May 1, 2026

First reports come in of victims of critical cPanel vuln as ‘millions’ of sites potentially exposed

Exploitation was underway before patches landed, at least one victim reports ransomware demand CISA has added a critical cPanel bug to its known-exploited list, confirming that attackers are already poking holes in one of the internet's most widely used hosting stacks.…

OpenAI locks GPT-5.5-Cyber behind velvet rope despite slamming Anthropic for doing exactly that

Altman's crew now doing the same gatekeeping it recently mocked OpenAI is lining up a limited release of its new GPT-5.5-Cyber model to a handpicked circle of "cyber defenders," just weeks after taking a swipe at Anthropic for doing almost exactly the same thing.…

Pro-Iran crew turns DDoS into shakedown as Ubuntu.com stays down

313 Team tells Canonical: pay up or the packets keep coming Canonical says its web infrastructure is under attack after a pro-Iran hacktivist group instructed its members to target the open source giant.…

Passport to £££: Home Office adds £216M to travel doc contract before a single bid’s been placed

Start date pushed back a year, annual cost up a third, and UK's now handing out eight million passports a year The Home Office has increased the annual value and overall duration of its new passport production contract, increasing it to a total of £576 million as it…