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The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has issued an urgent directive requiring federal agencies to patch a critical Cisco Unified Communications Manager ...
Polymarket, one of the world's largest crypto-based prediction markets and currently valued at $9 billion, has announced it will fully reimburse customers who lost an estimated $3 ...
Uber has appointed Philip Martin as its new Chief Information Security Officer (CISO), tapping a seasoned security leader with deep experience in incident response, threat intellig...
Despite the growing abundance of security telemetry, most SOC teams still struggle with fundamental questions during incident investigation: What actually happened? What evidence s...
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) issued an urgent warning on Tuesday that a critical security flaw in Lantronix EDS5000 Series serial-to-IP converte...
A coordinated international law enforcement operation, backed by private-sector partners Bitdefender, Bitsight, ESET, and Microsoft, has disrupted the infrastructure behind the Ama...
Threat actors are actively exploiting a critical vulnerability in Cisco Unified Communications Manager (Unified CM) and Unified CM Session Management Edition, tracked as CVE-2026-2...
Threat actors are actively exploiting a recently patched information disclosure vulnerability in the Gravity SMTP WordPress plugin, installed on roughly 100,000 websites. Tracked a...
In a significant blow against one of the web's most persistent malware distribution networks, Dutch law enforcement, working alongside the FBI, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, a...
The average enterprise security team juggles 40 or more security tools, generating massive amounts of internal telemetry and asset data. Yet these tools operate in silos, producing...
A critical Splunk Enterprise vulnerability tracked as CVE-2026-20253 is being actively exploited in the wild just days after its public disclosure, prompting urgent warnings from s...
Microsoft has resolved a known issue that caused the June 2026 security updates to fail on Windows Server 2016 systems that were not up to date. The bug primarily affected IT admin...
A French-speaking threat actor tracked as "Poisson" compromised a small French automotive business and demonstrated a persistence technique that survived the loss of his command-an...
Security teams today are drowning in findings but starving for context. Vulnerability scanners, CSPM tools, endpoint detection platforms, attack surface monitors, SAST scanners, an...
On June 16, 2026, India's Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology invoked Section 69A of the IT Act to block Telegram nationwide until June 22, following a recommendatio...
Security teams are drowning in IP data but starving for context, according to a new industry study from Spur Intelligence. The survey of more than 200 security practitioners found ...
A critical vulnerability in SimpleHelp remote management software, tracked as CVE-2026-48558, enables unauthenticated attackers to create privileged Technician accounts on servers ...
A coordinated supply chain attack compromised JavaScript files served by three popular WordPress plugins—PushEngage, OptinMonster, and TrustPulse—turning trusted scripts into vecto...
The FBI, in coordination with Google and Black Lotus Labs, has dismantled a sprawling Chinese phishing-as-a-service operation known as Outsider Enterprise, responsible for 9,000 fa...
Ezekiel Dean Potter, a 34-year-old former senior IT support specialist for Iowa's Saydel Community School District, has been sentenced to 21 months in federal prison for a sustaine...
The Maine Attorney General's Office has temporarily disabled public access to its state-run data breach notification portal after fraudulent breach reports impersonating VRChat and...
For the past decade, Managed Detection and Response (MDR) filled a critical gap in enterprise security by providing outsourced 24/7 alert triage for teams that couldn't staff round...
An INTERPOL-coordinated operation codenamed "Operation Ramz" has successfully disrupted Sniper Dz, a decade-old phishing-as-a-service (PhaaS) platform responsible for harvesting ov...
Europol has announced the takedown of AudiA6, an industrial-scale cryptocurrency laundering service that processed more than €336 million (~$389 million) in illicit funds since lau...
Microsoft has resolved a long-standing known issue that caused Windows updates released since May 2025 to fail when deployed via the Windows Update Standalone Installer (WUSA) from...
Kyushu Electric Power Co., Inc., one of Japan's largest regional electric utilities serving over 12.6 million residents across the Kyushu region, has disclosed a physical security ...
