Tag: data
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How AI Hallucinations Are Creating Real Security Risks
AI hallucinations are introducing serious security risks into critical infrastructure decision-making by exploiting human trust through highly confident yet incorrect outputs. When an AI model lacks certainty, it doesn’t have a mechanism to recognize that. Instead, it generates the most probable response based on patterns in its training data, even if that response is inaccurate.…
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Microsoft Research: AI Can Generate Realistic Command-Line and Process Telemetry
Tags: ai, attack, cloud, cyber, cybersecurity, data, detection, endpoint, incident response, intelligence, microsoft, risk, threatA new approach showing how artificial intelligence can generate highly realistic command-line data and process telemetry potentially transforming how security teams build and test threat detection systems. Logs and telemetry form modern cybersecurity risk, powering threat detection, incident response, and forensic investigations across endpoints and cloud environments. However, collecting high-quality attack telemetry remains a persistent…
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Foxconn Confirms Cyberattack as Nitrogen Ransomware Claims 8TB Data Theft
Foxconn, one of the world’s largest electronics manufacturers and a major supplier to Apple, has confirmed that a recent Foxconn cyberattack disrupted operations at several of its North American facilities. According to online reports, a ransomware group known as Nitrogen claimed responsibility for the incident and alleged that it stole massive amounts of company data.…
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Nitrogen Ransomware claims massive data theft from Foxconn
Foxconn confirmed a cyberattack on some North American factories. The Nitrogen ransomware group claims it stole 8TB of data from the firm. Foxconn confirmed that several of its North American factories were affected by a cyberattack. The manufacturer confirmed it was targeted by threat actors after the Nitrogen ransomware group listed it on its Tor…
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Hackers accessed BWH Hotels reservation system for months
BWH Hotels says hackers accessed guest reservation data, including names and contacts, for over six months across multiple hotel brands. BWH Hotels disclosed a data breach, with threat actors having had access to guest reservation data for more than six months. The incident exposed names and contact details of an undisclosed number of guests. BWH…
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UK fines water supplier $1.3M for exposing data of 664k customers
The Information Commissioner’s Office has fined South Staffordshire Water Plc and parent company South Staffordshire Plc £963,900 ($1.3 million) over a cyberattack that exposed the personal data of 663,887 customers and employees. First seen on bleepingcomputer.com Jump to article: www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/uk-fines-water-supplier-13m-for-exposing-data-of-664k-customers/
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Congressman launches inquiry into how food retailers use surveillance pricing
Tags: dataThe letter noted that many Americans are unaware that their data is being used to set variable prices, a trend that is particularly pervasive for online shoppers. First seen on therecord.media Jump to article: therecord.media/congressman-launches-inquiry-into-food-retail-surveillance
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West Pharmaceutical warns of ransomware attack impacting business operations
West Pharmaceutical Services filed a report with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on Monday evening warning customers that a hacker breached the company network on May 4, stole data and encrypted systems. First seen on therecord.media Jump to article: therecord.media/west-pharmaceutical-warns-of-ransomware-attack-impacting-operations
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US bank discloses security lapse after sharing customer data with AI app
Community Bank, which operates in Pennsylvania, Ohio, and West Virginia, disclosed a cybersecurity incident that exposed customers’ names, dates of birth, and Social Security numbers. First seen on techcrunch.com Jump to article: techcrunch.com/2026/05/12/us-bank-discloses-security-lapse-after-sharing-customer-data-with-ai-app/
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Over 1 Million Baby Monitors, Security Cameras Exposed Through Meari Flaws
Meari IoT flaws reportedly exposed baby monitor images, camera activity, and device data across more than 1 million connected devices. The post Over 1 Million Baby Monitors, Security Cameras Exposed Through Meari Flaws appeared first on TechRepublic. First seen on techrepublic.com Jump to article: www.techrepublic.com/article/news-meari-iot-baby-monitor-camera-vulnerabilities/
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Mistral AI SDK, TanStack Router hit in npm software supply chain attack
Tags: ai, api, attack, breach, cloud, credentials, data, data-breach, exploit, github, kubernetes, malicious, malware, network, open-source, password, router, service, software, supply-chain, switch, vulnerabilitypull_request_target. This allows third-party workflows to run automatically, a way of avoiding maintainer approval fatigue, but means that the maintainer’s short-lived OIDC tokens become vulnerable to scraping.Armed with these tokens, the attacker were able to compromise the packages by injecting the malicious Mini Shai-Hulud malware, which propagated to other projects.The purpose is to steal developer…
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Å koda warns of customer data breach after online shop hack
Å koda Auto, a wholly owned subsidiary of the Volkswagen Group, has disclosed a data breach after attackers hacked its online shop and stole the personal information of an undisclosed number of customers. First seen on bleepingcomputer.com Jump to article: www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/skoda-warns-of-customer-data-breach-after-online-shop-hack/
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U.S. bank disclose security lapse after sharing customer data with AI app
The bank said the security lapse was due to the use of an “unauthorized” AI software app. First seen on techcrunch.com Jump to article: techcrunch.com/2026/05/12/u-s-bank-disclose-security-lapse-after-sharing-customer-data-with-ai-app/
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Instructure claims hackers returned stolen Canvas data after an extortion standoff
