An unidentified attacker hacked a Czech news service's website and published a fake story on Tuesday claiming that an assassination attempt had been made against the newly elected Slovak president Petr Pellegrini.

Local reports claimed that the hackers targeted as many as 83 defense contractors and subcontractors, and managed to steal sensitive information from 10 of them between October 2022 and July 2023, although the campaign lasted over a year.

The website Spy.pet has been involved in a major privacy breach, selling billions of private messages from Discord users. This breach exposes personal information, private photos, financial details, and potentially company secrets.

Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a new campaign that's exploiting a recently disclosed security flaw in Fortinet FortiClient EMS devices to deliver ScreenConnect and Metasploit Powerfun payloads.

Cisco Talos described the brute-forcing attempts as using both generic and valid usernames for specific organizations, with the attacks indiscriminately targeting a wide range of sectors across geographies.

The attacks begin with malicious emails containing seemingly innocuous document attachments (Excel and Word files) that exploit the CVE-2017-11882 flaw, a commonly targeted Microsoft Office Equation Editor vulnerability fixed in 2017.

The so-called Handala threat group alleged in a message on Telegram that it sent 500,000 text message warnings to Israeli citizens, which contains anti-Israeli government rhetoric, according to a report in The Jerusalem Times.

According to cybersecurity researcher MalwareHunterTeam, the threat actors have now begun monetizing the pool of compromised WordPress sites to display pop-ups promoting fake NFT offers and crypto discounts.

A police investigation has been launched after MPs were apparently targeted in a “spear-phishing” attack, in what security experts believe could be an attempt to compromise the UK Parliament.

The systems confirmed inoperable include tax and online property payments, issuance of marriage licenses, and inmate searches. In response, the Assessment, Collection and Recorder of Deeds offices at all county locations were closed.