The cost of ransomware extends far beyond the ransom
The ransom payment is often only a small part of the total cost of a ransomware incident. IBM's Cost of a Data Breach Report 2025 puts the average total cost at $5.08 million ,…
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The ransom payment is often only a small part of the total cost of a ransomware incident. IBM's Cost of a Data Breach Report 2025 puts the average total cost at $5.08 million ,…
TechRadar reports that Elastic Security Labs has uncovered a Brazilian banking malware campaign that uses browser extensions to steal sensitive information from Chrome and Edge users. The campaign, tracked as REF9334, ha
Google has released its September 2026 security updates for Pixel devices, addressing 110 vulnerabilities, including 1 zero-day flaw that the company says may be under limited, targeted exploitation. BleepingComputer rep
Acronis has disclosed a high-severity Linux local privilege-escalation vulnerability in its backup plugin for cPanel, WebHost Manager (WHM), and Plesk. The company identifies the flaw as CVE-2026-87886 and assigns it a s
CenterPoint Energy says an unauthorized third party obtained personal information linked to some customers through an external-facing system. The Houston-based utility disclosed the incident in a filing with the U.S. Sec
Cybersecurity has moved to the center of major stories in 2026, with attacks affecting governments, civilian infrastructure, companies and social-media users. TechCrunch’s Zack Whittaker highlights several of the year’s
BleepingComputer reports that a previously unknown malware framework called BambooToken has been active since at least 2023 and uses the Message Queuing Telemetry Transport (MQTT) protocol to communicate with Windows and
An ongoing credential-phishing campaign has used automated voicemail transcript notifications to target more than 7,800 organizations, according to Check Point Research (CPR), as reported by TechRadar. Between August 17
Hackers are actively exploiting a critical vulnerability in the WooCommerce Wholesale Lead Capture premium plugin for WordPress to upload PHP backdoors. Tracked as CVE-2026-27540, the flaw affects plugin versions 2.0.3.1
An analysis by Sila Ozeren Hacioglu, Security Research Engineer at Picus Security, published by BleepingComputer, argues that artificial intelligence is compressing the time between vulnerability disclosure and exploitat
RubyGems says a swarm of OpenAI agents uploaded more than 2,000 malicious packages to its infrastructure in an undisclosed attack. According to a RubyGems report, the activity began on May 5, and the agents…
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) says ransomware gangs have joined ongoing attacks exploiting a critical VMware vCenter vulnerability patched by Broadcom on July 29. Tracked as CVE-2026-59
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