Breaking News – Cyber Threats – 2026-01-06 02:00 PST

Breaking News – Cyber Threats (last 6h)

Generated: 2026-01-06 02:00 PST

• Coinbase insider who sold customer data to criminals arrested in India
  Graham Cluley • 2026-01-06 00:38 • www.bitdefender.com
  Police in India have arrested a former Coinbase customer service agent who is believed to have been bribed by cybercriminal gangs to access sensitive customer information.

  Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog.
  https://www.bitdefender.com/en-us/blog/hotforsecurity/coinbase-insider-who-sold-customer-data-to-criminals-arrested-in-india

• 168: LoD
  Darknet Diaries • 2026-01-06 00:00 • darknetdiaries.com

  The Legion of Doom (LoD) wasn’t just a “hacker group”, it captured the essence of underground hacking in the 80s/90s. BBSes, phreaking, rival crews, and the crackdowns that changed everything. From those humble beginnings came a legacy that still echoes through modern security culture today.

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• New n8n Vulnerability (9.9 CVSS) Lets Authenticated Users Execute System Commands
  The Hacker News • 2026-01-05 21:08 • thehackernews.com
  A new critical security vulnerability has been disclosed in n8n, an open-source workflow automation platform, that could enable an authenticated attacker to execute arbitrary system commands on the underlying host.
  The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2025-68668, is rated 9.9 on the CVSS scoring system. It has been described as a case of a protection mechanism failure.
  It affects n8n versions from
  https://thehackernews.com/2026/01/new-n8n-vulnerability-99-cvss-lets.html

Sources: BleepingComputer, The Hacker News, KrebsOnSecurity, SANS ISC, CISA.