Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a new ransomware family called Osiris that targeted a major food service franchisee operator in Southeast Asia in November 2025. The attack leveraged a malicious driver called POORTRY as…
Ravie LakshmananJan 22, 2026Vulnerability / Linux A critical security flaw has been disclosed in the GNU InetUtils telnet daemon (telnetd) that went unnoticed for nearly 11 years. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-24061, is rated 9.8…
Clothing and fitness data company Under Armour said it is investigating claims of a data breach after a cybercriminal posted millions of customer records to a hacker forum. The seller told TechCrunch that the data…
Ravie LakshmananJan 22, 2026Cybersecurity / Hacking News Most of this week’s threats didn’t rely on new tricks. They relied on familiar systems behaving exactly as designed, just in the wrong hands. Ordinary files, routine services,…
The Hacker NewsJan 22, 2026Email Security / SaaS Security Security teams at agile, fast-growing companies often have the same mandate: secure the business without slowing it down. Most teams inherit a tech stack optimized for…
Ravie LakshmananJan 22, 2026Cryptojacking / Malware A new malicious package discovered in the Python Package Index (PyPI) has been found to impersonate a popular library for symbolic mathematics to deploy malicious payloads, including a cryptocurrency…
Ravie LakshmananJan 22, 2026Vulnerability / Email Security A new security flaw in SmarterTools SmarterMail email software has come under active exploitation in the wild, two days after the release of a patch. The vulnerability, which…
Ravie LakshmananJan 22, 2026Network Security / Vulnerability Cybersecurity company Arctic Wolf has warned of a “new cluster of automated malicious activity” that involves unauthorized firewall configuration changes on Fortinet FortiGate devices. The activity, it said,…
Ravie LakshmananJan 22, 2026Vulnerability / Zero-Day Cisco has released fresh patches to address what it described as a “critical” security vulnerability impacting multiple Unified Communications (CM) products and Webex Calling Dedicated Instance that it has…
As many as 3,136 individual IP addresses linked to likely targets of the Contagious Interview activity have been identified, with the campaign claiming 20 potential victim organizations spanning artificial intelligence (AI), cryptocurrency, financial services, IT…