The Jewelbug hacker group has been carrying out espionage operations targeting governments and militaries while also engaging in cryptocurrency fraud. [...]

Multiple 'watermark removers' have surfaced days after Anthropic began watermarking text generated by Claude, including an open source project with over 4,500 GitHub stars and paid AI detection evasion services. None of the tools' claims about defeating the text watermark can be verified, as Anthropic has not released a detector. [...]

A recently patched critical vulnerability (CVE-2026-59310) in VMware vCenter Syslog Server is being exploited in an active campaign to deploy a reverse SSH tool for persistence and remote access. [...]

Hardware wallet manufacturer Trezor disclosed a data breach affecting nearly 14,000 of its customers after ShipMonk, its shipping and logistics provider, was hacked [...]

AI coding tools can introduce unvetted or hallucinated open source dependencies faster than traditional security reviews can keep pace. ActiveState explains why organizations should govern packages at the point of selection, before they enter the development pipeline. [...]

A new White House memo signed by U.S. President Donald Trump instructs the National Coordination Center (NCC) to establish a program that would allow private security companies to apply for approval to hack foreign cybercrime organizations. [...]

WhatsApp has begun rolling out a new optional "Scam Alert" feature, which uses a local machine learning model to warn users when scammers are targeting them. [...]

An ongoing data theft campaign uses custom tools to steal data exposed to anonymous users through Salesforce Experience Cloud and ServiceNow customer portals. [...]

A new Android NFC relay malware called WindRelay is being used alongside the SpyNote remote administration tool (RAT) to steal live card data and send it to attackers in real time. [...]

Attempts to exploit a critical vulnerability (CVE-2026-71362) in Adobe's Commerce and Magento e-commerce platforms have been detected, potentially allowing attackers to hijack customer accounts. [...]

More than 737 browser extensions published on the Chrome Web Store impersonated well-known VPN and proxy services while routing users' traffic through SOCKS5 proxies operated by a single provider. [...]

Security researchers have disclosed new "Plug and Pwn" attacks that abuse the Windows Plug and Play feature to trigger Windows into installing vulnerable or insecure vendor software and gain SYSTEM privileges. [...]

North Korean hackers have been exploiting a Windows zero-day vulnerability (CVE-2026-68820) to target defense-sector companies as part of the Operation Dream Job campaign. [...]

The FBI warns that cybercriminals are targeting adults' and children's social media and other online accounts to steal sexually explicit images or videos. [...]

A vulnerability in COLDCARD hardware wallet firmware allowed attackers to steal an estimated $88.6 million in Bitcoin from thousands of wallets whose seeds were generated using a flawed random number generator. [...]

Google is preparing a new Chrome security feature that would block policy-installed extensions from hijacking the New Tab page or changing the default search engine. [...]

Security lapse leaves sensitive information and contact details of 51 government officials exposed for 40 hours

The public body in charge of the UK’s state investments has been pushed to improve its internal security after a data breach left “high-level management information” publicly accessible for nearly two days.

UK Government Investments (UKGI), the agency that manages the taxpayers’ interest in a swathe of companies including Channel 4 and the Post Office, said the security failure also left more than 50 government officials’ personal details exposed for nearly 40 hours.

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© Photograph: Marina Demidiuk/Alamy

© Photograph: Marina Demidiuk/Alamy

A critical vulnerability in the Active Storage framework can allow an unauthenticated attacker to read arbitrary files from a Rails application, and potentially escalate to remote code execution (RCE). [...]

Pharmaceutical company Amgen says it suffered a data breach after threat actors stole corporate data and patient information stored in multiple cloud systems operated by third-party service providers. [...]

The Arch Linux project has temporarily disabled adoption of Arch User Repository (AUR) packages after a surge in malicious takeovers of existing packages. [...]