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  1. Google Warns of In the Wild Exploit as It Patches New Chrome Zero Day

    A high severity vulnerability in Google Chrome and allows remote attackers to execute code

  2. Crypto Payments to Human Traffickers Surges 85%

    Chainalysis warns that online fraud is fuelling sophisticated human trafficking operations

  3. Odido Breach Impacts Millions of Dutch Telco Users

    Dutch telco Odido has revealed a major data breach impacting over six million customers

  4. Munich Security Conference: Cyber Threats Lead G7 Risk Index, Disinformation Ranks Third

    G7 countries ranked cyber-attacks as the top risk, while BICS members placed cyber threats only as the eighth most pressing risk

  5. Fake AI Assistants in Google Chrome Web Store Steal Passwords and Spy on Emails

    Hundreds of thousands of users have downloaded malicious AI extensions masquerading as ChatGPT, Gemini, Grok and others, warn cybersecurity researchers at LayerX

  6. World Leaks Ransomware Group Adds Stealthy, Custom Malware ‘RustyRocket’ to Attacks

    Accenture Cybersecurity warns over difficult to detect, “sophisticated toolset” being deployed as part of extortion campaigns

  7. Nation-State Hackers Embrace Gemini AI for Malicious Campaigns, Google Finds

    Google researchers found that government-backed hackers now use AI throughout the whole attack lifecycle

  8. AI Skills Represent Dangerous New Attack Surface, Says TrendAI

    New TrendAI report warns that most security tools can’t protect against attacks on AI skills artifacts

  9. Time to Exploit Plummets as N-Day Flaws Dominate

    Flashpoint warns of a dramatic drop in the average time between vulnerability disclosure and exploitation

  10. North Korean Hackers Use Deepfake Video Calls to Target Crypto Firms

    Campaign combines stolen Telegram accounts, fake Zoom calls and ClickFix attacks to deploy infostealer malware

  11. US Court Hands Crypto Scammer 20 Years in $73m Case

    A federal court has sentenced crypto-scammer Daren Li to 20 years in absentia

  12. FIRST Forecasts Record-Breaking 50,000+ CVEs in 2026

    This year should break all the records in terms of vulnerability disclosed, reaching or even surpassing 50,000 new CVEs disclosed

  13. Microsoft Fixes Six Zero Day Vulnerability in February Patch Tuesday

    Six actively exploited zero-day bug have been patched by Microsoft

  14. Phorpiex Phishing Delivers Low-Noise Global Group Ransomware

    High-volume phishing campaign delivers Phorpiex malware via malicious Windows Shortcut files

  15. “Digital Parasite” Warning as Attackers Favor Stealth for Extortion

    Picus Security warns of the increasingly sophisticated ways malicious activity is staying hidden

  16. New Mobile Spyware ZeroDayRAT Targets Android and iOS

    ZeroDayRAT is a new mobile spyware targeting Android and iOS, offering attackers persistent access

  17. Singapore Takes Down Chinese Hackers Targeting Telco Networks

    Operation Cyber Guardian was Singapore’s largest and longest running anti-cyber threat law enforcement operation

  18. NCSC Issues Warning Over “Severe” Cyber-Attacks Targeting Critical National Infrastructure

    NCSC call firms to ‘act now’ following disruptive malware attacks targeting Polish energy providers

  19. European Governments Breached in Zero-Day Attacks Targeting Ivanti

    The European Commission and government agencies in Finland and the Netherlands have suffered potentially related breaches

  20. New Zero-Click Flaw in Claude Desktop Extensions, Anthropic Declines Fix

    Security researchers from LayerX identified a new flaw in 50 Claude Desktop Extensions that could lead to unauthorized remote code execution

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