US seizes over 1,000 websites in FIFA World Cup piracy crackdown
The U.S. Justice Department has seized more than 1,000 websites and blocked 1,970 domains used to stream FIFA World Cup 2026 matches without authorization. Law enforcement authorities identified the seized domains using leads provided by U.S. authorities, FIFA (Fédération Internationale de Football Association), the Motion Picture Association's Alliance for Creativity and Entertainment (ACE), and multiple entertainment networks. READ MORE...
Estée Lauder Discloses Impact From Oracle EBS Zero-Day Hack
Cosmetics giant Estée Lauder has started notifying employees that their information was stolen from its Oracle E-Business Suite (EBS) instance last year. The incident, the company says, occurred in early August 2025, when the infamous Cl0p cybercrime group started exploiting CVE-2025-61882, a zero-day vulnerability in Oracle EBS that enabled unauthenticated remote code execution (RCE), to exfiltrate data from numerous companies. READ MORE...
Clover Health Investments Discloses Data Breach
Healthcare technology company Clover Health Investments has disclosed a data breach impacting customers' personal and health information. Discovered on July 4, the incident was the result of a social engineering attack that compromised three non-managerial health plan employee accounts. Clover Health Investments says it activated its response plan immediately after discovering the attack, and engaged third-party cybersecurity experts to contain and investigate the intrusion. READ MORE...
Scammers impersonate FBI on social media, prey on crime victims
Real FBI agents won't slide into your DMs and offer to help you recover stolen funds. The bureau's Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) updated an earlier warning on Monday about scammers impersonating the agency online, saying fraudsters continue to use the scheme "to deceive and revictimize individuals." According to IC3, there are two different schemes being used to target cybercrime victims, both directly and by soliciting them to report incidents. READ MORE...
The Odyssey piracy scams surface hours after its theatrical debut
Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey had barely reached theaters before scammers began targeting people searching for pirated copies, according to Malwarebytes. Within hours of the film's release, researchers found two separate scams running on cloned piracy sites: fake browser warnings and Windows executables disguised as movie downloads. "Neither scam has anything to do with the movie itself. They're simply taking advantage of people searching for a popular new release," Malwarebytes wrote. READ MORE...
Malicious cloud customers can bring down the power grid
AI datacenters wreak havoc on the power grid under normal circumstances, so what happens if a bad actor controls all the GPUs and wants to cause harm? Cybersecurity researchers in China have devised a way for malicious tenants to attack their infrastructure provider, potentially causing blackouts or damaging equipment. The attack, dubbed Bit2Watt, imagines an adversary masquerading as a legitimate cloud tenant to launch GPU workloads that can damage datacenters and supporting electrical systems. READ MORE...
- ...in 1911, Canadian philosopher and media theorist Marshall McLuhan, whose work prefigured the arrival of the modern Internet, is born in Edmonton, Alberta.
- ...in 1951, actor and comedian Robin Williams is born in Chicago, IL.
- ...in 1969, astronaut Neil Armstrong becomes the first person to walk on Earth's Moon, followed 19 minutes later by Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin.
- ...in 2011, the Space Shuttle Atlantis (STS-135) lands at Kennedy Space Center, completing the final mission of NASA's Space Shuttle program.
