Records were exported from the management information system (MIS) of Southville Primary School in Bristol during a targeted cyberattack, according to Bristol City Council. The council has not disclosed what data was taken or how many students, parents or staff are affected. The school has notified affected parents and guardians and repor…
A cybersecurity incident at defense contractor BAE Systems has stopped the production and delivery of bankruptcy notices for every US federal bankruptcy court. BAE operates the Bankruptcy Noticing Center (BNC) systems and websites on behalf of the federal judiciary. The Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts confirmed the incident on Oc…
A flaw dubbed SneakPeek in the preview pane of Anthropic's Claude Code Desktop can let adversaries quietly steal credentials from developers without any user interaction (zero-click). According to the report, exposed secrets include SSH private keys, AWS credentials and Claude OAuth tokens. The article excerpt provides no CVE identifier, …
A cybercrime marketplace tracked as Yam Store supplied cloud infrastructure and phishing kits that helped drive more than 1 billion phishing messages worldwide. The marketplace appears to work as an enabling service, letting other criminals run large-scale phishing campaigns without building their own tooling. The source article is a shor…
A Dark Reading report describes AdFection, a technique in which spyware vendors exploit targeted ad bidding in the digital advertising ecosystem to identify and track individuals and organizations of interest. Ad impressions are reportedly turned into a zero-click delivery path for spyware, so targets need no interaction. The excerpt give…
Researchers at AI pen-testing startup Xbow used OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol model to help chain three zero-day vulnerabilities in Google Chrome into a full-chain exploit that executes code outside the browser sandbox on Windows. Xbow estimates about one billion users could be affected. Google fixed all three flaws and paid a $250,000 bounty, its…
The UK government has disclosed that the April 2025 breach of the Legal Aid Agency (LAA) was larger than first reported. Around 250,000 stolen records predate 2007, with the oldest dating to 1978. The LAA had initially said the stolen data covered applications, claims and payments from 2007 onward. The Ministry of Justice (MoJ) also found…
The Administrative Office of the US Courts reported a "cybersecurity incident" affecting the Bankruptcy Noticing Center (BNC), which is operated by BAE Systems, Inc. for the Federal Judiciary. The BNC systems and websites were taken offline, halting the production and distribution of electronic and paper bankruptcy notices for federal ban…
A still-unknown actor hacked thousands of remote-controlled refrigeration systems across hundreds of French grocery stores, spiking temperatures, spoiling food and sparking fires. The incident fits a broader trend of extortionists and other attackers going after physical systems to maximise real-world pressure on victims. Earlier examples…
Ahold Delhaize, the Dutch grocery group behind Food Lion, Giant Food, Stop & Shop, Hannaford, Martin's and Albert Heijn, confirmed that a cyberattack caused by "malicious actions of others" forced it to proactively take IT systems offline, including websites and apps. The incident was first disclosed on October 12 and affected most of the…
Researcher Quentin Kaiser presented at Hexacon a vulnerability in Broadcom's proprietary 802.11 implementation, present in its SDK since at least 2010, that gives an attacker within Wi-Fi range unauthenticated remote code execution on affected routers without the network key or WPS enrollment. An incomplete patch was silently released in …
Microsoft awarded researcher Sam Chen (Samchen) US$4,000 for reporting CVE-2026-81376, a critical (CVSS 3.1 score 9.6) Workspace Trust security feature bypass in Visual Studio Code versions before 1.136.2. A specially prepared workspace could connect to an attacker-controlled service and bypass Restricted Mode, potentially exposing local …
Researcher Quentin Kaiser (QTNKSR) disclosed a memory corruption flaw in Broadcom's Wi-Fi Protected Setup (WPS) implementation. It allows an unauthenticated attacker within wireless range to disclose memory and execute code, including as root, on vulnerable routers. The attacker does not need the Wi-Fi password, network membership or a co…
An unauthorized party used a compromised login credential to access a file transfer (SFTP) site belonging to Educational Testing Service (ETS) and copy files containing California public school student data, according to the California Department of Education (CDE). ETS supports the state's CAASPP and ELPAC assessment programs. Access occ…
Burger King Japan, the Japanese subsidiary of Burger King, disclosed a major data breach after attackers accessed a server containing 11.18 million customer records. The article excerpt does not say how the intrusion happened, who was responsible, or exactly which data fields were exposed. The scale makes this a mass customer-data exposur…
Sansec warns that a maximum-severity flaw, CVE-2026-103849 (dubbed BlockStrap), in Magento Open Source and Adobe Commerce could allow attackers to execute arbitrary PHP code on store servers. No in-the-wild exploitation has been observed yet, but Sansec identified four potential attack paths in under 24 hours and expects mass exploitation…
The open-source AI coding agent OpenCode disclosed a breach tied to a "large-scale distillation attack" that exposed stored external-provider API keys for 1.4% of OpenCode Console users. Affected users had linked providers such as Anthropic, OpenAI and Google. Users reported unauthorized charges ranging from several hundred USD to more th…
Bullhorn, a US cloud staffing and recruitment software vendor serving more than 10,000 customers, disabled access to its platform after detecting a cyber incident that caused a system-wide outage. Customers first saw job posting problems on Friday, and the company confirmed the cyberattack the following day. Bullhorn says it has isolated …
Between April and July 2026, a threat actor tracked as UNC7017 compromised AOMEI update and notification infrastructure and used it to push malware to users of AOMEI Backupper. The attackers briefly altered two configuration files and restored them within minutes to evade detection. The campaign was uncovered by ManageEngine's Threat Anal…
Silent Lynx, tracked as UAT-6275 by Cisco Talos and TAG-193 by Recorded Future Insikt Group, has been linked to a new set of attacks on government organizations across the Commonwealth of Independent States. The activity ran from June 2025 through August 2026 and used four infection chains to deploy custom reverse shells (FoalShell, Chvos…