IT Security Weekend Catch Up – January 2, 2026

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02.01.2026 | 18:22

IT Security Weekend Catch Up – January 2, 2026
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IT Security Weekend Catch Up – January 2, 2026

Afraid of missing important security news during the week? We're here to help! Every week we put together a curated list of all important security news in one place, for your reading pleasure. Enjoy!

For the less technical

  1. What does the EU do well?
  2. How social media manipulation fuels anti-Ukraine sentiment in Poland
  3. AI-generated videos showing young and attractive women promote Poland's EU exit
  4. More than 20% of videos shown to new YouTube users are ‘AI slop’, study finds
  5. ChatGPT could prioritize sponsored content as part of ad strategy
  6. Meta created ‘playbook’ to fend off pressure to crack down on scammers, documents show
  7. The biggest cybersecurity and cyberattack stories of 2025
  8. The attack that paralyzed America: Colonial Pipeline hack
  9. Hacker claims to leak WIRED database with 2.3 million records
  10. European Space Agency confirms breach of "external servers"
  11. Inside Uzbekistan’s nationwide license plate surveillance system
  12. Complete privacy setup for $0, $5, or $13/month (you choose)
  13. TRM traces stolen crypto from 2022 LastPass breach — on-chain indicators suggest Russian cybercriminal involvement
  14. Trust Wallet browser extension v2.68 incident

For the more technical

  1. The 39th Chaos Communication Congress (39C3): Power Cycles
  2. MongoBleed: MongoDB zlib vulnerability (CVE-2025-14847) and how to fix it
  3. MongoBleed (CVE-2025-14847) exploited in the wild: everything you need to know
  4. RondoDoX botnet weaponizes React2Shell
  5. Eurostar AI vulnerability: when a chatbot goes off the rails
  6. Petlibro: Your pet feeder is feeding data to anyone who asks
  7. Revisiting Medusa Locker ransomware
  8. The holiday whisper: Shai-Hulud 3.0
  9. GlassWorm goes Mac: Fresh infrastructure, new tricks
  10. Atomic macOS stealer is spreading via ChatGPT and Grok answers
  11. The industrialization of “ClickFix”: Inside ErrTraffic
  12. DarkSpectre: Unmasking the threat actor behind 8.8 million infected browsers
  13. APT36 LNK-based malware campaign leveraging MSI payload delivery
  14. Silver Fox targeting India using tax themed phishing lures
  15. UNG0801: Tracking threat clusters obsessed with AV icon spoofing targeting Israel

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Afraid of missing important security news during the week? We’re here to help! Every week we put together a curated list of all important security news in one place, for your reading pleasure. Enjoy! For the less technical What does the EU do well? How social media manipulation fuels anti-Ukraine sentiment in Poland AI 2026-01-02T18:22:09+01:00

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