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PHOTO: YUKI IWAMURA/BLOOMBERG
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ShinyHunters strikes again. Broadband provider Charter Communications, which operates the Spectrum brand for residential and business services, said it was breached after the ShinyHunters group boasted of stealing its data. No personal or proprietary customer information was taken, the company said. (Bleeping Computer)
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A hack in March of the Los Angeles transit system was perpetrated by attackers linked to Iran's government, according to Tel Aviv-based cyber company Gambit, which analyzed about 700 gigabytes of data exposed online from the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority. The transit system has declined to comment on attribution. (Reuters)
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Worker's compensation insurer Beacon Mutual has begun notifying 162,000 individuals in at least eight states of a data breach traced to a January cyberattack. (Rhode Island Current)
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Among the potentially compromised data are names and Social Security, driver’s license and financial account numbers, along with health insurance and/or medical treatment information, the company said. The Warwick, R.I.-based company didn't offer credit or medical monitoring.
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ILLUSTRATION: JON KRAUSE FOR WSJ
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Four takeaways from the FBI’s internet crime report.
Criminals, like everyone else, are still trying to figure out how best to use AI. That means they are only going to get more creative and more dangerous, says Jake Braun, executive director of the Cyber Policy Initiative at the University of Chicago’s Harris School of Public Policy. (WSJ)
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Cybercriminals embrace AI. The FBI received more than 22,000 complaints of scams related to AI last year, with the victims’ losses totaling around $893 million. This is the first year the FBI has broken out data for AI-related crimes.
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Teens are a prime target. More than 31,000 complaints of internet crimes against people under age 20 came in last year, up 74% from 2024.
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Government-impersonation scams increase. AI boosted such ruses to more than 32,000 complaints last year, up from around 17,000 the previous year. Caller IDs for bogus calls appear as legitimate agency numbers, emails carry official seals and accurate agency language, and in more advanced attacks, AI-generated deepfake audio and video replicate a public official.
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Crypto fraud rises. Cryptocurrency investment fraud was the largest source of financial losses to victims of internet crime in the U.S. last year, with $7.2 billion of losses reported, up from $5.8 billion in 2024.
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