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James David Johnson was sentenced to 151 months for distributing child sexual abuse material through multiple dark web communities.

A Twitch browser extension sent OAuth tokens from nearly 31,000 users to proxy servers operated by the JeetBot service.

Fintech company Revolut has disclosed a data breach after sharing data from an undisclosed number of customers with a threat actor impersonating a government agency.

Microsoft has confirmed that USB audio devices may fail on some Windows systems after installing the KB5124008and KB5124012 September 2026 security updates.

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) warned that hackers are now exploiting a maximum-severity GitLab vulnerability in attacks.

The largest electronic spy agency in the world is reorganizing. And fast.

Threat actors linked to a China-aligned espionage group are exploiting a critical vulnerability (CVE-2026-51990) in Tencent's Sogou Input Method for Windows to deploy the GrayRabbit backdoor.

The Dutch Nationaal Cyber Security Centrum (NCSC) is warning of imminent exploitation of two critical flaws in Check Point VPN tracked as CVE-2026-85102 and CVE-2026-85103.

Anthropic says multiple threat groups, including the financially motivated and state-sponsored espionage groups linked to Russia and China, tried to abuse its Claude AI model for malicious purposes.

The Florida Department of Motor Vehicles confirmed a data breach claimed by the cybercrime group ShinyHunters, saying it originated with the theft of credentials stored on a police officer's personal device.

The Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles (FLHSMV) has confirmed that its DAVID driver database suffered a data breach, saying the attackers gained access using credentials belonging to a police department employee.

Researchers analyzed a flood of fraudulent business emails and found that the threat actors had doubled-up on tactics to make them appear legitimate, including help from AI.

Microsoft says threat actors linked to ShinyHunters, Helix, and other extortion gangs are using passkey and single sign-on-themed social engineering attacks to compromise corporate Microsoft accounts and steal data from Microsoft 365…

Threat actors are exploiting critical and high-severity vulnerabilities in JFrog Artifactory to bypass authentication, gain administrative privileges, and deploy a Rust backdoor on vulnerable self-hosted servers.

Threat actors are abusing trusted AI platforms to host malicious content, poison search results, and trick users into installing malware. Huntress examines campaigns targeting AI users through weaponized Claude Artifacts, shared AI…