⚡ Weekly Recap: AI Skill Malware, 31Tbps DDoS, Notepad++ Hack, LLM Backdoors and More
Ravie LakshmananFeb 09, 2026Hacking News / Cybersecurity Cyber threats are no longer coming from just malware or exploits. They’re showing...
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Flickr’s 35M Users Affected by Third-Party Data Exposure
Image: San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images Flickr has begun notifying users about a potential data exposure tied to a...
Asian Cyber Espionage Campaign Breached 37 Countries
Image: DC_Studio (Envato) A sprawling cyber espionage campaign linked to an Asian state-aligned hacking group has compromised government agencies and...
Microsoft Starts Testing Built-In Sysmon Monitoring in Windows 11
Image: Ed Hardie/Unsplash In a new Windows 11 Insider Preview release, Microsoft has started rolling out native support for System...
The Other Offense and Defense
From a security perspective, the Super Bowl isn’t a football game. It’s a live-fire exercise.For a few hours, one physical...
Chrome Vulnerabilities Allow Code Execution, Browser Crashes
Image: Generated via Google’s Nano Banana Google has released a Chrome security update addressing two high-severity vulnerabilities that could allow...
Microsoft Overhauls Security Leadership as AI Expands Enterprise Attack Surface
Source: Valent Lau/Unsplash Microsoft just changed who gets blamed when things break. The tech giant is overhauling its security leadership,...
Varonis Acquires AllTrue to Strengthen AI Security Capabilities
Image generated by Google Gemini AI is growing almost everywhere, and with that in mind, a company has something true...
European Officials Warn of Russian Satellites Intercepting Communications
Image generated by Google Gemini Nosy neighbors in space are becoming a problem. Russian “inspector” satellites are once again in...
Windows Shutdown Bug Spreads to Windows 10, Microsoft Confirms
Image: Clint Patterson/Unsplash You’d think “turning it off and on again” would be the solution to a computer glitch. But...
Chrome Add-On Caught Stealing Amazon Commissions
image: envato by Image-Source A Chrome browser extension advertised as a way to hide sponsored ads on Amazon has been...
New Microsoft Update Improves Windows Sign-In Experience
Image: BleepingComputer Microsoft has released a massive stability patch for Windows 11, fixing the notorious missing password icon and other...
95% of AI Projects Are Unproductive and Not Breach Ready
Like me, this news probably shocked almost all AI enthusiasts. The GenAI gold rush has apparently turned into a reckoning....
⚡ Weekly Recap: Proxy Botnet, Office Zero-Day, MongoDB Ransoms, AI Hijacks & New Threats
Ravie LakshmananFeb 02, 2026Hacking News / Cybersecurity Every week brings new discoveries, attacks, and defenses that shape the state of...
Hugging Face Repositories Abused in New Android Malware Campaign
Image: Screenshot via Hugging Face Homepage Hugging Face is widely used by researchers and developers to host machine learning models,...
