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On Friday afternoon, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) ordered a nationwide ground stop at every U.S. airport, citing "extraordinary circumstances" and safety concerns. U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said a communications problem was affecting all Air Route Traffic Control Centers across the country. "FAA technicians
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Threat actors are exploiting vulnerable Check Point Security Gateways in a campaign that ends with data-wiping malware on VMware ESXi hosts. According to Check Point Research, the attacks began on October 30, 2026, first against Israeli organizations. A single actor ran the whole operation, from initial access to lateral
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Microsoft has said there is no indication that the major Microsoft 365 outage that began on November 12 was caused by malicious or cyber activity. The company has publicly expressed regret over the disruption, which affected Outlook, Teams, Exchange Online, and other services for users worldwide. Statement from Microsoft leadership
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Microsoft says it is seeing early stabilization and capacity improvements in the Microsoft 365 outage that began on Thursday, November 12. The outage disrupted Outlook, Teams, Exchange Online, SharePoint Online, Microsoft 365 Copilot, and other services for users worldwide. Latest from Microsoft In its latest update on X, Microsoft said
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On November 12, 2026, the FBI released a TLP:CLEAR FLASH alert (AC-111226-MS) warning the cryptocurrency/web3 industry and open-source software maintainers about a highly effective North Korean social engineering campaign it calls “FaceStealer.” According to the FBI, the scheme has stolen more than $400 million in
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Microsoft 365, Outlook, and Teams went down for thousands of users on Thursday, November 12, 2026, in a major outage that also hit the Microsoft connectors used by OpenAI’s and Anthropic’s AI services. Microsoft first said the problem affected users in the Americas, then confirmed that users worldwide
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France has formally attributed a cyberattack that disrupted cold storage at French Blood Establishment (EFS) facilities to Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC). The attack targeted a third-party refrigeration equipment provider. It sent storage temperature settings soaring to dangerously high levels, in the latest of a wave of
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Patrick Steven Yaroch, a 37-year-old former FBI supervisor, has pleaded guilty to wire fraud and money laundering. He stole about $2.47 million in cryptocurrency from wallets linked to FBI investigations. He entered the guilty plea on November 5, 2026, according to the U.S. Department of Justice