Nearly 22,000 Microsoft Exchange servers vulnerable to hijack attacks
Nearly 22,000 Microsoft Exchange servers exposed online remain unpatched against a high-severity authentication bypass vulnerability that allows attackers to hijack all user mailboxes. Tracked as CVE-2026-62911 and reported by DEVCORE Research Team’s Orange Tsai, this security flaw affects Exchange Server 2016, Exchange Server 2019, and Exchange Server Subscription Edition (SE) software. Threat actors with basic privileges on […]
Five Venezuelans plead guilty to ATM jackpotting attacks in US
Five Venezuelan nationals pleaded guilty to attempting to empty automated teller machines (ATMs) using malware in a series of ATM jackpotting attacks. 27-year-old Luis Alberto Velasquez-Artigas, 29-year-oldRoyder Adrian Figuera-Perez, 27-year-old Javier Mejia, Jr, 33-year-old Gabriel Alexjandro Corales-Garcia, 33, and 26-year-old Italo Lizandro Corrales-Carrillo have all pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit bank […]
Recently patched PaperCut zero-days used in data theft attacks
Two security vulnerabilities in the PaperCut NG and MF print management software, patched last week after being exploited as zero-days, are now being abused in data theft attacks. According to PaperCut Software, the software is used by 100 million users across more than 70,000 organizations, including large companies, state agencies, and educational institutions. Tracked as CVE-2026-81578 and CVE-2026-82078, […]
Cronos blockchain restarts after $74 million Tectonic exploit
The Cronos blockchain network has resumed trading activity after a price-manipulation attack on the Tectonic cryptocurrency lending platform allowed an attacker to borrow $74 million. According to current information, the threat actor artificially inflated the price of Tectonic’s TONIC token by 100 times, then used it as collateral to borrow real assets. The price manipulation happened […]
Microsoft warns of TerminalFix attacks deploying reverse tunnels
A new ClickFix variant dubbed TerminalFix uses fake Cloudflare CAPTCHA prompts on compromised websites to trick victims into executing malicious PowerShell commands in Windows Terminal. Unlike typical ClickFix attacks that often lead to infostealer malware infections, this campaign uses a multi-stage intrusion chain that ultimately gives attackers a reverse tunnel into the victim’s internal network. TerminalFix […]
Massive Microsoft 365 outage causes auth issues, service failures
Microsoft is investigating a widespread service issue causing authentication issues, connection problems, service delays and failures, and various other issues for Microsoft 365 customers. It first acknowledged this incident (tracked under EX1464935 in the admin center) at 5:30 PM UTC, when it began investigating a stream of reports from users on social media regarding multiple issues affecting Exchange Online. However, while Exchange Online is the […]
OpenAI confirms ChatGPT outage as users report errors
ChatGPT Work is experiencing a partial outage, and users across multiple subscription plans may be unable to start or continue tasks. The outage started at approximately 11:04 AM ET on Monday, August 31, and is causing elevated latency and errors for ChatGPT Work users. Plus subscribers appear to be particularly affected, with Work mode currently […]
Chinese Fire Ant hackers turn Cisco routers into spying platforms
The researchers discovered Fire Ant’s new tactic after finding an active GRE (Generic Routing Encapsulation) tunnel interface on a Cisco IOS XR router that could not be explained by a running configuration or commit history. According to incident response company Sygnia, the threat actor switched from targeting VMware hypervisors to compromising Cisco routers, TACACS authentication servers, […]
Microsoft says Windows 11 KB5120998 update resets mouse settings
Microsoft has confirmed that the KB5120998 August 2026 non-security preview update is reverting mouse settings on Windows 11 systems. According to user reports, mouse cursor personalization settings are either being changed or reset automatically after installing the KB5120998 update. More importantly, affected Windows 11 users will not be able to restore the previous mouse settings […]
Berlin confirms data theft after Rhysida ransomware attack claims
Berlin’s city administration has confirmed that cybercriminals are attempting to extort the city after the Rhysida ransomware gang listed it on their data leak site. The attack was discovered in mid-August, and the threat actor claimed it publicly last Friday, on August 28. Kai Wergner, the Mayor of Berlin, stated that the city will not […]