🚨 Germany's entire .de namespace went dark overnight. A DNS service failure at DENIC, the registry running .de, broke resolution for every signed DNSSEC-signed domain in the country for hours.
The root cause is still under investigation.
The root cause is still under investigation.
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‼️🇪🇺 BREAKING: Europol ran a shadow IT system stuffed with more than 2 petabytes of sensitive data on people who were never even suspected of a crime, and part of the data was kept outside of formal oversight...
This lands as the European Commission prepares to expand Europol's mandate and double its budget.
"They protect the law while breaking it," according to a former Europol senior official.
A joint investigation by Solomon, Correctiv, and Computer Weekly uncovered that Europol operated for years outside its own legal limits, with no functioning audit logs, no access controls, and admin rights handed out by the dozen.
They call the system the Computer Forensic Network, or CFN. Built in 2012 to triage forensic data, it became Europol's primary analytical platform. By 2019, the CFN held at least 2 petabytes of operational data, roughly 420 times the size of Europol's official non-forensic database. Drewer, the data protection officer, found that 99% of Europol's data sat in the CFN, processed without basic data protection or security safeguards.
The 2019 internal security assessment listed 32 separate failures. Among them:
- Ineffective assignment of security roles
- Insufficient management of privileged access rights
- Unrestricted software installation
- Lack of password management
- Lack of administrative usage logs
- Insufficient event logging and monitoring
- Insufficient network access control
Independent experts who reviewed the findings called the volume of admin accounts a textbook breach of confidentiality and an open door for both rogue insiders and external attackers. Logs could be modified or deleted by anyone with admin rights, meaning data tampering and unauthorised access could not be reliably traced.
Then there is the Pressure Cooker. A separate clandestine environment run by Europol's Internet Referral Unit, used to pull open-source data without ICT involvement and outside formal oversight. Internal staff flagged it as an "irregular situation" in October 2022. The EU's privacy watchdog, the EDPS, says it was never told about it during the original 2019 investigation.
After almost a decade of negotiation, the EDPS closed its monitoring of the CFN in February 2026. 15 of 150 recommendations remained unimplemented, including ones the watchdog flagged as concerning "issues of particular importance," covering core security safeguards.
Source:
https://www.computerweekly.com/news/366642525/They-protect-the-law-while-breaking-it-Inside-Europols-shadow-IT-system
This lands as the European Commission prepares to expand Europol's mandate and double its budget.
"They protect the law while breaking it," according to a former Europol senior official.
A joint investigation by Solomon, Correctiv, and Computer Weekly uncovered that Europol operated for years outside its own legal limits, with no functioning audit logs, no access controls, and admin rights handed out by the dozen.
They call the system the Computer Forensic Network, or CFN. Built in 2012 to triage forensic data, it became Europol's primary analytical platform. By 2019, the CFN held at least 2 petabytes of operational data, roughly 420 times the size of Europol's official non-forensic database. Drewer, the data protection officer, found that 99% of Europol's data sat in the CFN, processed without basic data protection or security safeguards.
The 2019 internal security assessment listed 32 separate failures. Among them:
- Ineffective assignment of security roles
- Insufficient management of privileged access rights
- Unrestricted software installation
- Lack of password management
- Lack of administrative usage logs
- Insufficient event logging and monitoring
- Insufficient network access control
Independent experts who reviewed the findings called the volume of admin accounts a textbook breach of confidentiality and an open door for both rogue insiders and external attackers. Logs could be modified or deleted by anyone with admin rights, meaning data tampering and unauthorised access could not be reliably traced.
Then there is the Pressure Cooker. A separate clandestine environment run by Europol's Internet Referral Unit, used to pull open-source data without ICT involvement and outside formal oversight. Internal staff flagged it as an "irregular situation" in October 2022. The EU's privacy watchdog, the EDPS, says it was never told about it during the original 2019 investigation.
After almost a decade of negotiation, the EDPS closed its monitoring of the CFN in February 2026. 15 of 150 recommendations remained unimplemented, including ones the watchdog flagged as concerning "issues of particular importance," covering core security safeguards.
Source:
https://www.computerweekly.com/news/366642525/They-protect-the-law-while-breaking-it-Inside-Europols-shadow-IT-system
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‼️🚨 One of the world's largest Certificate Authorities, DigiCert, was compromised by a malicious screensaver file sent through a customer support chat. Their antivirus blocked the malware four times. The agent kept clicking. The fifth try got through.
