Breaking News – Cyber Threats (last 6h)
Generated: 2026-03-11 08:00 PDT
- Meta adds new WhatsApp, Facebook, and Messenger anti-scam tools
BleepingComputer • 2026-03-11 06:29 • www.bleepingcomputer.com
Meta is introducing new anti-scam protections across its platforms, deploying systems and user-facing warnings to protect users against scammers. […]
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/meta-adds-new-whatsapp-facebook-and-messenger-anti-scam-tools/ - Meta Disables 150K Accounts Linked to Southeast Asia Scam Centers in Global Crackdown
The Hacker News • 2026-03-11 06:15 • thehackernews.com
Meta on Wednesday said it disabled over 150,000 accounts associated with scam centers in Southeast Asia as part of a coordinated effort in partnership with authorities from Thailand, the U.S., the U.K., Canada, Korea, Japan, Singapore, the Philippines, Australia, New Zealand, and Indonesia.
The effort also led to 21 arrests made by the Royal Thai Police, the company said. The action builds upon
https://thehackernews.com/2026/03/meta-disables-150k-accounts-linked-to.html - Dozens of Vendors Patch Security Flaws Across Enterprise Software and Network Devices
The Hacker News • 2026-03-11 05:26 • thehackernews.com
SAP has released security updates to address two critical security flaws that could be exploited to achieve arbitrary code execution on affected systems.
The vulnerabilities in question listed below –CVE-2019-17571 (CVSS score: 9.8) – A code injection vulnerability in SAP Quotation Management Insurance application (FS-QUO)
CVE-2026-27685 (CVSS score: 9.1) – An insecure deserialization
https://thehackernews.com/2026/03/dozens-of-vendors-patch-security-flaws.html - What Boards Must Demand in the Age of AI-Automated Exploitation
The Hacker News • 2026-03-11 04:30 • thehackernews.com
“You knew, and you could have acted. Why didn’t you?”
This is the question you do not want to be asked. And increasingly, it’s the question leaders are forced to answer after an incident.
For years, many executive teams and boards have treated a large vulnerability backlog as an uncomfortable but tolerable fact of life: “we’ve accepted the risk.” If you’ve ever seen a report showing
https://thehackernews.com/2026/03/what-boards-must-demand-in-age-of-ai.html - Canada Needs Nationalized, Public AI
Schneier on Security • 2026-03-11 04:04 • www.schneier.comCanada has a choice to make about its artificial intelligence future. The Carney administration is investing $2-billion over five years in its Sovereign AI Compute Strategy. Will any value generated by “sovereign AI” be captured in Canada, making a difference in the lives of Canadians, or is this just a passthrough to investment in American Big Tech?
Forcing the question is OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, which has been pushing an “OpenAI for Countries” initiat…
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/03/canada-needs-nationalized-public-ai.html - Analyzing "Zombie Zip" Files (CVE-2026-0866), (Wed, Mar 11th)
SANS ISC Diary (full) • 2026-03-11 02:57 • isc.sans.eduA new vulnerability (CVE-2026-0866) has been published: Zombie Zip.
- Microsoft Patches 84 Flaws in March Patch Tuesday, Including Two Public Zero-Days
The Hacker News • 2026-03-11 02:15 • thehackernews.com
Microsoft on Tuesday released patches for a set of 84 new security vulnerabilities affecting various software components, including two that have been listed as publicly known.
Of these, eight are rated Critical, and 76 are rated Important in severity. Forty-six of the patched vulnerabilities relate to privilege escalation, followed by 18 remote code execution, 10 information disclosure, four
https://thehackernews.com/2026/03/microsoft-patches-84-flaws-in-march.html
Sources: BleepingComputer, The Hacker News, KrebsOnSecurity, SANS ISC, CISA.
