Breaking News – Cyber Threats (last 6h)
Generated: 2026-01-30 02:00 PST
- Ex-Google Engineer Convicted for Stealing 2,000 AI Trade Secrets for China Startup
The Hacker News • 2026-01-29 23:35 • thehackernews.com
A former Google engineer accused of stealing thousands of the company’s confidential documents to build a startup in China has been convicted in the U.S., the Department of Justice (DoJ) announced Thursday.
Linwei Ding (aka Leon Ding), 38, was convicted by a federal jury on seven counts of economic espionage and seven counts of theft of trade secrets for taking over 2,000 documents containing
https://thehackernews.com/2026/01/ex-google-engineer-convicted-for.html - SmarterMail Fixes Critical Unauthenticated RCE Flaw with CVSS 9.3 Score
The Hacker News • 2026-01-29 23:09 • thehackernews.com
SmarterTools has addressed two more security flaws in SmarterMail email software, including one critical security flaw that could result in arbitrary code execution.
The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-24423, carries a CVSS score of 9.3 out of 10.0.
“SmarterTools SmarterMail versions prior to build 9511 contain an unauthenticated remote code execution vulnerability in the ConnectToHub API
https://thehackernews.com/2026/01/smartermail-fixes-critical.html - Two Ivanti EPMM Zero-Day RCE Flaws Actively Exploited, Security Updates Released
The Hacker News • 2026-01-29 20:43 • thehackernews.com
Ivanti has rolled out security updates to address two security flaws impacting Ivanti Endpoint Manager Mobile (EPMM) that have been exploited in zero-day attacks, one of which has been added by the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog.
The critical-severity vulnerabilities are listed below –CVE-2026-1281 (CVSS score:
https://thehackernews.com/2026/01/two-ivanti-epmm-zero-day-rce-flaws.html
Sources: BleepingComputer, The Hacker News, KrebsOnSecurity, SANS ISC, CISA.
