Latest news as of 5/21/2026, 8:10:43 AM
The Register
Digital burglaries remain routine, and data shows most corps still don't stick to basic infosec standards Britain is telling businesses to "lock the door" on cybercrims as new government data suggests most still haven't even found the latch.…
Bleeping Computer
Polish police have detained a 47-year-old man suspected of ties to the Phobos ransomware group and seized computers and mobile phones containing stolen credentials, credit card numbers, and server access data. [...]
The Register
Social media platform’s legal eagles prepare to fight ever-growing number of countries The Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) is the latest regulator to open an investigation into Elon Musk's X following repeated reports of harmful image generation by the platform's Grok AI chatbot.…
Bleeping Computer
Ireland's Data Protection Commission (DPC), the country's data protection authority, has opened a formal investigation into X over the use of the platform's Grok artificial intelligence tool to generate non-consensual sexual images of real people, including children. [...]
The Hacker News
New research from Microsoft has revealed that legitimate businesses are gaming artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots via the "Summarize with AI" button that's being increasingly placed on websites in ways that mirror classic search engine poisoning (AI). The new AI hijacking technique has been codenamed AI Recommendation Poisoning by the Microsoft Defender Security Research Team. The tech giant
The Register
Top brass splash cash on acoustic targeting, hypersonic missiles…and Red Hat Keir Starmer could ramp up the UK's defense spending plans faster than planned as the MoD reeled off new purchases for Britain's armed forces.…
The Hacker News
Apple on Monday released a new developer beta of iOS and iPadOS with support for end-to-end encryption (E2EE) in Rich Communications Services (RCS) messages. The feature is currently available for testing in iOS and iPadOS 26.4 Beta, and is expected to be shipped to customers in a future update for iOS, iPadOS, macOS, and watchOS. "End-to-end encryption is in beta and is not available for all
Have I Been Pwned
In February 2026, . The data contained 920k records with 582k unique email addresses and included names, phone numbers, IP addresses, physical addresses and partial credit card data, specifically card type and last 4 digits. Canada Goose advised that the data "appears to relate to past customer transactions" and stated that it originated from a breach at a third party in August 2025. The most recent transaction date in the data is July 2025. a data breach allegedly containing data relating to Canada Goose customers was published publicly
Have I Been Pwned
In October 2025, , largely affecting its donor database. After the incident, the attackers sent inflammatory emails to some victims. and included 624k unique email addresses alongside names and physical addresses. For some donor records, additional personal information was exposed, including gender and date of birth. A small subset of records also contained religion, spouse name, estimated income and donation history. the University of Pennsylvania was the victim of a data breach followed by a ransom demand The data was later published online in February 2026
Bleeping Computer
The Washington Hotel brand in Japan has announced that that its servers were compromised in a ransomware attack, exposing various business data. [...]