Breaking News – Cyber Threats (last 6h)
Generated: 2026-01-07 02:00 PST
- A phishing campaign with QR codes rendered using an HTML table, (Wed, Jan 7th)
SANS ISC Diary (full) • 2026-01-07 01:32 • isc.sans.eduMalicious use of QR codes has long been ubiquitous, both in the real world as well as in electronic communication. This is hardly surprising given that a scan of a QR code can lead one to a phishing page as easily as clicking a link in an e-mail.
- Weekly Update 485
Troy Hunt • 2026-01-06 22:26 • www.troyhunt.com15 mins and 40 seconds. That's how long it took to troubleshoot the first tech problem of 2026, and that's how far you'll need to skip through this video to hear the audio at normal volume. The problem Scott and I had is analogous
- Ongoing Attacks Exploiting Critical RCE Vulnerability in Legacy D-Link DSL Routers
The Hacker News • 2026-01-06 20:31 • thehackernews.com
A newly discovered critical security flaw in legacy D-Link DSL gateway routers has come under active exploitation in the wild.
The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-0625 (CVSS score: 9.3), concerns a case of command injection in the “dnscfg.cgi” endpoint that arises as a result of improper sanitization of user-supplied DNS configuration parameters.
“An unauthenticated remote attacker can inject
https://thehackernews.com/2026/01/active-exploitation-hits-legacy-d-link.html
Sources: BleepingComputer, The Hacker News, KrebsOnSecurity, SANS ISC, CISA.