27 code signing certificates were stolen and used to sign malware.
DigiCert ultimately revoked 60 certificates.
Per DigiCert's incident report, filed in Mozilla's CA compliance tracker as Bug 2033170, here is how it unfolded:
April 2: an attacker contacted a DigiCert helpdesk agent through the company's customer support chat channel, posing as a customer. The lure was a zip file pitched as a screenshot. Inside the zip was a .scr file. On Windows, .scr files are executables, and this one carried a malicious payload.
Opening a file a customer sent through the official support channel is what an agent is supposed to do. Support staff are the one role designed to accept files from strangers.
DigiCert's endpoint security blocked four infection attempts. On the fifth, the support analyst's machine was infected.
DigiCert detected the infection, ran an investigation, and concluded the incident was contained.
Eleven days later, an external researcher tipped DigiCert off about misuse of DigiCert-issued code signing certificates in the wild. That tip led to the discovery of a second compromised machine, belonging to a different support analyst, infected through the same vector. The EDR on that machine had not been functioning correctly, so the original investigation missed it.
The second machine gave the attacker access to DigiCert's internal support portal. That portal lets support staff reach limited views of customer accounts, including initialization codes for ordered but not-yet-issued code signing certificates. Combining a stolen initialization code with an approved order let the attacker pull a real, validly issued code signing certificate. They did this 27 times.
DigiCert's own list of what went wrong:
- File-type filtering on the customer support chat channel did not catch the .scr
- EDR coverage was inconsistent and incomplete, creating a blind spot
- Initialization codes for code signing certificates were not adequately protected
DigiCert says it got lucky. An outside researcher found the malware abuse before DigiCert did. Without that tip, the second machine and the active certificate theft might still be running today.
Source: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2033170
27 code signing certificates were stolen and used to sign malware.
DigiCert ultimately revoked 60 certificates.
Per DigiCert's incident report, filed in Mozilla's CA compliance tracker as Bug 2033170, here is how it unfolded:
April 2: an attacker contacted a DigiCert helpdesk agent through the company's customer support chat channel, posing as a customer. The lure was a zip file pitched as a screenshot. Inside the zip was a .scr file. On Windows, .scr files are executables, and this one carried a malicious payload.
Opening a file a customer sent through the official support channel is what an agent is supposed to do. Support staff are the one role designed to accept files from strangers.
DigiCert's endpoint security blocked four infection attempts. On the fifth, the support analyst's machine was infected.
DigiCert detected the infection, ran an investigation, and concluded the incident was contained.
Eleven days later, an external researcher tipped DigiCert off about misuse of DigiCert-issued code signing certificates in the wild. That tip led to the discovery of a second compromised machine, belonging to a different support analyst, infected through the same vector. The EDR on that machine had not been functioning correctly, so the original investigation missed it.
The second machine gave the attacker access to DigiCert's internal support portal. That portal lets support staff reach limited views of customer accounts, including initialization codes for ordered but not-yet-issued code signing certificates. Combining a stolen initialization code with an approved order let the attacker pull a real, validly issued code signing certificate. They did this 27 times.
DigiCert's own list of what went wrong:
- File-type filtering on the customer support chat channel did not catch the .scr
- EDR coverage was inconsistent and incomplete, creating a blind spot
- Initialization codes for code signing certificates were not adequately protected
DigiCert says it got lucky. An outside researcher found the malware abuse before DigiCert did. Without that tip, the second machine and the active certificate theft might still be running today.
Source: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2033170
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🚨 BREAKING: Porn site Motherless, hosting tens of thousands of suspected abuse videos, has been running on Dutch company Nforce's servers since at least 2024.
Nforce topped TU Delft's 2020 ranking of Dutch hosting providers with the most CSAM detected. Elimeleh denies responsibility, stating Nforce only provides infrastructure and has no access to client systems.
A joint NOS / Nieuwsuur investigation confirms the site is hosted by Nforce, based in Steenbergen, NL.
Nforce director Simon Shlomi Elimeleh has been servicing Motherless for over a decade.
The site pulls roughly 62 million monthly visitors and brands itself as a "moral free file host where anything legal is hosted forever."
