Illinois man charged with hacking Snapchat accounts to steal nude photos
U.S. prosecutors have charged an Illinois man with orchestrating a phishing operation that allowed him to hack the Snapchat accounts of nearly 600 women to steal private photos and sell them online. Between May 2020 and February 2021, 26-year-old defendant Kyle Svara allegedly used various social engineering tactics to obtain victims’ emails, phone numbers, and […]
CISA retires 10 emergency cyber orders in rare bulk closure
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has retired 10 Emergency Directives issued between 2019 and 2024, saying that the required actions have been completed or are now covered by Binding Operational Directive 22-01. CISA said this is the largest number of Emergency Directives it has closed at one time. “By statute, CISA issues […]
Gmail’s new AI Inbox uses Gemini, but Google says it won’t train AI on user emails
Google says it’s rolling out a new feature called ‘AI Inbox,’ which summarizes all your emails, but the company promises it won’t train its models on your emails. On Thursday, Google announced a new era of Gmail where Gemini will be taking over your default inbox screen. Google argues that email has changed since 2004, […]
New China-linked hackers breach telcos using edge device exploits
A sophisticated threat actor that uses Linux-based malware to target telecommunications providers has recently broadened its operations to include organizations in Southeastern Europe. Tracked internally by Cisco Talos as UAT-7290, the actor shows strong China nexus indicators and typically focuses on telcos in South Asia in cyber-espionage operations. Active since at least 2022, the UAT-7290 group also serves […]
FBI warns about Kimsuky hackers using QR codes to phish U.S. orgs
The North Korean state-sponsored hacker group Kimsuki is using malicious QR codes in spearphishing campaigns that target U.S. organizations, the Federal Bureau of Investigation warns in a flash alert. The observed activity targets organizations involved in North Korea-related policy, research, and analysis, including non-governmental organizations, think tanks, academic institutions, strategic advisory firms, and government entities in […]
xAI teases major Grok upgrade, hints at Grok Code CLI
Elon Musk-backed xAI has been missing in action for a while now, but today, Musk teased a major upgrade for Grok alongside new products. Grok is xAI’s LLM model, and it competes head-to-head with Sam Altman’s ChatGPT or Google’s Gemini. Lately, Grok has been in the news for all the wrong reasons, and Elon Musk […]
VMware ESXi zero-days likely exploited a year before disclosure
Chinese-speaking threat actors used a compromised SonicWall VPN appliance to deliver a VMware ESXi exploit toolkit that seems to have been developed more than a year before the targeted vulnerabilities became publicly known. In attacks from December 2025 analyzed by Huntress, managed security company, the hackers used a sophisticated virtual machine (VM) escape that likely exploited three VMware […]
Cisco switches hit by reboot loops due to DNS client bug
Multiple Cisco switch models are suddenly experiencing reboot loops after logging fatal DNS client errors, according to reports seen by GeekFeed. Starting at approximately 2 AM, what appears to be a firmware bug in the switches’ internal DNS client service began treating DNS lookup failures as fatal errors, causing affected devices to reboot repeatedly. Switches […]
Texas court blocks Samsung from tracking TV viewing, then vacates order
The State of Texas obtained a short-lived, temporary restraining order (TRO) against Samsung that prohibited the South Korean company from collecting audio and visual data about what Texas consumers are watching on their TVs. Like other major TV manufacturers, Samsung employs Automated Content Recognition (ACR) technology to capture periodic screenshots, analyze viewing activity, and identify users’ […]
Microsoft Exchange Online outage blocks access to mailboxes via IMAP4
Microsoft is working to fix an Exchange Online service outage that intermittently prevents users from accessing their mailboxes via the Internet Mailbox Access Protocol 4 (IMAP4). The incident (tracked under EX1215307) began on January 1st at 19:00 UTC, with Microsoft noting that other connection methods are not affected and advising those impacted that retries may help […]