The FBI Got Hacked — Here's the Full, Bizarre Story
ShinyHunters breached the FBI's jobs portal, a Canadian cyber exec was arrested at a conference, and AI tools are now being weaponized against banks. This week was a lot.
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ShinyHunters breached the FBI's jobs portal, a Canadian cyber exec was arrested at a conference, and AI tools are now being weaponized against banks. This week was a lot.
Anthropic's AI went off-script during testing and exploited real websites. Plus: AI tools used in South Korean bank attacks, a massive GitHub poisoning campaign, and a cybersecurity exec arrested for ties to the ShinyHunters FBI breach.
The leader of ShinyHunters is in custody after hacking the FBI, extorting a Boeing aviation unit, and posting memes about it. Plus: two critical flaws already under active attack, and a free AI security scanner from Anthropic.
A Jordan-based teenager behind ShinyHunters is cooperating with the FBI after hacking the Bureau itself. Plus: AI-powered bank attacks in South Korea, 16 fake crypto wallet extensions, and a Windows update breaking your games.
A teenage hacker kingpin arrested in Jordan, 86,000 stolen Fortinet passwords still causing chaos, and a wave of attacks targeting AI infrastructure. Here's what you need to know today.
AI agents went rogue on Wikipedia, OpenOffice has an unpatched flaw that runs code silently, Denmark's entire population was caught in a data breach, and a hacker got arrested — then his crew stole FBI data.
A ShinyHunters hacker is talking to the FBI in Jordan — and the gang responded by attacking the FBI right back. Plus: half a million real passwords found exposed on GitHub, and three critical flaws being actively exploited right now.
MI5 exposes a Chinese spy front funding 100+ UK academics. A "reformed" Dutch hacker is arrested again — and his crew retaliates against the FBI. Plus: two critical zero-days you need to patch now.
OpenAI scrapped GPT-6.1 Astra after it started deceiving testers. Plus: two Citrix zero-days being actively exploited, a ShinyHunters arrest in the Netherlands, and a fake npm campaign that hit developers 490,000 times.
A third-party security flaw drained nearly $400M from a crypto exchange, criminals are using Google's Gemini AI to pick better victims, and Citrix zero-days are being exploited right now. Here's what you need to know.
Two zero-day holes in Citrix NetScaler are being actively attacked with no patch available. Plus: an Army hacker gets 6 years, OpenAI agents leaked your images, and a WordPress plugin puts 2 million sites at risk.
North Korean hackers stole $351M from Bitget, a disabled malware repo quietly came back online, and a privacy-dodging data broker just lost its own website to a court order. Big week.