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Auto finance fraud is costing dealers up to $20,000 per incident

Auto retailers see fraud as a regular part of selling and financing vehicles, something that shows up often enough to plan around, according to Experian. Income and identity fraud lead the list Most fraud problems start with the borrower. Income and employment misrepresentation rank as the most common issues. Fake pay stubs, altered bank statements, and inflated job details continue to surface during loan applications. Identity fraud follows closely behind. Respondents pointed to synthetic identity … More → The post Auto finance fraud is costing dealers up to $20,000 per incident appeared first on Help Net Security.
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Russian hackers are exploiting recently patched Microsoft Office vulnerability (CVE-2026-21509)

Russian state-sponsored hackers Fancy Bear (aka APT 28) are exploiting CVE-2026-21509, a Microsoft Office vulnerability for which Microsoft released an emergency fix last week. The exploitation CVE-2026-21509 allows unauthorized attackers to bypass a security feature (OLE mitigations in Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Office) locally, by creating and tricking targets into opening booby-trapped Office files. On January 29, 2026 – three days after Microsoft released the aforementioned fix – Zscaler researchers flagged an email phishing campaign … More → The post Russian hackers are exploiting recently patched Microsoft Office vulnerability (CVE-2026-21509) appeared first on Help Net Security.
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Gremlin launches Disaster Recovery Testing for zone, region, and datacenter failovers

Gremlin, the proactive reliability platform, launched Disaster Recovery Testing: a new product built to safely and efficiently test zone, region, and datacenter evacuations and failovers. These large-scale tests ensure businesses maintain digital resilience and business continuity when faced with cloud migrations, compliance concerns, and catastrophic events. There were multiple high-profile cloud outages in 2025, such as the AWS us-east-1 zone outage in October 2025 impacting 70,000 companies and incurring losses estimated at $581 million, that … More → The post Gremlin launches Disaster Recovery Testing for zone, region, and datacenter failovers appeared first on Help Net Security.
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Download: Tines Voice of Security 2026 report

Security teams everywhere are adopting AI. Yet manual work persists, workloads are rising, and burnout continues to climb. To understand what’s really changing, Tines surveyed 1,800+ security leaders and practitioners worldwide. The findings show where AI is delivering value, how security roles are evolving, the barriers holding teams back, and how to thrive in 2026. What’s in the report: Why security is gaining strategic influence, yet struggles to align with business goals How AI is … More → The post Download: Tines Voice of Security 2026 report appeared first on Help Net Security.
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Notepad++ supply chain attack: Researchers reveal details, IoCs, targets

Rapid7 researchers have attributed the recent hijacking of the Notepad++ update mechanism to Lotus Blossom (aka Billbug), a Chinese state-sponsored group known for targeting organizations in Southeast Asia for espionage purposes. On Wednesday, Kaspersky researchers shared the insights they’ve gleaned from their own telemetry: the attackers targeted individuals located in Vietnam, El Salvador and Australia; a government organization located in the Philippines; a financial organization located in El Salvador; and a Vietnamese IT service provider. … More → The post Notepad++ supply chain attack: Researchers reveal details, IoCs, targets appeared first on Help Net Security.
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Sandisk brings SPRandom to open source for large SSD testing

Enterprise storage environments already run long qualification cycles as solid-state drive capacities rise and validation teams try to mirror production workloads. Preconditioning steps now consume days of lab time for a single device, especially in data centers supporting AI training, analytics, and large-scale databases. High-capacity enterprise SSDs now reach 256TB and higher. These capacities change how vendors and customers approach testing before deployment. Preconditioning places a drive into steady state so that performance and endurance … More → The post Sandisk brings SPRandom to open source for large SSD testing appeared first on Help Net Security.
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Firefox to let users manage and block AI features

Mozilla will add a set of controls in Firefox that let users manage and block GenAI features in the desktop browser. The controls will be included in Firefox version 148 on February 24, 2026. “We believe choice is more important than ever as AI becomes a part of people’s browsing experiences. What matters to us is giving people control, no matter how they feel about AI,” Ajit Varma, Head of Firefox, said. Each of these … More → The post Firefox to let users manage and block AI features appeared first on Help Net Security.
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