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French Tax Data Theft Using Stolen Staff Passwords Went Undetected for Seven Weeks

French Tax Data Theft Using Stolen Staff Passwords Went Undetected for Seven Weeks

An attacker used stolen passwords of staff at France’s tax administration to take tax data on hundreds of thousands of taxpayers and businesses in June and July. Neither the tax administration nor France’s national cybersecurity… 

Russia’s Star Blizzard Targets 100+ Organizations With Fake Event Invites to Deliver Backdoor

Russia’s Star Blizzard Targets 100+ Organizations With Fake Event Invites to Deliver Backdoor

Russian state hackers known as Star Blizzard have been using fake event invitations to trick people into installing a backdoor on their Windows computers, according to Microsoft. The campaigns, aimed at people and organizations tied to… 

New Spectre-v2 BTR Attack Leaks Linux Memory Despite Existing Defenses

New Spectre-v2 BTR Attack Leaks Linux Memory Despite Existing Defenses

Ravie LakshmananSep 29, 2026Vulnerability / Hardware Security A group of academics from VUSec and Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna have disclosed details of a new Spectre CPU vulnerability variant that affects Just-In-Time (JIT) engines present in web…