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Huntress announced Attack Reduction, a new capability in Huntress Managed ESPM (Early Access) that disables the "Windows key + R" shortcut for users who never use the Run dialog, aiming to break the most common ClickFix attack chain. The post opens with an attempted fake-CAPTCHA lure that targeted a Huntress employee on a spoofed airport …
The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) opened a rulemaking in September asking whether platforms should be required to stop impersonation scam ads from reaching consumers, citing ad tools that generate copy, images and video and optimize targeting regardless of whether an ad is legitimate. The article reports that nearly one trillion scam …
ESET WeLiveSecurity warns that scammers are exploiting demand for Robux, the virtual currency of Roblox, to steal credentials, personal information and money, with children and younger players the main targets. Roblox states that no legitimate free Robux generators, tricks or codes exist. Only earned routes are legitimate, such as officia…
Analysis by Bridewell of reports to the UK Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) found more than 26,000 data breaches caused by human error between 2020 and 2025. Annual human-error breaches rose from 3,847 to 5,496 (+43%). The leading cause is data emailed to the wrong recipient (11,214 incidents, up 62% from 1,519 in 2020 to 2,459 in …
Jefferson County Health Department (Hillsboro, Missouri) has agreed to a $2.25 million settlement of a consolidated class action over a 2022 data security incident. An unauthorized third party accessed its network between October 31 and November 15, 2022, and may have viewed or obtained personal and protected health information. The breac…
A $6,438,578.20 settlement has been agreed to resolve the "Other Labs Track" of consolidated litigation over the American Medical Collection Agency (AMCA) breach. The defendants are AMCA clients Sonic Healthcare U.S.A., Aurora Diagnostics LLC, Clinical Pathology Laboratories, Inc. and Austin Pathology Associates. AMCA, a subsidiary of Ret…
AI-assisted "vibe coding" is lowering the barrier to app development, but it is also producing apps with common security oversights that app marketplaces do not necessarily flag. The article cites a report that 84% of developers were using or planning to use AI tools, and a Lovable-hosted app in which a researcher found 16 vulnerabilities…
Publicly reported data breaches in the US reached an all-time high last year, with over 3,300 incidents and nearly 280 million victim notices. The Identity Theft Resource Center (ITRC) reports that over 471 million notices went out in the first half of 2026, but only 24% described the attack vector, the lowest rate it has recorded. The ar…
