A coordinated reconnaissance campaign targeting Citrix NetScaler infrastructure over the past week used tens of thousands of residential proxies to discover login panels. [...]

CISA has flagged a critical SolarWinds Web Help Desk vulnerability as actively exploited in attacks and ordered federal agencies to patch their systems within three days. [...]

Iron Mountain, a leading data storage and recovery services company, says that a recent breach claimed by the Everest extortion gang is limited to mostly marketing materials. [...]

Autonomous AI agents are creating a new identity blind spot as they operate outside traditional IAM controls. Token Security shows why managing the full lifecycle of AI agent identities is becoming a critical CISO priority. [...]

The United Kingdom's data protection authority launched a formal investigation into X and its Irish subsidiary over reports that the Grok AI assistant was used to generate nonconsensual sexual images. [...]

Hackers are targeting developers by exploiting the critical vulnerability CVE-2025-11953 in the Metro server for React Native to deliver malicious payloads for Windows and Linux. [...]

French prosecutors have raided X's offices in Paris on Tuesday as part of a criminal investigation into the platform's Grok AI tool, widely used to generate sexually explicit images. [...]

A new GlassWorm malware attack through compromised OpenVSX extensions focuses on stealing passwords, crypto-wallet data, and developer credentials and configurations from macOS systems. [...]

Ukraine's Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT) says that Russian hackers are exploiting CVE-2026-21509, a recently patched vulnerability in multiple versions of Microsoft Office. [...]

More than 230 malicious packages for the personal AI assistant OpenClaw (formerly known as Moltbot and ClawdBot) have been published in less than a week on the tool's official registry and on GitHub. [...]

Fake high-yield investment platforms are surging worldwide, promising "guaranteed" returns that mask classic Ponzi schemes.CTM360 explains how HYIP scams scale through social media, recycled templates, and referral abuse. [...]

Chinese state-sponsored threat actors were likely behind the hijacking of Notepad++ update traffic last year that lasted for almost half a year, the developer states in an official announcement today. [...]

The data breach notification service Have I Been Pwned says that a data breach at the U.S. food chain Panera Bread affected 5.1 million accounts, not 14 million customers as previously reported. [...]

NationStates, a multiplayer browser-based game, has confirmed a data breach after taking its website offline earlier this week to investigate a security incident. [...]

The rise in real estate tech means renters often hand over huge amounts of revealing information to digital third parties – at great risk

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Would you trade your data privacy and security for housing? Thanks to the rise in real estate technologies, renters often have no choice but to hand over huge amounts of revealing information to digital third parties just to have somewhere to live. All the while we are told: trust us, we take your privacy seriously.

But recent Guardian reporting has revealed that seven popular “rent-tech” platforms have serious security vulnerabilities, leaving millions of documents containing personal information of renters exposed on the open web for years. When they were alerted to the risk, only two of the seven companies responded to say they would put additional security measures in place. Is this what taking renter privacy seriously looks like?

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© Photograph: Jacob Wackerhausen/Getty Images

© Photograph: Jacob Wackerhausen/Getty Images

A threat actor is targeting exposed MongoDB instances in automated data extortion attacks demanding low ransoms from owners to restore the data. [...]

Apple is introducing a new privacy feature that lets users limit the precision of location data shared with cellular networks on some iPhone and iPad models. [...]

Exclusive: ‘This is a blatant and disturbing disregard for the law and for people’s security,’ digital rights advocate says

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Australian platforms used by real estate agents to upload documentation for renters and landlords are leaving people’s personal information exposed in hyperlinks accessible online.

An analysis of seven rent platforms provided to Guardian Australia by a researcher, who wished to remain anonymous, revealed millions of leasing documents could be accessed by threat actors.

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© Photograph: Carly Earl/The Guardian

© Photograph: Carly Earl/The Guardian

A U.S. federal jury has convicted Linwei Ding, a former software engineer at Google, for stealing AI supercomputer data from his employer and secretly sharing it with Chinese tech firms. [...]

Over the past few months, a large-scale cloud storage subscription scam campaign has been targeting users worldwide with repeated emails falsely warning recipients that their photos, files, and accounts are about to be blocked or deleted due to an alleged payment failure. [...]