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China\u2019s targeted attacks on the financial services, media, manufacturing, and the industrial sectors increased 300 percent. The current federal government shutdown, coupled with the lapse of the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act of 2015, is significantly constraining the federal government\u2019s ability to coordinate with industry and execute its defensive cyber mission. Senate Democrats must reopen the government so we can chart a better path forward for our nation\u2019s collective cyber resilience.\u201d This week\u2019s roundup examines corporate cyberattacks, AI security risks, Microsoft zero-days, logistics disruption and threats targeting personal accounts.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Later reports assessed that the hack affected almost 70,000 customers and cost the cryptocurrency exchange $400m. The attackers planned to use the stolen data to impersonate Coinbase and trick customers into handing over their cryptocurrency holdings. Coinbase stated that cybercriminals bribed and recruited a group of rogue overseas support agents to steal its customer data and facilitate social engineering attacks. In May 2025, in a bold move against cybercrime, cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase offered a $20m reward to anyone who could help identify and bring down the perpetrators of a recent cyber-attack it had just reported.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Breaking news, news analysis, and expert commentary on cybersecurity threat intelligence, including tools & technologies. It can provide useful cyber awareness context when people are checking whether an outage might be linked to a wider cyber attack. But during major incidents, DDoS activity, DNS failures, botnet traffic and suspicious network events can all become part of the investigation. Many service disruptions are caused by misconfiguration, overloaded systems, failed updates, cloud problems or routing issues. If a telecom outage, website outage, cloud outage or service disruption happens at the same time as heavy attack activity, the map can help people investigate what is happening, but it cannot identify the exact cause by itself.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
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At the Black Hat security conference, the AI giant revealed new details about how its agents went rogue, hacked several other companies\u2014and did it all right under the company\u2019s nose. The data included names, organisations and work email addresses belonging to police officers, police staff, criminal justice professionals, government partners and customers. The Police National Legal Database (PNLD) has confirmed that police, government and customer contact information was compromised and published on the dark web.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
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