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Hackers accessed its online shopping platform and stole customers’ personal and payment card information.

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The extension performed host reconnaissance and attempted to create a reverse SSH tunnel.

The attackers used offensive agentic techniques to access the company’s systems and internal tools.

DebugBear says its DNS records were compromised via its domain registrar, and early findings show a single customer was targeted.

The FBI has officially pinned the $6 billion Binance hack on North Korea’s TraderTraitor as the attackers launder the stolen crypto.

CISA has added CVE-2026-111357 and CVE-2026-118527 to its KEV catalog after the Ivanti VPN flaws were chained in zero-day attacks.

The startup maps how identities, assets and vulnerabilities connect, and uses AI agents to find and fix risky combinations of issues.

A US court sentenced Syrian hacker Ahmad Umar Agha to 42 months for pro-Assad attacks on media, businesses, and government entities.

Over 22.6 million exposed instances are potentially affected by the critical PHP flaws that have been targeted for over a week.

Noteworthy stories that might have slipped under the radar: Iran eyed in military freezer hacks, Copenhagen University breach, AI-powered malware.

As organizations eliminate passwords, attackers will adapt. Instead of attacking the authenticator directly, they will look for opportunities around it.

It allowed customers to host hack-for-hire services, supported ransomware and infostealer operators, and accepted crypto payments.

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The FBI has officially pinned the $6 billion Binance hack on North Korea’s TraderTraitor as the attackers launder the stolen crypto.

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CISA has added CVE-2026-111357 and CVE-2026-118527 to its KEV catalog after the Ivanti VPN flaws were chained in zero-day attacks.

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A US court sentenced Syrian hacker Ahmad Umar Agha to 42 months for pro-Assad attacks on media, businesses, and government entities.

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Over 22.6 million exposed instances are potentially affected by the critical PHP flaws that have been targeted for over a week.

Drupal says a highly critical Commerce Core access bypass is exploited in the wild and urges store owners to audit their orders.

Malicious code linked to a website monitoring tool was designed to hijack logged-in Polymarket sessions and siphon user funds.

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Microsoft has named Jacqueline Beauchere as the company’s Chief Online Safety Officer, the company said in a brief statement on Wednesday. The announcement comes as Beauchere celebrates her thirteenth year with the software company, and her fourth internal assignment.

GUATEMALA CITY - US Internet security guru John McAfee, on the run from authorities in Belize over a murder probe, was arrested by Guatemalan police Wednesday for illegally entering the country, officials said. "National police agents have taken Mr John David McAfee before immigration authorities... He has entered our country illegally," police spokesman Pablo Castillo told AFP.

Citrix Systems said on Wednesday that it would acquire mobile device management (MDM) firm Zenprise. According to an announcement, the firms have entered into a definitive agreement for Citrix to acquire Zenprise, after which Citrix would integrate the Zenprise solution for mobile device management with its Citrix CloudGateway and Me@Work solutions for managing mobile apps and data.

GUATEMALA CITY - US Internet security pioneer John McAfee requested political asylum in Guatemala, his lawyer said Wednesday, after fleeing Belize where he is wanted for questioning over his neighbor's murder.The former Silicon Valley entrepreneur, now a weathered 67-year-old, went on the run from his home on the Belizean paradise island of Ambergris Caye after neighbor Gregory Faull was murdered on November 11.

CipherCloud, a cloud information protection provider, this week announced that it has raised $30 million in funding from prominent VC firm Andreessen Horowitz. The company plans to use the cash infusion to continue developing its cloud information protection products and accelerate its global go-to-market strategy with expanded sales and marketing.

The Most Plunder-ful time of the Year: Protecting Your Family’s Financial Identity During the Online Shopping SeasonThe holiday season is a time of giving. But savvy security and technology professionals such as yourselves know, both during the holidays and year-round, that not all giving is good. Some things, namely company and personal information, are not to be given out generously.

Tenable Network Security announced upgrades to its unified security monitoring platform, SecurityCenter, on Tuesday. The most significant update to the product is added support for IPv6, as organizations with IPv6 already enabled, or those planning on future implementations, can benefit from the layered risk assessment and management tools offered.

ZURICH - A tax-dodging spat involving the Swiss bank UBS and Germany took a fresh twist after a Swiss daily reported on Tuesday that German authorities were using simple photos taken by a UBS worker of their computer screen. "The data was photographed from a (computer) screen and pieced together bit by bit," lawyer Jorg Schauf, representing a UBS client, told the Tages Anzeiger.

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