The head of the UK’s NCSC is calling the cybersecurity industry to “seize the disruptive vibe coding opportunity” to make software more secure
Silver Fox pivots from ValleyRAT tax lures to WhatsApp‑style stealers, blending espionage & phishing
A critical vulnerability in Citrix’s NetScaler products allows unauthenticated remote attackers to leak information from the appliance's memory
Ghost npm campaign fakes install logs to steal sudo passwords and drop RATs that loot crypto and data
Geopolitics and cyber warfare take center stage at Infosecurity Europe as Dmytro Kuleba discusses Ukraine’s hybrid war experience
Poor patch management, increasingly complex IT environments and continued use of obsolete software puts organizations at risk from cyber threats, says the Absolute Security 2026 Resilience Risk Index
Russian cybercriminal Aleksei Volkov has received close to seven years behind bars for role in Yanluowang ransomware
The FBI has warned that Iranian hacking group Handala has been targeting opponents of the regime since 2023
ISACA survey found that confusion over responsibility and lack of understanding around AI cyber-attacks makes containing them difficult
Tycoon2FA phishing platform resumes activity post-takedown, leveraging AITM techniques to bypass MFA
A financially motivated data theft and extortion group is attempting to inject itself into the Iran war, unleashing a worm that spreads through poorly secured cloud services and wipes data on infected systems that use Iran's time zone or have Farsi set as the default language.
High tech was the most frequently targeted industry in Mandiant investigations in 2025, overtaking financial services which led in 2023 and 2024
New Trivy Docker images 0.69.5 and 0.69.6 compromised with TeamPCP infostealer, impacting CI/CD scans
CISA added CVE-2026-20131 to its KEV catalog as it is being used in ransomware campaigns
German-led policing effort against fraud operation disrupts countless CSAM and cybercrime sites
Pedestrians crossing a street in Denver, Colorado, got rather more than they bargained for last weekend, when the audio signals at two crosswalks began broadcasting a political message alongside their usual walking instructions. Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog.
Sysdig details how threat actors exploited a critical CVE in Langflow in less than a day
A ransomware gang that claims to be a group of "investigative journalists"? Meet LeakNet - the group using fake CAPTCHA pages to trick employees into hacking themselves. Read more in my article on the Fortra blog.
The National Crime Agency’s director general warns that technology is rapidly reshaping crime
The U.S. Justice Department joined authorities in Canada and Germany in dismantling the online infrastructure behind four highly disruptive botnets that compromised more than three million hacked Internet of Things (IoT) devices, such as routers and web cameras. The feds say the four botnets -- named Aisuru, Kimwolf, JackSkid and Mossad -- are responsible for a series of recent record-smashing distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks capable of knocking nearly any target offline.