7. Sec Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has filed a high-profile data privacy lawsuit against Meta Platforms Inc. and its subsidiary WhatsApp LLC, accusing the tech giants of orchestrating a massive fraud by systematically misleading millions of citizens about the confidentiality of their personal communications. The state's petition, filed in Harrison County District Court, alleges that despite a decade of marketing centered on absolute "end-to-end encryption," Meta maintai

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has issued an urgent cyber threat warning regarding "Kali365," a sophisticated, newly discovered phishing kit being deployed at scale to hijack corporate Microsoft environments. According to federal investigators, cybercriminals are utilizing the kit to target high-value organizations and aggressively bypass traditional cybersecurity defenses by stealing Microsoft OAuth tokens directly from unsuspecting employees. Bypassing multi-fact

Microsoft-owned DevOps giant GitHub has confirmed a significant corporate data breach after a notorious threat actor successfully exfiltrated approximately 3,800 internal code repositories and listed the stolen proprietary data for sale on a cybercrime forum for $50,000. Editorial credit: PJ McDonnell / Shutterstock The platform officially acknowledged the security incident on May 20, 2026, revealing that the breach originated from a single employee device that was compromise

Threat intelligence researchers at Cyfirma have uncovered a highly sophisticated, multi-stage intrusion campaign targeting Windows environments. Dubbed "Operation SilentCanvas," the attack tricks users into executing a weaponized PowerShell payload hidden behind a spoofed image file extension to deploy a persistent, unauthorized remote access backdoor. The discovery, detailed in a research report published on May 9, 2026, highlights a growing and mature trend where threat act

The general manager of Microsoft’s Israeli subsidiary, Alon Haimovich, has been forced to step down, along with several senior compliance managers, following an intense global investigation into the local office's ties to the Israeli military. The corporate shakeup, reported by Israeli financial daily Globes on May 11, 2026, comes after an external inquiry concluded that Microsoft Israel allowed defense units to use the company's Azure cloud platform for mass civilian surveil