Latest news as of 2/15/2026, 3:28:28 AM
Bleeping Computer
Nigerian national Chukwuemeka Victor Amachukwu has been extradited from France to the U.S. to face charges of hacking, fraud, and identity theft for suspected spearphishing attacks on U.S. tax preparation businesses. [...]
Graham Cluley
Ukraine's Defence Intelligence agency (HUR) claims that its hackers have successfully stolen secret files and classified data on a state-of-the-art Russian nuclear submarine, the “Knyaz Pozharsky." Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog.
Dark Reading
The ultimate goal of CMMC 3.0 is not just compliance — it's resilience.
Bleeping Computer
MFA blocks 99% of attacks—but weak passwords still let attackers in. Specops helps you enforce strong password policies and MFA everywhere, so one layer doesn't undo the other. Book your free trial today. [...]
Bleeping Computer
Google is the latest company to suffer a data breach in an ongoing wave of Salesforce CRM data theft attacks conducted by the ShinyHunters extortion group. [...]
Bleeping Computer
National Bank of Canada (Banque Nationale du Canada), the sixth largest commercial bank of Canada is currently experiencing a widespread service outage affecting its online banking and mobile app platforms. [...]
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The "Direct Send" feature simplifies internal message delivery for trusted systems, and the campaign successfully duped both Microsoft Defender and third-party secure email gateways.
Krebs on Security
On July 22, 2025, the European police agency Europol said a long-running investigation led by the French Police resulted in the arrest of a 38-year-old administrator of XSS, a Russian-language cybercrime forum with more than 50,000 members. The action has triggered an ongoing frenzy of speculation and panic among XSS denizens about the identity of the unnamed suspect, but the consensus is that he is a pivotal figure in the crime forum scene who goes by the hacker handle "Toha." Here's a deep dive on what's knowable about Toha, and a short stab at who got nabbed.
Dark Reading
A trio of startup founders, GreyNoise's Andrew Morris, Thinkst Canary's Haroon Meer, and runZero's HD Moore, agree that raising venture capital funding can be beneficial, but a company's success depends on how well the product fits customer needs.
Bleeping Computer
ControlVault3 firmware vulnerabilities impacting over 100 Dell laptop models can allow attackers to bypass Windows login and install malware that persists across system reinstalls. [...]