He wanted something in return for returning files to the Dutch police. What he got in return was an arrest. A press release from Dutch police sums it up: On Thursday evening around 7:00 PM, police arrested a 40-year-old man from Ridderkerk on Prinses Beatrixstraat in Ridderkerk for computer hacking. Due to a police error,……
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a new mobile spyware platform dubbed ZeroDayRAT that’s being advertised on Telegram as a way to grab sensitive data and facilitate real-time surveillance on Android and iOS devices. “The developer runs dedicated channels for sales, customer support, and regular updates, giving buyers a single point of access to a…
Google on Friday released security updates for its Chrome browser to address a security flaw that it said has been exploited in the wild. The high-severity vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-2441 (CVSS score: 8.8), has been described as a use-after-free bug in CSS. Security researcher Shaheen Fazim has been credited with discovering and reporting the shortcoming…
Microsoft has disclosed details of a new version of the ClickFix social engineering tactic in which the attackers trick unsuspecting users into running commands that carry out a Domain Name System (DNS) lookup to retrieve the next-stage payload. Specifically, the attack relies on using the “nslookup” (short for nameserver lookup) command to execute a custom…
Eric Neugeboren reports: Nevada’s IT agency has rolled out a new policy aimed at standardizing the privacy of state data, months after a massive cyberattack crippled certain systems for weeks. The policy announced Wednesday from the Governor’s Technology Office marks the first time the state will have clear-cut categories for data sensitivity. Officials said this will allow……
Zack Whittaker reports: Dutch phone company Odido has confirmed a data breach affected millions of its customers. The company said in a statement Thursday that unidentified hackers gained access to its customer contact system and covertly downloaded reams of customer information. A spokesperson for Odido told local Dutch media that the breach affects more than 6.2 million customers, or……
Abby Sourwine reports: Ransomware attacks against schools and universities held relatively steady in 2025, but the scale of data exposure rose sharply, driven in part by third-party software vulnerabilities and a handful of outsized higher education breaches. According to U.K.-based technology research company Comparitech’s latest education ransomware roundup, ransomware gangs globally claimed 251 attacks on educational……
Reza abasi notes that there is a new forum called the “Kurd Hacker Forum” that focuses on databreaches in Iran, Syria, and Turkey. The domain was registered January 28, 2026. The forum, which is on the clear net, looks like it has the same format as the classic BreachForums, with the same types of sections……
itv reports: Guernsey’s Data Protection Authority (ODPA) has sanctioned First Contact Health after it failed to implement sufficient security measures to prevent a phishing attack. The cybersecurity breach saw fraudsters successfully target an employee’s email account, gaining access to confidential health data at the medical practice. First Contact Health became aware and reported the data breach……
Their headline was, “Attorney General Ken Paxton Demands Information from Blue Cross Blue Shield of Texas and Conduent as Part of Investigation into Largest Data Breach in U.S. History,” but that seemed terribly wrong. Is Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton using AI as for his research? “Largest Data Breach in U.S. History?” Doesn’t he remember……
