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Amir Yaryab is the leader of the IRGC's cyber unit and oversees hacker groups such as the CyberAv3ngers, the State Department said in posting a reward for information about him.

France's data protection authority (CNIL) has fined Hôpital privé de la Loire €500,000 ($580,000) for failing to adequately protect patients' and their relatives' data.

Attackers compromised Coder's Cloudflare infrastructure and added unauthorized registry servers that delivered malicious Terraform modules containing credential-stealing code.

At least 14 Serbians have been targeted with advanced spyware since December, with victims including a member of Parliament, a local opposition politician and student protesters, according to digital forensic researchers.

Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) has patched a critical vulnerability in the ArubaOS-CX network operating system that could lead to remote code execution.

Microsoft says a known issue that reverts mouse settings after installing the KB5120998 August 2026 preview update affects only non-English Windows 11 systems.

ChatGPT and Codex are experiencing a major outage, with users reporting errors across nearly every major ChatGPT feature.

Claude is experiencing an outage, with users encountering elevated errors when sending requests to multiple Anthropic AI models.

A recently patched critical vulnerability (CVE-2026-32475) in the Elementor Pro plugin for WordPress is being exploited in attacks that deliver a webshell payload and execute arbitrary commands on the server.

Infostealers can expose far more than passwords, including authenticated sessions that may let attackers bypass MFA. Flare explains how defenders can prioritize compromised identities, determine whether stolen access is still usable, and…

Microsoft has confirmed that desktop settings are lost or reset on some Windows devices after installing the KB5120998 August 2026 preview update.

Sealed court information and sensitive personal data were exposed in a breach of a Thomson Reuters records platform affecting courts in at least 12 U.S. states, the U.S. Virgin Islands and Canada.

Plex urged users this week to update their desktop clients and media servers immediately to patch multiple security vulnerabilities.

Microsoft is working to fix a known issue that causes crashes and launch failures for Microsoft Teams and New Outlook users after installing updates released since the August 2026 Patch Tuesday.

Attackers are actively exploiting CVE-2026-9586, an unauthenticated SQL injection vulnerability in the Sangoma Switchvox VoIP platform that can lead to remote code execution.