A judge ordered Meta to pay $25 billion to the state of New Mexico for deceiving resident users about its data privacy practices, the largest payout in the company's history, according to The New York Times as cited by TechCrunch. A jury in a two-week trial found 43 million violations of the state's consumer protection laws, each carrying…
In October 2026, the Discord server protection service Double Counter suffered a data breach attributed to a vulnerability in the Metabase analytics tool. The company's disclosure notice states that attackers accessed a subset of its data. That data was later published publicly and contains about 275k unique email addresses and Discord us…
In August 2026, French intellectual property software and services company Questel was targeted in a ShinyHunters "pay or leak" extortion campaign. The group published a large corpus of data it claimed to have taken from the company. The data is largely corporate contact information tied to sales leads, support cases and marketing activit…
Since mid-2025 the Kremlin has sharply escalated restrictions on digital communications, according to Insikt Group (Recorded Future). Measures include VPN blocking, state-managed regional internet shutdowns, throttling of Telegram and WhatsApp, promotion of the state-owned Max messenger, and expanded surveillance of Russian and foreign en…
Rapid7's Q3 2026 threat landscape report finds that high-severity vulnerabilities were exploited an average of three days after disclosure, with 71% exploited within the first seven days. 79% of them are classed as 'holy grail' flaws, meaning remote and needing no credentials or user interaction. Ransomware remains the dominant threat. Th…