The DIL Observatory maps cyber incidents, including ransomware attacks, data breaches, and cyber militia activity, alongside their geopolitical and social contexts.
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Data Breaches, Global Security News
Weekly Update 506
I’m finding it quite fascinating to watch the current spate of ShinyHunters breaches and dumps. There’s the obvious criminality of it all, but then there’s also the response from organisations (or lack thereof, as it relates to disclosure to victims), the appearance and disappearance of victims on their dark web site, the speculation around payments…
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AI Threats, Data Breaches, and Supply Chain Risks Define This Week of May 2026 in Cybersecurity
Major Threats & Vulnerabilities Data Breaches and Credential Exposures The hacking group ShinyHunters claims responsibility for stealing over 42 million customer records from Charter Communications. The alleged breach, conducted through social engineering and Microsoft Entra compromise, is under investigation. Organizations are urged to review MFA enforcement and monitor SaaS environments for suspicious activity. Read more…
AI, Data Breaches, Global Security News, privacy, Risk Management
340 Million OnlyFans Profiles Allegedly Rebuilt from Leaks
A hacker is selling a 340M-strong OnlyFans-linked dataset built by correlating old breaches and public data, not by hacking OnlyFans directly. A threat actor is adverertising a purported database containing data of 340 million OnlyFans users, but the available evidence points to something less dramatic than a direct breach. According to HackRead, which reported the…
Data Breaches, Global Security News
Verizon DBIR: Healthcare Fends Off Increased Social Engineering Attacks
Ransomware and vendor breaches persist, but the 2026 Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR) highlights how evolving social engineering tactics make the sector more vulnerable.
Data Breaches, Global Security News
Verizon DBIR: Vulnerability Exploits Overtake Credentials as Top Access Vector
Verizon DBIR finds 31% of data breaches began with software flaws last year
Data Breaches, Global Security News
Trellix Source Code Breach Highlights Growing Supply Chain Threats
Info is scant, but such breaches can reveal where a security product’s controls are located and how detections are designed, giving attackers a leg up.
Data Breaches, Global Security News
Webinar: Why MSPs must rethink security and backup strategies
Security breaches don’t just test your defenses—they test your recovery. Join Kaseya in our upcoming webinar to learn how MSPs strengthen resilience with SaaS backups and BCDR to stay operational after attacks. […]
Data Breaches, Global Security News
French police arrest 21-year-old “HexDex” hacker over 100 alleged data breaches
A 21-year-old man suspected of conducting approximately 100 data breaches since late 2025 – including a hack of the French Ministry of National Education that exposed records on almost a quarter of a million employees – has been arrested at his home in western France. Read more in my article on the Hot for Security…
AI, Apps, Cybersecurity, Data Breaches, Global Security News, Network Security, Risk Management
FIRESIDE CHAT: Leaked secrets are now the go-to attack vector — and AI is accelerating exposures
A consequential shift is underway in how enterprise breaches begin. The leaked credential — once treated as a hygiene problem — has become the primary on-ramp. Related: No easy fixes for AI risk Last August’s Salesloft campaign was the pattern in miniature. Stolen OAuth tokens from one chatbot vendor pulled Salesforce data from 760 enterprise…
AI, Data Breaches, Global Security News
Hacker with a special interest in breaching sports institutions ends behind bars
French police have arrested a suspected hacker linked to a series of data breaches affecting organizations in the country. Citing authorities, Le Parisien reported that the suspect, a 20-year-old man using the alias ‘HexDex,’ was taken into custody on April 22, 2026, in the Vendée region, western France. The suspect admitted to using the alias…
Data Breaches, Global Security News
Vercel Employee’s AI Tool Access Led to Data Breach
Stolen OAuth tokens, which are at the root of these breaches, “are the new attack surface, the new lateral movement,” a researcher noted.
AI, Data Breaches, Global Security News
[Webinar] Find and Eliminate Orphaned Non-Human Identities in Your Environment
In 2024, compromised service accounts and forgotten API keys were behind 68% of cloud breaches. Not phishing. Not weak passwords. Unmanaged non-human identities that nobody was watching. For every employee in your org, there are 40 to 50 automated credentials: service accounts, API tokens, AI agent connections, andOAuth grants. When projects end or employees leave, most
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6-Year Ransomware Campaign Targets Turkish Homes & SMBs
While enterprises breaches make more headlines, smaller incidents tend to be under-reported, if at all, allowing campaigns to last longer with less disruption.
