Police sinkholes 45,000 IP addresses in cybercrime crackdown

An international law enforcement action codenamed “Operation Synergia III” has sinkholed tens of thousands of IP addresses and seized servers linked to cybercrime operations worldwide. During this Interpol-led operation, which took place between July 2025 and January 2026, authorities from 72 countries have seized 212 electronic devices and servers and made 94 arrests, with another […]

Fake enterprise VPN sites used to steal company credentials

A threat actor tracked as Storm-2561 is distributing fake enterprise VPN clients from Ivanti, Cisco, and Fortinet to steal VPN credentials from unsuspecting users. The attackers manipulate search results (SEO poisoning) for common queries like “Pulse VPN download” or “Pulse Secure client” to redirect victims to spoofed VPN vendor sites that closely mimic VPN solutions from legitimate […]

Starbucks discloses data breach affecting hundreds of employees

Starbucks has disclosed a data breach affecting hundreds of employees after threat actors gained access to their Starbucks Partner Central accounts. As the world’s largest coffeehouse chain, Starbucks has over 380,000 employees (also known as partners) and operates nearly 41,000 locations across 88 countries. In data breach notification letters filed with Maine’s Attorney General and […]

Google fixes two new Chrome zero-days exploited in attacks

Google has released emergency security updates to patch two high-severity Chrome vulnerabilities exploited in zero-day attacks. “Google is aware that exploits for both CVE-2026-3909 & CVE-2026-3910 exist in the wild,” Google said in a security advisory published on Thursday. The first zero-day (CVE-2026-3909) stems from an out-of-bounds write weakness in Skia, an open-source 2D graphics […]