Author: Hannah Devlin Science correspondent

Technology minister tells Commons ‘de-identified’ information from UK Biobank advertised for sale on Alibaba UK politics live – latest updates The confidential health records of half a million British volunteers have been offered for sale on Chinese website Alibaba, the UK government has confirmed. The data, belonging to participants in the UK Biobank project, was … Read More “Private health records of half a million Britons offered for sale on Chinese website  – Data and computer security | The Guardian” »

Last week, Anthropic announced Project Glasswing, an AI model so effective at discovering software vulnerabilities that they took the extraordinary step of postponing its public release. Instead, the company has given access to Apple, Microsoft, Google, Amazon, and a coalition of others to find and patch bugs before adversaries can. Mythos Preview, the model that … Read More “Project Glasswing Proved AI Can Find the Bugs. Who’s Going to Fix Them?  – The Hacker News” »

Imagine a world where hackers don’t sleep, don’t take breaks, and find weak spots in your systems instantly. Well, that world is already here. Thanks to AI, attackers are now launching automated, large-scale exploits faster than ever before. The time you have to fix a vulnerability before it gets attacked is shrinking to zero. We … Read More “[Webinar] Mythos Reality Check: Beating Automated Exploitation at AI Speed  – The Hacker News” »

Cybersecurity researchers at Forcepoint uncover new indirect prompt injection attacks that use hidden website code to exploit AI assistants like GitHub Copilot.  – Read More  – Hackread – Cybersecurity News, Data Breaches, AI and More 

Apple has rolled out a software fix for iOS and iPadOS to address a Notification Services flaw that stored notifications marked for deletion on the device. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-28950 (CVSS score: N/A), has been described as a logging issue that has been addressed with improved data redaction. “Notifications marked for deletion could be … Read More “Apple Patches iOS Flaw That Stored Deleted Signal Notifications in FBI Forensic Case  – The Hacker News” »

Vercel on Wednesday revealed that it has identified an additional set of customer accounts that were compromised as part of a security incident that enabled unauthorized access to its internal systems. The company said it made the discovery after expanding its investigation to include an extra set of compromise indicators, alongside a review of requests … Read More “Vercel Finds More Compromised Accounts in Context.ai-Linked Breach  – The Hacker News” »

Mongolian governmental institutions have emerged as the target of a previously undocumented China-aligned advanced persistent threat (APT) group tracked as GopherWhisper. “The group wields a wide array of tools mostly written in Go, using injectors and loaders to deploy and execute various backdoors in its arsenal,” Slovakian cybersecurity company ESET said in a report shared … Read More “China-Linked GopherWhisper Infects 12 Mongolian Government Systems with Go Backdoors  – The Hacker News” »

A company that ran anonymous tip lines for 35,000 American schools – handling reports of bullying, weapons, and self-harm – boasted on its website that it had suffered zero security breaches in over 20 years. A hacker called Internet Yiff Machine thought that sounded like a challenge, with predictable results… Meanwhile, Rockstar Games gets hacked … Read More “Smashing Security podcast #464: Rockstar got hacked. The data was junk. The secrets it revealed were not  – GRAHAM CLULEY” »

Anthropic is investigating a vendor breach after a Discord-linked group accessed its Claude Mythos AI model, with no evidence of impact on core systems.  – Read More  – Hackread – Cybersecurity News, Data Breaches, AI and More 

House Republicans unveiled on Wednesday Congress’ latest effort to tackle comprehensive digital privacy legislation for Americans. The Secure Data Act would allow consumers to opt out of data collection for individual businesses for the purposes of targeted advertising, selling to third parties or for use in automated decisionmaking. It would also require companies to inform … Read More “House Republicans roll out national privacy bill  – CyberScoop” »

Sean Plankey, the long-sidelined nominee to lead the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, asked President Donald Trump on Wednesday to withdraw his nomination. “At this point in time, I am asking the President to remove my nomination from consideration,” he said in a notification letter seen by CyberScoop. “After thirteen months since my initial nomination, it … Read More “CISA director pick Sean Plankey withdraws his nomination  – CyberScoop” »

Cybersecurity researchers have warned of malicious images pushed to the official “checkmarx/kics” Docker Hub repository. In an alert published today, software supply chain security company Socket revealed that unknown threat actors managed to have overwritten existing tags, including v2.1.20 and alpine, while also introducing a new v2.1.21 tag that does not correspond to an official … Read More “Malicious KICS Docker Images and VS Code Extensions Hit Checkmarx Supply Chain  – The Hacker News” »

Cybersecurity researchers have flagged a fresh set of packages that have been compromised by bad actors to deliver a self-propagating worm that spreads through stolen developer npm tokens. The supply chain worm has been detected by both Socket and StepSecurity, with the companies tracking the activity under the name CanisterSprawl owing to the use of … Read More “Self-Propagating Supply Chain Worm Hijacks npm Packages to Steal Developer Tokens  – The Hacker News” »

Compare Broadcom TDM and K2view across architecture, integration, masking, and scalability to find the right test data management solution for your needs.  – Read More  – Hackread – Cybersecurity News, Data Breaches, AI and More 