ShinyHunters, a prolific cybercrime group, threatened to leak data from more than 8,800 school systems. First seen on cyberscoop.com Jump to article: cyberscoop.com/canvas-instructure-data-theft-extortion-the-com/
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Instructure took a risky approach to recover stolen Canvas data
Instructure, the company behind the online learning platform Canvas, said it reached an agreement with the extortion group ShinyHunters to prevent data stolen in a recent … First seen on helpnetsecurity.com Jump to article: www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/05/12/instructure-canvas-data-breach-shinyhunters-agreement/
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Instructure pays ransom after Canvas incident as Congress announces investigation
The company said its agreement with the hackers involved their data being “returned” to them and digital confirmation of data destruction. First seen on therecord.media Jump to article: therecord.media/instructure-pays-ransom-canvas-incident-congress-investigation
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Instructure strikes deal with hackers who breached it twice
The maker of the Canvas school software said it “reached an agreement” with the hackers, but provided no guarantees that the hackers would not release the data or keep their word. First seen on techcrunch.com Jump to article: techcrunch.com/2026/05/12/instructure-strikes-deal-with-hackers-who-breached-it-twice/
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General Motors to pay $12.75 million over driver data sales
Tags: dataGeneral Motors has agreed to a $12.75 million settlement with California over allegations that it unlawfully sold drivers’ location and behavioral data to brokers, … First seen on helpnetsecurity.com Jump to article: www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/05/12/general-motors-location-data-sale-12-75-million-settlement/
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SAP Releases Patch for Critical SQL Injection Flaw in S/4HANA
A severe vulnerability has struck the heart of enterprise resource planning systems this month, threatening organizations worldwide with potential data breaches. On May 12, 2026, the software giant released its monthly security patch update to address 15 newly discovered security flaws across its software ecosystem. Enterprise defenders must prioritize these updates immediately, as attackers frequently…
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Cushman and Wakefield Confirms Data Breach Impacting Over 310,000 Accounts
Global real estate powerhouse Cushman & Wakefield is the latest casualty in an escalating war of corporate extortion. Following a tense >>pay or leak<< standoff, the notorious ShinyHunters threat syndicate has carried out its threat, dumping hundreds of thousands of corporate records online. This massive exposure highlights the growing danger of identity-based attacks targeting massive…
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WorkNest Launches WorkNest Secure to Expand Cybersecurity and Compliance Services
WorkNest Secure has launched a new cybersecurity and compliance division aimed at helping organizations strengthen security, manage risk, and meet growing regulatory demands. The new division, called WorkNest Secure, brings together the cyber, information security, and data protection capabilities of Pentest People and Bulletproof under one brand. Both companies became part of WorkNestGroup following a…
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Why Agentic AI Is Security’s Next Blind Spot
Agentic AI is already running in production environments across many organizations today. It is executing tasks, consuming data, and taking actions, most likely without meaningful involvement from the security team. The industry conversation has largely framed this as a question of policy: allow it, restrict it, or monitor it? However, that framing misses the point.…
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Instructure reaches ‘agreement’ with ShinyHunters to stop data leak
Instructure, the edtech giant behind the widely popular Canvas learning management system (LMS), has reached an “agreement” with the ShinyHunters extortion group to prevent the data stolen in a recent breach from being leaked online. First seen on bleepingcomputer.com Jump to article: www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/instructure-reaches-agreement-with-shinyhunters-to-stop-data-leak/
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Cline AI Agent Flaw Allows Attackers to Launch RCE Attacks
A critical security vulnerability in the Cline AI coding assistant’s kanban package exposes developers to remote code execution, data theft, and denial-of-service attacks by simply visiting a malicious website. Security researcher Sagilayani disclosed CVE-2026-44211 on GitHub four days ago, revealing that the kanban npm package bundled with the Cline CLI starts a WebSocket server on 127.0.0.1:3484 with zero Origin…
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Claude Chrome Extension Flaw Lets Malicious Add-Ons Steal Gmail and Drive Data
A critical vulnerability dubbed >>ClaudeBleed<< has compromised Anthropic's trusted AI assistant, potentially turning it into a backdoor. This severe design flaw in the Claude Chrome extension allows malicious add-ons to hijack the AI secretly. Even extensions with zero declared permissions can exploit this vulnerability to steal sensitive data from Gmail, Google Drive, and GitHub. In…
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South Staffordshire Water Fined £1m After Data Breach
The ICO has fined South Staffordshire Water nearly £1m for a series of data protection failings First seen on infosecurity-magazine.com Jump to article: www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/south-staffordshire-water-fined-1m/
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Pressure mounts on Canvas as data leak extortion deadline looms
Attackers affiliated with The Com are threatening to leak data from more than 8,800 school systems if Instructure doesn’t pay a ransom. First seen on cyberscoop.com Jump to article: cyberscoop.com/canvas-instructure-data-theft-extortion-the-com/
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GM agrees to $12.75M California settlement over sale of drivers’ data
California Attorney General Rob Bonta announced a proposed $12.75 million settlement agreement with General Motors (GM) over allegations that the company violated the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA). First seen on bleepingcomputer.com Jump to article: www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/legal/gm-agrees-to-1275m-california-settlement-over-sale-of-drivers-data/