A major U.S. payment gateway and solutions provider says a ransomware attack has knocked key systems offline, triggering a widespread outage affecting multiple services. The incident began on Friday and quickly escalated into a nationwide disruption across BridgePay's platform. [...]

A fresh wave of spam is hitting inboxes worldwide, with users reporting that they are once again being bombarded by automated emails generated through companies' unsecured Zendesk support systems. Some recipients say they are receiving hundreds of messages with strange or alarming subject lines. such as 'Activate account...' [...]

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

A researcher has released detailed evidence showing some Instagram private accounts exposed photo links to unauthenticated visitors. The issue was later fixed, but Meta closed the report as not applicable and did not respond to multiple requests for comment. [...]

Cloud marketplace and distributor Pax8 has confirmed that it mistakenly sent an email to fewer than 40 UK-based partners containing a spreadsheet with internal business information, including MSP customer and Microsoft licensing data. [...]

Scammers are flooding LinkedIn posts with fake "reply" comments that appear to come from the platform, warning of bogus policy violations and urging users to click external links. Some even abuse LinkedIn's official lnkd.in shortener, making the phishing attempts harder to spot. [...]

Multiple current and former Target employees confirmed that leaked source code samples posted by a threat actor match real internal systems. The company also rolled out an "accelerated" lockdown of its Git server, requiring VPN access, a day after being contacted by BleepingComputer. [...]

Multiple current and former Target employees confirmed that leaked source code samples posted by a threat actor match real internal systems. The company also rolled out an "accelerated" lockdown of its Git server, requiring VPN access, a day after being contacted by BleepingComputer. [...]

Hackers are claiming to be selling internal source code belonging to Target Corporation, after publishing what appears to be a sample of stolen code repositories on a public software development platform. After BleepingComputer notified Target, the files were taken offline and the retailer's developer Git server was inaccessible. [...]

A single click on what may appear to be a Telegram username or harmless link is all it takes to expose your real IP address to attackers due to how proxy links are handled. Telegram says it will add warnings to proxy links after researchers demonstrated that such one-click interactions could reveal a Telegram user's real IP address. [...]

Ireland's Department of Foreign Affairs has recalled nearly 13,000 passports after a software update caused a printing defect. The printing error makes the documents non-compliant with international travel standards and potentially unreadable at automated border gates. [...]