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Earliest post: 2023-12-08

Latest post: 2026-06-06

Tech-industry security news with sharp analysis and commentary — covering breaches, vulnerabilities, cybercrime, enterprise risks, and the latest in infosec and IT security trends.

01/01/2020
06/07/2026
Title Date Published Describes IncidentAuthorVisible
Oxford Uni student data pwned yet again - this time via career platform breach2026-06-06TrueTrue
If you don't fall for these extortionists' calls, they'll show up with USB sticks2026-06-05TrueTrue
World Food Programme breach exposes data of 600k vulnerable Gazan families2026-06-05TrueTrue
Council in UK's City of York outs hundreds of disabled residents with a single email blunder2026-06-05TrueTrue
Pink is the latest goon squad to use fake helpdesk calls to steal creds2026-06-04TrueTrue
OpenAI's agent chained decade-old DoS attacks to crash web servers in seconds2026-06-04TrueTrue
Five Eyes: Watch out for odd LinkedIn connection requests, China's back on the hunt for state secrets2026-06-04TrueTrue
Duo who sold car crash victims' data must repay £118k2026-06-04TrueTrue
Nobody needs Mythos or 0-days to build a chaos-causing computer worm – free open source models work just fine2026-06-04TrueTrue
All the passwords were stored in Active Directory description fields2026-06-04TrueTrue
Commvault says it's time to rethink resiliency as AI crooks leave victims in a 'dark, dead' state2026-06-03TrueTrue
Bend the beam like Beckham to defeat anti-jamming tech2026-06-03TrueTrue
Another bug hunter leaks Microsoft exploits in defiance of company’s handling of vulnerability disclosures2026-06-03TrueTrue
'Dumbass' criminal breaks the 'first rule of ransomware club'2026-06-02TrueTrue
Cisco sings Mythos' praises - but doesn't say how many bugs the model uncovered2026-06-02TrueTrue
Russian spy agency says foreign spies turned officials' smartphones into surveillance devices2026-06-02TrueTrue
Microsoft reaches for olive branch after public dustup with 0-day researcher 2026-06-02TrueTrue
Northern Ireland cops issue PSA after official phone number spoofed by scammers2026-06-02TrueTrue
Shai-Hulud malware worms Red Hat npm package versions downloaded 80K times a week2026-06-01TrueTrue
Election interlopers register 5K+ domains, hope to catch some voting phish2026-06-01TrueTrue
GTA cheat service Atlas Menu hacked as attacker alleges screenshot spying2026-06-01TrueTrue
Palo Alto VPN bug graduates from advisory to active exploitation2026-06-01TrueTrue
Password manager Dashlane suspends customer accounts amid brute-force attacks2026-06-01TrueTrue
Putin sends submarines to survey Britain's subsea cables. UK deploys Royal Navy, mobilizes parliamentary draftsmen2026-06-01TrueTrue
Lone attacker published 14 malicious npm packages mimicking popular OpenSearch, Elasticsearch libraries2026-05-29TrueTrue
No fix yet for critical RCE bug in open-source Git service Gogs - exploit module is out2026-05-29TrueTrue
23andMe inherits lawsuit over 'disturbing' DNA data breach2026-05-29TrueTrue
Dutch cops wrest 17M devices from mystery botnet's clutches2026-05-29TrueTrue
ChatGPT blindly trusts browser content, turning the page into a payload2026-05-29TrueTrue
Russia-linked threat group put ChatGPT to work from lure to payload2026-05-29TrueTrue
ShinyHunters adds Charter to trophy shelf after 4.9M customer records leak2026-05-29TrueTrue
Troops’ phones gave away location data to foreign adversaries2026-05-28TrueTrue
Disgruntled 0-day hunter 'humiliated' by Microsoft pledges 'bone shattering drop' as Redmond calls cops2026-05-28TrueTrue
Microsoft tests the 15-character limit of Windows Server admins' patience2026-05-28TrueTrue
Carnival confirms ShinyHunters cruised off with 6M customer records after April breach2026-05-28TrueTrue
Company CEO flooded file share with smut, called for help after he deleted it2026-05-28TrueTrue
CrowdStrike, Google shatter Glassworm botnet2026-05-27TrueTrue
Extortion crews are visiting law firms pretending to be tech support, FBI warns2026-05-27TrueTrue
How to guarantee a speaker gig: Hack the system. Literally2026-05-27TrueTrue
MyPillow must decide whether to be firm or soft as ransomware crims demand pay2026-05-26TrueTrue
Experts pour cold borscht on Farage's Russian hack claim2026-05-26TrueTrue
Anthropic to release Mythos-class models to the public2026-05-25TrueTrue
AI eyes scanning for bugs create a worrisome Linux security trend2026-05-23TrueTrue
Dirty Frag, Copy Fail, Fragnesia: The start of a worrisome Linux security trend2026-05-23TrueTrue
A Russian speaker and jailbroken Gemini went on a hacking spree and emptied at least one MAGA victim's crypto wallets2026-05-22TrueTrue
Megalodon chums the waters in 5.5K+ GitHub repo poisonings2026-05-22TrueTrue
Techie claims Trump Mobile website was leaking thousands of people's data2026-05-22TrueTrue
Threat hunters find Google API keys still usable 23 minutes after deletion2026-05-21TrueTrue
Attackers spill plaintext passwords of 46k Myspace93 users after 2021 breach 2026-05-21TrueTrue
Cisco serves up yet another perfect 10 bug with Secure Workload admin flaw2026-05-21TrueTrue

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