Cryptojacker sentenced to prison, ECC.fail Rowhammer attack, and Microsoft limits China’s access to MAPP, McDonald's hack.

On June 30, 2025, security researchers Ian Carroll and Sam Curry discovered a vulnerability in a Paradox.ai test account related to a single client instance, which serves McDonald's.

UK organisations using AI and automation extensively across their security operations saw data breach costs drop to £3.11m per year, IBM found, compared to £3.78m it costs on average for those ...

Listed IT consultant Atturra says AI projects are failing because organisations have not mastered Data Handling 101 A global data breach exposing the details of 60 million McDonald’s applicants ...

McDonald's recently introduced a new hiring platform called McHire It uses an AI-powered chatbot that collects resumes, CVs, and contact data Researchers managed to easily log into the backend and ...

Read more about AI for cyber security Facing rising cyber threats and a shortage of experts, Citic Telecom International CPC developed an AI-powered penetration testing tool to automate security ...

As if on cue, reports this week emerged of McDonald's suffering a global data breach that saw the names and contact details of 60 million applicants – including Australian ones – exposed.

McDonald's is the latest high-profile company to be affected by a data breach, leading to the exposure of private information of customers and employees in South Korea and Taiwan.