A routine RDP brute-force alert led to unusual credential hunting and a geo-distributed VPN-linked infrastructure. Huntress Labs explains how one compromised login unraveled a suspected ransomware-as-a-service ecosystem tied to initial access brokers. [...]

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has added a VMware Aria Operations vulnerability tracked as CVE-2026-22719 to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog, flagging the flaw as exploited in attacks. [...]

The multinational Dutch paint company AkzoNobel has confirmed to BleepingComputer that hackers breached the network of one of its U.S. sites. [...]

Social media giant Facebook is currently experiencing a massive worldwide outage, preventing users from accessing their accounts. [...]

Hackers are abusing the legitimate OAuth redirection mechanism to bypass phishing protections in email and browsers to take users to malicious pages. [...]

Google Chrome will shift from a four-week to a two-week release cycle to roll out new features, bug fixes, and performance improvements more frequently. [...]

American data analytics company LexisNexis Legal & Professional has confirmed to BleepingComputer that hackers breached its servers and accessed some customer and business information. [...]

Compromised cPanel credentials are being sold in bulk across underground channels as plug-and-play phishing and scam infrastructure. Flare explains how analyzing 200,000 underground posts reveals a commoditized market for hacked site management panels. [...]

Amazon has confirmed that three Amazon Web Services (AWS) data centers in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and one in Bahrain have been damaged by drone strikes, causing an extensive outage that is still affecting dozens of cloud computing services. [...]

Cloud Imperium Games (CIG), the game developer behind Star Citizen and Squadron 42, says attackers breached systems containing some users' personal information in January. [...]

The University of Hawaii confirmed that a ransomware gang stole the data of nearly 1.2 million individuals in August 2025 after breaching its Cancer Center's Epidemiology Division. [...]

Google has released security updates to patch 129 Android security vulnerabilities, including an actively exploited zero-day flaw in a Qualcomm display component. [...]

Researchers warn that a newly identified open-source AI security testing platform called CyberStrikeAI was used by the same threat actor behind a recent campaign that breached hundreds of Fortinet FortiGate firewalls. [...]

A phishing campaign is using a fake Google Account security page to deliver a web-based app capable of stealing one-time passcodes, harvesting cryptocurrency wallet addresses, and proxying attacker traffic through victims' browsers. [...]

A 22-year-old Alabama man pleaded guilty to extortion, cyberstalking, and computer fraud charges after hijacking the social media accounts of hundreds of young women (including minors). [...]

A Florida woman was sentenced to 22 months in prison for running a massive years-long scheme to traffic thousands of stolen Microsoft Certificate of Authenticity (COA) labels. [...]

The United Kingdom's National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) alerted British organizations to a heightened risk of Iranian cyberattacks amid the ongoing conflict in the Middle East. [...]

Deepfakes and injection attacks are targeting identity verification moments, from onboarding to account recovery. Incode explains why enterprises must validate the full session—media, device integrity, and behavior—to stop synthetic and injected attacks in real time. [...]

Claude appears to be having a major outage right now, with elevated errors reported across all platforms. [...]