Grindr to Pay £26 Million to Settle U.K. Claims Over HIV Status Data Sharing
Online dating app Grindr has opted to pay £26 million ($35.1 million) to settle a lawsuit in the U.
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PEEP Turns Chrome and Edge Into Post-Compromise Backdoors for Host Command Execution
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a complex Chromium-based post-exploitation toolkit called PEEP that masquerades as a bookmarks extension ...
Fake IT Calls Target Executives in Microsoft 365 Data Theft and Extortion Attacks
Threat hunters have disclosed details of a widespread data theft and extortion threat cluster that's targeting Microsoft 365 and other software-as-a-service ...
⚡ Weekly Recap: Chrome 0-Day, Router Hijacks, Coder Supply Chain Attack and More
Turning off email images should at least stop the pictures. This week, attackers had a workaround: a scannable QR code built out of text.
Your Cloud Security Checklist Doesn't Work the Way You Think It Does
If managing security across multiple cloud providers wasn't hard enough, each one fails in a different way. For the 2026 Cloud Security Index, Intruder analy...
Rogue ScreenConnect Clients Spread Four-Stage VBScript Chain to Newly Connected Hosts
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of worm-like activity that abuses ConnectWise ScreenConnect to distribute a malicious Visual Basic Script (V...
Telerik UI Padding-Oracle Bug Chained to Unauthenticated RCE — Public Exploit Released
A TantoSec proof-of-concept turns an AES-CBC "padding oracle" in Telerik UI for ASP.NET AJAX into unauthenticated remote code execution — but only against ap...
N-able Issues Fourth N-central Hotfix in Five Weeks for Unauthenticated RCE Flaw
Every on-premises N-central build below 2026.3.
JSCeal Malware Can Bypass Google Authentication Using Stolen Session Cookies
Cybersecurity researchers have unpacked JSCeal, a sophisticated compiled V8 JavaScript (JSC) malware with credential harvesting, surveillance, and traffic-in...
Attackers Hijack MikroTik Routers Through Internet-Exposed SSH Without Authentication
Attackers are exploiting MikroTik routers with their Secure Shell (SSH) remote-access service, which is reachable from the internet, to gain full administrat...
Four REVSTEALER-Linked Modules Disable Windows Update and Defender to Run a Crypto Miner
Elastic Security Labs has documented four previously unreported programs associated with REVSTEALER, an emerging Windows information stealer, that remain on ...
Unpatched Magento and Adobe Commerce Zero-Day Exploited to Backdoor Online Stores
Attackers are exploiting a new unpatched vulnerability in Magento Open Source and Adobe Commerce that lets them run malicious code on an online store's serve...
Attackers Breached JetBrains Cadence via Unpatched TeamCity, Extracting AWS Credentials
JetBrains is urging Cadence users to revoke and rotate all credentials following a security incident last month in which unidentified threat actors exploited...
Critical VMware Workstation and Fusion Flaw Lets VM Admins Execute Host Code
Broadcom has released security updates for two security flaws impacting VMware Workstation and Fusion, including one critical bug that could result in arbitr...
Trezor Says ShipMonk Breach Exposed 67,000 U.S. Customers' Data It Said Was Deleted
Hardware wallet manufacturer Trezor on Friday disclosed that another 67,000 customers from the U.S.
Thousands of OpenAI Agents Quietly Turned an Abandoned Wiki Into Their Coordination Channel
A group of AI safety researchers says a fleet of autonomous agents that identified themselves as OpenAI systems left about 18,000 posts on a dormant 25-year-...
Attackers Exploit PaperCut Flaws to Steal Credentials From Schools and Universities
Threat actors are exploiting the newly disclosed PaperCut flaws to facilitate credential theft in attacks targeting the education sector in the U.S.
Phishing Campaign Sends Millions of Emails Using Invisible Unicode to Evade Filters
Microsoft is alerting of a "high-volume phishing campaign" that's using invisible Unicode tag characters to bypass email filters. "Instead of using these cha...
PostgreSQL Fixes 12-Year-Old Logical Decoding Flaw Enabling Replication-Role Code Execution
PostgreSQL has released updates to address a security flaw that allows an account with the REPLICATION attribute to run arbitrary code as the operating-syste...
New Ted Backdoor Hides Inside Victims' Own HAProxy Builds to Intercept Web Traffic
A previously undocumented Linux toolkit has been found compiled directly into the trojanized HAProxy load balancers of two South Korean organizations, where ...