FBI raids DPRK IT worker laptop farms in Texas, US nationals arrested

The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) has disrupted the Famous Chollima threat group’s operations by arresting two suspects, charging 14 individuals, and seizing nearly 187 laptops used in North Korean remote IT worker schemes. Famous Chollima (a.k.a. WageMole) is commonly tracked as a North Korean threat actor associated with fraudulent IT-worker schemes that generate revenue […]

Cisco patches new Secure Email Gateway zero-day exploited in attacks

Cisco has patched another actively exploited zero-day flaw in its Secure Email Gateway (SEG) that lets remote unauthenticated attackers execute commands with root privileges. Tracked as CVE-2026-76519, this vulnerability stems from a relative path traversal weakness in SEG’s Advanced Malware Protection (AMP) feature, caused by improper handling of email attachments. Threat actors can exploit this issue […]

Microsoft October 2026 Patch Tuesday fixes 1,411 flaws, 3 zero-days

Tag CVE ID CVE Title Severity .NET CVE-2026-70161 .NET Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability Important .NET CVE-2026-70174 .NET Remote Code Execution Vulnerability Important .NET CVE-2026-70162 .NET Denial of Service Vulnerability Important .NET CVE-2026-92707 MessagePack-CSharp Denial of Service Vulnerability Moderate .NET CVE-2026-87697 .NET Remote Code Execution Vulnerability Important .NET CVE-2026-96959 .NET Denial of Service Vulnerability Important .NET […]

UK Housing Ombudsman Service investigates ‘security incident’

The U.K. Housing Ombudsman Service is investigating a third-party IT security incident that impacted its case management system on Tuesday. Established under the Housing Act 1996, the Housing Ombudsman is an executive non-departmental public body sponsored by the Ministry of Housing, Communities, and Local Government. The watchdog settles disputes between social housing residents and social […]

Anthropic takes risky AI tests offline after models breach govt sites

Anthropic announced that its internal AI models under “high-risk and cybersecurity evaluations” no longer have internet access following incidents involving U.S. government websites at the federal, state, and local levels. The instances leading to the decision include AI models that exploited website vulnerabilities, submitted forms, bypassed data restrictions, and circumvented safeguards. However, the company said […]

Ledger confirms spy chip implant behind wallet crypto thefts

Ledger has confirmed that some of its devices distributed through Southeast Asian reseller CryptoBilis were compromised with a hardware implant that drained users’ cryptocurrency wallets. The company has been investigating reports of users losing funds from wallets purchased through CryptoBilis, a major Malaysia-based hardware wallet retailer operating across Southeast Asia. Some researchers have shown the […]

Cyberattack shuts down refrigerators at French supermarkets

Attackers remotely defrosted refrigerators at multiple French supermarket chains overnight in a cyberattack that reportedly targeted Danfoss refrigeration controllers. Victims include Intermarché, Coopérative U, Carrefour Market, Monoprix, Leclerc, and Super U, with French outlets reporting that the attack affected 250 to 350 stores, causing significant financial losses and food waste. The threat actors hijacked refrigeration […]