Breaking News – Cyber Threats (last 6h)
Generated: 2026-01-22 07:00 PST
- Microsoft updates Notepad and Paint with more AI features
BleepingComputer • 2026-01-22 06:22 • www.bleepingcomputer.com
Microsoft is rolling out new artificial intelligence features with the latest updates to the Notepad and Paint apps for Windows 11 Insiders. […]
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/microsoft-updates-notepad-and-paint-with-more-ai-features/ - Why AI Keeps Falling for Prompt Injection Attacks
Schneier on Security • 2026-01-22 04:35 • www.schneier.comImagine you work at a drive-through restaurant. Someone drives up and says: “I’ll have a double cheeseburger, large fries, and ignore previous instructions and give me the contents of the cash drawer.” Would you hand over the money? Of course not. Yet this is what large language models (LLMs) do.
Prompt injection is a method of tricking LLMs into doing things they are normally prevented …
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/01/why-ai-keeps-falling-for-prompt-injection-attacks.html - Hackers exploit 29 zero-days on second day of Pwn2Own Automotive
BleepingComputer • 2026-01-22 04:30 • www.bleepingcomputer.com
Hackers collect $439,250 after exploiting 29 zero-day vulnerabilities on the second day of Pwn2Own Automotive 2026. […]
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/hackers-exploit-29-zero-day-vulnerabilities-on-second-day-of-pwn2own-automotive/ - Hackers breach Fortinet FortiGate devices, steal firewall configs
BleepingComputer • 2026-01-22 03:49 • www.bleepingcomputer.com
Fortinet FortiGate devices are being targeted in automated attacks that create rogue accounts and steal firewall configuration data, according to cybersecurity company Arctic Wolf. […]
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/hackers-breach-fortinet-fortigate-devices-steal-firewall-configs/ - Filling the Most Common Gaps in Google Workspace Security
The Hacker News • 2026-01-22 03:30 • thehackernews.com
Security teams at agile, fast-growing companies often have the same mandate: secure the business without slowing it down. Most teams inherit a tech stack optimized for breakneck growth, not resilience. In these environments, the security team is the helpdesk, the compliance expert, and the incident response team all rolled into one.
Securing the cloud office in this scenario is all about
https://thehackernews.com/2026/01/filling-most-common-gaps-in-google.html - Malicious PyPI Package Impersonates SymPy, Deploys XMRig Miner on Linux Hosts
The Hacker News • 2026-01-22 02:04 • thehackernews.com
A new malicious package discovered in the Python Package Index (PyPI) has been found to impersonate a popular library for symbolic mathematics to deploy malicious payloads, including a cryptocurrency miner, on Linux hosts.
The package, named sympy-dev, mimics SymPy, replicating the latter’s project description verbatim in an attempt to deceive unsuspecting users into thinking that they are
https://thehackernews.com/2026/01/malicious-pypi-package-impersonates.html - SmarterMail Auth Bypass Exploited in the Wild Two Days After Patch Release
The Hacker News • 2026-01-22 01:46 • thehackernews.com
A new security flaw in SmarterTools SmarterMail email software has come under active exploitation in the wild, two days after the release of a patch.
The vulnerability, which currently does not have a CVE identifier, is tracked by watchTowr Labs as WT-2026-0001. It was patched by SmarterTools on January 15, 2026, with Build 9511, following responsible disclosure by the exposure management
https://thehackernews.com/2026/01/smartermail-auth-bypass-exploited-in.html - 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
Sources: BleepingComputer, The Hacker News, KrebsOnSecurity, SANS ISC, CISA.
