Breaking News – Cyber Threats – 2026-01-22 02:00 PST

Breaking News – Cyber Threats (last 6h)

Generated: 2026-01-22 02:00 PST

• European Space Agency’s cybersecurity in freefall as yet another breach exposes spacecraft and mission data
  Graham Cluley • 2026-01-22 01:18 • www.bitdefender.com
  It has just been a few weeks since reports emerged of the Christmas cyber attack suffered by the European Space Agency (ESA), and the situation has already become worse.

  Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog.
  https://www.bitdefender.com/en-us/blog/hotforsecurity/european-space-agencys-cybersecurity-in-freefall-as-yet-another-breach-exposes-spacecraft-and-mission-data

• Is AI-Generated Code Secure?, (Thu, Jan 22nd)
  SANS ISC Diary (full) • 2026-01-22 00:31 • isc.sans.edu

  The title of this diary is perhaps a bit catchy but the question is important. I don&#x27t consider myself as a good developer. That&#x27s not my day job and I&#x27m writing code to improve my daily tasks. I like to say “I&#x27m writing sh*ty code! It works for me, no warranty that it will for for you”. Today, most of my code (the skeleton of the program) is generated by AI, probably like most of you.

  
  https://isc.sans.edu/diary/rss/32648

• Automated FortiGate Attacks Exploit FortiCloud SSO to Alter Firewall Configurations
  The Hacker News • 2026-01-21 21:55 • thehackernews.com
  Cybersecurity company Arctic Wolf has warned of a “new cluster of automated malicious activity” that involves unauthorized firewall configuration changes on Fortinet FortiGate devices.
  The activity, it said, commenced on January 15, 2026, adding it shares similarities with a December 2025 campaign in which malicious SSO logins on FortiGate appliances were recorded against the admin account from
  https://thehackernews.com/2026/01/automated-fortigate-attacks-exploit.html
• Cisco Fixes Actively Exploited Zero-Day CVE-2026-20045 in Unified CM and Webex
  The Hacker News • 2026-01-21 20:06 • thehackernews.com
  Cisco has released fresh patches to address what it described as a “critical” security vulnerability impacting multiple Unified Communications (CM) products and Webex Calling Dedicated Instance that it has been actively exploited as a zero-day in the wild.
  The vulnerability, CVE-2026-20045 (CVSS score: 8.2), could permit an unauthenticated remote attacker to execute arbitrary commands on the
  https://thehackernews.com/2026/01/cisco-fixes-actively-exploited-zero-day.html

Sources: BleepingComputer, The Hacker News, KrebsOnSecurity, SANS ISC, CISA.