> TODAY'S SUMMARY (18 articles)
Today's cybersecurity landscape highlights several significant threats and trends. An attacker leveraged 4,837 hijacked GitHub accounts to deploy a secret stealer in over 1,800 repositories, underscoring the risks associated with compromised credentials. Poland's national e-government platform was taken offline following a cyberattack, disrupting public services. A critical vulnerability in Apache HTTP Server's HTTP/2 module could allow remote code execution, emphasizing the need for prompt patching. Additionally, threat actors exploited stolen AI credentials to generate $740,000 in free compute resources, indicating the increasing value of AI tokens in cybercrime. Finally, unauthorized access incidents linked to ScreenConnect affected 288 endpoints across 48 organizations, prompting security measures from ConnectWise.
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NASA acknowledges independent researcher Hasan Ä°smail GĂĽlkaya for discovering vulnerabilities through its Vulnerability Disclosure Program, highlighting the importance of ethical hacking in cybersecurity.
The post Turkish Security Researcher Gets Nod From NASA Over Vulnerability Discoveries appear...
Iran-linked advanced persistent threat group MuddyWater has deployed a Rust-based implant in an ongoing espionage campaign targeting organizations in Israel and other Middle Eastern countries, according to CloudSEK.
CloudSEK’s TRIAD team said it identified the spear-phishin...
Debian 13.3 is the third maintenance update for the stable Debian 13 distribution, codenamed “trixie”. It updates package content to address security and other issues reported since the last point update. This release includes more than 100 adjustments and multiple security patches across a range of...
A database featuring 300,000+ users of notorious hacking forum BreachForums has been leaked online
Russia-linked cyberespionage group APT28 targets energy, nuclear, and policy staff in Turkey, Europe, North Macedonia, and Uzbekistan with credential-harvesting attacks. Between February and September 2025, Recorded Future’s Insikt Group observed Russia-linked group APT28 (aka UAC-0001, Fancy Bear, ...
Explore the troubling trend of teenagers being recruited into hacking groups, the challenges in countering this rise, and the efforts to redirect their skills towards ethical hacking.
The post We’re Hiring: Hacking Groups Recruit Teens While Feds Want to Ground Them appeared first on Security Boul...
Gavin Webb from the National Crime Agency receives the OBE award from King Charles for his strategic role in Operation Cronos, disrupting the LockBit ransomware group.
The post Operation Cronos Leader Gets Nod From King Charles appeared first on Security Boulevard.
Nation-state involvement in crypto increased in 2025, signaling a shift in how on-chain crime operates. Three waves of crypto crime (Source: Chainalysis) Research from Chainalysis shows that crypto-related crime has grown more organized over recent years, with illicit groups running large-scale on-c...
Anthropic is bringing Claude for healthcare, following a similar move by OpenAI for ChatGPT. [...]
Anthropic has become the latest Artificial intelligence (AI) company to announce a new suite of features that allows users of its Claude platform to better understand their health information.
Under an initiative called Claude for Healthcare, the company said U.S. subscribers of Claude Pro and Max p...
Deutschland und Israel haben einen Cyber- und Sicherheitspakt geschlossen.ekavector – shutterstock.com
Angesichts der wachsenden Gefahr von Angriffen will die Bundesrepublik ihre Zusammenarbeit mit Israel im Sicherheitsbereich ausbauen. Ziel sei mehr Schutz fĂĽr Deutschland,...
The company will use the investment to accelerate platform adoption and expansion into the federal market.
The post Torq Raises $140 Million at $1.2 Billion Valuation appeared first on SecurityWeek.
A list of topics we covered in the week of January 5 to January 11 of 2026
Cybersecurity researchers have shed light on two service providers that supply online criminal networks with the necessary tools and infrastructure to fuel the pig butchering-as-a-service (PBaaS) economy.
At least since 2016, Chinese-speaking criminal groups have erected industrial-scale scam center...
In this Help Net Security interview, Hans Quivooij, CISO at Damen Shipyards Group, discusses securing OT and ICS in the shipyard. He outlines how project-based operations, rotating contractors, and temporary systems expand the threat surface and complicate access control. Quivooij also covers visibi...
Cybersecurity threats are becoming more sophisticated, more automated, and more intelligent, as well as harder to detect.
At the same time the enterprise attack surface CISOs are tasked to defend continues to expand.
That’s the reality security chiefs face in 2026 — a re...
Sur BreachForums, un pirate a publié une base de données avec des informations personnelles sur 17 millions d'utilisateurs d'Instagram : êtes-vous concerné ?
Le post Instagram : le flou autour de l’origine des 17 millions de comptes affectés par la fuite de données a été publié sur IT-Connect.
It was discovered that Python's http.client did not properly handle the
Content-Length header in HTTP responses. A malicious server could exploit
this to cause Python to allocate excessive memory, leading to a denial of
service.
It was discovered that PHP incorrectly handled memory while reading images
in multi-chunk mode. An attacker could possibly use this issue to obtain
sensitive information. This issue only affected Ubuntu 24.04 LTS, Ubuntu
25.04 and Ubuntu 25.10. (CVE-2025-14177)
It was discovered that PHP incorrectl...
Firewalls, VPN access, and traffic rules need steady attention, often with limited budgets and staff. In that context, the open source pfSense Community Edition (CE) continues to show up in production environments, supported by a long-standing user community. pfSense CE is the free, open-source vers...