WhatsApp is warning that threat actors are exploiting a security flaw to malicious ends – urging those targeted to patch their software ASAP.

Unnamed threat actors may have deployed attacks on “specific targeted users,” the Meta-owned company said las…

Spanish police have arrested a suspected hacker for accessing a government website in order to alter the high school and university entrance exam grades of not only himself, but also some of his closest classmates.

A teacher at the San Juan Bosco seco…

Municipal government organisations across Sweden have found themselves impacted after a ransomware attack at a third-party software service supplier.

Software firm Miljödata, which provides a significant proportion of Sweden’s municipalities with “sma…

Authorities shut down VerifTools, a major hub for counterfeit identity documents linked to millions in illicit revenue.

International operation takes down VerifTools

The FBI and Dutch police have taken down VerifTools, an underground marketplace not…

Starting in 2026, all apps on certified Android devices will have to come from verified developers, and that includes distribution through official stores and sideloading.

Sideloading apps onto Android devices is a key strength of the OS. You can inst…

Some threat actors are bold enough to submit their own malware as false positive to antivirus companies and demand removal of the detection. This is exactly what happened with AppSuite PDF Editor. Initially, automation flagged it as a potentially unwan…

Anthropic warns of a turning point in AI-fueled cybercrime after its Claude Code tool was misused in large-scale extortion attacks.

AI weaponization flourishes

In a new report, AI company Anthropic has revealed that a cybercrime gang hijacked its po…

A massive wave of scanning activity targeting Microsoft Remote Desktop (RDP) protocol, totaling more than 30,000 unique IP addresses, has been identified probing authentication portals in what looks like a coordinated campaign, according to GreyNoise.
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