Step Finance says compromised execs’ devices led to $40M crypto theft
Step Finance announced that it lost $40 million worth of digital assets after hackers compromised devices belonging to the company’s team of executives. The platform detected the breach on January 31 and engaged cybersecurity researchers who helped it recover some of the stolen assets. Step Finance is a decentralized finance (DeFi) platform and analytics tool built […]
Wave of Citrix NetScaler scans use thousands of residential proxies
A coordinated reconnaissance campaign targeting Citrix NetScaler infrastructure over the past week used tens of thousands of residential proxies to discover login panels. The activity was observed between January 28 and February 2, and it also focused on enumerating versions of the product, indicating an organized discovery effort. Threat monitoring platform GreyNoise traced the source of the […]
CISA flags critical SolarWinds RCE flaw as exploited in attacks
CISA has flagged a critical SolarWinds Web Help Desk vulnerability as actively exploited in attacks and ordered federal agencies to patch their systems within three days. Tracked as CVE-2025-40551, this security flaw stems from an untrusted data deserialization weakness discovered and reported by Horizon3.ai security researcher Jimi Sebree, which can allow unauthenticated attackers to gain remote command […]
Iron Mountain: Data breach mostly limited to marketing materials
Iron Mountain, a leading data storage and recovery services company, says that a recent breach claimed by the Everest extortion gang is limited to mostly marketing materials. Headquartered in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, and founded in 1951, Iron Mountain specializes in data centers and records management, and has over 240,000 customers worldwide from more than 61 […]
UK privacy watchdog probes Grok over AI-generated sexual images
The United Kingdom’s data protection authority launched a formal investigation into X and its Irish subsidiary over reports that the Grok AI assistant was used to generate nonconsensual sexual images. This announcement comes after the ICO contacted X and xAI on January 7, seeking urgent information on the measures taken to comply with data protection law following […]
Hackers exploit critical React Native Metro bug to breach dev systems
Hackers are targeting developers by exploiting the critical vulnerability CVE-2025-11953 in the Metro server for React Native to deliver malicious payloads for Windows and Linux. On Windows, an unauthenticated attacker can leverage the security issue to execute arbitrary OS commands via a POST request. On Linux and macOS, the vulnerability can lead to running arbitrary executables with […]
French prosecutors raid X offices, summon Musk over Grok deepfakes
French prosecutors have raided X’s offices in Paris on Tuesday as part of a criminal investigation into the platform’s Grok AI tool, widely used to generate sexually explicit images. The investigation was opened in January 2025 and expanded after complaints about Grok generating illegal content and X being used to share sexual deepfakes and Holocaust-denial […]
New GlassWorm attack targets macOS via compromised OpenVSX extensions
A new GlassWorm malware attack through compromised OpenVSX extensions focuses on stealing passwords, crypto-wallet data, and developer credentials and configurations from macOS systems. The threat actor gained access to the account of a legitimate developer (oorzc) and pushed malicious updates with the GlassWorm payload to four extensions that had been downloaded 22,000 times. GlassWorm attacksĀ first appeared […]
Russian hackers exploit recently patched Microsoft Office bug in attacks
Ukraineās Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT) says that Russian hackers are exploiting CVE-2026-21509, a recently patched vulnerability in multiple versions of Microsoft Office. On January 26, Microsoft released an emergency out-of-band security update marking CVE-2026-21509 as an actively exploited zero-day flaw. CERT-UA detected the distribution of malicious DOC files exploiting the flaw, themed around EU COREPER consultations in […]
Malicious MoltBot skills used to push password-stealing malware
More than 230 malicious packages for the personal AI assistant OpenClaw (formerly known as Moltbot and ClawdBot) have been published in less than a week on the toolās official registry and on GitHub. Called skills, the packages pretend to be legitimate tools to deliver malware that steals sensitive data, likeĀ API keys, wallet private keys, SSH credentials, […]