Findings:
- Offlimits received 142 reports covering 12,000 videos in 2026 alone. 25 cases involved child sexual abuse material (CSAM).
- NOS analyzed 20,000 videos posted between May 1 and 7, 2026. "Incest" was the third most popular tag after "teen" and "amateur," totaling roughly 60 million views in one week.
- The single most-viewed clip of the past week (4.2M views) was tagged with disturbing words.
- CNN previously documented 20,000 "sleep" / "eyecheck" videos showing men lifting women's eyelids to confirm they were drugged or unconscious.
Dutch regulator ACM calls the situation "concerning" but admits it cannot pull content offline itself. The Dutch Public Prosecutor refused to confirm or deny any active investigation. Motherless' parent company Kick Online Entertainment S.A. (Luxembourg) was already fined by UK regulator Ofcom in February 2026 for missing age-verification controls.
The site is still online.
Their contact data: https://www.nforce.com/contact
Nforce topped TU Delft's 2020 ranking of Dutch hosting providers with the most CSAM detected. Elimeleh denies responsibility, stating Nforce only provides infrastructure and has no access to client systems.
A joint NOS / Nieuwsuur investigation confirms the site is hosted by Nforce, based in Steenbergen, NL.
Nforce director Simon Shlomi Elimeleh has been servicing Motherless for over a decade.
The site pulls roughly 62 million monthly visitors and brands itself as a "moral free file host where anything legal is hosted forever."
Findings:
- Offlimits received 142 reports covering 12,000 videos in 2026 alone. 25 cases involved child sexual abuse material (CSAM).
- NOS analyzed 20,000 videos posted between May 1 and 7, 2026. "Incest" was the third most popular tag after "teen" and "amateur," totaling roughly 60 million views in one week.
- The single most-viewed clip of the past week (4.2M views) was tagged with disturbing words.
- CNN previously documented 20,000 "sleep" / "eyecheck" videos showing men lifting women's eyelids to confirm they were drugged or unconscious.
Dutch regulator ACM calls the situation "concerning" but admits it cannot pull content offline itself. The Dutch Public Prosecutor refused to confirm or deny any active investigation. Motherless' parent company Kick Online Entertainment S.A. (Luxembourg) was already fined by UK regulator Ofcom in February 2026 for missing age-verification controls.
The site is still online.
Their contact data: https://www.nforce.com/contact
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‼️ You can't be serious. Ford is now charging 2026 Mustang Mach-E buyers $495 for the plastic tray that goes inside the frunk the car comes with.
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🚨 Apple is reportedly considering killing the $599 base MacBook Neo to push the effective entry price up by $100 due to AI-driven DRAM and chip shortages squeezing supply, per Tim Culpan.
The move follows the same playbook used for the Mac mini last week, which jumped from $599 to $799 after the 256GB option was dropped.
The move follows the same playbook used for the Mac mini last week, which jumped from $599 to $799 after the 256GB option was dropped.
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‼️🚨 French threat actor group ShinyHunters has been wreaking havoc by affecting 8,809 educational institutions after compromising the Canvas learning management system.
Canvas powers coursework, assignments, grades, messaging, and more for millions of students and educators.
Multiple universities and colleges delayed exams and assignments this week due to the outage.
Canvas is now largely back online. The incident is contained, with 'enhanced' security in place.
Canvas powers coursework, assignments, grades, messaging, and more for millions of students and educators.
Multiple universities and colleges delayed exams and assignments this week due to the outage.
Canvas is now largely back online. The incident is contained, with 'enhanced' security in place.
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🚨 BREAKING: The U.S. Department of War just released UFO files.
Trump directed the release of "files related to alien and extraterrestrial life, UAP, and UFOs."
The files Include Apollo 12 and Apollo 17 imagery, plus FBI photos of unidentified objects over the western US.
First batch is live on war.gov/UFO.
Trump directed the release of "files related to alien and extraterrestrial life, UAP, and UFOs."
The files Include Apollo 12 and Apollo 17 imagery, plus FBI photos of unidentified objects over the western US.
First batch is live on war.gov/UFO.
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🚨 BREAKING: New Linux zero-day "Dirty Frag" lets ANY local user become root on most major distros.
The PoC is already public, half of it isn't patched yet.
