The "shift left" approach has increased pressure on developers, as speed demands override security checks in modern CI pipelines. Qualys explains how analyzing 34,000 public container images revealed 7.3% were malicious and why security must be enforced at the infrastructure layer by default. [...]

PayPal is notifying customers of a data breach after a software error in a loan application exposed their sensitive personal information, including Social Security numbers, for nearly 6 months last year. [...]

The University of Mississippi Medical Center (UMMC) closed all its clinic locations statewide on Thursday following a ransomware attack. [...]

The FBI warned that Americans lost more than $20 million last year amid a massive surge in ATM "jackpotting" attacks, in which criminals use malware to force cash machines to dispense money. [...]

A Ukrainian national was sentenced to five years in prison for providing North Korean IT workers with stolen identities that helped them infiltrate U.S. companies. [...]

Researchers have discovered the first known Android malware to use generative AI in its execution flow, using Google's Gemini model to adapt its persistence across different devices. [...]

Google says that through 2025, it blocked more than 255,000 Android apps from obtaining excessive access to sensitive user data and rejected over 1.75 million apps from being published on Google Play due to policy violations. [...]

A critical vulnerability in Grandstream GXP1600 series VoIP phones allows a remote, unauthenticated attacker to gain root privileges and silently eavesdrop on communications. [...]

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) ordered government agencies to patch their systems within three days against a maximum-severity Dell vulnerability that has been under active exploitation since mid-2024. [...]

Infostealer dumps increasingly tie stolen credentials to real identities, linking usernames, cookies, and behavior across personal and enterprise accounts. Specops explains how analyzing 90,000 dumps shows reuse fuels enterprise risk and how continuous AD scanning disrupts that cycle. [...]

A Nigerian national was sentenced to eight years in prison for hacking multiple tax preparation firms in Massachusetts and filing fraudulent tax returns seeking over $8.1 million in refunds. [...]

Texas sued networking giant TP-Link Systems, accusing the company of deceptively marketing its routers as secure while allowing Chinese state-backed hackers to exploit firmware vulnerabilities and access users' devices. [...]

Threat actors are targeting technology, manufacturing, and financial organizations in campaigns that combine device code phishing and voice phishing (vishing) to abuse the OAuth 2.0 Device Authorization flow and compromise Microsoft Entra accounts. [...]

African authorities arrested 651 suspects and recovered over $4.3 million in a joint operation targeting investment fraud, mobile money scams, and fake loan applications. [...]

A newly identified Android banking trojan named Massiv has been under active distribution across south Europe, disguised as an IPTV app. [...]

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) is warning of a critical vulnerability in multiple Honeywell CCTV products that allows unauthorized access to feeds or account hijacking. [...]

AI assistants like Grok and Microsoft Copilot with web browsing and URL-fetching capabilities can be abused to intermediate command-and-control (C2) activity. [...]

Underground Telegram channels shared SmarterMail exploit PoCs and stolen admin credentials within days of disclosure. Flare explains how monitoring these communities reveals rapid weaponization of CVE-2026-24423 and CVE-2026-23760 tied to ransomware activity. [...]

Microsoft says an Exchange Online issue that mistakenly quarantined legitimate emails last week was triggered by faulty heuristic detection rules designed to block credential phishing campaigns. [...]