Ransomware attack disrupts Japan’s IDCF Cloud used by govt clients
IDC Frontier, a major Japanese cloud and digital infrastructure company, disclosed that its IDCF Cloud service was targeted in a ransomware attack that caused an…
Category: Bleeping Computer
Cisco warns of critical flaws allowing Nexus switch takeover
Cisco released security advisories for five critical vulnerabilities in its NX-OS data center network operating system that could be exploited to run arbitrary code with…
Owner of Empire cybercrime market gets 40 years in prison
The co-creator of Empire Market, one of the largest dark web marketplaces before its shutdown, has been sentenced to 40 years in prison for facilitating…
Samsung Galaxy S26 hacked three more times at Pwn2Own Ireland
On the second day of Pwn2Own Ireland 2026, security researchers collected $232,500 in cash awards after exploiting 45 unique zero-day vulnerabilities. The day’s highlight was…
Ransomware recovery CEO charged over secret ransom payments
The owner of ransomware remediation company MonsterCloud has been charged with allegedly defrauding ransomware victims by secretly paying their attackers for decryptors while claiming to…
Hackers hijack Google domains after breaching ccTLD registries
Hackers obtained unauthorized HTTPS certificates for several Google domains and hijacked domains in the country-code top-level domains (ccTLDs) for Ghana, American Samoa, and Sierra Leone…
Microsoft Outlook to block MSIX attachments starting November
Microsoft announced that it will add .msix and .msixbundle attachments to the list of blocked attachments in Outlook Web and the new Outlook Windows client…
Musician sent to prison for $10 million streaming fraud using AI bots
A North Carolina musician was sentenced to 18 months in prison for collecting more than $10 million in royalties from Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon Music,…
Atlassian warns of critical file-access flaw in Jira, Confluence
Atlassian is warning customers of a critical vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-21589, that can be exploited for arbitrary file-access in multiple self-hosted Data Center products, including…
Hackers exploit 32 zero-days on first day of Pwn2Own Ireland
On the first day of the Pwn2Own Ireland 2026 competition, security researchers hacked the Samsung Galaxy S26 twice and earned $388,500 after exploiting 32 zero-days.…
Ninja Forms plugin flaw exploited to hack WordPress sites
Hackers are exploiting stored cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in two unrelated WordPress plugins, Ninja Forms and WPC Product Bundles for WooCommerce, to install backdoors and…
Fake ChatGPT, Gemini Sites steal advertising accounts, MFA codes
A new campaign targeting ad account managers uses fake ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, and Perplexity sites that steal login credentials and multi-factor authentication (MFA) codes through…