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Dark Reading Confidential: This Threat Hunter Helped Cops Bust Up An African Cybercrime Syndicate

Dark Reading Confidential Episode 15: Interpol relied on Will Thomas and team to help break up a sprawling cybercrime ring, leading to the arrest of 574 suspects, the recovery of more than $3 million, and the decryption of six malware variants. Here's his story.

CISA flags VMware Aria Operations RCE flaw as exploited in attacks

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has added a VMware Aria Operations vulnerability tracked as CVE-2026-22719 to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog, flagging the flaw as exploited in attacks. [...]

Paint maker giant AkzoNobel confirms cyberattack on U.S. site

The multinational Dutch paint company AkzoNobel has confirmed to BleepingComputer that hackers breached the network of one of its U.S. sites. [...]

Facebook accounts unavailable in worldwide outage

Social media giant Facebook is currently experiencing a massive worldwide outage, preventing users from accessing their accounts. [...]

Microsoft: Hackers abuse OAuth error flows to spread malware

Hackers are abusing the legitimate OAuth redirection mechanism to bypass phishing protections in email and browsers to take users to malicious pages. [...]

Vehicle Tire Pressure Sensors Enable Silent Tracking

Like many other features and systems in modern cars, tire pressure sensors leak sensitive data that can be abused by threat actors.

Qualcomm Zero-Day Exploited in Targeted Android Attacks

The exploitation activity against CVE-2026-21385, a high-severity memory corruption flaw, could be tied to commercial spyware or nation-state threat groups.

LexisNexis says hackers accessed legacy data in contained breach

The breach emerged this week when a threat actor claimed they stole 2 GB worth of information from the company that included millions of records.

Speakeasies to Shadow AI: Banning AI Browsers Will Fail

Lessons from history highlight why AI-enabled browsers require controlled enablement.

Google Chrome shifts to two-week release cycle for increased stability

Google Chrome will shift from a four-week to a two-week release cycle to roll out new features, bug fixes, and performance improvements more frequently. [...]

LexisNexis confirms data breach as hackers leak stolen files

American data analytics company LexisNexis Legal & Professional has confirmed to BleepingComputer that hackers breached its servers and accessed some customer and business information. [...]

Compromised Site Management Panels are a Hot Item in Cybercrime Markets

Compromised cPanel credentials are being sold in bulk across underground channels as plug-and-play phishing and scam infrastructure. Flare explains how analyzing 200,000 underground posts reveals a commoditized market for hacked site management panels. [...]

Florida woman gets 2 year sentence for trafficking Microsoft software labels

According to court documents, the defendant purchased millions of dollars of labels but did not sell them with the corresponding software.

Hollywood’s Ethical Hacker On The Cybercrime Magazine Podcast

This week in cybersecurity from the editors at Cybercrime Magazine Sausalito, Calif. – Mar. 3, 2026 – Listen to the podcast Ralph Echemendia is a world-renowned cybersecurity expert, known internationally by his alter ego “The Ethical Hacker.” In 2015, WIRED called Ralph Echemendia “Hollywood’s go-to The post Hollywood’s Ethical Hacker …

AI Agent Overload: How to Solve the Workload Identity Crisis

Workloads keep getting more complicated and organizations are struggling to keep up. So what's the play?

Amazon: Drone strikes damaged AWS data centers in Middle East

Amazon has confirmed that three Amazon Web Services (AWS) data centers in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and one in Bahrain have been damaged by drone strikes, causing an extensive outage that is still affecting dozens of cloud computing services. [...]

As War Continues, Pro-Iranian Actors Launch Barrage of Cyberattacks

Iran and its supporters have taken to cyberspace to retaliate for US-Israeli military action, with an aim to cause economic and physical disruption.

Star Citizen game dev discloses breach affecting user data

Cloud Imperium Games (CIG), the game developer behind Star Citizen and Squadron 42, says attackers breached systems containing some users' personal information in January. [...]