An operational security failure allowed researchers to recover data that the INC ransomware gang stole from a dozen U.S. organizations. [...]

Hybrid work has driven a surge in Active Directory password resets, turning minor lockouts into major productivity drains. Specops shows why remote access, cached credentials, and security policies are fueling the spike. [...]

Hackers collect $439,250 after exploiting 29 zero-day vulnerabilities on the second day of Pwn2Own Automotive 2026. [...]

Fortinet FortiGate devices are being targeted in automated attacks that create rogue accounts and steal firewall configuration data, according to cybersecurity company Arctic Wolf. [...]

People worldwide are being targeted by a massive spam wave originating from unsecured Zendesk support systems, with victims reporting receiving hundreds of emails with strange and sometimes alarming subject lines. [...]

Websites that authenticate users through links and codes sent in text messages are imperiling the privacy of millions of people, leaving them vulnerable to scams, identity theft, and other crimes, recently published research has found. The links are sent to people seeking a range of services, including those offering …

Two high-severity vulnerabilities in Chainlit, a popular open-source framework for building conversational AI applications, allow reading any file on the server and leak sensitive information. [...]

Cisco has fixed a critical Unified Communications and Webex Calling remote code execution vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-20045, that has been actively exploited as a zero-day in attacks. [...]

A new family of Android click-fraud trojans leverages TensorFlow machine learning models to automatically detect and interact with specific advertisement elements. [...]

PcComponentes, a major technology retailer in Spain, has denied claims of a data breach on its systems impacting 16 million customers, but confirmed it suffered a credential stuffing attack. [...]

Fortinet customers are seeing attackers exploiting a patch bypass for a previously fixed critical FortiGate authentication vulnerability (CVE-2025-59718) to hack patched firewalls. [...]

LastPass is warning of a new phishing campaign disguised as a maintenance notification from the service, asking users to back up their vaults in the next 24 hours. [...]

Phishing succeeds not because users are careless, but because attackers exploit human timing, context, and emotion. Flare shows how modern phishing has become industrialized, scalable, and increasingly hard to spot. [...]

Threat actors are exploiting misconfigured web applications used for security training and internal penetration testing, such as DVWA, OWASP Juice Shop, Hackazon, and bWAPP, to gain access to cloud environments of Fortune 500 companies and security vendors. [...]

GitLab has patched a high-severity two-factor authentication bypass impacting community and enterprise editions of its software development platform. [...]

Security researchers have hacked the Tesla Infotainment System and earned $516,500 after exploiting 37 zero-days on the first day of the Pwn2Own Automotive 2026 competition. [...]

A critical-severity vulnerability in the Advanced Custom Fields: Extended (ACF Extended) plugin for WordPress can be exploited remotely by unauthenticated attackers to obtain administrative permissions. [...]

The recently discovered cloud-focused VoidLink malware framework is believed to have been developed by a single person with the help of an artificial intelligence model. [...]

The European Commission has proposed new cybersecurity legislation mandating the removal of high-risk suppliers to secure telecommunications networks and strengthening defenses against state-backed and cybercrime groups targeting critical infrastructure. [...]

Using only natural language instructions, researchers were able to bypass Google Gemini's defenses against malicious prompt injection and create misleading events to leak private Calendar data. [...]

Identity-based attacks are one of the primary paths attackers use to breach corporate networks. Tenfold shows how Identity Threat Detection helps spot suspicious account activity before real damage occurs. [...]

Learn how security leaders and SOC teams can work together to close the gap between platform decisions and operational needs. Join Sumo Logic and BleepingComputer on January 29 for a practical webinar on aligning security tools with real-world workflows. [...]

A malvertising campaign is using a fake ad-blocking Chrome and Edge extension named NexShield that intentionally crashes the browser in preparation for ClickFix attacks. [...]

Ransomware attackers targeting a Fortune 100 company in the finance sector used a new malware strain, dubbed PDFSider, to deliver malicious payloads on Windows systems. [...]

The U.K. government is warning of continued malicious activity from Russian-aligned hacktivist groups targeting critical infrastructure and local government organizations in the country in disruptive denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks. [...]