Interpol cybercrime crackdown nets 5,800 arrests across 97 countries
Authorities arrested more than 5,800 alleged cybercriminals and seized $293 million in a global operation targeting social-engineering scams and money laundering across 97 countries, Interpol said Thursday. The anti-fraud crackdown, dubbed Operation First Light, identified more than 142,000 victims, including people, businesses and governments, officials said. Police identified more than 15,500 cybercrime suspects during the operation, which spanned more than three months ending in late April. READ MORE...
Microsoft warns customers AI will mean busier Patch Tuesdays
Microsoft has warned customers to expect more security patches for the foreseeable future, thanks to AI. "As AI helps defenders discover more issues, customers will see a higher volume of security updates included in each security release," the company's executive veep for Windows + Devices, Pavan Davuluri, wrote in a Thursday post that describes how Microsoft is changing its internal processes to spot software vulnerabilities using AI. READ MORE...
July 2026 Patch Tuesday forecast: Is CVE tracking still practical?
I was off by a month in my forecast of record-setting CVE releases from Microsoft. In June, we saw the deluge of over 200 reported CVEs that I expected in May. There were 116 CVEs for Windows 11 and 104 for Windows 10. In addition, we saw large numbers in both common applications like Office and SharePoint Server as well as the host of development tools and libraries like Visual Studio and .NET. Will the trend continue this month? READ MORE...
Two Chrome updates in two days fix critical vulnerabilities
Updating Chrome is becoming an almost daily task lately. But it's too important to ignore. On Wednesday, July 8, Google released another Chrome update, just one day later after the previous one. Between them, the two updates fixed 27 security vulnerabilities, including two critical flaws that could be exploited to compromise Chrome. Google says both are "use-after-free" memory vulnerabilities, which can sometimes allow attackers to run malicious code. READ MORE...
Former DigitalMint ransomware negotiator who duped clients sentenced to 70 months in jail
Aformer ransomware negotiator for DigitalMint was sentenced to 70 months in jail for deceiving his employer's clients and conspiring with ransomware affiliates to extort a combined $75.3 million from five U.S. companies he was entrusted to aid during their moments of extreme crisis, the Justice Department said Thursday. Angelo John Martino III shared confidential information he gained from his work as a ransomware negotiator. READ MORE...
GigaWiper Combines Multiple Malware for System-Level Sabotage
For over eight months, a threat actor has been using a destructive backdoor and wiper that has multiple system-level sabotage capabilities, Microsoft reports. Dubbed GigaWiper, the malware is a sophisticated Go-based backdoor that consists of multiple malware families and robust command-and-control (C&C) capabilities. According to Microsoft, the malware in GigaWiper was folded in the form of on-demand backdoor commands. READ MORE...
Invited to a "job interview" with Netflix or OpenAI? Beware! Your Google password could be at risk
Have you received an email from a recruiter at Adobe, Netflix, or OpenAI offering you an exciting new marketing role? Well, before you start brushing up your interview technique, take a closer look at who is really behind it. Security experts have uncovered a phishing campaign which impersonates over 30 well-known brands in fake job interviews designed to steal Google account passwords. READ MORE...
Zimbra urges customers to patch critical web client XSS flaw
The Zimbra security team urged customers to patch a critical vulnerability affecting the Classic Web Client used to access the Zimbra Collaboration suite. Zimbra is a very popular email and collaboration software suite used by hundreds of millions of people, including thousands of businesses and hundreds of government agencies worldwide. Also known as the Classic UI, this Ajax-based webmail interface is faster than Zimbra's modern web client. READ MORE...
Palo Alto Networks Patches 13 Vulnerabilities
Palo Alto Networks on Wednesday published advisories describing more than a dozen vulnerabilities affecting its products. The new advisories cover 13 vulnerabilities specific to Palo Alto Networks products, as well as more than 500 flaws patched recently by Google in Chromium, which the cybersecurity giant uses for its Prisma browser. The most severe of the newly patched vulnerabilities is CVE-2026-0288. The CVE covers multiple buffer overflows in the PAN-OS software. READ MORE...
- ...in 1850, Vice President Millard Fillmore is sworn in as the 13th president of the United States, following the death of Zachary Taylor the previous day.
- ...in 1940, Germany begins the first in a three-and-a-half month series of bombing raids against the UK, known as the Battle of Britain.
- ...in 1943, the U.S. 7th Army, led by General George S. Patton Jr., begins the invasion of Sicily.
- ...in 1989, Mel Blanc, the voice of dozens of cartoon characters from Warner Brothers, Hanna-Barbera, and more, passes away at the age of 81.
