the Medicare Statistics Reporting Service that the government says…
