- Data of 72 million Under Armour customers appears on the dark web
January 22, 2026
When reports first emerged in November 2025 that sportswear giant Under Armour had been hit by the Everest ransomware group, the story sounded depressingly familiar: a big brand, a huge trove of data, and a lot of unanswered questions. Since then, the narrative around what actually happened has split into two competing versions—cautious corporate statements on ...
- A new LinkedIn phishing scam is targeting executives online
January 21, 2026
Business executives and IT admins are being targeted by a highly sophisticated phishing attack which doesn’t happen in the email inbox but rather – on LinkedIn. Security researchers ReliaQuest said they saw a new attack that combines legitimate Python pentesting projects, DLL sideloading, and fake job ads, to infect “high-value targets” with remote access trojans ...
- Peruvian Peaks: The digital loan illusion
January 21, 2026
Crossing the Andes, we found ourselves in the digital valleys of Peru, where a new variation of the loan scam awaited us. Much like the schemes in Brazil, these operations played on hope and desperation, luring victims with promises of financial relief. The setup was so convincing that it seemed like help was just within ...
- From Extension to Infection: An In-Depth Analysis of the Evelyn Stealer Campaign Targeting Software Developers
January 19, 2026
On December 8, 2025, Koi.ai published their findings about a campaign specifically targeting software developers through weaponized Visual Studio Code extensions. Here, Trend Micro will provide a more in-depth analysis of the multistage delivery of the Evelyn information stealer. Evelyn implements multiple anti-analysis techniques to evade detection in research and sandbox environments. It collects system information ...
- StealC malware control panels could give experts the tools they need to spy on hackers
January 19, 2026
Cybersecurity researchers have managed to break into the web-based control panel for the StealC infostealer and gain valuable information on how the malware operates, and who both the attackers and the victims are. StealC is an immensely popular infostealer malware which first emerged a couple of years ago, and has since become one of the staples ...
- Firefox joins Chrome and Edge as sleeper extensions spy on users
January 19, 2026
A group of cybercriminals called DarkSpectre is believed to be behind three campaigns spread by malicious browser extensions: ShadyPanda, GhostPoster, and Zoom Stealer. Malwarebytes Labs wrote about the ShadyPanda campaign in December 2025, warning users that extensions which had behaved normally for years suddenly went rogue. After a malicious update, these extensions were able to track ...
- Canadian Investment Regulatory Organization data breach reveals info on 750,000 investors
January 19, 2026
The 2025 cyberattack at the Canadian Investment Regulatory Organization (CIRO) affected roughly 750,000 Canadians, it has now confirmed. Founded in 2023, CIRO is Canada’s national self-regulatory body that oversees investment dealers, trading activity, and market integrity. In mid-August 2025, CIRO disclosed a cyberattack and data breach, saying it was forced to shut down parts of its ...
- RondoDox botnet linked to large-scale exploit of critical HPE OneView bug
January 16, 2026
A critical HPE OneView flaw is now being exploited at scale, with Check Point tying mass, automated attacks to the RondoDox botnet. The security outfit says it has identified “large-scale exploitation” of CVE-2025-37164, a maximum-severity remote code execution bug in HPE’s data center management platform. Check Point has tied the activity to RondoDox, a Linux-based botnet ...
- German police add Black Basta boss to EU most-wanted list
January 16, 2026
German cops have added Russian national Oleg Evgenievich Nefekov to their list of most-wanted criminals for his services to ransomware. Nefekov, 35, is accused of spearheading the Black Basta ransomware operation, which suffered a similar fate as Conti last year – ceasing activity after a major internal leak. His name and face also now appear ...
- Cisco has finally patched a maximum-level security issue
January 16, 2026
A maximum-severity vulnerability in certain Cisco products has finally been addressed after allegedly being exploited by Chinese hackers for several weeks. In mid-December 2025, the networking giant disclosed a remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability in AsyncOS that affects Secure Email Gateway (SEG) and Secure Email and Web Manager (SEWM) appliances. It tracked the flaw as CVE-2025-20393 ...