Microsoft has resolved a known issue that was causing security applications to incorrectly flag a core Windows component, the company said in a service alert posted this week. [...]

ConsentFix is an OAuth phishing technique abusing browser-based authorization flows to hijack Microsoft accounts. Push Security shares new insights from continued tracking, community research, and evolving attacker techniques. [...]

Researchers identified an attack method dubbed "Reprompt" that could allow attackers to infiltrate a user's Microsoft Copilot session and issue commands to exfiltrate sensitive data. [...]

Cloud marketplace and distributor Pax8 has confirmed that it mistakenly sent an email to fewer than 40 UK-based partners containing a spreadsheet with internal business information, including MSP customer and Microsoft licensing data. [...]

The Department of Education in Victoria, Australia, notified parents that attackers gained access to a database containing the personal information of current and former students. [...]

Monroe University revealed that threat actors stole the personal, financial, and health information of over 320,000 people after breaching its systems in a December 2024 cyberattack. [...]

Officials of Ukraine's Defense Forces were targeted in a charity-themed campaign between October and December 2025 that delivered backdoor malware called PluggyApe. [...]

A newly discovered advanced cloud-native Linux malware framework named VoidLink focuses on cloud environments, providing attackers with custom loaders, implants, rootkits, and plugins designed for modern infrastructures. [...]

A data breach last year at Central Maine Healthcare (CMH) exposed sensitive information of more than 145,000 individuals. [...]

Belgian hospital AZ Monica was forced to shut down all servers, cancel scheduled procedures, and transfer critical patients earlier today due to a cyberattack. [...]

Microsoft has started rolling out new Secure Boot certificates that will automatically install on eligible Windows 11 24H2 and 25H2 systems. [...]

Microsoft has released the KB5073724 extended security update to fix the Patch Tuesday security updates, including 3 zero-days and a fix for expiring Secure Boot certificates. [...]

Today is Microsoft's January 2026 Patch Tuesday with security updates for 114 flaws, including one actively exploited and two publicly disclosed zero-day vulnerabilities. [...]

U.S. digital investment advisor Betterment confirmed that hackers breached its systems and sent fake crypto-related messages to some customers. [...]

Scammers are flooding LinkedIn posts with fake "reply" comments that appear to come from the platform, warning of bogus policy violations and urging users to click external links. Some even abuse LinkedIn's official lnkd.in shortener, making the phishing attempts harder to spot. [...]

Multiple current and former Target employees confirmed that leaked source code samples posted by a threat actor match real internal systems. The company also rolled out an "accelerated" lockdown of its Git server, requiring VPN access, a day after being contacted by BleepingComputer. [...]

The Amsterdam Court of Appeal sentenced a 44-year-old Dutch national to seven years in prison for multiple crimes, including computer hacking and attempted extortion. [...]

Hackers over the past six months have relied increasingly more on the browser-in-the-browser (BitB) method to trick users into providing Facebook account credentials. [...]

CISA has ordered government agencies to secure their systems against a high-severity Gogs vulnerability that was exploited in zero-day attacks. [...]

Apex Legends players over the weekend experienced disruptions during live matches as threat actors hijacked their characters, disconnected them, and changed their nicknames. [...]

​University of Hawaii says a ransomware gang breached its Cancer Center in August 2025, stealing data of study participants, including documents from the 1990s containing Social Security numbers. [...]

Hackers are claiming to be selling internal source code belonging to Target Corporation, after publishing what appears to be a sample of stolen code repositories on a public software development platform. After BleepingComputer notified Target, the files were taken offline and the retailer's developer Git server was inaccessible. [...]

A single click on what may appear to be a Telegram username or harmless link is all it takes to expose your real IP address to attackers due to how proxy links are handled. Telegram says it will add warnings to proxy links after researchers demonstrated that such one-click …

Spanish energy provider Endesa and its Energía XXI operator are notifying customers that hackers accessed the company's systems and accessed contract-related information, which includes personal details. [...]

Microsoft 365 has made file sharing effortless, but that convenience often leaves organizations with little visibility into who can access sensitive data. Tenfold explains how access reviews for shared cloud content can help organizations regain visibility, reduce unnecessary permissions, and prevent data leaks in Microsoft 365. [...]