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THN Daily Updates Webinar ➞ How Context Aware Forensics and AI Fuel Faster Cloud Investigations Cloud forensics is broken -- slow, fragmented, and built for yesterday’s threats. This session reveals how AI-driven investigation is redefining incident response, giving security teams instant visibility, faster root-cause analysis, and complete confidence across multi-cloud environments. Download Now Sponsored LATEST NEWS Jan 31, 2026 Mandiant Finds ShinyHunters-Style Vishing Attacks Stealing MFA to Breach SaaS Platforms Google-owned Mandiant on Friday said it identified an "expansion in threat activity" that uses tradecraft consistent with extortion-themed attacks orchestrated by a financially motivated hacking group known as ShinyHunt... Read More CERT Polska Details Coordinated Cyber Attacks on 30+ Wind and Solar Farms CERT Polska, the Polish computer emergency response team, revealed that coordinated cyber attacks targeted more than 30 wind and photovoltaic farms, a private company from the manufacturing sector, and a large combined ... Read More Breach reports, threat intel & expert analysis: daily from Dark Reading Subscribe to Dark Reading's newsletter for daily alerts on vulnerabilities, breaches and in-depth threat intelligence. Be a step ahead of cyber risks with expert analysis and actionable insights to help you strengthen defenses and safeguard your organization. Subscribe now Read More Researchers Uncover Chrome Extensions Abusing Affiliate Links and Stealing ChatGPT Access Cybersecurity researchers have discovered malicious Google Chrome extensions that come with capabilities to hijack affiliate links, steal data, and collect OpenAI ChatGPT authentication tokens. One of the extensions i... Read More China-Linked UAT-8099 Targets IIS Servers in Asia with BadIIS SEO Malware Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a new campaign attributed to a China-linked threat actor known as UAT-8099 that took place between late 2025 and early 2026. The activity, discovered by Cisco Talos, has targete... Read More Badges, Bytes and Blackmail Behind the scenes of law enforcement in cyber: what do we know about caught cybercriminals? What brought them in, where do they come from and what was their function in the crimescape? Introduction: One view on the sc... Read More Ex-Google Engineer Convicted for Stealing AI Secrets for China Startup 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 ... Read More SmarterMail Fixes Critical Unauthenticated RCE Flaw with CVSS 9.3 Score 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... Read More Webinar ➞ How Context Aware Forensics and AI Fuel Faster Cloud Investigations Cloud forensics is broken -- slow, fragmented, and built for yesterday’s threats. This session reveals how AI-driven investigation is redefining incident response, giving security teams instant visibility, faster root-cause analysis, and complete confidence across multi-cloud environments. Download Now Sponsored This email was sent to edwardlorilla1998.tower@blogger.com. You are receiving this newsletter because you opted-in to receive relevant communications from THN. To manage your email newsletter preferences, please click here. Contact THN: info@thehackernews.com Unsubscribe THN | K.P BLock, Pitampura, Delhi