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Allowing Calendar Invites

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To help keep your Google Calendar free from spam, you can now select an option to display events on your calendar only if they come from a sender you know.…

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WhatsApp Rolls Out Lockdown-Style Security Mode to Protect Targeted Users From Spyware

27 January 2026

Meta on Tuesday announced it's adding Strict Account Settings on WhatsApp to secure certain users against advanced cyber attacks because of who they are and what they do. The feature, [...]

Experts Detect Pakistan-Linked Cyber Campaigns Aimed at Indian Government Entities

27 January 2026

Indian government entities have been targeted in two campaigns undertaken by a threat actor that operates in Pakistan using previously undocumented tradecraft. The campaigns have been codenamed Gopher Strike and [...]

ClickFix Attacks Expand Using Fake CAPTCHAs, Microsoft Scripts, and Trusted Web Services

27 January 2026

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a new campaign that combines ClickFix-style fake CAPTCHAs with a signed Microsoft Application Virtualization (App-V) script to distribute an information stealer called Amatera. "Instead [...]

CTEM in Practice: Prioritization, Validation, and Outcomes That Matter

27 January 2026

Cybersecurity teams increasingly want to move beyond looking at threats and vulnerabilities in isolation. It’s not only about what could go wrong (vulnerabilities) or who might attack (threats), but where [...]

Microsoft Office Zero-Day (CVE-2026-21509) - Emergency Patch Issued for Active Exploitation

27 January 2026

Microsoft on Monday issued out-of-band security patches for a high-severity Microsoft Office zero-day vulnerability exploited in attacks. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-21509, carries a CVSS score of 7.8 out of [...]

Who Operates the Badbox 2.0 Botnet?

26 January 2026

The cybercriminals in control of Kimwolf -- a disruptive botnet that has infected more than 2 million devices -- recently shared a screenshot indicating they'd compromised the control panel for [...]

Kimwolf Botnet Lurking in Corporate, Govt. Networks

20 January 2026

A new Internet-of-Things botnet called Kimwolf has spread to more than 2 million devices, forcing infected systems to participate in massive distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks and to relay other malicious [...]

Patch Tuesday, January 2026 Edition

14 January 2026

Microsoft today issued patches to plug at least 113 security holes in its various Windows operating systems and supported software. Eight of the vulnerabilities earned Microsoft's most-dire "critical" rating, and [...]

Who Benefited from the Aisuru and Kimwolf Botnets?

8 January 2026

Our first story of 2026 revealed how a destructive new botnet called Kimwolf rapidly grew to infect more than two million devices by mass-compromising a vast number of unofficial Android [...]

The Kimwolf Botnet is Stalking Your Local Network

2 January 2026

The story you are reading is a series of scoops nestled inside a far more urgent Internet-wide security advisory. The vulnerability at issue has been exploited for months already, and [...]

AI-powered polymorphic attack lures victims to phishing webpages

28 January 2026

AI-fueled attacks can transform an innocuous webpage into a customed phishing page. The attacks, revealed in a research from Palo Alto Networks’ Unit 42, are clever in how they combine [...]

Fixes released for a serious Microsoft Office zero-day flaw

27 January 2026

Microsoft is warning admins of an Office security bypass zero day vulnerability that can be triggered simply by a user opening a document. The flaw is currently being actively exploited. [...]

4 Probleme, die CISOs behindern

27 January 2026

Lesen Sie, welche strategischen Probleme CISOs bei ihren Aufgaben behindern.alphaspirit.it – shutterstock.com Viele Sicherheitsverantwortliche glauben, dass ein Cybervorfall unvermeidlich ist – unklsar ist lediglich der Zeitpunkt. Diese Überzeugung spiegelt sich [...]

CISA releases technology readiness list for post-quantum cryptography

27 January 2026

The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has released a new advisory mapping post-quantum cryptography (PQC) standards to common enterprise hardware and software categories, giving CIOs and security teams [...]

Overcoming AI fatigue

27 January 2026

AI is now everywhere within enterprises. Many CISOs I speak with feel stuck between wanting to move forward and not knowing where to begin. The fear of getting both security’s [...]