Breaking News – Cyber Threats (last 6h)
Generated: 2026-02-25 02:00 PST
- $10,000 bounty offered if you can hack Ring cameras to stop them sharing your data with Amazon
Graham Cluley • 2026-02-25 01:38 • www.bitdefender.com
Amid a privacy backlash, a US $10,000 reward has been offered for anyone who can find a way to run Ring doorbell cameras locally, cutting off the flow of video data to Amazon’s servers.Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog.
https://www.bitdefender.com/en-us/blog/hotforsecurity/10-000-bounty-hack-ring-cameras - Defense Contractor Employee Jailed for Selling 8 Zero-Days to Russian Broker
The Hacker News • 2026-02-25 00:49 • thehackernews.com
A 39-year-old Australian national who was previously employed at U.S. defense contractor L3Harris has been sentenced to a little over seven years in prison for selling eight zero-day exploits to Russian exploit broker Operation Zero in exchange for millions of dollars.
Peter Williams pleaded guilty to two counts of theft of trade secrets in October 2025. In addition to the jail term, Williams
https://thehackernews.com/2026/02/defense-contractor-employee-jailed-for.html - Ex-L3Harris exec jailed for selling zero-days to Russian exploit broker
BleepingComputer • 2026-02-25 00:21 • www.bleepingcomputer.com
The former head of Trenchant, a specialized U.S. defense contractor unit, was sentenced Tuesday to more than seven years in federal prison for stealing and selling zero-day exploits to a Russian exploit broker whose clients include the Russian government. […]
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/ex-l3harris-exec-jailed-for-selling-zero-days-to-russian-exploit-broker/ - Windows 11 KB5077241 update improves BitLocker, adds Sysmon tool
BleepingComputer • 2026-02-24 23:51 • www.bleepingcomputer.com
Microsoft has released the KB5077241 optional cumulative update for Windows 11, which comes with 29 changes, including improvements to BitLocker, a new network speed test tool, and native System Monitor (Sysmon) functionality. […]
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/windows-11-kb5077241-update-improves-bitlocker-adds-sysmon-tool/ - SolarWinds Patches 4 Critical Serv-U 15.5 Flaws Allowing Root Code Execution
The Hacker News • 2026-02-24 23:04 • thehackernews.com
SolarWinds has released updates to address four critical security flaws in its Serv-U file transfer software that, if successfully exploited, could result in remote code execution.
The vulnerabilities, all rated 9.1 on the CVSS scoring system, are listed below –CVE-2025-40538 – A broken access control vulnerability that allows an attacker to create a system admin user and execute arbitrary
https://thehackernews.com/2026/02/solarwinds-patches-4-critical-serv-u.html - CISA Confirms Active Exploitation of FileZen CVE-2026-25108 Vulnerability
The Hacker News • 2026-02-24 21:23 • thehackernews.com
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Tuesday added a recently disclosed vulnerability in FileZen to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, citing evidence of active exploitation.
The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-25108 (CVSS v4 score: 8.7), is a case of operating system (OS) command injection that could allow an authenticated user to execute
https://thehackernews.com/2026/02/cisa-confirms-active-exploitation-of.html
Sources: BleepingComputer, The Hacker News, KrebsOnSecurity, SANS ISC, CISA.
