Google patches Chrome zero-day as in-the-wild exploits surface
Carly Page / theregister - High-severity CSS flaw let malicious webpages run code inside the sandbox Google has quietly pushed out an emergency Chrome fix after attackers were caught exploiting the browser's first reported zero-day of 2026.…
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Google reports that state hackers from China, Russia and Iran are using Gemini in 'all stages' of attacks — phishing lures, coding and vulnerability testing get AI underpinnings from hostile actors
tomshardware - Hackers from Russian, China, India, North Korea, and elsewhere are using Google's Gemini AI to augment their attacks, Google says. From generating phishing lures, to translating text, coding, and vulnerability testing, Gemini is a core component of their …
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Dutch phone giant Odido says millions of customers affected by data breach
Zack Whittaker / techcrunch - The Dutch phone giant Odido is the latest phone and internet company to be hacked in recent months, as governments and financially motivated hackers continue to steal highly confidential information about phone customers.
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Why ‘deleted’ doesn’t mean gone: How police recovered Nancy Guthrie’s doorbell footage
Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / theverge - FBI Director Kash Patel said yesterday that investigators recovered footage from Savannah Guthrie's mother's doorbell camera using "residual data located in backend systems." This claim has many home security camera users asking an uncomfortable question:…
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Paxful crypto platform fined $4 million after prosecutors say it ‘profited from moving money for criminals’
Sarah Wynn / theblock - Paxful Holdings Inc. was sentenced to pay $4 million after prosecutors say it profited from a lack of anti-money laundering controls.
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Mansions and sports cars: former SafeMoon CEO sentenced to 8 years in prison for crypto scheme
Sarah Wynn / theblock - Former CEO of SafeMoon US LLC, Braden John Karony, was sentenced to just over eight years in prison on Tuesday.
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Man sentenced to 20 years for role in $74 million crypto investment fraud
Brian Danga / theblock - Daren Li received a 20-year sentence after admitting involvement in a $73.6 million crypto laundering conspiracy but remains a fugitive.
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French Police Arrest Six After Magistrate Kidnapped in Crypto Ransom Case
Vince Dioquino / decrypt - Authorities in France launched the manhunt after a magistrate and her mother were abducted overnight and found injured.
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Substack confirms data breach affects users’ email addresses and phone numbers
Ivan Mehta / techcrunch - Substack said that customer data was accessed in October 2025, but wasn't discovered until early February.
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Crypto analytics firm TRM Labs reaches unicorn status following $70M Blockchain Capital-led Series C
Naga Avan-Nomayo / theblock - TRM Labs has reached unicorn status after closing a $70 million funding round that values the crypto crime-fighting startup at $1 billion.
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Incognito Market founder sentenced to 30 years for crypto-based dark web drug market
Brian Danga / theblock - Prosecutors said the platform facilitated over $105 million in crypto-based narcotics sales between October 2020 and March 2024.
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Notepad++ update server hijacked in targeted attacks — outfit claims Chinese state-sponsored hackers may be to blame
tomshardware - The Notepad++ project yesterday disclosed that its update server was covertly hijacked in a targeted supply chain attack that began in June 2025,
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Elon Musk’s X offices stormed by cyber-crime police in France
news.com.au - Cyber-crime police have stormed Elon Musk’s offices in France over “deepfakes and holocaust denial”.
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Solana DeFi platform step finance hit by $27 million treasury hack as token price craters
Francisco Rodrigues / coindesk - The platform's governance token (STEP) plummeted over 80% following the announcement amid a wider crypto market drawdown.
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Exploring Clawdbot, the AI agent taking the internet by storm — AI agent can automate tasks for you, but there are significant risks involved
tomshardware - Clawdbot is a new pseudo-locally-hosted gateway for agentic AI that offers a sneak peek at both good and bad futures for the technology.
Back to Top / Tuesday, January 27, 2026, 5:21 am / permalink 18435 / 8 stories in 5 wks
Sandworm hackers linked to failed wiper attack on Poland’s energy systems
Lawrence Abrams / bleepingcomputer - A cyberattack targeting Poland's power grid in late December 2025 has been linked to the Russian state-sponsored hacking group Sandworm, which attempted to deploy a new destructive data-wiping malware dubbed DynoWiper during the attack.. [...]
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$3,000 RTX 5090 delivery brings rocks, a towel, and broken dreams — unboxing nightmare on an expensive GPU bought from Amazon Resale
tomshardware - A customer who ordered an MSI Suprim RTX 5090 worth at least $3,000 was scammed out of their money when they received a box filled with rocks instead. The story shared on Reddit highlights another entrant in the long line of GPU scam-swap cases, but this …
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1Password introduces built-in phishing protection
Ian Barker / betanews - Phishing attacks come from all kinds of angles and AI is making them harder than ever to spot as you can no longer rely on the old giveaways like poor grammar. What’s more it only needs a momentary lapse of judgment to fall victim and give away key detail…
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Future Apple product plans may be at risk following Luxshare hack
appleinsider - Apple supply chain member Luxshare suffered a major data breach in December, and hackers that pilfered the files are now offering it for sale on the dark web. It looks legit.Luxshare's existing US office near Apple Park — image credit: Apple MapsThe Apple…
Back to Top / Wednesday, January 21, 2026, 1:20 pm / permalink 18245 / 5 stories in 6 wks
Nvidia Contacted Anna's Archive To Secure Access To Millions of Pirated Books
BeauHD / slashdot - An anonymous reader quotes a report from TorrentFreak: NVIDIA executives allegedly authorized the use of millions of pirated books from Anna's Archive to fuel its AI training. In an expanded class-action lawsuit that cites internal NVIDIA documents, sever…
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