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A cyberattack was responsible for the week-long outage affecting Cellcom wireless network Pierluigi Paganini May 21, 2025 Cellcom, a regional wireless carrier based in Wisconsin (US), announced that a cyberattack is the cause of a service outage it faced during the past week. Cellcom, a regional wireless carrier in Wisconsin, confirmed a cyberattack that caused a week-long outage affecting voice and text services in Wisconsin and Upper Michigan. The company announced it has begun restoring services and stated it had protocols in place for such incidents. The carrier stated the cyberattack affected a network area that is not linked to…

Anchore announced the next phase of its SBOM strategy with the release of Anchore SBOM. With the addition of Anchore SBOM, Anchore Enterprise now provides a centralized platform for viewing, managing and analyzing Software Bill of Materials (SBOMs), including the capability of “Bringing Your Own SBOMs”. Organizations can now gain comprehensive visibility into the software components present in both their internally developed and third-party supplied software to identify and mitigate security and compliance risks. Driven by the rise of open source software (OSS), which Gartner estimates makes up 70% to 90% of any given software application, only 15% of organizations…

Santander Bank N.A. said Wednesday (May 21) that its digital banking platform gained more than 100,000 customers in the U.S. during its first six months of operations in the country. That growth rate of the Openbank by Santander platform exceeded the bank’s expectations, Santander Bank said in a press release. “Reaching this milestone at record pace is a testament to our customer-obsessed mindset, commitment to innovation and global connectivity,” Swati Bhatia, head of retail banking and transformation for Santander Bank and CEO of Openbank in the U.S., said in the release. Having seen this growth, Santander Bank plans to expand…

Kettering Health has confirmed it is responding to a cybersecurity incident involving unauthorized access to its network. The organization has taken steps to contain and mitigate the breach and is actively investigating and monitoring the situation. While emergency services remain operational, ransomware is suspected in the attack, which has disrupted hospital operations, limited access to critical patient care systems, and forced the cancellation of elective procedures. CNN reported that ransomware was deployed on Kettering’s computer network, according to a ransom note recovered at the scene and viewed by the agency. “Your network was compromised, and we have secured your most…

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Anthropic is secretly working on new models called Claude Sonnet 4 and Opus 4, which are believed to be the company’s most advanced AI models. This is according to Anthropic web configuration files, which were recently updated with references to Claude Sonnet 4 and Opus 4. As you can see in the above image showing the internal configuration file, Anthropic has specifically mentioned “Claude 4,” “Claude Sonnet 4,” and “Claude Opus 4.” These appear to be part of the Claude 4 series, which we think could be Anthropic’s smartest models yet. The references suggest Claude Sonnet 4 and Opus 4 are being tested or promoted…

The Bitcoin Policy Institute (BPI) released a 21-page policy framework on May 21 to position the US as a global leader in the Bitcoin (BTC) ecosystem. BPI head of policy Zack Shapiro, the author of the framework, called it his “Bitcoin Policy Manifesto.” The document outlines a comprehensive legislative and regulatory approach that touches on Bitcoin as a financial asset, software protocol, and mining infrastructure.The framework proposes a three-pronged approach: integrating Bitcoin into the US economic and geopolitical strategy, tailoring legal clarity for technology developers and businesses, and redefining Bitcoin mining within energy and infrastructure policy. Shapiro stated that the paper is…

A threat actor using the alias “ByteBreaker” is claiming to have abused the Facebook API and scraped 1.2 billion account details, which are now being sold on a data breach forum. A look at the sample data of 100,000 users shared by ByteBreaker on the forum shows it includes the following information: Gender Full names Usernames Date of birth Phone numbers Email addresses Unique identifier (UID) Location (including city, state, and country) “Today I’ve come with the newest Facebook database which was scraped by abusing one of their APIs. Feel free to compare results from the previous leaks, it’s a…

Understanding where Open Banking is most exposed Nearly half of financial institutions—46%, according to a 2024 PYMNTS study—believe that the risks of Open Banking outweigh the benefits, largely due to concerns around fraud. That level of concern reflects the reality security teams are facing on the ground. The move to Open Banking has shifted the perimeter. In the past, user authentication and fraud detection could live inside a single bank-owned app. Now, data flows across third-party apps, aggregators, and embedded finance platforms—many of which introduce new risk. Open Banking API call volumes are projected to surge 427% to 720 billion…