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Alleged 10 Petabyte Data Theft From China’s Tianjin Supercomputing Hub
Threat actors are claiming responsibility for what could be one of the largest data breaches in China’s history — allegedly stealing more than 10 petabytes of data from a key national supercomputing facility tied to scientific and defense research. “The reports that hackers with the alias of FlamingChina stole 10 petabytes of data containing Chinese…
AI, Data Breaches, Global Security News
Blast Radius of TeamPCP Attacks Expands Amid Hacker Infighting
As organizations disclose breaches tied to TeamPCP’s supply chain attacks, ShinyHunters and Lapsus$ are getting involved, taking credit, and creating a murky situation for enterprises.
Compliance, Data Breaches, Global Security News
Kernel Observability for Data Movement
Kernel-level visibility reveals hidden data movement in breaches, exposing gaps in modern security tools and improving detection, compliance, and system behavior tracking.
AI, Data Breaches, Global Security News
TeamPCP’s attack spree slows, but threat escalates with ransomware pivot
TeamPCP’s destructive run of supply chain breaches has stopped, for now: it has been three days since the group published malicious versions of Telnyx’s SDK on PyPI, and there haven’t been reports of new open-source project compromises. Partnership with emerging RaaS operation “The prior operational cadence was aggressive – a new target every 1-3 days…
AI, Apps, Cloud Security, Compliance, Cybersecurity, Data Breaches, Endpoint, Exploits, Global Security News, malware, Network Security, Risk Management
APIs are the new perimeter: Here’s how CISOs are securing them
Recent breaches suggest attackers are shifting beyond traditional endpoints to target application programming interfaces (APIs). But typical perimeter protections can completely miss this vector. “We used to talk about defense-in-depth and endpoint protection,” says Sean Murphy, CISO at BECU, a nationwide credit union. “That morphed into identity, and now the API is the new perimeter.”…
Data Breaches, Global Security News
HackerOne, Mazda, Infinite Campus and Dutch Ministry Hit by Data Breaches
HackerOne, Mazda, Infinite Campus and the Dutch Ministry report data breaches, exposing employee and partner data across multiple sectors worldwide.
Data Breaches, Global Security News
Huge “Shadow Layer” of Organizations Hit by Supply Chain Attacks
Black Kite reveals 26,000 unnamed corporate victims linked to 136 third-party breaches
AI, Cybersecurity, Data Breaches, Global Security News
7 Top ISO 27001 Certification Providers
In this post, I will show you the 7 top ISO 27001 certification providers. Data breaches are something companies must be prepared for, so they are seeking more robust cybersecurity through certifications. ISO 27001 is an international standard that helps organizations strengthen their security protocols. Obtaining an ISO 27001 certification shows that a business is…
AI, Data Breaches, Global Security News, Risk Management
Weekly Update 492
The recurring theme this week seems to be around the gap between breaches happening and individual victims finding out about them. It’s tempting to blame this on the corporate victim of the breach (the hacked company), but they’re simultaneously dealing with a criminal intrusion, a ransom demand, and class-action lawyers knocking down their doors. They’re…
AI, Data Breaches, Global Security News
Data Breaches in 2026: What’s old, what’s new?
Data breaches in 2026 explained, new cyber threats, AI driven attacks, common breach causes, and practical security strategies for individuals and businesses
Data Breaches, EU, Europe, european commission, Global Security News, News, regulation, Risk Management, TikTok
TikTok under EU pressure to change its addictive algorithm
The European Commission has issued preliminary findings that say TikTok breaches the Digital Services Act due to its addictive design. The Commission opened a formal investigation into TikTok in February 2024. The probe examined whether the platform meets its obligations as a very large online platform under the Digital Services Act. These obligations include identifying…
Data Breaches, EU, Europe, european commission, Global Security News, News, regulation, Risk Management, TikTok
TikTok under EU pressure to change its addictive algorithm
The European Commission has issued preliminary findings that say TikTok breaches the Digital Services Act due to its addictive design. The Commission opened a formal investigation into TikTok in February 2024. The probe examined whether the platform meets its obligations as a very large online platform under the Digital Services Act. These obligations include identifying…