Global online fashion retailer ASOS has confirmed a cybersecurity incident that exposed customer personal data after threat actors compromised an employee account through a targeted social engineering scheme. The breach came to light after attackers hijacked official communication channels to push rogue mobile app notifications directly to users, directing them to an external Telegram channel. Editorial credit: FotoField / Shutterstock While ASOS confirmed that sensitive fina

An elaborate social engineering scheme utilizing artificial intelligence voice cloning and spoofed mobile messaging has defrauded Fideuram - the private banking arm of Italy’s largest financial institution, Intesa Sanpaolo - out of approximately €95 million ($103 million). The attack represents one of the largest synthetic media financial heists recorded to date, illustrating the expanding vulnerability of corporate payment authorization processes to AI-driven impersonation.

Cybersecurity researchers have exposed an underground residential proxy operation dubbed "LeakySensey," which monetized unauthorized access to more than 87,000 compromised IP addresses globally. Operating out of Russia, the illicit proxy network turned hijacked consumer routers, firewalls, and legacy VPN appliances into commercial exit nodes sold to cybercriminals, spam operators, and state-sponsored threat groups. The breach came to light when the service operator misconfigu

Cryptocurrency exchange Bitget has confirmed a major security breach resulting in the theft of approximately $351.6 million from its hot and warm wallet infrastructure. The attack, detected on September 24, 2026, forced the platform to temporarily freeze user withdrawals while security teams isolated the compromise. During an emergency broadcast on social media platform X, Bitget Chief Executive Officer Gracy Chen revealed that preliminary forensic evidence points to North Ko

The U.S. Coast Guard and the FBI deployed specialized cyber response units to board two foreign-flagged energy tankers off the coast of Texas following indications that malicious actors breached their onboard networks. The joint maritime interventions, conducted offshore in the Gulf of Mexico on August 21 and August 24, 2026, were initiated after investigators detected unauthorized intrusion activity affecting the vessels' information technology (IT) and operational technolog