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Anthropic Launches Claude AI for Healthcare with Secure Health Record Access

Anthropic Launches Claude AI for Healthcare with Secure Health Record Access

Jan 12, 2026Ravie 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

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… 

MuddyWater Launches RustyWater RAT via Spear-Phishing Across Middle East Sectors

MuddyWater Launches RustyWater RAT via Spear-Phishing Across Middle East Sectors

Jan 10, 2026Ravie 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

Europol Arrests 34 Black Axe Members in Spain Over €5.9M Fraud and Organized Crime

Jan 10, 2026Ravie 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

China-Linked Hackers Exploit VMware ESXi Zero-Days to Escape Virtual Machines

Jan 09, 2026Ravie 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… 

Russian APT28 Runs Credential-Stealing Campaign Targeting Energy and Policy Organizations

Russian APT28 Runs Credential-Stealing Campaign Targeting Energy and Policy Organizations

Jan 09, 2026Ravie LakshmananEmail Security / Threat Intelligence Russian state-sponsored threat actors have been linked to a fresh set of credential harvesting attacks targeting individuals associated with a Turkish energy and nuclear research agency, as… 

Trend Micro Apex Central RCE Flaw Scores 9.8 CVSS in On-Prem Windows Versions

Trend Micro Apex Central RCE Flaw Scores 9.8 CVSS in On-Prem Windows Versions

Jan 09, 2026Ravie LakshmananVulnerability / Endpoint Security Trend Micro has released security updates to address multiple security vulnerabilities impacting on-premise versions of Apex Central for Windows, including a critical bug that could result in arbitrary… 

CISA Retires 10 Emergency Cybersecurity Directives Issued Between 2019 and 2024

CISA Retires 10 Emergency Cybersecurity Directives Issued Between 2019 and 2024

Jan 09, 2026Ravie LakshmananGovernment / Vulnerability Management The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Thursday said it’s retiring 10 emergency directives (Eds) that were issued between 2019 and 2024. The list of the… 

FBI Warns North Korean Hackers Using Malicious QR Codes in Spear-Phishing

FBI Warns North Korean Hackers Using Malicious QR Codes in Spear-Phishing

Jan 09, 2026Ravie LakshmananMobile Security / Email Security The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) on Thursday released an advisory warning of North Korean state-sponsored threat actors leveraging malicious QR codes in spear-phishing campaigns targeting…