Apple now offers $2 million for zero-click RCE vulnerabilities Apple is announcing a major expansion and redesign of its bug bounty program, doubling maximum payouts, adding new research categories, and introducing a more transparent reward structure. Since the program launched in 2020, Apple has awarded $35 million to 800 security researchers, the company paying $500,000Continue reading “October 2025: Major Data Breaches and Cyber Attacks”
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September 2025: Major Data Breaches and Cyber Attacks
Jaguar Land Rover cyberattack deepens, with prolonged production outage, supply chain fallout Jaguar Land Rover (JLR), the U.K.-based automaker owned by Tata Motors, has extended production shutdowns after a cyberattack that disrupted global operations, halted manufacturing, and sent ripples across its supply chain. The company has shut down its IT networks in response to theContinue reading “September 2025: Major Data Breaches and Cyber Attacks”
August 2025: Major Data Breaches and Cyber Attacks
SABC hacked The South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) has confirmed that it was the victim of a business email compromise that affected some of its staff’s email accounts. The state-owned broadcaster’s head of communications, Mmoni Ngubane, told MyBroadband that its IT team has secured the compromised mailboxes. “The SABC is aware of a recent emailContinue reading “August 2025: Major Data Breaches and Cyber Attacks”
July 2025: Major Data Breaches and Cyber Attacks
Axis Max Life Insurance Announces Data Breach Axis Max Life Insurance, has reported being notified by an anonymous source about their unauthorized access to some customer information in a data breach. The incident has prompted a comprehensive security assessment and rigorous data log analysis. The company released a statement confirming the initiation of a detailedContinue reading “July 2025: Major Data Breaches and Cyber Attacks”
June 2025: Major Data Breaches and Cyber Attacks
ICC detects and contains new sophisticated cyber security incident Late last week, the International Criminal Court (“ICC” or “the Court”) detected a new, sophisticated and targeted cyber security incident, which has now been contained. This incident, the second of this type against the ICC in recent years, was swiftly discovered, confirmed and contained, through the Court’s alertContinue reading “June 2025: Major Data Breaches and Cyber Attacks”
May 2025: Major Data Breaches and Cyber Attacks
South African Airways hit by cyber attack South African Airways (SAA) has become the latest organisation to fall victim to a cyber attack. In a statement released today, the flagship carrier of South Africa says it has been impacted by a significant cyber incident that began on Saturday, 3 May. According to SAA, the breachContinue reading “May 2025: Major Data Breaches and Cyber Attacks”
April 2025: Major Data Breaches and Cyber Attacks
Ransomware surge: Sensata Technologies, US state agencies targeted in widespread cyber incidents Industrial technology company Sensata Technologies disclosed that the company experienced a ransomware attack that encrypted parts of its network. The company took its systems offline, initiated response protocols, and launched an investigation with third-party cybersecurity experts. Law enforcement has been notified and is involved. ThisContinue reading “April 2025: Major Data Breaches and Cyber Attacks”
March 2025: Major Data Breaches and Cyber Attacks
Data breach at Japanese telecom giant NTT hits 18,000 companies Japanese telecommunication services provider NTT Communications Corporation (NTT) is warning almost 18,000 corporate customers that their information was compromised during a cybersecurity incident. The data breach was discovered in early February 2025, but the exact date when the hackers gained initial access to NTT’s systemsContinue reading “March 2025: Major Data Breaches and Cyber Attacks”
Cybersecurity Breaches: Recent High-Profile Cases in the month of February 2025
OpenAI Data Breach – Threat Actor Allegedly Claims 20 Million Logins for Sale Threat actors from dark web forums claim to have stolen and leaked 20 million OpenAI user login credentials, potentially making OpenAI the latest high-profile target of a significant data breach. This alleged breach has raised serious concerns among tech users and cybersecurityContinue reading “Cybersecurity Breaches: Recent High-Profile Cases in the month of February 2025”
Cybersecurity Breaches: Recent High-Profile Cases in the month of January 2025
Ransomware attack on New York Blood Center forces workarounds, drive cancellations One of the largest independent blood centers serving over 75 million people across the U.S. has been hit by a ransomware attack, forcing officials to reschedule blood drives and implement workarounds. New York Blood Center Enterprises said its team discovered suspicious activity affecting theContinue reading “Cybersecurity Breaches: Recent High-Profile Cases in the month of January 2025”
