A toast to Apple’s littlest Mac as it turns 21
Macworld At Macworld Expo in January 2005, miniaturization was on Steve Jobs’s mind. Since the world was in the midst of iPod fever, most of the focus was on the tiny iPod Shuffle. But 21…
January 2026
January 2026
iOS 26’s failure shows what happens when you take customers for granted
I had a good time last week digging through OS adoption data and recreating my glory days as a high-school mathematician. But the numbers are decidedly less fun for Tim Cook. According to research by…
GoBruteforcer Botnet Targets Crypto Project Databases by Exploiting Weak Credentials
A new wave of GoBruteforcer attacks has targeted databases of cryptocurrency and blockchain projects to co-opt them into a botnet that’s capable of brute-forcing user passwords for services such as FTP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, and phpMyAdmin…
Anthropic Launches Claude AI for Healthcare with Secure Health Record Access
Jan 12, 2026Ravie LakshmananArtificial Intelligence / Healthcare 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…
Researchers Uncover Service Providers Fueling Industrial-Scale Pig Butchering Fraud
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…
Instagram says there’s been ‘no breach’ despite password reset requests
Instagram says that although some users received suspicious-looking password reset requests, it has not been breached. That seemingly contradicts a Friday Bluesky post from antivirus software company Malwarebytes, which shared a screenshot of an email…
MuddyWater Launches RustyWater RAT via Spear-Phishing Across Middle East Sectors
Jan 10, 2026Ravie LakshmananCyber Espionage / Malware The Iranian threat actor known as MuddyWater has been attributed to a spear-phishing campaign targeting diplomatic, maritime, financial, and telecom entities in the Middle East with a Rust-based…
Europol Arrests 34 Black Axe Members in Spain Over €5.9M Fraud and Organized Crime
Jan 10, 2026Ravie LakshmananCybercrime / Financial Crime Europol on Friday announced the arrest of 34 individuals in Spain who are alleged to be part of an international criminal organization called Black Axe. As part of…
China-Linked Hackers Exploit VMware ESXi Zero-Days to Escape Virtual Machines
Jan 09, 2026Ravie LakshmananVirtualization / Vulnerability Chinese-speaking threat actors are suspected to have leveraged a compromised SonicWall VPN appliance as an initial access vector to deploy a VMware ESXi exploit that may have been developed…
iOS 26 is a massive flop with iPhone users, and you can probably guess why
Last year was a significant one for Apple’s operating systems. Across the board, from the iPhone and iPad to the Mac and Vision Pro, platforms were standardized in both version number and look. But not…