Month: January 2026

YARA-X 1.11.0 Release: Hash Function Warnings, (Sun, Jan 11th)

YARA-X 1.11.0: Yet Another Day of Digital Bloody Mayhem So, the fine folks behind YARA-X have thrown another shiny release at us — version 1.11.0 — because apparently, our lives weren’t already filled with enough digital...

California bans data broker reselling health data of millions

California Finally Gets Off Its Ass and Smacks Data Vampires Around Well, holy shit, California actually did something useful for once. Lawmakers passed a new bill that basically tells those sleazy data brokers—yeah, the...

Instagram denies breach amid claims of 17 million account data leak

Instagram Says "Nothing to See Here" While 17 Million Poor Bastards’ Data Wander the Dark Web Well butter my arse and call me Zuckerberg’s therapist — Instagram swears up and down that they haven’t been hacked, even...

OpenAI Is Asking Contractors to Upload Work From Past Jobs to Evaluate the Performance of AI Agents

OpenAI’s Latest Brilliant Idea: Let’s Upload Everyone’s Bloody Work Documents! Oh for fuck’s sake, OpenAI’s at it again. Apparently, some genius in management decided the best way to “evaluate AI agents” is to tell...

Indonesia blocks Grok over non-consensual, sexualized deepfakes

Indonesia Gives Grok the Boot Over Creepy-Ass AI Porn Nonsense So apparently the geniuses running Grok – yeah, that “AI chatbot” brainchild from X’s asylum of chaos (aka Elon Musk’s little ego project) – managed to...

Security

Europol Arrests 34 Black Axe Members in Spain Over €5.9M Fraud and Organized Crime

Europol Finally Wakes the Hell Up and Nails 34 Black Axe Scammers So apparently Europol decided to actually do something useful for once instead of shuffling paperwork and patting themselves on the back. They went and busted 34...

Security

MuddyWater Launches RustyWater RAT via Spear-Phishing Across Middle East Sectors

MuddyWater Launches RustyWater RAT — Because Apparently, Cyber Espionage Isn’t Messy Enough Already Right, so the sneaky bastards at MuddyWater — that merry bunch of chaos merchants allegedly backed by Iran’s Ministry of...

Ireland recalls almost 13,000 passports over missing ‘IRL’ code

Ireland’s Passport Fiasco: The Great “IRL” Vanishing Act Oh for fuck’s sake, Ireland! You had one job — print passports with the damn country code. But no, apparently someone in Dublin managed to forget the “IRL”...

Spain arrests 34 suspects linked to Black Axe cyber crime

Spain Bags 34 Alleged Black Axe Scammers – About Bloody Time! So, apparently, the Spanish coppers woke up and decided today’s the day to grab a bunch of cyber lowlifes connected to that lovely international scamming fest...

BreachForums hacking forum database leaked, exposing 324,000 accounts

So the Hackers Got Hacked — Oh, the Bloody Irony Well, what the flaming hell do we have here? The shady little corner of the internet known as BreachForums — the hackers’ clubhouse for trading stolen data like Pokémon...