Category: CYBER SECURITY

France’s Ministry of the Economy and Finance has confirmed a data breach affecting 678,000 individuals and professionals after attackers accessed systems operated by the country’s tax administration.

Cybercriminals are increasingly buying expired domains because they can inherit valuable traffic, backlinks and reputation from their previous owners and quickly turn them into malicious infrastructure.

Hackers are exploiting a recently patched macOS Screen Sharing vulnerability to gain unauthorized access to systems and install Monero cryptocurrency miners.

Ukrainian authorities have dismantled 94 fraudulent call centers accused of running investment scams, impersonating banks and stealing access to victims’ financial accounts.

North Korean hackers linked to the Lazarus group are exploiting a Windows zero-day vulnerability to gain SYSTEM privileges and target defense, aerospace and aviation organizations.

Researchers discovered more than 737 Chrome extensions impersonating popular VPN and proxy brands, with nearly 75,000 downloads and hundreds still available on the Chrome Web Store.

Security researchers have detected attempts to exploit a critical vulnerability in Adobe Commerce and Magento that could allow attackers to take over customer accounts and access private data.

Microsoft has released its monthly security updates for August, fixing hundreds of vulnerabilities across its products, including a Windows flaw that is already being exploited in attacks.

Google says Chrome’s anti-abuse systems blocked or reduced more than 7 billion unwanted notifications per day on Android during the first quarter of 2026.

The FBI is warning that cybercriminals are targeting the online accounts of both adults and children to steal intimate photos and videos, which can then be used for harassment, extortion or other attacks.

Zoom has patched a serious security vulnerability that could have allowed attackers to take control of devices belonging to people in a meeting.

Cloudflare says it mitigated more than 800 network-layer distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks exceeding 1 Tbps during the second quarter of 2026, marking a dramatic increase in extremely large attacks compared with the previous quarter.

Mozilla has rotated the GPG signing key used for certain Firefox and Thunderbird releases after an unencrypted copy of the previous key was accidentally committed to a private GitHub repository.

The FBI is investigating how a North Korean national was hired to work remotely for a U.S. federal government agency, according to a report from Federal News Network.

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Several WordPress plugins from BdThemes have been caught in a supply-chain attack that allowed attackers to create hidden administrator accounts and install backdoors on websites without modifying the plugin files themselves.

A North Korean-linked hacking group is developing its own artificial intelligence tools to make cyberattacks more automated, analyse stolen information and create more convincing phishing campaigns, according to South Korean cybersecurity company Genians.

New research has revealed a series of webmail security techniques that can allow malicious email content to escape the boundaries of a message and interfere with the webmail interface itself.

WordPress has released a security update fixing a high-severity cross-site scripting vulnerability in its login page that affects every version of the content management system.

Researchers say the Chinese-linked LightSpy spyware has expanded worldwide with new capabilities to steal data and remotely wipe compromised devices.