Signal has introduced Automatic Key Verification, a new security feature that gives users a new way to ensure their encrypted chats haven't been intercepted. [...]
Nightmare Eclipse has released a new Microsoft Defender zero-day exploit named "ShieldBreak" after Microsoft released the August 2026 Patch Tuesday security updates. [...]
Google says Chrome's anti-abuse systems reduced unwanted notifications on Android by more than 7 billion per day during the first quarter of 2026. [...]
The DeadLock ransomware operation is using a decentralized infrastructure that relies on blockchain-backed services to protect its communication with victims and data-leak activity. [...]
Hackers associated with the Russian threat group Sandworm have been targeting system administrators and IT professionals through fake job offers since at least May. [...]
Cisco is warning that a high-severity denial-of-service vulnerability in Secure Firewall ASA and Threat Defense (FTD) software is being actively exploited in attacks to remotely crash affected devices. [...]
Delta Air Lines is investigating an unauthorized Wi-Fi network that appeared aboard a flight from Las Vegas to Atlanta carrying passengers who had attended the DEF CON hacker convention. [...]
Microsoft has released Windows 10 KB5120249 cumulative update for versions 22H2 and 21H2 to fix security vulnerabilities and bugs. [...]
Today is Microsoft's August 2026 Patch Tuesday, and with it comes security updates for a massive 400 flaws, including one actively exploited and two publicly disclosed zero-day vulnerabilities. [...]
Microsoft has released Windows 11 KB5121003 and KB5120240 cumulative updates for versions 25H2/24H2 and 23H2 to fix security vulnerabilities, bugs, and add new features. [...]
Global supply chain and distribution giant Wesco has confirmed in a statement for BleepingComputer that it is investigating a cybersecurity incident. [...]
Mozilla announced today that it updated the GPG key used to sign Firefox and Thunderbird releases after it was accidentally exposed on GitHub. [...]
AI agents can improvise beyond the intended scope of a task when they are given broad access to enterprise systems and data. Token Security explains why organizations need to define agent intent and continuously enforce permissions around what each agent was actually created to do. [...]
Cloudflare says it mitigated more than 800 network-layer distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks exceeding 1 Tbps in the second quarter of the year. [...]
CISA confirmed today that ransomware gangs have begun abusing a high-severity Microsoft SharePoint remote code execution vulnerability, which has been flagged as actively exploited since early July. [...]
Cisco warned of two high-severity vulnerabilities affecting the Secure Endpoint Connector that allow threat actors to crash the ClamAV scanning process in denial-of-service (DoS) attacks. [...]
U.S. federal agencies and South Korea's National Policy Agency warned government and critical infrastructure organizations worldwide to secure their systems against Gunra ransomware attacks. [...]
Hackers breached a heat-and-power plant facility in Poland, which supplies heat to about 50,000 residents, using a private APN (Access Point Name) to access an OT (Operational Technology) network. [...]
A threat actor compromised the upstream infrastructure of BdThemes, a developer of premium WordPress web-design tools, and modified a remote JSON feed delivered to administrators' browsers to create rogue admin accounts. [...]
OpenAI has developed a new model called "GPT 5.6 Cyber," designed for vulnerability research, penetration testing, incident response, and remediation. [...]
A financially motivated threat actor previously associated with the Medusa ransomware operation is now deploying a new ransomware strain called StormEncryptor. [...]
CISA has confirmed that ransomware gangs have begun exploiting two recently patched SonicWall SMA1000 vulnerabilities, including a maximum-severity server-side request forgery (SSRF) flaw. [...]
AI is making phishing, credential theft, and social engineering faster and more efficient, while traditional trust signals such as passwords, MFA, IP reputation, and geolocation become easier to bypass. Specops explains why organizations are increasingly adding device trust to their Zero Trust strategies. [...]
A member of "The Com," a loose-knit online cybercrime collective that targets children and teenagers, has been sentenced to two years in prison for blackmail and sextortion offenses against nearly 120 victims worldwide. [...]
LexisNexis took its Diligence, Metabase API, and Newsdesk services offline as part of its response to unusual activity on servers hosted and managed by an unnamed third-party vendor. [...]
Video game publisher and digital distribution giant Valve is notifying Steam hardware customers in Europe that hackers stole their data after hacking its shipping partner, CEVA Logistics. [...]
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) warned that hackers are exploiting a critical-severity Progress Kemp LoadMaster command injection vulnerability. [...]
The Head Mare hacktivist group has been exploiting vulnerabilities in unpatched TrueConf video conferencing servers to replace client installers with malicious versions that deliver backdoors. [...]
A critical Metabase SQL injection vulnerability was exploited in zero-day attacks to breach customer instances in data theft attacks, known to impact Framework and Tally. [...]
Healthcare software company Unlimited Technology Systems reported that more than 3.8 million people were impacted by a data breach incident that occurred in October 2025. [...]