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61 articles · Original source dates
Threats & incidents17 Oct 2026

North Korean IT Workers Used Stolen US Identities to Earn $3 Million

The Justice Department (DoJ) announced coordinated enforcement actions this week targeting North Korea’s long-running scheme to place fake IT workers inside American companies. Two US nationals were arrested,…

Security Affairs · 5 min read
Threats & incidents16 Oct 2026

Burger King Japan Data Breach Impacted 11 Million Customers

Burger King Japan has disclosed a data breach that exposed the personal information of approximately 11.18 million official app members. Burger King Japan, the company operating the fast-food chain in the…

Security Affairs · 3 min read
Threats & incidents12 Oct 2026

GTA 6 Leaker Demands $30M Meme Coin Market Cap to Release Full Game

CyberLeek, the anonymous figure behind this summer’s wave of GTA 6 leaks , just raised the stakes considerably. After dropping 25 minutes of gameplay footage earlier last week, including nudity and dev menu…

Security Affairs · 4 min read
Threats & incidents08 Oct 2026

U.S. Offers $10 Million Reward for Alleged HAFNIUM Hacker Zhang Yu

The U.S. State Department is offering a $10 million reward for information leading to the arrest of Zhang Yu. He is accused of being a key figure in the HAFNIUM campaign, the 2021 operation that targeted…

Security Affairs · 4 min read
Threats & incidents06 Oct 2026

FBI Drops Accenture Contractor After Sensitive Data Breach

The FBI pulled an Accenture contractor off its account on Monday, and the reason is almost mundane compared to the damage it caused. One update didn’t get installed on time.

Security Affairs · 5 min read
Threats & incidents05 Oct 2026

MI5 Raises Alarm Over Chinese Funding of UK Academic Research

On September 30, MI5 published a formal warning naming the China General Technology Research Institute, CGTRI, also called CAGT in some translations, as an outfit with very strong ties to China’s Ministry of…

Security Affairs · 4 min read
Threats & incidents01 Oct 2026

500,000 Active Credentials Left Exposed on GitHub

Truffle Security has discovered over half a million active unique credentials exposed in public GitHub repositories. A total of 1,103,438 exposed credentials were discovered through the scanning of 224 million…

SecurityWeek · 2 min read