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THN · BleepingComputer · Krebs · Dark Reading · SANS
THN · BleepingComputer · Krebs · Dark Reading · SANS
📰 Cybersecurity News Headlines
Top stories from leading cybersecurity publications as of May 23, 2026.
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First VPN Dismantled in Global Takedown Over Use by 25 Ransomware Groups
— The Hacker News
Authorities in Europe and North America have announced the dismantling of a criminal virtual private network (VPN) service used by criminal … -
Netherlands seizes 800 servers of hosting firm enabling cyberattacks
— Bleeping Computer
Financial crime investigators in the Netherlands (FIOD) arrested two men and seized 800 servers linked to a web hosting company that enabled… -
Lawmakers Demand Answers as CISA Tries to Contain Data Leak
— Krebs on Security
Lawmakers in both houses of Congress are demanding answers from the U.S. Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) after KrebsOn… -
Ghostwriter Targets Ukraine Government Entities with Prometheus Phishing Malware
— The Hacker News
The Belarus-aligned threat actor known as Ghostwriter (aka UAC-0057 and UNC1151Ukraine's National Security and Defense Council) has been obs… -
Akamai Joins Growing Chorus of Vendors Betting Big on Secure Enterprise Browsers
— Dark Reading
When Akamai announced its LayerX acquisition, the company joined a growing list of vendors adding secure enterprise browsers to their produc… -
Former US execs plead guilty to aiding tech support scammers
— Bleeping Computer
Two former executives of a call-tracking and analytics company pleaded guilty to concealing a years-long tech support fraud scheme that vict… -
Trend Micro warns of Apex One zero-day exploited in the wild
— Bleeping Computer
Japanese cybersecurity software company Trend Micro has addressed an Apex One zero-day vulnerability exploited in attacks targeting Windows … -
Verizon DBIR: Healthcare Fends Off Increased Social Engineering Attacks
— Dark Reading
Ransomware and vendor breaches persist. The "2026 Data Breach Investigations Report" (DBIR) highlights how evolving social engineering tacti… -
Drupal: Critical SQL injection flaw now targeted in attacks
— Bleeping Computer
Drupal is warning that hackers are attempting to exploit a "highly critical" SQL injection vulnerability announced earlier this week. […] -
Megalodon GitHub Attack Targets 5,561 Repos with Malicious CI/CD Workflows
— The Hacker News
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a new automated campaign called Megalodon that has pushed 5,718 malicious commits to 5,5… -
Making Vulnerable Drivers Exploitable Without Hardware – The BYOVD Perspective
— The Hacker News
1 Introduction This article provides a technical analysis of how many Windows kernel mode drivers can be interacted with from user mode with… -
China's Webworm Uses Discord, Microsoft Graphs to Hack EU Governments
— Dark Reading
The advanced persistent threat group also relied on SOCKS proxies like SoftEther VPN, tunneling tools that act as a middleman between victim…
Generated by HiveNet.ai Threat Intelligence Platform · May 23, 2026 · Sources: The Hacker News, Bleeping Computer, Krebs on Security, Dark Reading, SANS ISC