Data Security

A sprawling advertising-based surveillance apparatus known as Webloc, capable of tracking the historical movements of up to half a billion mobile devices, has been linked to law enforcement and intelligence agencies across Hungary, El Salvador, and numerous U.S. jurisdictions, according to an investigation by the University of Toronto's Citizen Lab, according to The Hacker News.

The attacker manipulated the AI platforms by initially posing as part of a bug bounty program and providing a hacking manual to bypass safety filters.

In a Texas court case in April 2026, the FBI presented evidence of recovered Signal messages from criminal defendant Lynette Sharp's iPhone, despite her having deleted the application.

An investigation by Bellingcat uncovered close to 800 Hungarian government email and password combinations in breach dumps, impacting ministries from defense to finance.

Researchers from Proton identified a substantial number of compromised email accounts belonging to public officials globally.

The scam begins with a phishing email designed to appear as an official communication from the IRS, informing recipients they are eligible for a $5,000 financial grant supposedly from Elon Musk.

The ShinyHunters group alleges that the breach was facilitated through Anodot, a SaaS platform for cloud cost monitoring.