May 5, 2026
Attackers are cashing in on fresh ‘CopyFail’ Linux flaw
Researchers dropped a reliable root exploit and it didn’t sit idle for long CISA is warning that a newly-disclosed Linux kernel bug dubbed "CopyFail" is already being exploited, just days after researchers dropped a working root-level exploit.…
Real estate giant confirms vishing incident as ShinyHunters and Qilin both come knocking
Cushman & Wakefield activated incident response protocols after serial extortionists issued separate threats Real estate giant Cushman & Wakefield has confirmed a data breach after two cybercrime groups, ShinyHunters and Qilin, separately claimed responsibility for attacks on the company.…
ShinyHunters claims dump puts 119K Vimeo emails in the wild
Vimeo points finger at analytics supplier Anodot, says no logins or card data were touched More than 119,000 Vimeo users's email addresses were extracted in a breach traced to a third-party analytics vendor, according to Have I Been Pwned.…
Romance scammers turn sweet talk into £102M payday
Victims losing £280K a day to fake profiles and sob stories Romance fraudsters scammed Britons out of £102 million ($138 million) last year, according to the latest police figures.…
NHS to close-source hundreds of GitHub repos over AI, security concerns
Healthcare giant's maintainers handed May deadline to enact the change The UK's National Health Service (NHS) is ordering all of its technology leaders to temporarily wall off the organization's open source projects over concerns relating to advanced AI and Anthropic's Mythos.…