Taiwanese operator of Incognito Market sentenced to 30 years over $105M darknet drug ring
04
Feb
2026

Taiwanese operator of Incognito Market sentenced to 30 years over $105M darknet drug ring

Taiwanese operator of Incognito Market sentenced to 30 years over $105M darknet drug ring Pierluigi Paganini February 04, 2026 A…

Notepad++ Users, You May Have Been Hacked by China
04
Feb
2026

Notepad++ Users, You May Have Been Hacked by China

Infrastructure delivering updates for Notepad++—a widely used text editor for Windows—was compromised for six months by suspected China-state hackers who…

DEAD#VAX Malware Campaign Deploys AsyncRAT via IPFS-Hosted VHD Phishing Files
04
Feb
2026

DEAD#VAX Malware Campaign Deploys AsyncRAT via IPFS-Hosted VHD Phishing Files

Ravie LakshmananFeb 04, 2026Malware / Endpoint Security Threat hunters have disclosed details of a new, stealthy malware campaign dubbed DEAD#VAX…

Transport for NSW lands two NBN Co data leaders
04
Feb
2026

Transport for NSW lands two NBN Co data leaders

Transport for NSW has brought in its second former NBN Co data leader in as many months to fill roles…

Microsoft Develops Scanner to Detect Backdoors in Open-Weight Large Language Models
04
Feb
2026

Microsoft Develops Scanner to Detect Backdoors in Open-Weight Large Language Models

Ravie LakshmananFeb 04, 2026Artificial Intelligence / Software Security Microsoft on Wednesday said it built a lightweight scanner that it said…

04
Feb
2026

Ransomware Attacks Have Soared 30% In Recent Months

Ransomware attacks have soared 30% since late last year, and they’ve continued that trend so far in 2026, with many…

Sydney Metro West to use private 5G network
04
Feb
2026

Sydney Metro West to use private 5G network

The Sydney Metro West project will utilise a private 5G network for rail communications, with work set to commence this…

Fixing SOC False Negatives Fast
04
Feb
2026

Fixing SOC False Negatives Fast

False negatives are becoming the most expensive “quiet” failure in SOCs. In 2026, AI-generated phishing and multi-stage malware chains are…

SystemBC Botnet Hijacked 10,000 Devices Worldwide to Use for DDoS Attacks
04
Feb
2026

SystemBC Botnet Hijacked 10,000 Devices Worldwide to Use for DDoS Attacks

The SystemBC malware family, a persistent threat first documented in 2019, has evolved into a massive botnet infrastructure controlling over…

React2Shell exploitation undergoes significant change in threat activity
04
Feb
2026

React2Shell exploitation undergoes significant change in threat activity

Two months after a critical vulnerability was disclosed in React Server Components, researchers warn of a significant change in threat…

VMware
04
Feb
2026

VMware ESXi flaw now exploited in ransomware attacks

CISA confirmed on Wednesday that ransomware gangs have begun exploiting a high-severity VMware ESXi sandbox escape vulnerability that was previously…

PhantomVAI Custom Loader Uses RunPE Utility to Attack Users
04
Feb
2026

PhantomVAI Custom Loader Uses RunPE Utility to Attack Users

A sophisticated custom loader named PhantomVAI has emerged in global phishing campaigns, delivering various stealers and remote access trojans (RATs)…