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Years of JSONFormatter and CodeBeautify Leaks Expose Thousands of Passwords and API Keys

New research has found that organizations in various sensitive sectors, including governments, telecoms, and critical infrastructure, are pasting passwords and credentials into online tools like JSONformatter and CodeBeautify that are used to format and validate code.
Cybersecurity company watchTowr Labs said it captured a dataset of over 80,000 files on these sites, uncovering thousands of

Microsoft: Exchange Online outage blocks access to Outlook mailboxes

Microsoft is investigating an Exchange Online service outage that is preventing customers from accessing their mailboxes using the classic Outlook desktop client. […]

Microsoft is speeding up the Teams desktop client for Windows

Microsoft says it will add a new Teams call handler beginning in January 2026 to reduce launch times and boost call performance for the Windows desktop client. […]

JackFix Uses Fake Windows Update Pop-Ups on Adult Sites to Deliver Multiple Stealers

Cybersecurity researchers are calling attention to a new campaign that’s leveraging a combination of ClickFix lures and fake adult websites to deceive users into running malicious commands under the guise of a “critical” Windows security update.
“Campaign leverages fake adult websites (xHamster, PornHub clones) as its phishing mechanism, likely distributed via malvertising,” Acronis said in a

Alumni, Student, and Staff Information Stolen From Harvard University

A phone phishing attack led to the compromise of a system containing information about alumni, donors, students, staff, and other individuals.

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Year-end approaches: How to maximize your cyber spend

Year-end budgeting is the perfect time to close real security gaps by strengthening identity controls, reducing redundant tools, and investing in outcome-driven engagements. The article highlights how targeting credential risks and documenting results helps teams maximize spend and justify next year’s budget. […]

Fluent Bit Vulnerabilities Expose Cloud Services to Takeover

Five flaws in the open source tool may lead to path traversal attacks, remote code execution, denial-of-service, and tag manipulation.

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WormGPT 4 and KawaiiGPT: New Dark LLMs Boost Cybercrime Automation

Palo Alto Networks has conducted an analysis of malicious LLMs that help threat actors with phishing, malware development, and reconnaissance.

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Major US Banks Impacted by SitusAMC Hack

Hackers stole corporate data such as accounting records and legal agreements, but did not deploy file-encrypting ransomware.

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Code-formatters expose thousands of secrets from banks, govt, tech orgs

Thousands of credentials, authentication keys, and configuration data impacting organizations in sensitive sectors have been sitting in publicly accessible JSON snippets submitted to the JSONFormatter and CodeBeautify online tools that format and structure code. […]

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