Discovered by researcher Hyunwoo Kim, the exploit chains two kernel bugs and sits in the same family as Dirty Pipe and Copy Fail.
▪️ CVE-2026-43284 (xfrm-ESP Page-Cache Write): patched in mainline Linux.
▪️ CVE-2026-43500 (RxRPC Page-Cache Write): NO PATCH yet.
The exploit is reliable by design. Attackers don't have to win a timing race, the system won't crash and alert anyone if it fails, and it succeeds nearly every run.
The embargo got broken before distros could ship fixes, so the working code is now sitting on GitHub.
Confirmed working on: Ubuntu 24.04.4, RHEL 10.1, openSUSE Tumbleweed, CentOS Stream 10, AlmaLinux 10, Fedora 44.
See: https://github.com/V4bel/dirtyfrag
The PoC is already public, half of it isn't patched yet.
Discovered by researcher Hyunwoo Kim, the exploit chains two kernel bugs and sits in the same family as Dirty Pipe and Copy Fail.
▪️ CVE-2026-43284 (xfrm-ESP Page-Cache Write): patched in mainline Linux.
▪️ CVE-2026-43500 (RxRPC Page-Cache Write): NO PATCH yet.
The exploit is reliable by design. Attackers don't have to win a timing race, the system won't crash and alert anyone if it fails, and it succeeds nearly every run.
The embargo got broken before distros could ship fixes, so the working code is now sitting on GitHub.
Confirmed working on: Ubuntu 24.04.4, RHEL 10.1, openSUSE Tumbleweed, CentOS Stream 10, AlmaLinux 10, Fedora 44.
See: https://github.com/V4bel/dirtyfrag
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‼️🚨 ALARMING: Google now treats privacy as suspicious behavior by default. Users of GrapheneOS, CalyxOS, /e/OS, and other deGoogled Android phones are being locked out of millions of websites unless they install the exact Google Play Services software they deliberately removed.
GrapheneOS is recommended by the EFF and used by journalists, lawyers, and activists in high-risk environments. The audience most likely to read Google's data practices and refuse its terms is now flagged as fraudulent for that exact decision.
What happened?:
▪️ Google announced "Cloud Fraud Defense" at Cloud Next on April 22-23, 2026, branding it "the next evolution of reCAPTCHA." Existing reCAPTCHA customers were auto-migrated.
▪️ When the system flags traffic as suspicious, the old click-the-bus puzzle is gone. Users get a QR code instead.
▪️ Scanning the QR code requires Google Play Services running on the device. Internet Archive snapshots show this requirement has been live since at least October 2025, silently rolled out for 7 months before anyone noticed.
▪️ No Play Services = no QR scan = locked out.
The bigger picture:
▪️ Google already tried this in 2023. It was called Web Environment Integrity (WEI), and it would have let Google decide which devices were "real enough" to access the web. Standards bodies and the public pushed back hard, and Google killed it. Three years later, the same idea is back, just hidden behind a QR code instead of a browser feature.
▪️ reCAPTCHA runs on millions of websites. Every developer who keeps using it is now, by default, telling deGoogled Android users they're not welcome...
GrapheneOS is recommended by the EFF and used by journalists, lawyers, and activists in high-risk environments. The audience most likely to read Google's data practices and refuse its terms is now flagged as fraudulent for that exact decision.
What happened?:
▪️ Google announced "Cloud Fraud Defense" at Cloud Next on April 22-23, 2026, branding it "the next evolution of reCAPTCHA." Existing reCAPTCHA customers were auto-migrated.
▪️ When the system flags traffic as suspicious, the old click-the-bus puzzle is gone. Users get a QR code instead.
▪️ Scanning the QR code requires Google Play Services running on the device. Internet Archive snapshots show this requirement has been live since at least October 2025, silently rolled out for 7 months before anyone noticed.
▪️ No Play Services = no QR scan = locked out.
The bigger picture:
▪️ Google already tried this in 2023. It was called Web Environment Integrity (WEI), and it would have let Google decide which devices were "real enough" to access the web. Standards bodies and the public pushed back hard, and Google killed it. Three years later, the same idea is back, just hidden behind a QR code instead of a browser feature.
▪️ reCAPTCHA runs on millions of websites. Every developer who keeps using it is now, by default, telling deGoogled Android users they're not welcome...
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