XWorm turns from a remote-access tool into a live surveillance rig
Fresh plugins let the long-running Windows malware follow victims, listen through the microphone and ride their browser sessions.
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Hobbs and Whistles owner joins a rough autumn for fashion retail
TFG London found an intrusion on October 11 and is still working out what customer data may have left the…
IonQ will spend up to 1.3 billion on a zero-trust access vendor
The quantum computing firm is folding Elisity's microsegmentation policy layer into its growing security arm.
Ahold Delhaize pulls systems offline after an intrusion on its network
All five of the grocer's US banner websites went dark as teams moved to contain a security issue.
One weak password opened Denmark’s national register to 14 million searches
An IT supplier's account using 123456 let an intruder run automated lookups against records on 8.8 million people.
A renamed GitHub repo could hand attackers a package’s publishing rights
Bloom Security says npm matched workflows to repository names instead of permanent IDs, leaving 1,500 packages exposed.
GitLab patches maximum-severity CI/CD regex bug under CVE-2026-97229
A crafted regular expression in a CI/CD file could let an unauthenticated stranger run code on a self-managed server.
Freezers across French supermarkets hit 50C after a controller hack
Attackers reached remotely managed refrigeration controllers and left hundreds of stores with spoiled stock.
A single prompt undid the guardrails on AWS agent infrastructure
One chat message pulled temporary cloud credentials out of an agent and opened every other agent in the account.
Shai-Hulud worm burrows into an AI agent platform’s SDK
A poisoned npm release of Tensorlake's SDK carried a payload that hunts cloud credentials and can wipe a home directory.
Two odd characters let attackers fake trusted web addresses
Researchers registered 20 lookalike domains that Chrome and Edge display as the genuine article.
Let’s Encrypt will cut default certificate life to 64 days
The shorter lifetime starts February 10, 2027, and it is a rehearsal for 45-day certificates in 2028.
A leader of a 15,000-mule laundering network admits guilt in the US
Your Mule Cashout moved stolen funds abroad and stiffed the very people it recruited to withdraw the cash.
Cardiac monitor maker iRhythm says hackers took data on 360,000 people
Intruders spent five days inside third-party-hosted business applications before the company noticed.
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A hidden chip inside Ledger wallets drained $93M in crypto
Tampered devices sold through one Southeast Asia reseller carried a circuit board that photographed recovery phrases.
An AI-driven crew turned 51 agents loose on Ukrainian targets
A Russian-speaking broker ran two attack pipelines at once, and an open directory handed researchers the whole operation.
Ransomware fixer accused of charging clients and paying the crooks
Prosecutors say a Florida recovery firm billed $19M for decryption it never actually performed.
Empire Market founder gets 40 years for a $430M dark web bazaar
A Virginia man who co-ran the marketplace from 2018 to 2020 will spend four decades behind bars.
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Germany takes custody of an alleged Qilin ransomware leader
Japan extradited a Russian suspect arrested in Osaka, but the gang kept attacking during the handover.
Phone-call extortion crew pulled in $207M without any malware
A leaked chat archive shows the Silent Ransom Group targeting law firms through social engineering alone.
Engineer who locked his own employer out gets prison time
A core infrastructure engineer wiped admin accounts and demanded 20 bitcoin from the firm that employed him.
Hijacked island domains minted fake certificates for Google
Attackers seized three country-code registries and used them to forge trusted HTTPS certificates.
five flaws under active attack join the federal must-patch list
Federal agencies have three weeks to close a batch of old bugs now confirmed as actively exploited.
Budget Android phones ship with malware already in the firmware
A campaign called Midnight Mimosa plants persistent, uninstallable malware inside low-cost MediaTek devices across 150-plus countries.