Law enforcement agencies across 11 countries have jointly dismantled "AudiA6," a cryptocurrency laundering service that processed more than $380 million in illicit proceeds for ran...
Microsoft released fixes for a record 206 security vulnerabilities on Tuesday as part of its June 2026 Patch Tuesday cycle, including three publicly disclosed zero-day flaws. Of th...
Despite record investment in SIEM platforms, firewalls, IAM systems, and AI-driven detection, enterprise network security teams are still struggling with the same fundamental probl...
SoFi Securities (Hong Kong) Limited is notifying customers of a data breach that exposed an unknown volume of personal information through a third-party vendor database. The subsid...
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has added a high-severity denial-of-service vulnerability in SolarWinds Serv-U to its Known Exploited Vulnerabiliti...
Japanese tech giant Toshiba and retail chain Muji are warning visitors that suspicious sign-in screens appearing on their websites may be harvesting credentials, in a supply chain ...
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has confirmed that threat actors are actively exploiting a recently patched high-severity vulnerability in SolarWin...
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has added two high-severity vulnerabilities—one in the Android Framework and another in the Linux kernel—to its Kno...
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has added a high-severity Oracle WebLogic Server flaw, tracked as CVE-2024-21182, to its Known Exploited Vulnerabil...
Microsoft is actively investigating a widespread service disruption affecting the mail flow pipeline for Exchange Online customers in North America and Germany. The incident, track...
Endpoint detection and response (EDR) has become a default investment for mid-sized organizations, yet owning an advanced platform does not automatically translate into operational...
Password manager Dashlane has disclosed a brute-force security incident in which encrypted password vaults belonging to fewer than 20 personal plan subscribers were downloaded by a...
Dutch authorities have successfully dismantled a massive botnet infrastructure responsible for enslaving approximately 17 million compromised devices, including computers, tablets,...
Security researchers have identified active exploitation of a critical zero-day vulnerability in the WP Maps Pro WordPress plugin, tracked as CVE-2026-8732 with a severity rating o...
Network Detection and Response (NDR) has long carried a reputation for being noisy and overwhelming security operations center (SOC) teams with alert fatigue. However, the emergenc...
INTERPOL's Operation Ramz has concluded with a significant blow to cybercriminal operations across the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. The coordinated crackdown, spanni...
Phishing attacks continue to evolve beyond simple credential harvesting, creating multi-stage risks that can compromise email systems, SaaS applications, cloud platforms, and inter...
OpenAI has disclosed that two employee devices were compromised via the Mini Shai-Hulud supply chain attack targeting TanStack, an open-source software library ecosystem. The breac...
The cybersecurity industry’s beloved “purple team” concept is broken by design. According to data from CISA KEV, VulnCheck KEV, and ExploitDB, the mean time from ...
Thousands of schools and universities across the United States and Canada were thrust into disarray this week after the popular learning management system (LMS) Canvas, developed b...
A federal jury in Virginia has convicted 39-year-old Richmond resident James E. Thornton on multiple charges stemming from a 2023 cyber intrusion that resulted in the deletion of 9...
A recent analysis of more than 25 million security alerts collected from a dozen global security operations centers (SOCs) over a six‑month period reveals that low‑severity events ...
Modern threat actors launch campaigns that generate thousands of alerts per hour, leaving security operations centers (SOCs) drowning in data. Even with a larger team of analysts, ...
On March 15, 2023, a federal jury in the Eastern District of Virginia found Austin M. Collins, 34, of Arlington, Virginia, guilty of one count of conspiracy to commit computer frau...
Organizations often believe that securing a retainer with a reputable incident response (IR) firm or pre‑approving an external provider is sufficient to survive a cyber crisis. Whi...
Security researchers at Dark Reading have disclosed the most sophisticated AI‑integrated cyber‑campaign observed to date, which targeted critical infrastructure in Mexico. The oper...
Modern cyber‑threats have evolved beyond the initial breach, with adversaries now targeting backup systems, encryption keys, and recovery pipelines to maximize impact. A new webina...
