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Hi Russell Roberts Roberts | Log in Top Security Headlines Monday, 12 January 2026 Gmail preparing to drop POP3 mail fetching It's January 2026, and Google is finding innovative new ways to make one of its services worse Mon 5 Jan 2026 HSBC app takes a dim view of sideloaded Bitwarden installations Customers report being locked out after grabbing the password manager via F-Droid Wed 7 Jan 2026 Logitech macOS mouse mayhem traced to expired dev certificate Company says it dropped the ball, apologizes for wasting people's time Thu 8 Jan 2026 One criminal, 50 hacked organizations, and all because MFA wasn't turned on Crim used infostealer to get cloud credentials Tue 6 Jan 2026 Fake Windows BSODs check in at Europe's hotels to con staff into running malware Phishers posing as Booking.com use panic-inducing blue screens to bypass security controls Tue 6 Jan 2026 Help desk read irrelevant script, so techies found and fixed their own problem As you should, when being told the only remedy is deleting everything and starting again Fri 9 Jan 2026 Maximum-severity n8n flaw lets randos run your automation server Unauthenticated RCE means anyone on the network can seize full control Thu 8 Jan 2026 Cloudflare pours cold water on ‘BGP weirdness preceded US attack on Venezuela’ theory Suggests rotten routing, not evidence of a cyber-strike before kinetic action Thu 8 Jan 2026 UK government exempting itself from flagship cyber law inspires little confidence Ministers promise equivalent standards just without the legal obligation Sat 10 Jan 2026 HackerOne 'ghosted' me for months over $8,500 bug bounty, says researcher Long after CVEs issued and open source flaws fixed Wed 7 Jan 2026 OpenAI putting bandaids on bandaids as prompt injection problems keep festering Happy Groundhog Day! Thu 8 Jan 2026 IBM's AI agent Bob easily duped to run malware, researchers show Prompt injection lets risky commands slip past guardrails Wed 7 Jan 2026 ESA calls cops as crims lift off 500 GB of files, say security black hole still open Two weeks, two major data leaks … not a good look for the European Space Agency Wed 7 Jan 2026 How hackers are fighting back against ICE surveillance tech Remember when government agents didn't wear masks? Fri 9 Jan 2026 Ministry of Justice splurged £50M on security – still missed Legal Aid Agency cyberattack High-risk system compromised long before intrusion was finally spotted Wed 7 Jan 2026 Jaguar Land Rover wholesale volumes plummet 43% in cyberattack aftermath Production halts and supply-chain disruption left luxury automaker reeling in fiscal Q3 Wed 7 Jan 2026 Microsoft scraps Exchange Online spam clamp after customers cry foul Negative feedback sinks Redmond's plan to cap outbound email recipients Wed 7 Jan 2026 Congrats, cybercrims: You just fell into a honeypot A subpoena has been issued, apparently Mon 5 Jan 2026 UK regulators swarm X after Grok generated nudes from photos Lawyers say Musk's platform may face punishment under Online Safety Act priority offenses Thu 8 Jan 2026 Yes, criminals are using AI to vibe-code malware They also hallucinate when writing ransomware code Thu 8 Jan 2026 QR codes a powerful new phishing weapon in hands of Pyongyang cyberspies State-backed attackers are using QR codes to slip past enterprise security and help themselves to cloud logins, the FBI says Fri 9 Jan 2026 UK injects just £210M into cyber plan to stop Whitehall getting pwnd Central government will supposedly be as secure as energy facilities and datacenters under new proposals Tue 6 Jan 2026 Grok told to cover up as UK weighs action over AI 'undressing' Image generation paywalled on X after ministers and regulators start asking awkward questions Fri 9 Jan 2026 China-linked cybercrims abused VMware ESXi zero-days a year before disclosure Huntress analysis suggests VM escape bugs were already weaponized in the wild Fri 9 Jan 2026 CISA flags actively exploited Office relic alongside fresh HPE flaw Max-severity OneView hole joins a PowerPoint bug that should've been retired years ago Thu 8 Jan 2026 Crypto wallet shop Ledger confirms customer data lifted in Global-e snafu Order and contact details accessed via ecommerce partner, and phishing has begun Tue 6 Jan 2026 Students bag extended Christmas break after cyber hit on school IT Phones, email, and core systems knocked out at Higham Lane in Nuneaton Tue 6 Jan 2026 Patch Cisco ISE bug now before attackers abuse proof-of-concept exploit No reports of active exploitation … yet Thu 8 Jan 2026 Brightspeed investigates breach as crims post stolen data for sale Crimson Collective claims 'sophisticated attack' Tue 6 Jan 2026 New Zealand orders review into ManageMyHealth cyberattack Government 'incredibly' concerned about breach potentially affecting more than 100,000 patients Mon 5 Jan 2026

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