Modern ransomware has shifted from encryption to psychological extortion that exploits fear, liability, and exposure. Flare shows how today's ransomware groups weaponize stolen data and pressure tactics to force payment.…

A Nebraska federal grand jury charged 31 additional defendants for their involvement in an ATM jackpotting operation allegedly orchestrated by members of the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua. [...]

A critical-severity vulnerability in the vm2 Node.js sandbox library, tracked as CVE-2026-22709, allows escaping the sandbox and executing arbitrary code on the underlying host system. [...]

Nike is investigating what it described as a "potential cyber security incident" after the World Leaks ransomware gang leaked 1.4 TB of files allegedly stolen from the sportswear giant. [...]

Multiple threat actors, both state-sponsored and financially motivated, are exploiting the CVE-2025-8088 high-severity vulnerability in WinRAR for initial access and to deliver various malicious payloads. [...]

The Chinese espionage threat group Mustang Panda has updated its CoolClient backdoor to a new variant that can steal login data from browsers and monitor the clipboard. [...]

Fortinet has confirmed a new, actively exploited critical FortiCloud single sign-on (SSO) authentication bypass vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-24858, and says it has mitigated the zero-day attacks by blocking FortiCloud SSO…

OpenAI plans to begin rolling out ads on ChatGPT in the United States if you have a free or $8 Go subscription, but the catch is that the ads could…

Meta has started rolling out a new WhatsApp lockdown-style security feature designed to protect journalists, public figures, and other high-risk individuals from sophisticated threats, including spyware attacks. [...]

OpenAI recently rolled out ads to ChatGPT in the United States if you use $8 Go subscription or a free account, but Google says it does not plan to put…