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CISA has urged U.S. federal agencies to secure their systems by Sunday against a critical Splunk Enterprise vulnerability that is being exploited in attacks. [...]
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) urged Fortinet customers to secure their devices after nearly 74,000 firewall and VPN credentials were exposed in a data leak dubbed "FortiBleed." [...]
Nintendo of America has confirmed to BleepingComputer that threat actors stole survey data from the third-party TinyPulse service used internally, but its systems were not compromised. [...]
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has ordered federal agencies to patch a maximum-severity flaw in the Widget Factory Joomla Content Editor (JCE) plugin that is being actively exploited in the wild. [...]
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) warned that Americans lost $3.5 billion to imposter scams in 2025, with reported losses nearly tripling since 2020. [...]
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has given U.S. government agencies three days to secure their servers against an actively exploited vulnerability (CVE-2026-54420) in the LiteSpeed cPanel user-end plugin. [...]
The U.S. Department of Justice announced Friday that it has seized the CFAKE.com and SOCFAKE.com websites, which allegedly hosted nonconsensual AI-generated nude images and videos of women, in what appears to be the first publicly announced domain seizure under the TAKE IT DOWN Act. [...]
The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) warned that criminals are using couriers to collect money from victims of cryptocurrency investment scams, also known as pig butchering or romance baiting. [...]
A China-linked espionage campaign targeted exposed REDCap servers to deploy the InfiniteRed malware and steal sensitive data from a medical institution in North America. [...]