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Infected Red Hat npm packages expose developer credentials

Developers who pulled packages from Red Hat’s @redhat-cloud-services npm namespace over the weekend got a secret-stealing worm instead. Security researchers from several cybersecurity outlets are warning of a new supply chain attack compromising over 30 Red Hat Cloud Services-related npm packages to steal credentials, authentication tokens, and other secrets from developer environments. The campaign, which…

Ransomware Operators Keep Business Hours. The Data Proves It

16,699 ransomware leak posts over 2 years show 84% drop Monday–Friday, peak at European afternoon hours. October spikes yearly. Someone analyzed 16,699 ransomware leak-site posts across 200 groups over two years and asked the question most threat intelligence reports dance around: when does this actually happen? The answer is mundane and useful. Ransomware runs on…

Ransomware Operators Keep Business Hours. The Data Proves It

16,699 ransomware leak posts over 2 years show 84% drop Monday–Friday, peak at European afternoon hours. October spikes yearly. Someone analyzed 16,699 ransomware leak-site posts across 200 groups over two years and asked the question most threat intelligence reports dance around: when does this actually happen? The answer is mundane and useful. Ransomware runs on…

Another IT governance headache: AI-enabled sanction evasion

Over the next three to five years, both governments and the private sector will need to rapidly adapt identification and mitigation protocols as adversaries move from AI-assisted to AI-enabled sanctions evasion and proliferation financing (PF), a new research paper warns. The report, Algorithms of Evasion: The Rise of AI-Enabled Proliferation Financing, from the Royal United…

Another IT governance headache: AI-enabled sanction evasion

Over the next three to five years, both governments and the private sector will need to rapidly adapt identification and mitigation protocols as adversaries move from AI-assisted to AI-enabled sanctions evasion and proliferation financing (PF), a new research paper warns. The report, Algorithms of Evasion: The Rise of AI-Enabled Proliferation Financing, from the Royal United…

Ghost CMS flaw abused to push ClickFix attacks on hundreds of sites

Attackers are exploiting the patched Ghost CMS flaw CVE-2026-26980, compromising over 700 unpatched sites, including universities. Threat actors are actively exploiting a security flaw, tracked as CVE-2026-26980, in Ghost CMS that was fixed months ago in real attacks against unpatched websites. According to Qianxin, the campaign has already affected more than 700 sites, including well-known organizations and…

Anthropic’s Project Glasswing: 10,000+ Vulnerabilities Found in One Month, and the Patching Problem Has Never Been More Obvious

Anthropic said its AI Project Glasswing found over 10,000 serious vulnerabilities in one month, exposing a growing patching gap. Anthropic announced on Friday that Project Glasswing, its defensive cybersecurity initiative built around Claude Mythos Preview, has uncovered more than 10,000 high- or critical-severity vulnerabilities in the month since the program went live. The number is…

Microsoft, EY to spend $1 billion on helping customers buy agentic AI

Microsoft and EY will spend $1 billion on helping their customers adopt AI over the next five years. The billion will support assisting clients with pioneering AI projects and capability building, said EY’s global Microsoft alliance leader, Paul Clark. Clients will be able to access those resources based on their specific needs, he said. “We’re…

The readiness paradox: Why a false sense of cyber confidence is becoming a liability

There’s this old proverb that’s stuck with me over the years: “Dig the well before you are thirsty.” It really means you should prepare for the crisis before it arrives. In cybersecurity, it’s a mentality that’s long underpinned investment, strategy and board-level conversations. And by many measures, organizations appear to have already ‘dug’ that well.…

AI red teaming agents change how LLMs get tested

Adversarial probing of LLMs has piled up a sprawling toolkit over the past three years. Attack techniques with names like Tree of Attacks with Pruning, Crescendo, and Skeleton Key sit alongside hundreds of prompt transforms and scoring methods across open-source frameworks including Microsoft’s PyRIT, NVIDIA’s Garak, and Promptfoo. The catalog has grown faster than any…

Are Attackers Hiding Inside Your Network Traffic?

