Roughly 38 million people were likely impacted by a data breach at European DIY store chain ManoMano after hackers compromised a support portal. The attack occurred in January and was disclosed this week, when ManoMano started notifying the potentially affected customers of the incident. According to the company’s notification, copies of which were shared on X, the data was stolen after a customer service subcontractor was compromised. The hackers stole customers’ names, email addresses, and phone numbers, along with customer service exchanges. While ManoMano has not shared details on the hacked platform, it appears that the hackers accessed its Zendesk…
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Google’s February 2026 Discover core update has finished rolling out, per an update posted to the Search Status Dashboard at 2:02 AM PT on February 27. The rollout took roughly 22 days, starting February 5. That’s about 8 days longer than Google’s original estimate of up to two weeks. Google announced the update on the Search Central Blog, saying it was the first time the company publicly labeled a core update as a Discover core update. When it launched, Google listed three goals for the update. It aims to show users more locally relevant content from websites based in their…
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Ravie LakshmananFeb 27, 2026Malware / Surveillance The North Korean threat actor known as ScarCruft has been attributed to a fresh set of tools, including a backdoor that uses Zoho WorkDrive for command-and-control (C2) communications to fetch more payloads and an implant that uses removable media to relay commands and breach air-gapped networks. The campaign, codenamed Ruby Jumper by Zscaler ThreatLabz, involves the deployment of malware families, such as RESTLEAF, SNAKEDROPPER, THUMBSBD, VIRUSTASK, FOOTWINE, and BLUELIGHT to facilitate surveillance on a victim’s system. It was discovered by the cybersecurity company in December 2025. “In the Ruby Jumper campaign, when a victim…
What you need to knowUltrahuman announced the Ring PRO, its newest smart ring with enhanced accuracy, better heart-rate signals, and a 15-day battery life.The ring comes with a PRO Charger that can hold 45 days of battery power for users.Jade is Ultrahuman’s new “biointelligent” AI assistant, capable of holding chats with users about their health analytics for comprehensible insights.The Ultrahuman Ring PRO is available for pre-orders globally (excluding the U.S.) for $479 before shipments start in March.Ultrahuman is ending the week (and the month) with a back-to-back announcement that involves a new smart ring and an AI assistant.In a press…
Law enforcement agencies across 28 countries have spent the past year building cases against a loosely organized collective known as The Com, a decentralized network of mostly teenagers and young adults linked to high-profile ransomware attacks, financial extortion, and the coercion of vulnerable children. Europol announced the first operational results of Project Compass, reporting 30 arrests and the full or partial identification of 179 perpetrators since the initiative launched in January 2025. Investigators have also identified up to 62 victims and safeguarded four of them. What The Com is and how it operates The Com operates across social media platforms,…
DIY store chain ManoMano is notifying customers of a data breach that was caused by hackers compromising a third-party service provider. The company confirmed to BleepingComputer that it learned of the hack in January 2026. An investigation into the incident determined that 38 million individuals are affected. “We can confirm that ManoMano has recently notified customers about a security incident involving one of our third-party customer service providers (a subcontractor),” the company told BleepingComputer. “In January 2026, we identified unauthorized access linked to this provider, which resulted in the unauthorized extraction of certain personal data associated with customer accounts and…
Researchers published the results of a study showing how AI search rankings can be systematically influenced, with a high success rate for product search tests that also generalizes to other categories like travel. The name of the research paper is Controlling Output Rankings in Generative Engines for LLM-based Search and the approach to optimization is called CORE, a way to influence output rankings in LLMs. Caveat About The CORE Research The testing and the reported results were done with actual LLMs queried via an API. They tested: Claude 4 Gemini 2.5 GPT-4o Grok-3 They did not test AI Overviews, ChatGPT…
Summary sudo-rs now shows asterisks by default, replacing decades of invisible sudo password input. Dev argues that asterisks fix a major UX pain point for new users, with a slight security trade-off. Ubuntu 26.04 ships it; annoyed users can revert via ‘Defaults !pwfeedback’ in sudoers, but the feature is marked ‘Won’t Fix.’ As an ex-Windows user, one of the weirder moments I had when getting used to Linux was how sudo ‘eats’ your password. If you’ve never used it before, sudo won’t show any visual feedback as you type your password. There are no asterisks, no moving cursors, and no…
The demands for, and challenges of, deploying AI applications has ratcheted up the urgency to bring data centers into the AI age. It’s a strategic imperative and success requires partners across the infrastructure spectrum, from servers and storage to high-performance computing, networking, software, and security. IT leaders, intensely focused on data center modernization, need strategies, roadmaps, and products that will get them there. Download the March 2026 issue of the Enterprise Spotlight from the editors of CIO, Computerworld, CSO, InfoWorld, and Network World and learn how data center modernization is taking shape in 2026.