Ax Sharma is a Security Researcher and Journalist at BleepingComputer. He specializes in malware analyses and cybercrime investigations, with a focus on topics such as cyber attacks, data breaches, data leaks, and phishing. Ax's work has been featured in prominent media outlets including WIRED, TechCrunch, and CSO Online.
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By: Ax Sharma
A researcher has released detailed evidence showing some Instagram private accounts exposed photo links to unauthenticated visitors. The issue was later fixed, but Meta closed the report as not applicable and did not respond to multiple requests for comment.
A researcher has released detailed evidence showing some Instagram private accounts exposed photo links to unauthenticated visitors. The issue was later fixed, but Meta closed the report as not applicable and did not respond to multiple requests for comment.
NationStates, a multiplayer browser-based game, has confirmed a data breach after taking its website offline earlier this week to investigate a security incident.
By: Ax Sharma
A fresh wave of spam is hitting inboxes worldwide, with users reporting that they are once again being bombarded by automated emails generated through companies' unsecured Zendesk support systems. Some recipients say they are receiving hundreds of messages with strange or alarming subject lines. such as 'Activate account...'
A major U.S. payment gateway and solutions provider says a ransomware attack has knocked key systems offline, triggering a widespread outage affecting multiple services. The incident began on Friday and quickly escalated into a nationwide disruption across BridgePay's platform.
A major U.S. payment gateway and solutions provider says a ransomware attack has knocked key systems offline, triggering a widespread outage affecting multiple services. The incident began on Friday and quickly escalated into a nationwide disruption across BridgePay's platform.
ShinyHunters, a well-known data extortion group, claims to have stolen more than 600,000 Canada Goose customer records containing personal and payment-related data. Canada Goose told BleepingComputer the dataset appears to relate to past customer transactions and that it has not found evidence of a breach of its own systems.
Attackers are abusing Google Ads and legitimate Claude.ai shared chats in an active malvertising campaign. Users searching for "Claude mac download" may come across sponsored search results that list claude.ai as the target website, but lead to instructions that install malware on their Mac.
A security researcher claims Microsoft quietly fixed an Azure Backup for AKS vulnerability after rejecting his report, and without issuing a CVE. Microsoft disputes the claim, telling BleepingComputer the behavior was expected and that "no product changes were made," despite the researcher documenting a silent fix.
CVE was built to track code flaws with fixes. Itβs now being stretched to cover malware and supply chain incidents that donβt fit. Agent infrastructure and AI assets are where that drift becomes structural.
