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Minnesota Sues to Stop ICE ‘Invasion’ (No image available)

Minnesota Sues to Stop ICE ‘Invasion’

Wired News January 12, 2026

The state of Minnesota, along with the Twin Cities, have sued the US government and several officials to halt the flood of agents carrying out an Immigration and Customs Enforcement operation.
FBI Agent’s Sworn Testimony Contradicts Claims ICE’s Jonathan Ross Made Under Oath (No image available)

FBI Agent’s Sworn Testimony Contradicts Claims ICE’s Jonathan Ross Made Under Oath

Wired News January 12, 2026

The testimony also calls into question whether Ross failed to follow his training during the incident in which he reportedly shot and killed Minnesota citizen Renee Good.
GoFundMe Ignores Own Rules by Hosting a Legal-Defense Fund for the ICE Agent Who Killed Renee Good (No image available)

GoFundMe Ignores Own Rules by Hosting a Legal-Defense Fund for the ICE Agent Who Killed Renee Good

Wired News January 12, 2026

The fundraiser for the ICE agent in the Renee Good killing has stayed online in seeming breach of GoFundMe’s own terms of service, prompting questions about selective enforcement.
n8n Supply Chain Attack Abuses Community Nodes to Steal OAuth Tokens

n8n Supply Chain Attack Abuses Community Nodes to Steal OAuth Tokens

The Hacker News January 12, 2026

Threat actors have been observed uploading a set of eight packages on the npm registry that masqueraded as integrations targeting the n8n workflow automation platform to steal developers' OAuth credentials. One such package, named "n8n-nodes-hfgjf-irtuinvcm-lasdqewriit," mimics a Google Ads integration, and prompts users to link their advertising account in a seemingly legitimate form and then
⚡ Weekly Recap: AI Automation Exploits, Telecom Espionage, Prompt Poaching & More

⚡ Weekly Recap: AI Automation Exploits, Telecom Espionage, Prompt Poaching & More

The Hacker News January 12, 2026

This week made one thing clear: small oversights can spiral fast. Tools meant to save time and reduce friction turned into easy entry points once basic safeguards were ignored. Attackers didn’t need novel tricks. They used what was already exposed and moved in without resistance. Scale amplified the damage. A single weak configuration rippled out to millions. A repeatable flaw worked again and
GoBruteforcer Botnet Targets Crypto Project Databases by Exploiting Weak Credentials

GoBruteforcer Botnet Targets Crypto Project Databases by Exploiting Weak Credentials

The Hacker News January 12, 2026

A new wave of GoBruteforcer attacks has targeted databases of cryptocurrency and blockchain projects to co-opt them into a botnet that's capable of brute-forcing user passwords for services such as FTP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, and phpMyAdmin on Linux servers. "The current wave of campaigns is driven by two factors: the mass reuse of AI-generated server deployment examples that propagate common
Anthropic Launches Claude AI for Healthcare with Secure Health Record Access

Anthropic Launches Claude AI for Healthcare with Secure Health Record Access

The Hacker News January 12, 2026

Anthropic has become the latest Artificial intelligence (AI) company to announce a new suite of features that allows users of its Claude platform to better understand their health information. Under an initiative called Claude for Healthcare, the company said U.S. subscribers of Claude Pro and Max plans can opt to give Claude secure access to their lab results and health records by connecting to
Researchers Uncover Service Providers Fueling Industrial-Scale Pig Butchering Fraud

Researchers Uncover Service Providers Fueling Industrial-Scale Pig Butchering Fraud

The Hacker News January 12, 2026

Cybersecurity researchers have shed light on two service providers that supply online criminal networks with the necessary tools and infrastructure to fuel the pig butchering-as-a-service (PBaaS) economy. At least since 2016, Chinese-speaking criminal groups have erected industrial-scale scam centers across Southeast Asia, creating special economic zones that are devoted to fraudulent investment
ICE Can Now Spy on Every Phone in Your Neighborhood (No image available)

ICE Can Now Spy on Every Phone in Your Neighborhood

Wired News January 10, 2026

Plus: Iran shuts down its internet amid sweeping protests, an alleged scam boss gets extradited to China, and more.
MuddyWater Launches RustyWater RAT via Spear-Phishing Across Middle East Sectors

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

The Hacker News January 10, 2026

The Iranian threat actor known as MuddyWater has been attributed to a spear-phishing campaign targeting diplomatic, maritime, financial, and telecom entities in the Middle East with a Rust-based implant codenamed RustyWater. "The campaign uses icon spoofing and malicious Word documents to deliver Rust based implants capable of asynchronous C2, anti-analysis, registry persistence, and modular
Europol Arrests 34 Black Axe Members in Spain Over €5.9M Fraud and Organized Crime

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

The Hacker News January 10, 2026

Europol on Friday announced the arrest of 34 individuals in Spain who are alleged to be part of an international criminal organization called Black Axe. As part of an operation conducted by the Spanish National Police, in coordination with the Bavarian State Criminal Police Office and Europol, 28 arrests were made in Seville, along with three others in Madrid, two in Málaga, and one in Barcelona
OpenAI Is Asking Contractors to Upload Work From Past Jobs to Evaluate the Performance of AI Agents (No image available)

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

Wired AI News January 10, 2026

To prepare AI agents for office work, the company is asking contractors to upload projects from past jobs, leaving it to them to strip out confidential and personally identifiable information.
Grok Is Being Used to Mock and Strip Women in Hijabs and Saris (No image available)

Grok Is Being Used to Mock and Strip Women in Hijabs and Saris

Wired AI News January 10, 2026

A substantial number of AI images generated or edited with Grok are targeting women in religious and cultural clothing.
China-Linked Hackers Exploit VMware ESXi Zero-Days to Escape Virtual Machines

China-Linked Hackers Exploit VMware ESXi Zero-Days to Escape Virtual Machines

The Hacker News January 09, 2026

Chinese-speaking threat actors are suspected to have leveraged a compromised SonicWall VPN appliance as an initial access vector to deploy a VMware ESXi exploit that may have been developed as far back as February 2024. Cybersecurity firm Huntress, which observed the activity in December 2025 and stopped it before it could progress to the final stage, said it may have resulted in a ransomware
Russian APT28 Runs Credential-Stealing Campaign Targeting Energy and Policy Organizations

Russian APT28 Runs Credential-Stealing Campaign Targeting Energy and Policy Organizations

The Hacker News January 09, 2026

Russian state-sponsored threat actors have been linked to a fresh set of credential harvesting attacks targeting individuals associated with a Turkish energy and nuclear research agency, as well as staff affiliated with a European think tank and organizations in North Macedonia and Uzbekistan. The activity has been attributed to APT28 (aka BlueDelta), which was tied to a "sustained"