Researchers Uncover 28 Unique IPs and 85 Domains Hosting Carding Markets
12
Jan
2026

Researchers Uncover 28 Unique IPs and 85 Domains Hosting Carding Markets

Between July and December 2025, cybersecurity firm Team Cymru conducted an extensive analysis of carding infrastructure, revealing a sophisticated network…

What security teams can learn from torrent metadata
12
Jan
2026

What security teams can learn from torrent metadata

Security teams often spend time sorting through logs and alerts that point to activity happening outside corporate networks. Torrent traffic…

New Research Uncovers 28 Unique IP Addresses and 85 Domains Hosting Carding Markets
12
Jan
2026

New Research Uncovers 28 Unique IP Addresses and 85 Domains Hosting Carding Markets

A recent investigation has exposed the technical foundation of underground carding operations, revealing 28 unique IP addresses and 85 domains…

New “Penguin” Platform Sells Pig-Butchering Kits, PII, and Stolen Accounts
12
Jan
2026

New “Penguin” Platform Sells Pig-Butchering Kits, PII, and Stolen Accounts

The industrialization of pig butchering scams has reached a critical tipping point. A sprawling Pig Butchering-as-a-Service (PBaaS) economy has emerged across…

12
Jan
2026

EU’s Chat Control could put government monitoring inside robots

Cybersecurity debates around surveillance usually stay inside screens. A new academic study argues that this boundary no longer holds when…

An illustrated padlock is mounted into a microphone stand with sound waves emitting from the device.
12
Jan
2026

Enshittification is ruining everything online (Lock and Code S07E01)

This week on the Lock and Code podcast… There’s a bizarre thing happening online right now where everything is getting…

New 'Penguin' Pig Butchering as a Service Selling PII, Stolen Accounts and Fraud Kits
12
Jan
2026

New ‘Penguin’ Pig Butchering as a Service Selling PII, Stolen Accounts and Fraud Kits

The world of cybercrime has taken a dangerous turn as pig butchering scams now operate as turnkey services, lowering entry…

New EDRStartupHinder Tool blocks antivirus and EDR services at startup on Windows 11 25H2 Defender
12
Jan
2026

New EDRStartupHinder Tool blocks antivirus and EDR services at startup on Windows 11 25H2 Defender

Security researcher TwoSevenOneT, known for EDR evasion tools like EDR-Freeze and EDR-Redir, unveiled EDRStartupHinder this week. The tool blocks antivirus…

Cloudflare DNS reply change crashed Cisco SME switches
12
Jan
2026

Cloudflare DNS reply change crashed Cisco SME switches

A mysterious problem impacting users of Cisco small-to-medium business switches whose devices started rebooting regularly turned out to be caused…

The Vibe Coding Security Gap
12
Jan
2026

The Vibe Coding Security Gap

Security researchers are warning that the rapid mainstream adoption of AI-assisted “vibe coding” is introducing new risks into software development…

Instagram’s “17 Million User Data Leak” Was Just Scraped Records from 2022
12
Jan
2026

Instagram’s “17 Million User Data Leak” Was Just Scraped Records from 2022 – Hackread – Cybersecurity News, Data Breaches, AI, and More

This week has been a chaotic one, especially for Instagram users, after Malwarebytes announced on the 9th of January that…

California bans data broker reselling health data of millions
11
Jan
2026

California bans data broker reselling health data of millions

The California Privacy Protection Agency (CalPrivacy) has taken action against the  Datamasters marketing firm that sold the health and personal data…