- Microsoft Office zero-day lets malicious documents slip past security checks
January 29, 2026
Microsoft issued an emergency patch for a high-severity zero-day vulnerability in Office that allows attackers to bypass document security checks and is being exploited in the wild via malicious files. Microsoft pushed the emergency patch for the zero‑day, tracked as CVE-2026-21509, and classified it as a “Microsoft Office Security Feature Bypass Vulnerability” with a CVSS score ...
- SoundCloud data breach hit 29.8 million accounts
January 28, 2026
TechRadar now have confirmation exactly how many people were affected by the December 2025 breach at SoundCloud, as well as how users can check if they are affected. In mid-December 2025, SoundCloud confirmed suffering a cyberattack and losing sensitive data on about 20% of its user base – approximately 28 million people. The company did not ...
- No Agency Is Too Small
January 28, 2026
Back when nation-state threat actors were primarily targeting large government agencies, government contractors, and large companies, security through obscurity was a legitimate strategy. In years past, betting that attackers wouldn’t bother with smaller targets was a feasible way of operating. It’s feasible no longer. Hackers are better equipped than ever before, thanks in part to artificial ...
- Trump’s acting cyber chief uploaded sensitive files into a public version of ChatGPT
January 27, 2026
The interim head of the country’s cyber defense agency uploaded sensitive contracting documents into a public version of ChatGPT last summer, triggering multiple automated security warnings that are meant to stop the theft or unintentional disclosure of government material from federal networks, according to four Department of Homeland Security officials with knowledge of the incident. The ...
- HoneyMyte updates CoolClient and deploys multiple stealers in recent campaigns
January 27, 2026
Over the past few years, we’ve been observing and monitoring the espionage activities of HoneyMyte (aka Mustang Panda or Bronze President) within Asia and Europe, with the Southeast Asia region being the most affected. The primary targets of most of the group’s campaigns were government entities. As an APT group, HoneyMyte uses a variety of sophisticated tools ...
- PeckBirdy: A Versatile Script Framework for LOLBins Exploitation Used by China-aligned Threat Groups
January 26, 2026
Since 2023, Trend Micro researchers have been observing threat campaigns employing a previously unseen script-based command-and-control (C&C) framework which we named PeckBirdy, being used against Chinese gambling industries, as well as malicious activities targeting Asian government entities and private organizations. While tracking this framework, Trend Micro identified at least two campaigns using PeckBirdy, which we were ...
- Nike says it is investigating possible data breach
January 26, 2026
Nike says it is investigating a potential data breach, after a group known for cyber attacks reportedly claimed to have leaked a trove of data related to its business operations. “We always take consumer privacy and data security very seriously,” Nike said in a statement. “We are investigating a potential cyber security incident and are ...
- Malicious Microsoft VSCode AI extensions might have hit over 1.5 million users
January 26, 2026
More than 1.5 million people may have had their sensitive data exfiltrated to Chinese hackers through two malicious extensions found on the VSCode Marketplace. Security researchers at Koi Security said they discovered two malicious browser extensions in Microsoft’s Visual Studio Code (VSCode) Marketplace, the official Microsoft store for code editor add-ons. The extensions were advertised as ...
- Fortinet admits FortiGate SSO bug still exploitable despite December patch
January 23, 2026
Fortinet has confirmed that attackers are actively bypassing a December patch for a critical FortiCloud single sign-on (SSO) authentication flaw after customers reported suspicious logins on devices supposedly fully up to date. In a new advisory, Fortinet said it had identified a fresh attack path being used to abuse SAML-based SSO in FortiOS, even on systems ...
- Researchers say Russian government hackers were behind attempted Poland power outage
January 23, 2026
A failed December effort to bring down parts of Poland’s energy grid was the work of Russian government hackers known for causing past energy disruptions, according to a security research firm that investigated the incident. Last week, Polish Energy Minister Milosz Motyka told reporters that the attempted cyberattack on December 29 and 30 saw hackers targeting ...