Tag: #cybercrime
On October 1, Microsoft’s official X account was hijacked. The account has over 13 million followers. The former was utilized to promote a fake Clippy-themed cryptocurrency for a short time. Clippy is Microsoft’s old animated paperclip assistant. The former was introduced with Office 97 and later discontinued. For your knowledge Microsoft’s profile picture was replaced […]
Autonomous AI agents penetrated a Canadian official website many times this year. Experts called it a series of unsuccessful, crude hacking attempts with the objective of obtaining old divorce records. Transluce, a nonprofit entity released a report with details of the activity. The agents used the collection-search function of Library and Archives Canada on May […]
The Pentagon has acknowledged a data breach of the Defense Manpower Data Centre (DMDC) information system. Personal data of more than 3 million individuals were exposed. The incident affected 2.76 million persons and 294,000 expired people. As per reports unauthorized users accessed the DMDC system between October 2025 and July 2026. The intrusion exploited a […]