Breaking News – Cyber Threats (last 6h)
Generated: 2026-04-27 08:00 PDT
- Home security giant ADT data breach affects 5.5 million people
BleepingComputer • 2026-04-27 07:43 • www.bleepingcomputer.com
The ShinyHunters extortion group stole the personal information of 5.5 million individuals after breaching the systems of home security giant ADT earlier this month, according to data breach notification service Have I Been Pwned. […]
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/home-security-giant-adt-data-breach-affects-55-million-people/ - Webinar: Spotting cyberattacks before they begin
BleepingComputer • 2026-04-27 07:25 • www.bleepingcomputer.com
On Thursday, April 30 at 2:00 PM ET, BleepingComputer will host a live webinar with threat intelligence company Flare and threat intelligence researcher Tammy Harper, exploring how security teams can identify early warning signs of attacks before they escalate into incidents. […]
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/webinar-spotting-cyberattacks-before-they-begin/ - TeamPCP Supply Chain Campaign: Update 008 – 26-Day Pause Ends with Three Concurrent Compromises (Checkmarx KICS, Bitwarden CLI Cascade, xinference PyPI), CanisterSprawl npm Worm Identified, and Tier 1 Coverage Returns, (Mon, Apr 27th)
SANS ISC Diary (full) • 2026-04-27 07:01 • isc.sans.eduThis update succeeds https://isc.sans.edu/diary/rss/32926
- Medtronic confirms breach after hackers claim 9 million records theft
BleepingComputer • 2026-04-27 06:50 • www.bleepingcomputer.com
Medical device giant Medtronic disclosed last week that hackers breached its network and accessed data in “certain corporate IT systems.” […]
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/medtronic-confirms-breach-after-hackers-claim-9-million-records-theft/ - Money launderer linked to $230M crypto heist gets 70 months in prison
BleepingComputer • 2026-04-27 06:01 • www.bleepingcomputer.com
22-year-old Evan Tangeman of Newport Beach, California, was sentenced to 70 months in prison for laundering funds stolen in a massive $230 million cryptocurrency heist. […]
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/money-launderer-linked-to-230m-crypto-heist-gets-70-months-in-prison/ - Deepfake Voice Attacks are Outpacing Defenses: What Security Leaders Should Know
BleepingComputer • 2026-04-27 06:00 • www.bleepingcomputer.com
Three seconds of audio is all it takes to clone a voice for fraud. Adaptive Security shows how deepfake calls trick employees into sending real money—and why most defenses don’t catch them. […]
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/deepfake-voice-attacks-are-outpacing-defenses-what-security-leaders-should-know/ - Microsoft says Outlook.com outage is causing sign‑in failures
BleepingComputer • 2026-04-27 05:03 • www.bleepingcomputer.com
Microsoft is investigating an ongoing Outlook.com outage that is causing intermittent signing issues and preventing customers from accessing their mailboxes. […]
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/microsoft-says-outlookcom-outage-is-causing-sign-in-failures/ - Mythos Changed the Math on Vulnerability Discovery. Most Teams Aren't Ready for the Remediation Side
The Hacker News • 2026-04-27 04:58 • thehackernews.com
Anthropic’s Claude Mythos Preview has dominated security discussions since its April 7 announcement. Early reporting describes a powerful cybersecurity-focused AI system capable of identifying vulnerabilities at scale and raising serious questions about how quickly organizations can validate, prioritize, and remediate what it finds.
The debate that followed has mostly focused on the right
https://thehackernews.com/2026/04/mythos-changed-math-on-vulnerability.html - PhantomCore Exploits TrueConf Vulnerabilities to Breach Russian Networks
The Hacker News • 2026-04-27 04:54 • thehackernews.com
A pro-Ukrainian hacktivist group called PhantomCore has been attributed to attacks actively targeting servers running TrueConf video conferencing software in Russia since September 2025.
That’s according to a report published by Positive Technologies, which found the threat actors to be leveraging an exploit chain comprising three vulnerabilities to execute commands remotely on susceptible
https://thehackernews.com/2026/04/phantomcore-exploits-trueconf.html - Researchers Uncover 73 Fake VS Code Extensions Delivering GlassWorm v2 Malware
The Hacker News • 2026-04-27 04:23 • thehackernews.com
Cybersecurity researchers have flagged dozens of Microsoft Visual Studio Code (VS Code) extensions on the Open VSX repository that are linked to a persistent information-stealing campaign dubbed GlassWorm.
The cluster of 73 extensions has been identified as cloned versions of their legitimate counterparts. Of these, six have been confirmed to be malicious, with the remaining acting as seemingly
https://thehackernews.com/2026/04/researchers-uncover-73-fake-vs-code.html - Medieval Encrypted Letter Decoded
Schneier on Security • 2026-04-27 04:04 • www.schneier.comSent by a Spanish diplomat. Apparently people have been working on it since it was rediscovered in 1860.
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/04/medieval-encrypted-letter-decoded.html
Sources: BleepingComputer, The Hacker News, KrebsOnSecurity, SANS ISC, CISA.
