India has banned Telegram until June 22 after the app was used to circulate leaked exam papers. CEO Pavel Durov accuses telecom Reliance of BGP hijacking that disrupted the app as far away as the UAE. Here's what happened, and how to get around the block with an MTProto proxy. [...]
Security
Microsoft is investigating a new issue preventing third-party applications from launching Microsoft Office applications or opening documents on up-to-date Windows systems. [...]
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has ordered federal agencies to patch a maximum-severity flaw in the Widget Factory Joomla Content Editor (JCE) plugin that is being actively exploited in the wild. [...]
Microsoft confirmed that it's working on a security patch for a Defender zero-day vulnerability named "RoguePlanet," disclosed one week ago. [...]
Kodak has confirmed that it's working with external cybersecurity experts to investigate a security breach after hackers gained access to some of the company's data. [...]
At least 15 malicious plugins found on the JetBrains Marketplace were designed to steal AI API keys from developers. [...]
A new Android banking trojan named Rokarolla is targeting 217 banking and cryptocurrency applications using an extensive set of 137 commands. [...]
Threat actors are abusing Steam Workshop, Valve's community hub for downloading game-related content, to push various malware hidden in wallpaper packages. [...]
Opening a new social media account in the UK will soon mean proving you're over 16 with an ID upload or a facial age scan, under a government ban on under-16s taking effect in spring 2027. Security experts warn the age checks are easy to circumvent and create new data-breach risks. [...]
GhostTree uses recursive NTFS junctions to generate vast numbers of valid Windows file paths. Varonis explains how the technique could cause Microsoft Defender folder scans to never complete, leaving malware undetected. [...]
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) warned that Americans lost $3.5 billion to imposter scams in 2025, with reported losses nearly tripling since 2020. [...]
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has given U.S. government agencies three days to secure their servers against an actively exploited vulnerability (CVE-2026-54420) in the LiteSpeed cPanel user-end plugin. [...]
DragonForce ransomware used a custom malware named 'Backdoor.Turn' to hide command-and-control traffic inside Microsoft Teams relay infrastructure. [...]
Attackers are now exploiting several critical vulnerabilities in Fortinet's FortiSandbox cyber threat detection platform, according to threat intelligence company Defused. [...]
Windows variants for the SprySOCKS Linux malware have been used in attacks targeting government organizations in at least four countries. [...]
Digital healthcare company iRhythm Holdings has disclosed a data breach after hackers stole patients' personal and health information stored on third-party-hosted business applications. [...]
The U.S. Department of Justice announced Friday that it has seized the CFAKE.com and SOCFAKE.com websites, which allegedly hosted nonconsensual AI-generated nude images and videos of women, in what appears to be the first publicly announced domain seizure under the TAKE IT DOWN Act. [...]
A vulnerability in the SimpleHelp remote management software allows unauthenticated attackers to create privileged technician accounts on servers using the OpenID Connect (OIDC) authentication protocol. [...]
WordPress plugins OptinMonster, TrustPulse, and PushEngage have been compromised in a supply-chain attack impacting Awesome Motive-s content distribution network (CDN). [...]
Cisco has released security updates to address a vulnerability in the Catalyst SD-WAN Manager, tracked as CVE-2026-20262, that was exploited in attacks to escalate to root privileges. [...]