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McDonald’s Employee Data Appears in Leak, Seller Claims 1.7M Records Stolen
A seller claims 1.7M McDonald’s employee records were stolen from Azure. An 8,000-row sample appears genuine, but its age and full size remain…
Akira Ransomware Uses Safe Mode to Bypass EDR
Akira attackers used Safe Mode to disable EDR before deploying ransomware, but memory issues caused the encryptor to fail. An Akira ransomware affiliate…
DDoS Attacks Cause Major Threema Outages
Large DDoS attacks disrupted Threema, causing severe communication outages. Threema On-Prem users were unaffected by the attacks. Threema suffered…
SECURITY AFFAIRS MALWARE NEWSLETTER ROUND 110
Security Affairs Malware newsletter includes a collection of the best articles and research on malware in the international landscape Malware Newsletter…
Mustang Panda Upgrades CoolClient With a Kernel Rootkit
Mustang Panda upgraded CoolClient with a signed kernel driver that hides processes, files and network activity, making the backdoor harder to detect.…
Security Affairs newsletter Round 590 by Pierluigi Paganini – INTERNATIONAL EDITION
A new round of the weekly Security Affairs newsletter has arrived! Every week, the best security articles from Security Affairs are free in your email…
Sophisticated Cyberattack Exposes Data of 678,000 French Taxpayers
France’s tax agency says hackers stole data on 678,000 taxpayers, including income and tax details, in a sophisticated cyberattack. A threat actor claimed…
APT36 Suspected in PATCHCORD Espionage Campaign Using Google Sheets C2
Acronis uncovered PATCHCORD, a stealthy backdoor targeting Afghan telecom and South Asian infrastructure via fake VPN tools and Google Sheets C2.…
Crooks Are Buying Your Expired Domains and Using Them to Deliver Malware
Attackers are buying expired domains to exploit their reputation, traffic and DNS history, using them for malware delivery, scams and C2 infrastructure.…
SAP Commerce Cloud CVE-2026-58231 Exploited in the Wild
Attackers are actively exploiting a maximum severity SAP Commerce Cloud vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-58231, just days after SAP released a patch. A…
Storm-1175 Replaces Medusa With New StormEncryptor Ransomware
Microsoft says China-linked Storm-1175 is using a new ransomware called StormEncryptor, replacing Medusa in its latest attacks. Microsoft says…
macOS Screen Sharing Flaw Exploited to Deploy Monero Miners
Hackers are exploiting a macOS Screen Sharing flaw to gain root access and install Monero miners on Macs with port 5900 exposed online. The Dutch National…
GeoServer Zero-Day Is Already Being Probed. That’s the Problem
GeoServer faces an unpatched zero-day enabling SQL injection and potentially RCE, with attackers already probing exposed systems. A newly disclosed…
CEVA Logistics Cyberattack Disrupts European Warehouses and Shipments
CEVA Logistics suffered a cyberattack disrupting European operations, with eight warehouses affected and shipments halted at impacted sites. CEVA…
Apple warned hundreds of users of mercenary spyware attacks
Apple warns users of credible, targeted attacks and urges immediate verification, stronger protections, and expert assistance. Apple has sent a new round…
China-Linked Hackers Use AI Agents in Autonomous Attack on Taiwan
China-linked hackers reportedly used eight AI agents to breach a government network, steal data and compromise accounts with minimal human oversight.…
Chess.com Leak Exposes 7.3 Million Users – Evidence Points to Scraping
7.3 million Chess.com profiles leaked online: the data is genuine, but evidence points to large-scale scraping, not a server breach. Free is a strange…
AmnesiaStealer Gives Attackers Live Control of Victims’ macOS Browsers
AmnesiaStealer targets macOS users through fake GitHub pages, stealing passwords, cookies and data while giving attackers live control of the browser.…
ShieldBreak: New Windows Zero-Day Bypasses Microsoft’s RoguePlanet Patch
Chaotic Eclipse released a PoC for ShieldBreak, a Microsoft Defender zero-day that bypasses the CVE-2026-50656 patch and could enable SYSTEM-level code…