I believe one of the important shifts in cybersecurity over the past several years is how attackers are hiding in plain sight.  According to the 2026 IP Intelligence Study released by Spur Intelligence, anonymizing infrastructure, such as virtual private networks (VPNs) and residential proxies, are now involved in nearly every modern cyberattack.  These tools allow…

Game over for 74 suspected scammers after Dutch cops plastered their faces on billboards

The Dutch police’s Game Over?! campaign, which publicly displays images of suspected fraudsters to encourage self-surrenders and gather public tips, is proving successful, with the identities of 74 of the 100 suspects shown already identified. A digital display promoting the Dutch police’s Game Over?! campaign (Source: Politie) Launched in March 2026, the campaign displays blurred…

ShinyHunters hack 7-Eleven: franchisee data and Salesforce records exposed

7-Eleven confirmed a breach after ShinyHunters claimed theft of over 600,000 Salesforce records and franchisee data. 7-Eleven has confirmed a data breach after the ShinyHunters hacking group claimed it stole more than 600,000 Salesforce records containing personal and corporate information. “Over 600k Salesforce records containing PII and other internal corporate data have been compromised.” The…

Public Amazon bucket leaks sensitive guest data from Japanese hotel platform Tabiq

A hotel check-in system exposed over 1 million passports, IDs, and selfies online due to a misconfigured cloud storage bucket. A security lapse in the Reqrea’s Tabiq hotel check-in system exposed over 1 million passports, driver’s licenses, and selfie verification photos online. The issue came from a misconfigured Amazon cloud storage bucket that was left…

Stronger Cybersecurity, Stronger Business: NIST Celebrates 2026 National Small Business Week

Happy National Small Business Week! For over 60 years, the U.S. Small Business Administration has led this initiative to acknowledge the critical contributions of America’s entrepreneurs and small business owners. Part of the U.S. Department of Commerce, NIST’s mission is to drive U.S. innovation and global competitiveness, and the small business community is central to…

Salt Typhoon breach IBM subsidiary in Italy: a warning for Europe’s digital defenses

April 2026 breach at Sistemi Informativi (IBM Italy) raises concerns over Chinese-linked cyber ops in Europe, including Salt Typhoon. In late April 2026, the Italian cybersecurity landscape was shaken by a significant breach targeting Sistemi Informativi, a company wholly owned by IBM Italy that provides IT infrastructure management for key public and private institutions. The…

Infra + security: why more & more CISOs are starting to own infrastructure

Over the past year, I have started to see a growing trend that in more and more organizations, CISOs are taking ownership of infrastructure teams. Where CISOs aren’t directly taking over infrastructure teams, they are exerting more direct control over how infrastructure is designed and operated. Like many structural shifts in cybersecurity, this is developing…

Rep. Delia Ramirez takes over as top House cybersecurity Dem

Illinois Rep. Delia Ramirez is taking over as the top Democrat on the House Homeland Security panel’s cybersecurity subcommittee, replacing former Rep. Eric Swalwell after his resignation. Committee Democrats approved the change Tuesday at a meeting prior to a “shadow hearing” without the GOP majority, focused on protecting elections from Trump administration interference. Ramirez first…

Medtronic discloses security incident after ShinyHunters claimed theft of 9M+ records

Medtronic confirmed a breach of its IT systems after ShinyHunters claimed the theft of over 9 million records. Medtronic confirmed a cyberattack on its corporate IT systems after the hacker group ShinyHunters claimed to have stolen over 9 million records. The company did not share details on the security breach. Medtronic is an international medical…

Italy moves to extradite Chinese national to the U.S. over hacking charges

Italy plans to extradite Xu Zewei to the U.S. over alleged hacks on COVID-19 research tied to state-backed operations. Italy is moving to extradite Xu Zewei, the Chinese national arrested in 2025 at the request of U.S. authorities on cyber-espionage charges, Bloomberg reported. The case stands out because it ties a single suspect, Xu, to…

DetectFlow: Deploying Detections at Scale Without the Engineering Overhead

The Problem: Achieving Threat Detections at Scale  At SOC Prime, we have spent over a decade making detection engineering easier for organizations of every size. Each year, as threats multiply and environments grow more complex, the traditional approach puts SOC Managers in an impossible position — responsible for coverage they cannot achieve with the tools…

Analysis of 216M Security Findings Shows a 4x Increase In Critical Risk (2026 Report)

OX Security recently analyzed 216 million security findings across 250 organizations over a 90-day period. The primary takeaway: while raw alert volume grew by 52% year-over-year, prioritized critical risk grew by nearly 400%. The surge in AI-assisted development is creating a “velocity gap” where the density of high-impact vulnerabilities is scaling faster than

Anthropic’s Mythos signals a structural cybersecurity shift

Over the past week, reaction to Anthropic’s Glasswing disclosure has split along familiar lines. At one end: alarm over an AI system capable of autonomously identifying and exploiting vulnerabilities. At the other: dismissive hot takes, arguing there is nothing new here. A more grounded view comes from a new briefing by the Cloud Security Alliance…

