Nihon Kotsu, Japan's largest taxi operator, disclosed that a malware infection had forced it to take core systems offline, knocking out its telephone dispatch, web booking and reservation services while it investigates whether any data was stolen.
Socket's Threat Research Team uncovered a coordinated family of 152 new-tab 'live wallpaper' Chrome extensions, spread across 38 publisher accounts and three brands, that secretly logged user telemetry and laundered extension-generated visits into fake Google organic search traffic despite declaring they collected no data.
North Korea's Lazarus Group used custom malware to commandeer Far Eastern International Bank's SWIFT terminal and wire roughly $60 million to accounts in the U.S., Cambodia, and Sri Lanka, deploying Hermes ransomware as a diversion.
Attackers used a vendor's stolen credentials and custom point-of-sale malware to harvest about 56 million payment cards and 53 million email addresses from Home Depot's U.S. and Canadian self-checkout systems over five months โ the largest retail card breach of its time.