It’s been a while since I last wrote an article. I wanted to improve the format of my monthly cybersecurity news, so instead of writing a summary, I’m creating a timeline of interesting articles I’ve read, with their links. If you’re interested in more detail, you can click through to the original sources.
Here's a recap of January 2026:
| Date | Subject | Event | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| January 2 | Ransomware | TridentLocker Ransomware Hits Sedgwick’s Government Solutions Subsidiary, 3.4GB of Data Stolen | The Record |
| January 5 | Data Breach | Zestix Cybercriminals List ShareFile and Nextcloud Data for Sale | BleepingComputer |
| January 6 | Artificial Intelligence | Rokid Debuts Prescription‑First AI Glasses Compatible with ChatGPT, Qwen and DeepSeek | Yahoo Finance |
| January 7 | Data Breach | Extortion gang alleges theft of over 1M Brightspeed customer records | Malwarebytes |
| January 8 | Artificial Intelligence | ChatGPT Memory Feature Supercharges Prompt‑Injection Attacks | Dark Reading |
| January 9 | Cybersecurity | Illicit Crypto Flows Soar as Nation-States Ramp Up On‑Chain Activity | Dark Reading |
| January 10 | Information Technology | Azure’s West US 2 Region Suffered Power Interruption That Triggered a Major Outage | Medium |
| January 11 | Data Breach | Instagram Denies Breach After Data on 17 Million Accounts Appears Online | BleepingComputer |
| January 12 | Data Breach | BreachForums Data Leak Exposes Almost 324K User Accounts | eSecurity Planet |
| January 13 | Vulnerability | Microsoft Office Remote Code Execution Vulnerability (CVE-2026-20952 & CVE-2026-20953) (Severity: Critical) | Crowdstrike |
| January 14 | Artificial Intelligence | Google’s Gemini Rolls Out ‘Personal Intelligence’ for App‑Connected Assistance | |
| January 19 | Cyberfraud | ASC Warns Alberta Investors About 2026’s Most Misleading Investment Scams | ASC |
| January 20 | Cybersecurity | Mass Spam Attacks Hijack Zendesk Support Portals | Dark Reading |
| January 22 | Information Technology | Major Microsoft 365 Outage Disrupts Outlook and Core Services in Nine‑Hour “Catastrophic” Incident | Messageware |
| January 26 | Data Privacy | Data Privacy Week 2026 (Jan 26 to Jan 30) | Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada |
| January 27 | Data Breach | World Leaks Gang Publishes 1.4 TB of Nike Internal Data on Dark Web | The National CIO Review |
| January 28 | Data Privacy | X Faces EU Investigation Over Grok AI’s Non‑Consensual Sexual Images | The Guardian |
| January 29 | Ransomware | Marquis Links Ransomware Breach to SonicWall Cloud Backup Compromise | BleepingComputer |
| January 30 | Ransomware | 10 Millions Exposed as ShinyHunters Target Match Group Apps and Panera Bread | Malwarebytes |
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