We open this episode with a new physical mail scam campaign targeting bank customers in France, according to Planet.fr. The modus operandi begins with the receipt of a letter bearing the letterhead of a financial institution and containing a fake bank card equipped with a chip. The document instructs the recipient to scan a QR code to activate the card. This technique, known as “quishing,” redirects the victim to a malicious website designed to exfiltrate personal data and banking details. The phenomenon, already observed in neighboring European countries, is gaining ground in France. The cards display a high level of counterfeiting, including accurate reproduction of banks’ visual identities. Verifying the URL displayed after scanning the QR code is the first indicator of legitimacy. If information is entered on a fraudulent website, the recommended procedure includes immediately blocking the bank card, changing all passwords, and reporting the incident via the French Interior Ministry’s Perceval platform.
Microsoft published CVE-2026-0628 in its Security Update Guide, concerning a high-severity vulnerability affecting Chromium’s WebView tag component, according to Neowin. The technical flaw, classified as “Insufficient policy enforcement,” allows an attacker who has convinced a user to install a malicious extension to inject scripts or HTML into a privileged page. Researcher Gal Weizman reported the vulnerability to Google in late November. Chrome version 143.0.7499.192 contains the upstream fix, which was integrated by Microsoft into Edge on January 10, 2026. Microsoft records the CVE in its Security Update Guide to provide authoritative downstream status to Edge customers. Canonical vulnerability trackers confirm that the upstream remediation threshold was set in the Chrome 143 stable release. Inventory and remediation efforts must cover all embedded Chromium runtimes and Electron applications, as updating the host browser does not protect these applications.
The BreachForums hacking forum suffered a data leak exposing its user database table, according to BleepingComputer. On January 9, 2026, a site named after the ShinyHunters extortion gang published a 7Zip archive named breachedforum.7z. The archive contains the file databoose.sql, a MyBB database table comprising 323,988 member records, including display names, registration dates, IP addresses, and other internal information. Analysis shows that the majority of IP addresses resolve to a local loopback address, but 70,296 records contain public IP addresses. The latest registration date corresponds to August 11, 2025, the day the previous BreachForums was shut down following the arrest of certain alleged operators. The current administrator, known under the pseudonym N/A, acknowledged the leak, stating that a backup of the MyBB users table was temporarily exposed in an unsecured directory and downloaded once.
Finally, a major data leak compromised the personal information of approximately 17.5 million Instagram users, according to CyberPress. The leak, initially reported by cybersecurity researchers at Malwarebytes, exposes contact information, making millions of users vulnerable to identity theft and targeted phishing attacks. The dataset appeared this week on a hacking forum, published by a threat actor using the pseudonym “Solonik.” The listing titled “INSTAGRAM.COM 17M GLOBAL USERS — 2024 API LEAK” contains 17.5 million records formatted in JSON and TXT files. The data was collected in late 2024 via an API leak that bypassed standard security measures. The exposed database includes full names, usernames, verified email addresses, phone numbers, user identifiers, and partial location data. The leak is classified as scraping, meaning automated data collection via public interfaces. As of January 10, 2026, Meta has not issued a formal statement regarding this leak.
Sources
- Planet.fr – Bank card scam https://www.planet.fr/societe-arnaque-a-la-fausse-carte-bancaire-par-courrier-le-mecanisme-du-quishing-qui-vise-vos-coordonnees.2992374.29336.html
- Microsoft Security Update Guide – CVE-2026-0628 https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2026-0628
- BleepingComputer – BreachForums database leak https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/breachforums-hacking-forum-database-leaked-exposing-324-000-accounts/
- CyberPress – Instagram data leak https://cyberpress.org/instagram-data-leak/
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