03 May, 2026

Police dismantles 9 crypto scam centers, arrests 276 suspects

A joint international operation involving U.S. and Chinese authorities arrested at least 276 suspects and shut down nine cryptocurrency investment fraud centers. The crackdown was led by Dubai Police under the UAE Ministry of Interior and targeted crime networks running so-called pig-butchering schemes (also known as romance baiting), a form of fraud in which scammers […]

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Official SAP npm packages compromised to steal credentials

Multiple official SAP npm packages were compromised in what is believed to be a TeamPCP supply-chain attack to steal credentials and authentication tokens from developers’ systems. Security researchers report that the compromise impacted four packages, with the versions now deprecated on NPM: These packages support SAP’s Cloud Application Programming Model (CAP) and Cloud MTA, which […]

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Popular WordPress redirect plugin hid dormant backdoor for years

The Quick Page/Post Redirect plugin, installed on more than 70,000 WordPress sites, hadĀ a backdoor added five years ago that allows injecting arbitrary code into users’ sites. The malware was uncovered by Austin Ginder, the founder of WordPress hosting provider Anchor, who found it after 12 infected sites on his fleet triggered a security alert. Quick Page/Post Redirect […]

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Hackers exploit RCE flaws in Qinglong task scheduler for cryptomining

Hackers are exploiting two authentication bypass vulnerabilities in the Qinglong open-source task scheduling tool to deploy cryptominers on developers’ servers. Exploitation started in early February, before the security issues were disclosed publicly at the end of the month, according to researchers at cloud-native application security company Snyk. Qinglong is a self-hosted open-source time management platform […]

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cPanel, WHM emergency update fixes critical auth bypass bug

A critical vulnerability affecting all but the latest versions of cPanel and the WebHost Manager (WHM) dashboard could be exploited to obtain access to the control panel without authentication. The security issue, currently identified as CVE-2026-41940 and with a severity score of 9.8, has been addressed in an emergency update that requires running a command manually to retrieve […]

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European police dismantles €50 million crypto investment fraud ring

Austrian and Albanian authorities dismantled a criminal ring accused of running a large-scale cryptocurrency investment fraud operation that caused estimated losses of over €50 million ($58.5 million) to victims worldwide. The joint action, which started in June 2023 and was supported by Europol and Eurojust, led to the arrest of 10 suspects and searches of […]

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GitHub fixes RCE flaw that gave access to millions of private repos

In early March, GitHub patched a critical remote code execution vulnerability (CVE-2026-3854)Ā that could have allowedĀ attackers to access millions of private repositories. The flaw was reported on March 4, 2026, by researchers at cybersecurity firm Wiz through GitHub’s bug bounty program. GitHub Chief Information Security Officer Alexis Wales said the company’s security team reproduced and confirmed the vulnerability […]

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CISA orders feds to patch Windows flaw exploited as zero-day

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has ordered federal agencies to secure their Windows systems against a vulnerability exploited in zero-day attacks. Tracked as CVE-2026-32202, this security flaw was reported by cybersecurity firm Akamai, which described it as a zero-click NTLM hash leak vulnerability left behind after Microsoft incompletely patched a remote code execution flaw […]

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Microsoft says backend change broke Teams Free chat and calls

Microsoft is working to resolve a known issue that prevents some Microsoft Teams Free users from chatting and calling others. Teams Free (also known as Teams for personal use) is a subscription-free version designed for individuals, families, and small community groups, which provides video conferencing, instant messaging, and collaborative file-sharing tools on mobile and desktop […]

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