2026
Ransomware attacks kept climbing in 2025 as gangs refused to stay dead
Cop wins hit crime infrastructure, not the people behind it If 2025 was meant to be the year ransomware started dying, nobody appears to have told the attackers.…
CISA flags actively exploited Office relic alongside fresh HPE flaw
Max-severity OneView hole joins a PowerPoint bug that should've been retired years ago CISA has added a pair of security holes to its actively exploited list, warning that attackers are now abusing a maximum-severity bug in HPE's OneView management software and a years-old flaw in Microsoft Office.…
UK regulators swarm X after Grok generated nudes from photos
Lawyers say Musk's platform may face punishment under Online Safety Act priority offenses Elon Musk's X platform is under fire as UK regulators close in on mounting reports that the platform's AI chatbot, Grok, is generating sexual imagery without users' consent.…
Maximum-severity n8n flaw lets randos run your automation server
Unauthenticated RCE means anyone on the network can seize full control A maximum-severity bug in the popular automation platform n8n has left an estimated 100,000 servers wide open to complete takeover, courtesy of a flaw so bad it doesn't even require logging in.…
OpenAI putting bandaids on bandaids as prompt injection problems keep festering
Happy Groundhog Day! Security researchers at Radware say they've identified several vulnerabilities in OpenAI's ChatGPT service that allow the exfiltration of personal information.…
Stalkerware slinger pleads guilty for selling snooper software to suspicious spouses
pcTattletale boss Bryan Fleming faces up to 15 years in prison when sentenced later this year The US government has secured a guilty plea from a stalkerware maker in federal court, marking just the second time in more than a decade that the US has managed to prosecute…
Microsoft scraps Exchange Online spam clamp after customers cry foul
Negative feedback sinks Redmond's plan to cap outbound email recipients Microsoft has backed away from planned changes to Exchange Online after customers objected to limits designed to curb outbound email abuse.…
Ministry of Justice splurged £50M on security – still missed Legal Aid Agency cyberattack
High-risk system compromised long before intrusion was finally spotted Updated The UK's Ministry of Justice spent £50 million ($67 million) on cybersecurity improvements at the Legal Aid Agency (LAA) before the high-profile cyberattack it disclosed last year.…
Jaguar Land Rover wholesale volumes plummet 43% in cyberattack aftermath
Production halts and supply-chain disruption left luxury automaker reeling in fiscal Q3 Brit luxury automaker Jaguar Land Rover has reported devastating preliminary Q3 results that lay bare the cascading consequences of a crippling cyberattack, revealing wholesale volumes collapsed more than two-fifths year-on-year.…
HSBC app takes a dim view of sideloaded Bitwarden installations
Customers report being locked out after grabbing the password manager via F-Droid Some HSBC mobile banking customers in the UK report being locked out of the bank's app after installing the Bitwarden password manager via an open source app catalog.…