Author: We Fix PC

Most network incidents do not escalate because of a lack of visibility. They escalate because IT teams are forced to manually triage alerts and coordinate responses across disparate systems during high-pressure incidents. On Tuesday, June 2, 2026, BleepingComputer will host a live webinar titled “From alert to resolution: Fixing the gaps in network incident response” […]

Signal has introduced new in-app confirmations and warning messages as additional safeguards against phishing and social engineering attempts that could lead to various forms of fraud. The purpose is to introduce enough friction that users get the time to evaluate the safety of an external request. Recently, there have been attacks targeting high-profile users with […]

Checkmarx warned over the weekend that a rogue version of its Jenkins Application Security Testing (AST) plugin had been published on the Jenkins Marketplace. The compromise was claimed by the TeamPCP hacker group, which initiated a spree of supply-chain attacks that included the Shai-Hulud campaigns on npm and the Trivy vulnerability scanner breach, resulting in […]

A security researcher has released a proof-of-concept tool named GhostLock that demonstrates how a legitimate Windows file API can be abused in attacks to block access to files stored locally or on SMB network shares. This technique, created by Kim Dvash of Israel Aerospace Industries, abuses the Windows ‘CreateFileW‘ API and file-sharing modes to prevent other users and […]

Education technology giant Instructure has confirmed that a security vulnerability allowed hackers to modify Canvas login portals and leave an extortion message. BleepingComputer has learned that both the breach and defacements involved multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities that enabled the attacker to obtain authenticated admin sessions. The second hack was to draw attention and to pressure […]

Password resets are often the first response to a suspected compromise. It makes sense; resetting credentials is a quick way to cut off an attacker’s most obvious path back in. However, that doesn’t always completely solve the issue. In both Active Directory (AD) and hybrid Entra ID environments, password changes do not immediately invalidate the […]

Attackers are abusing Google Ads and legitimate Claude.ai shared chats in an active malvertising campaign. Users searching for “Claude mac download” may come across sponsored search results that list claude.ai as the target website, but lead to instructions that install malware on their Mac. Google’s sponsored search result for ‘claude download mac’(BleepingComputer) Shared Claude Chats weaponized […]

German authorities have shut down a relaunch version of the criminal marketplace ‘Crimenetwork’ that generated more than 3.6 million euros, and arrested its operator. Crimenetwork was the largest online cybercrime marketplace in Germany, operating since 2012 and with 100,000 registered users. The platform enabled the sale of illegal services, substances, and stolen data. In late […]