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The Blackfield ransomware gang is asking for a $2 million ransom from Nidec Corporation, a large Japanese manufacturer of electronic components for automotive and computing applications. Nidec is a leader in producing motors of all sizes, from micro-precision ones used in phones and hard drives to heavy-duty motors for robotics,  elevators, and large HVAC systems. […]

CISA confirmed on Monday that ransomware gangs have begun exploiting a high-severity Microsoft Defender privilege escalation vulnerability that has previously been abused in zero-day attacks. Dubbed BlueHammer, the security flaw (CVE-2026-33825) was leaked by a security researcher known as “Nightmare Eclipse” in early April, together with proof-of-concept exploit code, in protest at how the Microsoft […]

Nissan is warning that it suffered a data breach affecting current and former employees after threat actors exploited an Oracle PeopleSoft vulnerability in data theft attacks previously linked to the ShinyHunters extortion group. In breach notifications filed with the California Attorney General’s Office, Oracle says these data theft attacks impacted hundreds of companies and that […]

Japanese telecommunications operator KDDI Corporation disclosed a data breach where threat actors gained access to one of its email systems used by five other internet service providers (ISPs) in the country. The company says that it discovered the compromise on June 17 and responded immediately by blocking the attacker and implementing defense measures. The investigation […]

An agentic coding tool tasked with cloning and setting up a seemingly benign GitHub repository could execute a malicious payload that remains invisible to security scanners, AI agents, and human reviewers. Researchers at Mozilla’s Zero Day Investigative Network (0DIN) AI security platform say that the compromise happens with “no exploit code, no warning, no suspicious […]

The FBI and CISA are warning that a phishing campaign targeting Signal users tied to Russian intelligence services has evolved to steal Signal Backup Recovery Keys, allowing attackers to access victims’ historical messages. The updated public service announcement is an update to a March 2026 advisory that warned the threat actors were targeting users of […]

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) is giving federal agencies until Sunday to patch a vulnerability in Cisco Unified Communications Manager Server that is being actively exploited. Identified as CVE-2026-20230, the security issue is server-side request forgery (SSRF) and has been added to the agency’s catalog of Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV). Per Binding Operational […]