Latest news as of 5/16/2026, 4:57:20 AM
The Hacker News
A third individual who was employed as a ransomware negotiator has pleaded guilty to conducting ransomware attacks against U.S. companies in 2023. Angelo Martino, 41, of Land O'Lakes, Florida, teamed up with the operators of the BlackCat ransomware starting in April 2023 to assist the e-crime gang in extracting higher amounts as ransoms. "Working as a negotiator on behalf of five different
Krebs on Security
A 24-year-old British national and senior member of the cybercrime group "Scattered Spider" has pleaded guilty to wire fraud conspiracy and aggravated identity theft. Tyler Robert Buchanan admitted his role in a series of text-message phishing attacks in the summer of 2022 that allowed the group to hack into at least a dozen major technology companies and steal tens of millions of dollars worth of cryptocurrency from investors.
Dark Reading
The prompt injection vulnerability in the agentic AI product for filesystem operations was a sanitization issue that allowed for sandbox escape and arbitrary code execution.
The Register
Plus: Court papers reveal nonprofit paid a ransom worth nearly $26.8 million The third of three former ransomware negotiators accused of assisting the ALPHV/BlackCat ransomware gang in extorting US businesses has pleaded guilty, months after his two co-workers did the same.…
Bleeping Computer
Fraud prevention and user experience don't have to be a tradeoff. IPQS shows how combining identity, device, and network signals stops fraud without adding friction. [...]
Bleeping Computer
Ofcom, the United Kingdom's independent communications regulator, has launched an investigation into Telegram based on evidence suggesting it's being used to share child sexual abuse material (CSAM). [...]
The Hacker News
Security teams often present MTTR as an internal KPI. Leadership sees it differently: every hour a threat dwells inside the environment is an hour of potential data exfiltration, service disruption, regulatory exposure, and brand damage. The root cause of slow MTTR is almost never "not enough analysts." It is almost always the same structural problem: threat intelligence that exists
Bleeping Computer
CISA has given U.S. government agencies four days to secure their systems against another Catalyst SD-WAN Manager vulnerability it flagged as actively exploited in attacks. [...]
The Register
CEO suspects silicon sidekick behind 'surprising velocity' breach - cyber crims shop stolen data for $2M Vercel's CEO reckons the crooks behind likely had a helping hand from AI, saying the attackers moved with "surprising velocity" and a deep understanding of the company's infrastructure.… its recent breach
Dark Reading
China is spying on India's financial sector, for some reason, and it's not putting much effort into it, judging by some stale TTPs.