Saturday, January 17, 2026

Cybersecurity

Hacker flaunts stolen government data on Instagram

Nicholas Moore pleaded guilty to repeatedly hacking the US Supreme Court’s electronic filing system. New court filings say he also accessed AmeriCorps and...

Hackers are exploiting a critical WordPress flaw in Modular DS

Modular DS versions 2.5.1 and older have a critical security flaw Attackers can bypass authentication and gain admin access remotely The issue is...

Pax8 data exposure puts thousands of MSP relationships under scrutiny

Pax8 accidentally emailed a spreadsheet containing sensitive partner and customer business data. Around 1,800 MSPs were affected through a file shared with fewer...

Hackers Allege Massive Theft of Target Source Code After Cyber Incident

Hackers claim to be selling 860GB of internal Target source code and documentation Sample repositories reference payment, identity, and gift card systems Target...

US Agencies Urged to Patch Actively Exploited Gogs Flaw

Gogs has a high severity flaw that allows remote code execution without authentication. The vulnerability is actively exploited and hundreds of servers are...

Europol Raids Deal Heavy Blow to Black Axe Cybercrime Network

Spanish police arrested 34 suspected Black Axe members in coordinated raids across four major cities The group is linked to large scale cyber...

CrowdStrike moves deeper into identity security with SGNL deal

CrowdStrike plans to acquire SGNL for about $740 million in a mostly cash deal The acquisition strengthens CrowdStrike’s identity security for AI and...

Can Public Charging Cables Really Steal Your Data in 2026?

Use your own cable whenever possible Never approve trust prompts on unknown chargers Keep your phone software fully updated Public charging is usually...

Phantom Shuttle Exposed How Trusted Chrome Extensions Became Silent Spies

Phantom Shuttle Chrome extensions secretly rerouted traffic through attacker owned proxies Roughly 170 high value websites were selectively targeted for credential and data...

OpenAI Admits the Hard Truth About Securing Agentic Browsers

Prompt injection attacks resemble social engineering and may never be fully eliminated Agentic browsers increase risk by combining autonomy with broad access OpenAI...

Surfshark Brings Dedicated IP Support to Linux Desktop

Dedicated IP is now built into Surfshark’s Linux GUI app Linux users no longer need browser extensions for static IP access Fewer CAPTCHAs...