The threat actor known as Harvester has been attributed to a new Linux version of its GoGra backdoor deployed as part of attacks likely targeting entities in South Asia. “The malware uses the legitimate Microsoft Graph API and Outlook mailboxes as a covert command-and-control (C2) channel, allowing it to bypass traditional perimeter network defenses,” the … Read More “Harvester Deploys Linux GoGra Backdoor in South Asia Using Microsoft Graph API  – The Hacker News” »

The Supreme Court will hear oral arguments Monday in a case that could limit the government’s ability to obtain bulk digital data of device users with a single warrant, in a rare instance of the country’s top justices taking on digital rights. Chatrie v. The United States is the first major Fourth Amendment case the … Read More “The Supreme Court is about to decide how far geofence warrants can go  – CyberScoop” »

Bluesky is back online after a roughly 24-hour DDoS attack disrupted services, with the Iran-linked 313 Team claiming responsibility and no data breach reported.  – Read More  – Hackread – Cybersecurity News, Data Breaches, AI and More 

Acronis reveals Mustang Panda is using a new LOTUSLITE backdoor to target Indian banks and Korean diplomats. Learn how this DLL sideloading attack works.  – Read More  – Hackread – Cybersecurity News, Data Breaches, AI and More 

On January 31, 2026, researchers disclosed that Moltbook, a social network built for AI agents, had left its database wide open, exposing 35,000 email addresses and 1.5 million agent API tokens across 770,000 active agents. The more worrying part sat inside the private messages. Some of those conversations held plaintext third-party credentials, including OpenAI API … Read More “Toxic Combinations: When Cross-App Permissions Stack into Risk  – The Hacker News” »

Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a previously undocumented data wiper that has been used in attacks targeting Venezuela at the end of last year and the start of 2026. Dubbed Lotus Wiper, the novel file wiper has been used in a destructive campaign targeting the energy and utilities sector in Venezuela, per findings from Kaspersky. “Two … Read More “Lotus Wiper Malware Targets Venezuelan Energy Systems in Destructive Attack  – The Hacker News” »

Microsoft has released out-of-band updates to address a security vulnerability in ASP.NET Core that could allow an attacker to escalate privileges. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-40372, carries a CVSS score of 9.1 out of 10.0. It’s rated Important in severity. An anonymous researcher has been credited with discovering and reporting the flaw. “Improper verification of … Read More “Microsoft Patches Critical ASP.NET Core CVE-2026-40372 Privilege Escalation Bug  – The Hacker News” »

Many security leaders are still operating with frameworks built for a different era. For years, success was measured by fixed checkpoints, such as passing audits, closing vulnerabilities, and maintaining compliance. Those markers still have value, but they were designed for a threat landscape that moved in predictable, linear ways. Today, that landscape is shifting in … Read More “The AI era demands a different kind of CISO  – CyberScoop” »

A critical security vulnerability has been disclosed in a Python-based sandbox called Terrarium that could result in arbitrary code execution. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-5752, is rated 9.3 on the CVSS scoring system. “Sandbox escape vulnerability in Terrarium allows arbitrary code execution with root privileges on a host process via JavaScript prototype chain traversal,” according … Read More “Cohere AI Terrarium Sandbox Flaw Enables Root Code Execution, Container Escape  – The Hacker News” »

Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a new variant of a known malware called LOTUSLITE that’s distributed via a theme related to India’s banking sector. “The backdoor communicates with a dynamic DNS-based command-and-control server over HTTPS and supports remote shell access, file operations, and session management, indicating a continued espionage-focused capability set rather than  – Read More  … Read More “Mustang Panda’s New LOTUSLITE Variant Targets India Banks, South Korea Policy Circles  – The Hacker News” »

2Apply’s over-collection of personal information adds to the power of the real estate industry in the competitive rental market, Carly Kind says Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast An online rental platform has been urged to stop collecting users’ personal information … Read More “Rental platform unnecessarily collected the data of millions of Australians, privacy commissioner finds  – Data and computer security | The Guardian” »

A South Florida man pleaded guilty to conspiring with multiple ransomware affiliates to commit attacks against and extort payments from the same U.S. companies he represented as a ransomware negotiator for DigitalMint in 2023, the Justice Department said Monday. Angelo John Martino III shared confidential information about victim organizations’ internal negotiating positions and insurance policy … Read More “Former DigitalMint ransomware negotiator pleads guilty to extortion scheme  – CyberScoop” »

Threat actors associated with The Gentlemen ransomware‑as‑a‑service (RaaS) operation have been observed attempting to deploy a known proxy malware called SystemBC. According to new research published by Check Point, the command-and-control (C2 or C&C) server linked to SystemBC has led to the discovery of a botnet of more than 1,570 victims. “SystemBC establishes SOCKS5 network … Read More “SystemBC C2 Server Reveals 1,570+ Victims in The Gentlemen Ransomware Operation  – The Hacker News” »

Microsoft vulnerabilities fall, but critical flaws double, BeyondTrust report highlights rising risk in Microsoft Office, Azure, and cloud systems.  – Read More  – Hackread – Cybersecurity News, Data Breaches, AI and More 

Lawmakers at a hearing Tuesday explored ways to beef up punishments for ransomware attacks against hospitals, possibly by labeling them as more severe crimes. One proposal floated at the House Homeland Security Committee hearing, to treat ransomware attacks as terrorism, is an idea Congress has flirted with before. Another would be to press prosecutors to … Read More “Lawmakers ponder terrorism designations, homicide charges over hospital ransomware attacks  – CyberScoop” »