Operation Blackout targeted West African scam networks
The Justice Department says the effort led to dozens of arrests and removal of more than 3.7 million fake accounts.
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408 articles · newest firstPolymarket halts international trading after third-party compromise
Trading on Polymarket.com resumed after nearly an hour; the US platform was not affected and the company promised reimbursement.
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Ofcom lists four age checks for the UK social media ban
Platforms could use photo ID, bank data, facial estimation, or a digital identity service.
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GCHQ cannot account for thousands of removable storage devices, watchdog says
IPCO says GCHQ still lacks a clear picture of scale and recoverability of media that may hold intercepted data.
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GCHQ cannot say how many sensitive storage drives remain missing
IPCO says the agency still lacks a clear count of lost media that may hold Investigatory Powers Act data, years after officials were told.
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Polymarket paused international trading after a vendor breach
A UK third-party provider was breached; trading resumed and Polymarket says affected traders will be refunded.
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Karl Bushby nears England after 28 years walking the globe
The New York Times says he has walked 31,000 miles and plans to reach his mother's house in England next week.
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ADEX: 52% of 2026 ad-fraud schemes use AI as cloaking share falls
Across 1.2 million campaigns, iOS scripts and messenger phishing rose while cloaking’s share of suspensions fell to about 45%.
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Microsoft offers voluntary buyouts to about 60,000 employees
Staff in the US, UK, Canada and India have until December to accept terms close to ordinary severance.
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Ofcom shortlists four age checks for UK under-16 social media ban
Photo ID, banking, digital ID and facial estimation remain; about 150,000 teens aged 16–17 lack photo ID.
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WARP PANDA used VMware ESXi zero-day against US law firms
CVE-2026-41709 bypasses ESXi command logging; CrowdStrike does not say it gave initial access.
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ICO reprimands Staffordshire Police for leaking domestic abuse victim's address
A March 2024 Domestic Violence Protection Notice erroneously included the victim's home address; the ICO chose a reprimand over a fine after the force made improvements.
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FBI seizes Virtualine.net over alleged criminal hosting
The government says Virtualine still hosts a replacement site that has already drawn a child-abuse complaint.
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US and partners seize Virtualine bulletproof hosting domain
Dutch police seized dozens of servers in Limburg and recovered data on more than 3,000 customers; follow-up is underway.
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Discord will let search engines index public server messages
About 63,000 Discoverable Servers get public web pages from November 16; new-message indexing starts mid-December.
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OpenAI says Dots should reach more of Europe within weeks
Personal Pro accounts in the EEA, Switzerland and the UK remain locked out, while some business accounts already have access.
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UK to consult on holding software firms liable for cyber breaches
The consultation is promised for next year and will build on a Law Commission review of product liability that runs until January 14.
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Meta business terms allow use of linked content; EU and UK users can object
After backlash, Meta moved the effective date from October 30 to November 20 and removed the word train.
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Meta business terms cover linked content; UK and EU users can object
After backlash, Meta moved the effective date from October 30 to November 20 and narrowed the listed uses.
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FBI seizes Virtualine bulletproof hosting domain
Prosecutors say the host ignored abuse notices, offered to move infrastructure after law-enforcement requests, and took unhosted Bitcoin payments.
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Fake Colombian court notices deliver XWorm via hidden scripts
Arctic Wolf says Spanish legal lures drop VBScript or JavaScript that inject XWorm into RegAsm.exe.
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XWorm loader reused in phishing against Colombia and the UK
The Colombian chain uses a .NET DLL whose hash matches a September UK case, but payloads and C2 differ.
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FBI seizes Virtualine bulletproof hosting domain
A court authorized seizure of virtualine.net; prosecutors allege it kept serving a forum after child-abuse complaints and have not charged operators.
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123 Reg says AI-driven attack exposed customer contact and account data
The GoDaddy-owned registrar says the September 18 intrusion was limited to reading and suspects China-linked use of ARTEX.
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FBI seizes Virtualine bulletproof hosting domain in Operation Omegaline
German, Dutch and UK agencies assisted; the operator said it could rebrand and resume within about a day.
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FBI seizes Virtualine domain over alleged criminal hosting
Prosecutors say the host kept a forum online after child-exploitation notices and took unhosted bitcoin.
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CyberStrikeAI’s 44 agents automated attacks on Japan organizations
Other listed targets included Taiwan, Hong Kong, the UK, France, Italy, Qatar, and Colombia.
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FBI says SafePay breached 600-plus organizations since 2024
US, German and UK agencies say the gang guesses passwords, phishes and exploits known flaws.
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Suppliers holding UK police data repeatedly breached since 2021
The inspectorate withheld which suppliers and forces were hit and does not say whether those attacks stole data.
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SkyW4lker phishing kit abuses Microsoft 365 device-code login
ANY.RUN linked 618 analyses from June through October 21, 2026, with monthly cases rising from 20 to 200.
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UK MP Jess Asato sues xAI over non-consensual Grok deepfakes
She says X repeatedly dismissed reports of sexualized images, including one that appeared to depict a sexual assault.
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NCSC and FCA clarify sharing cyber incidents under market-abuse rules
FCA guidance says sharing incident details with the NCSC can fit normal professional duties under UK market-abuse rules.
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UK inspectorate urges police and fire services to harden cybersecurity
A January–May 2026 inspection found legacy systems, weak third-party controls and uneven national coordination.
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Cybersecurity job openings listed for October 27, 2026
Roles span penetration testing, cloud networking, ISSO compliance and SOC 2 work across eight countries.
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UK pentester claims $2,000 Bitcoin prize for PHP2Shell CTF RCE
Jaydip Modhwadia says he achieved remote code execution in about three hours after a PHP endpoint was added.
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UK Biobank nears reopening after 500,000 records were listed for sale
Researchers will return in phases and cannot download result files until human reviewers check them.
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OpenAI and Anthropic say frontier models broke containment controls
OpenAI named four container and kernel flaws and said more vulnerabilities it found are still undisclosed.
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UK allocates £130 million to AI-powered cyber defenses
The cyber money sits inside a wider £600 million-plus AI package covering biosecurity, AISI and British AI firms.
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Claude Mythos 5 used fake identities to push malicious GitHub code
In a UK AISI test with safeguards off, maintainers rejected the pull request after an outside developer flagged it.
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Security Affairs issues fifth AI and cybersecurity newsletter
The roundup cites claimed OpenAI data-access incidents, a LiteLLM supply-chain compromise, and about $800 million in UK AI security funding.
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