Breaking News – Cyber Threats (last 6h)
Generated: 2026-01-09 07:00 PST
- Illinois man charged with hacking Snapchat accounts to steal nude photos
BleepingComputer • 2026-01-09 05:46 • www.bleepingcomputer.com
U.S. prosecutors have charged an Illinois man with orchestrating a phishing operation that allowed him to hack the Snapchat accounts of nearly 600 women to steal private photos and sell them online. […]
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/illinois-man-charged-with-hacking-snapchat-accounts-to-steal-nude-photos/ - Palo Alto Crosswalk Signals Had Default Passwords
Schneier on Security • 2026-01-09 04:06 • www.schneier.comPalo Alto’s crosswalk signals were hacked last year. Turns out the city never changed the default passwords.
- Cybersecurity Predictions 2026: The Hype We Can Ignore (And the Risks We Can't)
The Hacker News • 2026-01-09 03:09 • thehackernews.com
As organizations plan for 2026, cybersecurity predictions are everywhere. Yet many strategies are still shaped by headlines and speculation rather than evidence. The real challenge isn’t a lack of forecasts—it’s identifying which predictions reflect real, emerging risks and which can safely be ignored.
An upcoming webinar hosted by Bitdefender aims to cut through the noise with a data-driven
https://thehackernews.com/2026/01/cybersecurity-predictions-2026-hype-we.html - Trend Micro warns of critical Apex Central RCE vulnerability
BleepingComputer • 2026-01-09 02:40 • www.bleepingcomputer.com
Japanese cybersecurity software firm Trend Micro has patched a critical security flaw in Apex Central (on-premise) that could allow attackers to execute arbitrary code with SYSTEM privileges. […]
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/trend-micro-fixes-critical-rce-flaw-in-apex-central-console/ - Trend Micro Apex Central RCE Flaw Scores 9.8 CVSS in On-Prem Windows Versions
The Hacker News • 2026-01-09 02:01 • thehackernews.com
Trend Micro has released security updates to address multiple security vulnerabilities impacting on-premise versions of Apex Central for Windows, including a critical bug that could result in arbitrary code execution.
The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2025-69258, carries a CVSS score of 9.8 out of a maximum of 10.0. The vulnerability has been described as a case of remote code execution
https://thehackernews.com/2026/01/trend-micro-apex-central-rce-flaw.html - CISA Retires 10 Emergency Cybersecurity Directives Issued Between 2019 and 2024
The Hacker News • 2026-01-09 01:11 • thehackernews.com
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Thursday said it’s retiring 10 emergency directives (Eds) that were issued between 2019 and 2024.
The list of the directives now considered closed is as follows –ED 19-01: Mitigate DNS Infrastructure Tampering
ED 20-02: Mitigate Windows Vulnerabilities from January 2020 Patch Tuesday
ED 20-03: Mitigate Windows DNS Server
https://thehackernews.com/2026/01/cisa-retires-10-emergency-cybersecurity.html - pcTattletale founder pleads guilty in rare stalkerware prosecution
Graham Cluley • 2026-01-09 01:10 • www.bitdefender.com
The founder of a spyware company that encouraged customers to secretly monitor their romantic partners has pleaded guilty to federal charges – marking one of the few successful US prosecutions of a stalkerware operator.Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog.
https://www.bitdefender.com/en-us/blog/hotforsecurity/pctattletale-founder-pleads-guilty-in-rare-stalkerware-prosecution
Sources: BleepingComputer, The Hacker News, KrebsOnSecurity, SANS ISC, CISA.