The Hacker News (THN) has officially opened the call for entries for the Cybersecurity Stars Awards 2026, an initiative designed to shine a spotlight on the behind‑the‑scenes work ...
Palo Alto Networks has issued an urgent security advisory regarding a critical buffer overflow vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-0300, affecting multiple versions of PAN-OS softwa...
Cisco has released patches for a high‑severity denial‑of‑service (DoS) vulnerability affecting its Crosswork Network Controller and Network Services Orchestrator (NSO) products. Tr...
Acronis researchers have documented a systematic shift in ransomware operations: before triggering encryption, threat actors now deliberately cripple backup infrastructure. Their 2...
hackmyip.com will host a live webinar titled "Why Network Incidents Escalate and How to Fix Response Gaps" on March 15, 2025 at 2:00 PM EST. The session will feature Alex Rivera, s...
Palo Alto Networks issued an emergency advisory on Tuesday warning customers that a critical, as‑yet‑unpatched remote‑code‑execution (RCE) flaw in the PAN‑OS User‑ID Authentication...
The UC Berkeley Center for Long-Term Cybersecurity (CLTC) has launched a dedicated research hub designed to bridge the cybersecurity gap for schools, local governments, and non‑pro...
When Alex Rivera, "CISO of Globex Systems", commissioned a penetration test in Q3 2023, his first decision was to define a precise scope that included internal VLAN segmentation, c...
On 12 March 2026, Taiwanese authorities arrested a 23‑year‑old university student for allegedly compromising the TETRA (Terrestrial Trunked Radio) communication network that underp...
An international law enforcement coalition dubbed 'Operation Crypto Shield,' led by the FBI, Europol, and China's Ministry of Public Security, has achieved a landmark victory again...
Kaseya announced a live webinar titled “Why MSPs must rethink security and backup strategies” scheduled for June 15, 2026 at 2:00 PM ET. The session, hosted by Kaseya’s Product Mar...
Microsoft has confirmed that the security updates released on April 2026 for Windows are causing serious failures in third‑party backup applications that rely on the psmounterex.sy...
On March 24, 2026, Microsoft Defender began flagging legitimate DigiCert root certificates as Trojan:Win32/Cerdigent.A!dha after a signature update. The detection impacted multiple...
The U.S. Department of Justice announced that two former cybersecurity professionals have each been sentenced to four years in federal prison for their roles in enabling BlackCat r...
Instructure, the company behind the widely used Canvas learning management system, disclosed on March 2 2026 that it had identified a cyber incident affecting its internal infrastr...
Criminal IP, a provider of exposure‑based threat intelligence, announced a partnership with Securonix to embed its rich contextual data directly into the Securonix ThreatQ platform...
Microsoft has resolved a long‑standing rendering bug that caused newly added Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) file security warnings to appear malformed on Windows 10 (versions 20H2, ...
A federal court has sentenced two former cybersecurity incident response professionals to four years in prison each for their roles in conducting BlackCat (ALPHV) ransomware attack...
Oracle Red Bull Racing has launched a sweeping automation initiative aimed at embedding security directly into the team’s high‑velocity development pipelines. With the pit wall and...
In the past, security teams could count on a brief, predictable window between the disclosure of a vulnerability and the release of a patch. That buffer has all but vanished as AI-...
A Chinese national linked to the Silk Typhoon advanced persistent threat (APT) group has been handed over to U.S. authorities after being arrested in Italy in July 2025. Xu Zewei, ...
On March 12, 2024, former incident‑response negotiator David Mercer entered a guilty plea in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York to one count of conspiracy...
The U.S. Coast Guard has issued a set of updated cybersecurity requirements under the Maritime Transportation Security Act (MTSA), signaling a heightened focus on protecting operat...
The U.S. Department of Justice, together with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) and the German Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA), has dismantled the command‑and‑control (...
Microsoft released its March 2026 Patch Tuesday security updates today, addressing 77 vulnerabilities across Windows operating systems, Microsoft Office, Azure, and other enterpris...
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) issued an emergency advisory on Tuesday urging organizations to immediately patch a critical command‑injection flaw in P...