WordPress Plugin Jetpack Patches Major Vulnerability Affecting 27 Million Sites

The maintainers of the Jetpack WordPress plugin have released a security update to remediate a critical vulnerability that could allow logged-in users to access forms submitted by others on a site.
Jetpack, owned by WordPress maker Automattic, is an all-in-one plugin that offers a comprehensive suite of tools to improve site safety, performance, and traffic growth. It’s used on 27 million

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Southeast Asian Cybercrime Profits Fuel Shadow Economy

With cybercriminal gangs raking in at least $18 billion regionally — and much more globally — law enforcement and policymakers are struggling to keep up as the syndicates innovate and entrench themselves in national economies.

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Serious Adversaries Circle Ivanti CSA Zero-Day Flaws

Suspected nation-state actors are spotted stringing together three different zero-days in the Ivanti Cloud Services Application to gain persistent access to a targeted system.

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Intel Broker Claims Cisco Breach, Selling Stolen Data from Major Firms

Intel Broker claims a major data breach at Cisco, allegedly stealing source codes, confidential documents, and credentials from…

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Microsoft: Schools Grapple With Thousands of Cyberattacks Weekly

Education, including K-12 schools and universities, has become the third most targeted sector due to the high variety of sensitive data it stores in its databases.

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Pokémon Gaming Company Employee Info Leaked in Hack

The gaming company reports that the server has been rebuilt after the leak, but has not confirmed what kind of information was compromised.

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Gmail users, beware of new AI scam that looks very authentic

A spoofed phone number, an email address plus an AI voice are all it takes to steal your Google credentials. Here’s what to look out for, just in case, you happen to find yourself in such a situation.

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Central Tickets Confirms Data Breach as Hacker Leaks Data of 1 Million Users

Another day, another ticketing platform breached!

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Iran-linked hackers increasingly spy on governments in Gulf region, researchers say

An Iran-linked cyberespionage group has stepped up its attacks in recent months against government agencies in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and the broader Gulf region, according to a new report.

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The biggest data breaches in 2024: 1 billion stolen records and rising

Some of the largest, most damaging breaches of 2024 already account for over a billion stolen records. Plus, some special shout-outs.

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