Germany's Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) confirmed on 19 October 2026 that a hosting provider used by the party was hacked in September and that mailboxes were copied. The anonymous site hexane.cc went online claiming to index 421,179 internal party emails. It does not publish the emails. It shows AI-generated summaries sorted into cat…
The German municipality of Tangerhütte (Saxony-Anhalt) was hit by a cyberattack that its software provider Innocon believes was carried out with artificial intelligence. Attackers exploited a previously unknown vulnerability in Innocon software behind the municipality's digital town hall, according to an MDR investigation. A municipal IT …
SafeDep flagged the malicious npm package ulid-xyz in June 2026. It typosquats ulidx and is a cross-platform remote access trojan. It is delivered through a three-layer transitive dependency chain: ioredis-xyz (a clone of the legitimate ioredis client) depends on redis-type-xyz (an empty manifest posing as Redis OM), which in version 1.10…
Bitdefender documented Midnight Mimosa, an Android malware campaign that embeds a platform-signed malicious system app in the firmware of low-cost, MediaTek-based handsets and counterfeit flagship models before they reach buyers. Thousands of infected devices were observed in more than 150 countries over roughly two years. The implant dri…
Kaspersky identified MovieReaper, a previously unknown modular, multi-stage crimeware framework distributed since mid-August 2026 through movie-themed torrents, including fake "The Odyssey (2026)" releases. Rather than compromising individual trackers, the actor modified the public torrent file repository itorrents.org, so trackers relyin…