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BleepingComputer Sep 4, 2026

IDScan sued over alleged data breach affecting 153 million drivers

Multiple lawsuits have been filed against identity verification company IDScan after hackers allegedly breached the service and offered to sell more than 153 million driver's licenses. [...]

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BleepingComputer Sep 4, 2026

Critical Citrix NetScaler auth bypass now leveraged in attacks

Attackers have begun targeting a critical-severity Citrix NetScaler auth bypass flaw (CVE-2026-19490) in the wild, according to vulnerability intelligence company Previdian. [...]

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BleepingComputer Sep 4, 2026

Microsoft says some users can’t open the Teams desktop client

Microsoft is working to resolve a known issue that causes delays or blocks some users from opening the Microsoft Teams desktop client on Windows systems. [...]

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BleepingComputer Sep 4, 2026

39 New Methods That Compromise Passkey Authentication

Passkeys eliminate many password-based attacks, but researchers have documented 39 methods for compromising authentication built around them. Token explains how attackers can abuse authentication prompts, synced…

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BleepingComputer Sep 4, 2026

New CrowdStrike 'FalconFlank' zero-day grants SYSTEM privileges

An anonymous security researcher who uses the "Nightmare Eclipse" handle released a CrowdStrike Falcon zero-day exploit named "FalconFlank" that lets attackers escalate privileges on up-to-date Windows systems. [...]

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BleepingComputer Sep 4, 2026

Exchange Online outage causes email delays, 'Server busy' errors

Microsoft is working to resolve an ongoing Exchange Online outage that is delaying email sent to and received from external domains. [...]

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BleepingComputer Sep 4, 2026

Google warns of new Chrome zero-day flaw exploited in attacks

Google has updated the Chrome browser to address an actively exploited high-severity zero-day flaw in the V8 engine and 11 other vulnerabilities. [...]

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BleepingComputer Sep 3, 2026

French hospital fined €500,000 after breach exposes data of 727,000

France's data protection authority (CNIL) has fined Hôpital privé de la Loire €500,000 ($580,000) for failing to adequately protect patients' and their relatives' data. [...]

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BleepingComputer Sep 3, 2026

Coder's registry infrastructure compromised to push malicious modules

Attackers compromised Coder's Cloudflare infrastructure and added unauthorized registry servers that delivered malicious Terraform modules containing credential-stealing code. [...]

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BleepingComputer Sep 3, 2026

HPE patches critical ArubaOS-CX remote code execution flaw

Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) has patched a critical vulnerability in the ArubaOS-CX network operating system that could lead to remote code execution. [...]

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BleepingComputer Sep 3, 2026

Microsoft: KB5120998 mouse reset bug affects only non-English PCs

Microsoft says a known issue that reverts mouse settings after installing the KB5120998 August 2026 preview update affects only non-English Windows 11 systems. [...]

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BleepingComputer Sep 3, 2026

OpenAI confirms ChatGPT is down ahead of 'Astra' model launch

ChatGPT and Codex are experiencing a major outage, with users reporting errors across nearly every major ChatGPT feature. [...]

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BleepingComputer Sep 3, 2026

Anthropic confirms Claude is down, multiple models affected

Claude is experiencing an outage, with users encountering elevated errors when sending requests to multiple Anthropic AI models. [...]

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BleepingComputer Sep 3, 2026

Critical Elementor Pro flaw exploited to take over WordPress sites

A recently patched critical vulnerability (CVE-2026-32475) in the Elementor Pro plugin for WordPress is being exploited in attacks that deliver a webshell payload and execute arbitrary commands on the server. [...]

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BleepingComputer Sep 3, 2026

Your Employee’s Password Appeared in an Infostealer Log. Now What?

Infostealers can expose far more than passwords, including authenticated sessions that may let attackers bypass MFA. Flare explains how defenders can prioritize compromised identities, determine whether stolen access is…

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