1/15/2026

~ The Cyber Beat
Chinese-Linked Hackers Target U.S. Entities With Venezuelan-Themed Malware

ICE Agent Doxxing Site DDoS-ed Via Russian Servers

Hackers Increasingly Shun Encryption in Favour of Pure Data Theft and Extortion

Former CISA Director Jen Easterly Will Lead RSAC Conference

FTC Bans GM From Selling Drivers’ Location Data for Five Years

Google to Pay $8.25 Million to Settle Lawsuit Alleging Children’s Privacy Violations

Elon Musk’s X Says It Will Block Grok From Making Sexual Images

Data Privacy Teams Face Staffing Shortages and Budget Constraints, ISACA Warns

Cloudflare Acquires AI Data Marketplace Human Native

Former U.S. Special Forces Officer Is Now a Startup CEO—His Cybersecurity Company Has Raised $22 Million		Verizon’s Hourslong Wireless Outage Tied to Software Update

Grubhub Confirms Hackers Stole Data in Recent Security Breach

Anchorage Police Department Takes Servers Offline After Cyberattack on Service Provider

Contagious Claude Code Bug Anthropic Ignored Promptly Spreads to Cowork

WhisperPair: Hundreds of Millions of Audio Devices Need a Patch to Prevent Wireless Hacking and Tracking

Critical WordPress Modular DS Plugin Flaw Actively Exploited to Gain Admin Access

Palo Alto Fixes GlobalProtect DoS Flaw That Can Crash Firewalls Without Login

Trio of Critical Bugs Spotted in Delta Industrial PLCs

CodeBuild Flaw Put AWS Console Supply Chain At Risk

Germany Turns to Israel for a ‘Cyber Dome’ Amid Rising Threats

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