Major Incidents or Breaches
- Police in Spain arrested a 16-year-old suspected of leading the KillSec ransomware group. The international law enforcement operation, dubbed “Operation KillSwitch,” resulted in the seizure of KillSec’s data leak site and servers, and three arrests. KillSec is accused of stealing data from around 500 organizations over the past two years and threatening to publish it on its leak site if ransom demands were not met [5][13][16].
- Unknown attackers hijacked Microsoft’s official X (formerly Twitter) account, which has over 13 million followers, to promote a cryptocurrency pump-and-dump scheme involving a Clippy-themed token [9][21].
- OpenAI parted ways with three members of its safety team after they leaked private information in violation of company policies [1].
Newly Discovered Vulnerabilities