Latest news as of 5/4/2026, 3:14:42 PM
The Register
Full scale of infections remains 'unknown' China-linked attackers exploited a maximum-severity hardcoded-credential bug in Dell RecoverPoint for Virtual Machines as a zero-day since at least mid-2024. It's all part of a long-running effort to backdoor infected machines for long-term access, according to Dell and Google's Mandiant incident response team.…
Bleeping Computer
A Spanish court has granted precautionary measures against NordVPN and ProtonVPN, ordering the two popular VPN providers to block 16 websites that facilitate piracy of football matches. [...]
Bleeping Computer
A Spanish court has granted precautionary measures against NordVPN and ProtonVPN, ordering the two popular VPN providers to block 16 websites that facilitate piracy of football matches. [...]
Dark Reading
Keenadu downloads payloads that hijack browser searches, commit ad fraud, and execute other actions without user knowledge.
Dark Reading
Russia-aligned groups are probable culprits behind the wiper attacks against renewable energy farms, a manufacturer, and a heating and power plant.
The Register
Plus 3 new goon squads targeted critical infrastructure last year Three new threat groups began targeting critical infrastructure last year, while a well-known Beijing-backed crew - Volt Typhoon - continued to compromise cellular gateways and routers, and then break into US electric, oil, and gas companies in 2025, according to Dragos' annual threat report published on Tuesday.…
Bleeping Computer
Vulnerabilities with high to critical severity ratings affecting popular Visual Studio Code (VSCode) extensions collectively downloaded more than 128 million times could be exploited to steal local files and execute code remotely. [...]
Dark Reading
It's the path of lesser resistance, as remote monitoring and management (RMM) software offers stealth, persistence, and operational efficiency.
Dark Reading
ClickFix campaigns have adapted to the latest defenses with a new technique to trick users into infecting their own machines with malware.
Bleeping Computer
A suspected Chinese state-backed hacking group has been quietly exploiting a critical Dell security flaw in zero-day attacks that started in mid-2024. [...]