CISA Alerts on Actively Exploited Gogs Path Traversal Flaw
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has added a critical vulnerability in Gogs, a self-hosted Git service, to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog, warning…
Month: January 2026
New WhatsApp Scam Hijacks Accounts Without Stealing Passwords
Security researchers at Avast have uncovered a new WhatsApp takeover scam that does not rely on stolen passwords, broken encryption or SIM-swapping. Instead, it tricks…
Online shopping scams cost Hongkongers HK$14 million in first week of 2026
Internet fraudsters tricked more than 270 Hong Kong residents out of nearly HK$14 million (US$1.8 million) through online shopping scams in the first week of…
Google’s Mandiant releases free Salesforce access control checker
Google-owned security vendor Mandiant has released an open-source command line tool which aims to help organisations identify potentially catastrophic access control misconfigurations in their Salesforce…
Aussie teenager charged with swatting US retailers and educational institutions
The Australian Federal Police said a NSW teenager has been charged with making multiple hoax calls to major education and retail institutions in the United…
Spanish police disrupt Black Axe, arrest alleged leaders in action spanning four cities
Authorities arrested 34 alleged cybercriminals in Spain, including some leaders of Black Axe, a transnational criminal organization responsible for adversary-in-the-middle scams such as business email…
Hacker gets seven years for breaching Rotterdam and Antwerp ports
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. The man…
Minnesota Sues to Stop ICE ‘Invasion’
The State of Minnesota and the cites of Minneapolis and St. Paul on Monday filed a sweeping federal lawsuit to halt what they call an…
Russian BlueDelta (Fancy Bear) Uses PDFs to Steal Logins in Just 2 Seconds – Hackread – Cybersecurity News, Data Breaches, AI, and More
Recent findings from the research firm Recorded Future’s Insikt Group reveal that it only takes two seconds of distraction for a professional’s private data to…
U.S. CISA adds a flaw in Gogs to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog
U.S. CISA adds a flaw in Gogs to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog Pierluigi Paganini January 12, 2026 The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency…
FBI Agent’s Sworn Testimony Contradicts Claims ICE’s Jonathan Ross Made Under Oath
In testimony last month in federal court in Minnesota, FBI special agent Bernardo Medellin appeared to directly contradict a claim that ICE agent Jonathan Ross…
Received an Instagram password reset email? Here’s what you need to know
Last week, many Instagram users began receiving unsolicited emails from the platform that warned about a password reset request. The message said: “Hi {username},We got…