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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 […]

The website for the popular JDownloader download manager was compromised earlier this week to distribute malicious Windows and Linux installers, with the Windows payload found deploying a Python-based remote access trojan. The supply chain attack affects those who downloaded installers from the official website between May 6 and May 7, 2026 via the Windows “Download Alternative […]

By Rich Perkins, Principal Sales Engineer, Prophet Security Your security spend has roughly doubled in six years. Your time-to-investigate and respond hasn’t moved. Your CFO is asking why the security headcount keeps growing while the metrics that matter to the business don’t. The architecture under your SOC is the reason. Not your team. Not your […]

The attack on the Trellix source code repository disclosed last week has been claimed by the RansomHouse threat group, which leaked a small set of images as proof of the intrusion. Yesterday, the threat actor published on their data leak site screenshots indicating access to the cybersecurity company’s appliance management system. However, BleepingComputer could not […]

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has given U.S. federal agencies four days to secure their networks against a high-severity vulnerability in Ivanti Endpoint Manager Mobile (EPMM) that has been exploited in zero-day attacks. Tracked as CVE-2026-6973, this security flaw allows attackers with administrative privileges to execute arbitrary code remotely on systems running […]

Hackers who gained access to the databases of Spanish fast-fashion retailer Zara stole data belonging to more than 197,000 customers, according to data breach notification service Have I Been Pwned. Zara has over 1,500 company-managed and franchised stores worldwide and is the flagship brand of the Inditex Group, one of the world’s largest fashion distribution […]

A 34-year-old Virginia man was found guilty of conspiring to destroy dozens of government databases after getting fired from his job as a federal contractor. In 2016, Sohaib Akhter and his twin brother and co-defendant Muneeb Akhter were also sentenced to several years in prison after pleading guilty to accessing U.S. State Department systems without […]