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French officials are investigating a compromise of the government’s encrypted messaging service Tchap after attackers hijacked an account and gained access to public chat rooms. The incident came to light on June 7 when France’s National Cybersecurity Agency (ANSSI) detected suspicious activity Read More …
A ransomware group is actively exploiting an unpatched flaw in security tools used across the U.S. federal government, prompting the U.S. cybersecurity agency CISA to order all civilian agencies to remediate the vulnerability by end of day Wednesday. Cybersecurity firm Check Point Read More …
Google has fixed its fifth actively exploited Chrome zero-day of 2026, and this one earned its finder a $55,000 bounty. The flaw, tracked as CVE-2026-11645, is an out-of-bounds memory access bug in Chrome’s V8 JavaScript engine. Google confirmed that the Read More …
WhatsApp said that it disrupted a new hacking campaign linked to NSO Group, a spyware maker that has been ensnared in countless cases of abuse all over the world. The messaging app maker accused NSO of violating an earlier court order that bars Read More …
Microsoft has cut off access to dozens of its open source projects hosted on GitHub as it investigates how hackers apparently breached the projects and injected password-stealing malware into the code. Many of the affected projects relate to Microsoft’s cloud Read More …
While tracking the activities of 4BID Kaspersky researchers uncovered a new string of campaigns that appear to be the work of several interconnected actors. While politically motivated groups generally limit their scope to specific nations – for 4BID and its peers, Read More …
From January through May 2026, Mandiant identified a financially motivated data theft extortion campaign executed by the threat cluster UNC3753 (also tracked as “Luna Moth,” “Chatty Spider,” and “Silent Ransom Group”) targeting dozens of organizations across professional, legal, and financial Read More …
Dozens of people have been arrested, and millions of dollars in cryptocurrency seized, in a large-scale, multi-national operation against internet scammers and fraudsters. On May 18, the US Department of Justice, the FBI, Secret Service, law enforcement agencies in the Read More …
During review work related to an AppEsteem Windows Certified Application test, Sophos X-Ops recently identified an unexpected executable delivered alongside Hola Browser (version 1.251.91.0). The executable, me.exe, was not listed as a certified component, and appears to be a crypto-miner. After the issue was reported through Read More …
Chinese spies are targeting UK government and military staff on job websites including LinkedIn to try to get access to classified or sensitive information, MI5 has warned. A bulletin has been released by the Five Eyes powers – the UK, US, Australia, Read More …
