Lawrence Abrams
Author Bio
Lawrence Abrams is the owner and Editor in Chief of BleepingComputer.com. Lawrence’s area of expertise includes Windows, security, malware research, ransomware, and computer forensics. Lawrence Abrams is also a co-author of the Winternals Defragmentation, Recovery, and Administration Field Guide and technical editor for Rootkits for Dummies.
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Microsoft March 2026 Patch Tuesday fixes 2 zero-days, 79 flaws
Today is Microsoft's March 2026 Patch Tuesday with security updates for 79 flaws, including 2 publicly disclosed zero-day vulnerabilities.
- March 10, 2026
- 01:49 PM
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Dutch govt warns of Signal, WhatsApp account hijacking attacks
Russian state-sponsored hackers have been linked to an ongoing Signal and WhatsApp phishing campaign targeting government officials, military personnel, and journalists to gain access to sensitive messages.
- March 09, 2026
- 05:24 PM
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Hackers abuse .arpa DNS and ipv6 to evade phishing defenses
Threat actors are abusing the special-use ".arpa" domain and IPv6 reverse DNS in phishing campaigns that more easily evade domain reputation checks and email security gateways.
- March 08, 2026
- 10:12 AM
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Microsoft: Hackers abusing AI at every stage of cyberattacks
Microsoft says threat actors are increasingly using artificial intelligence in their operations to accelerate attacks, scale malicious activity, and lower technical barriers across all aspects of a cyberattack.
- March 07, 2026
- 10:15 AM
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Wikipedia hit by self-propagating JavaScript worm that vandalized pages
The Wikimedia Foundation suffered a security incident today after a self-propagating JavaScript worm began vandalizing pages and modifying user scripts across multiple wikis.
- March 05, 2026
- 03:42 PM
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Windows 10 KB5075039 update fixes broken Recovery Environment
Microsoft has released the KB5075039 Windows Recovery Environment update for Windows 10 to fix a long-standing issue that prevented some users from accessing the Recovery environment.
- March 04, 2026
- 04:03 PM
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Hacker mass-mails HungerRush extortion emails to restaurant patrons
Customers of restaurants using the HungerRush point-of-sale (POS) platform say they received emails from a threat actor attempting to extort the company, warning that restaurant and customer data could be exposed if HungerRush fails to respond.
- March 04, 2026
- 01:44 PM
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CISA flags VMware Aria Operations RCE flaw as exploited in attacks
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has added a VMware Aria Operations vulnerability tracked as CVE-2026-22719 to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog, flagging the flaw as exploited in attacks.
- March 03, 2026
- 06:40 PM
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Facebook accounts unavailable in worldwide outage
Social media giant Facebook is currently experiencing a massive worldwide outage, preventing users from accessing their accounts.
- March 03, 2026
- 05:38 PM
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CyberStrikeAI tool adopted by hackers for AI-powered attacks
Researchers warn that a newly identified open-source AI security testing platform called CyberStrikeAI was used by the same threat actor behind a recent campaign that breached hundreds of Fortinet FortiGate firewalls.
- March 02, 2026
- 07:06 PM
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ClawJacked attack let malicious websites hijack OpenClaw to steal data
Security researchers have disclosed a high-severity vulnerability dubbed "ClawJacked" in the popular AI agent OpenClaw that allowed a malicious website to silently bruteforce access to a locally running instance and take control over it.
- March 01, 2026
- 04:44 PM
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QuickLens Chrome extension steals crypto, shows ClickFix attack
A Chrome extension named "QuickLens - Search Screen with Google Lens" has been removed from the Chrome Web Store after it was compromised to push malware and attempt to steal crypto from thousands of users.
- February 28, 2026
- 02:18 PM
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Critical Cisco SD-WAN bug exploited in zero-day attacks since 2023
Cisco is warning that a critical authentication bypass vulnerability in Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN, tracked as CVE-2026-20127, was actively exploited in zero-day attacks that allowed remote attackers to compromise controllers and add malicious rogue peers to targeted networks.
- February 25, 2026
- 01:01 PM
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Wynn Resorts confirms employee data breach after extortion threat
Wynn Resorts has confirmed that a hacker stole employee data from its systems after the company was listed on the ShinyHunters extortion gang's data leak site.
- February 24, 2026
- 04:51 PM
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Amazon: AI-assisted hacker breached 600 Fortinet firewalls in 5 weeks
Amazon is warning that a Russian-speaking hacker used multiple generative AI services as part of a campaign that breached more than 600 FortiGate firewalls across 55 countries in five weeks.
- February 21, 2026
- 08:50 AM
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