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

Revolut is reportedly facing a $3 million ransom demand after hackers obtained sensitive information belonging to hundreds of its customers and threatened to sell the data to other criminal groups. Editorial credit: Matthew Nichols1 / Shutterstock The group behind the extortion attempt, calling itself “iamnotavillain,” reportedly demanded 6,000 Monero, a privacy-focused cryptocurrency worth approximately $3 million, and gave the fintech company 24 hours to pay. The hackers th

Malone Lam, a 22-year-old Singaporean national, has pleaded guilty in a Washington, D.C., federal court to participating in a racketeering (RICO) conspiracy for his role as the ringleader of an international cybercrime network that stole and laundered over $245 million in cryptocurrency. The guilty plea before U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly makes Lam the 11th defendant to admit guilt out of 18 individuals charged in the federal investigation. Lam faces a maximum s

The Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles (FLHSMV) has confirmed a data breach affecting its Driver and Vehicle Information Database (DAVID) after an international cybercrime group gained unauthorized access using stolen law enforcement credentials. The disclosure follows claims by the extortion group ShinyHunters, which boasted on its dark web leak site that it had exfiltrated more than 200,000 driver records. Editorial credit: Bilanol / Shutterstock While

AI safety pioneer Anthropic has published a comprehensive 154-page threat intelligence report detailing unprecedented efforts by state-sponsored actors, cybercriminals, spyware developers, and covert propagandists to bypass system guardrails and leverage its Claude AI models for weapons design, cyber espionage, and surveillance. Editorial credit: Nwz / Shutterstock The disclosure marks one of the most granular public audits of frontier model misuse ever released by an AI deve