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Europol Arrests 34 Black Axe Members in Spain Over €5.9M Fraud and Organized Crime
10
Jan
2026

Europol Arrests 34 Black Axe Members in Spain Over €5.9M Fraud and Organized Crime

Jan 10, 2026Ravie LakshmananCybercrime / Financial Crime Europol on Friday announced the arrest of 34 individuals in Spain who are…

China-Linked Hackers Exploit VMware ESXi Zero-Days to Escape Virtual Machines
09
Jan
2026

China-Linked Hackers Exploit VMware ESXi Zero-Days to Escape Virtual Machines

Jan 09, 2026Ravie LakshmananVirtualization / Vulnerability Chinese-speaking threat actors are suspected to have leveraged a compromised SonicWall VPN appliance as…

Russian APT28
09
Jan
2026

Russian APT28 Runs Credential-Stealing Campaign Targeting Energy and Policy Organizations

Jan 09, 2026Ravie LakshmananEmail Security / Threat Intelligence Russian state-sponsored threat actors have been linked to a fresh set of…

The Hype We Can Ignore (And the Risks We Can't)
09
Jan
2026

The Hype We Can Ignore (And the Risks We Can’t)

Jan 09, 2026The Hacker NewsArtificial Intelligence / Enterprise Security As organizations plan for 2026, cybersecurity predictions are everywhere. Yet many…

CISA Emergency Cybersecurity Directives
09
Jan
2026

CISA Retires 10 Emergency Cybersecurity Directives Issued Between 2019 and 2024

Jan 09, 2026Ravie LakshmananGovernment / Vulnerability Management The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Thursday said it’s retiring…

Trend Micro Apex Central
09
Jan
2026

Trend Micro Apex Central RCE Flaw Scores 9.8 CVSS in On-Prem Windows Versions

Jan 09, 2026Ravie LakshmananVulnerability / Endpoint Security Trend Micro has released security updates to address multiple security vulnerabilities impacting on-premise…

FBI Warns North Korean Hackers Using Malicious QR Codes in Spear-Phishing
09
Jan
2026

FBI Warns North Korean Hackers Using Malicious QR Codes in Spear-Phishing

Jan 09, 2026Ravie LakshmananMobile Security / Email Security The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) on Thursday released an advisory…

WhatsApp Worm Spreads Astaroth Banking Trojan Across Brazil via Contact Auto-Messaging
08
Jan
2026

WhatsApp Worm Spreads Astaroth Banking Trojan Across Brazil via Contact Auto-Messaging

Jan 08, 2026Ravie LakshmananMalware / Financial Crime Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a new campaign that uses WhatsApp as…

China-Linked UAT-7290 Targets Telecoms with Linux Malware and ORB Nodes
08
Jan
2026

China-Linked UAT-7290 Targets Telecoms with Linux Malware and ORB Nodes

Jan 08, 2026Ravie LakshmananMalware / Threat Intelligence A China-nexus threat actor known as UAT-7290 has been attributed to espionage-focused intrusions…

Coolify Discloses 11 Critical Flaws Enabling Full Server Compromise on Self-Hosted Instances
08
Jan
2026

Coolify Discloses 11 Critical Flaws Enabling Full Server Compromise on Self-Hosted Instances

Jan 08, 2026Ravie LakshmananVulnerability / Container Security Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of multiple critical-severity security flaws affecting Coolify, an…

NodeCordRAT Hidden in npm
08
Jan
2026

Researchers Uncover NodeCordRAT Hidden in npm Bitcoin-Themed Packages

Jan 08, 2026Ravie LakshmananMalware / Cloud Security Cybersecurity researchers have discovered three malicious npm packages that are designed to deliver…

The State of Trusted Open Source
08
Jan
2026

The State of Trusted Open Source

Chainguard, the trusted source for open source, has a unique view into how modern organizations actually consume open source software…