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Retail giant Sam’s Club investigates Clop ransomware breach claims
Sam’s Club, an American warehouse supermarket chain owned by U.S. retail giant Walmart, is investigating claims of a Clop ransomware breach. The Walmart division operates over 600 warehouse clubs with millions of members across the United States and Puerto Rico and almost 200 additional locations in Mexico and China. Sam’s Club has over 2.3 million employees and reported a total…
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Microsoft’s Recent Quantum Claims: Breakthrough or Overreach?
In February, Microsoft claimed it had created a new form of matter and used it to develop a quantum computer architecture that could potentially be put to work solving complex industrial problems within years. Since the announcement, some researchers and scientists have disputed these claims, saying Microsoft hasn’t actually achieved what it’s suggesting. The promise of topological qubits Microsoft stated…
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D-Wave Claims to Achieve ‘Quantum Supremacy’ — Some Researchers Disagree
According to a peer-reviewed paper published on March 12 in the journal Science, D-Wave claims to have performed a materials simulation that surpasses the capabilities of even the most advanced classical supercomputers. Specifically, D-Wave said its annealing quantum computer solved a difficult materials simulation problem that would take millions of years on the Frontier supercomputer at the Department of Energy’s…
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Oracle breach claims spark war of words with security researchers
A war of words has erupted between Oracle and cybersecurity researchers following claims the company suffered a security breach. In mid-March, a threat actor by the name ‘rose87168’ published six million records, claiming the data was stolen from Oracle’s Cloud federated Single Sign-On (SSO) login service and demanding payment from affected customers. Posted to the dark web, the sample database…
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Oracle denies breach after hacker claims theft of 6 million data records
Oracle denies it was breached after a threat actor claimed to be selling 6 million data records allegedly stolen from the company’s Oracle Cloud federated SSO login servers. “There has been no breach of Oracle Cloud. The published credentials are not for the Oracle Cloud. No Oracle Cloud customers experienced a breach or lost any data,” the company told BleepingComputer.…
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X hit by ‘massive cyberattack’ amid Dark Storm’s DDoS claims
The Dark Storm hacktivist group claims to be behind DDoS attacks causing multiple X worldwide outages on Monday, leading the company to enable DDoS protections from Cloudflare. While X owner Elon Musk did not specifically state that DDoS attacks were behind the outages, he did confirm that it was caused by a “massive cyberattack.”. “There was (still is) a massive…
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Qilin ransomware claims attack at Lee Enterprises, leaks stolen data
The Qilin ransomware gang has claimed responsibility for the attack at Lee Enterprises that disrupted operations on February 3, leaking samples of data they claim was stolen from the company. The threat actors have now threatened to leak all the allegedly stolen data on March 5, 2025, unless a ransom demand is paid. Lee Enterprises is a US-based media company that…
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Ransomware gang Qilin claims responsibility for cyber attack on newspaper giant Lee Enterprises
Ransomware group Qilin today claimed responsibility for a February 3, 2025 cyber attack on Lee Enterprises. The attack disrupted many of the company’s 70-plus newspapers and other publications. Lee Enterprises has not verified Qilin’s claim. In an SEC disclosure filed on February 12, the company said, “threat actors unlawfully accessed the Company’s network, encrypted critical applications, and exfiltrated certain files.”…
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This upcoming Vivo phone could beat iPhone at video recording, claims leaker
iPhones are, without a doubt, some of the best camera phones money can buy. The Pro models have a particularly useful range of features, especially if you want to get some video recording done. So to say that an upcoming Android phone’s video recording abilities “surpassed those of Apple,” it’s a pretty bold claim. But that’s exactly what leaker Digital…
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Google’s ‘Career Dreamer’ Claims It Can Help You Find a Job to Match Your Skills
Artificial intelligence may be threatening to take your job, but the tech can also help you find a new one, Google thinks: It’s just rolled out a new AI-powered tool called “Career Dreamer,” which leverages AI algorithms to help you identify roles that are suited to your skills and experience. Google says it’s worked with groups including students, recent graduates,…
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