$12 million frozen, 20,000 victims identified in crypto scam crackdown

More than $12 million has been frozen, and over 20,000 victims have been identified in an international law enforcement operation targeting cryptocurrency and investment scammers. Authorities also uncovered more than $45 million in suspected cryptocurrency fraud losses worldwide. One UK victim identified during the operation is thought to have lost more than £52,000 to the…

Eurail data breach impacted 308,777 people

Hackers breached Eurail in Dec 2025, stole names and passport data, and exposed over 300,000 travelers’ personal information. Threat actors breached Eurail in December 2025 and stole names and passport numbers from its network. The company now notifies 308,777 people that attackers exposed their personal data, raising concerns about identity theft and misuse of sensitive…

113,000 explicit prompts from AI girlfriend platform exposed, many linked to user IDs

MyLovely.AI, an AI girlfriend platform, suffered a data breach that exposed over 100,000 users. MyLovely.AI allows people to create personalized not safe for work (NSFW) content and engage in real-time conversations with AI-generated companions, often involving highly personal prompts and interactions. According to Have I Been Pwned, the breach exposed email addresses, user-created prompts, links…

Smashing Security podcast #462: LinkedIn is spying on you, and you agreed to nothing

LinkedIn has been secretly scanning your browser for over 6,000 installed extensions — on every single click you make. It can tell if you’re job hunting, what religion you are, and whether you have ADHD. And none of this is mentioned anywhere in their privacy policy. Meanwhile, California’s crypto millionaires are learning that no amount…

LinkedIn is spying on you, and you agreed to nothing

LinkedIn has been secretly scanning your browser for over 6,000 installed extensions — on every single click you make. It can tell if you’re job hunting, what religion you are, and whether you have ADHD. And none of this is mentioned anywhere in their privacy policy. Meanwhile, California’s crypto millionaires are learning that no amount…

Fortinet customers confront actively exploited zero-day, with a full patch still pending

Fortinet released an emergency software update over the weekend to address an actively exploited vulnerability in FortiClient EMS, an endpoint management tool for customer devices. The zero-day vulnerability — CVE-2026-35616 — has a CVSS rating of 9.8 and was added to the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency’s known exploited vulnerability catalog Monday.  Fortinet said in…

BKA unmasks two REvil Ransomware operators behind 130+ German attacks

German police BKA identified two key REvil ransomware members, linking them to over 130 attacks in Germany. Germany’s Federal Criminal Police (BKA) has identified two key figures behind the REvil ransomware group, linking them to more than 130 attacks in the country. The first suspect is Daniil Maksimovich Shchukin (31), a Russian national known online…

Attackers Exploit RCE Flaw as 14,000 F5 BIG-IP APM Instances Remain Exposed

Over 14,000 F5 BIG-IP APM instances remain exposed online, as attackers actively exploit a critical remote code execution flaw CVE-2025-53521. Over 14,000 F5 BIG-IP APM instances remain exposed online, with attackers actively exploiting the critical remote code execution vulnerability CVE-2025-53521 (CVSS ver. 3.1 score of 9.8), the nonprofit security organization Shadowserver warns. The vulnerability in BIG-IP…

North Korean hackers abuse LNKs and GitHub repos in ongoing campaign

DPRK-linked threat actors are preferring stealth over sophistication in their targeting of South Korean organizations, as researchers report use of weaponized Windows shortcut (.LNK) files and GitHub-based command-and-control (C2) channels in a new campaign. According to new Fortinet findings, a series of attacks that began in 2024 were found using a multi-stage scripting process and…

Escaping the COTS trap

Over the years, enterprise cybersecurity environments have accumulated staggering numbers of commercial tools. Industry research converges on a consistent picture of tool proliferation that drives complexity, cost, and risk. The global cybersecurity market is valued at approximately $243 billion in 2024 and projected to surpass $520 billion annually by 2026. Commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) software promises…

Beyond the billion-dollar banking oversight: How process intelligence can surface vital warning signs

GUEST OPINION: When one of Australia’s Big Four financial institutions recently self-reported over $1 billion in potentially fraudulent loans, the industry’s focus immediately turned to the sophistication of the bad actors. But for those of us looking at the mechanics of global banking, the more pressing question isn’t how the documents were doctored, it’s how…

Akira ransomware group can achieve initial access to data encryption in less than an hour

The Akira ransomware group has compromised hundreds of victims over the past year with a well-honed attack lifecycle that has whittled down the time from initial access to encryption of data in less than four hours, according to cybersecurity firm Halcyon. Akira has been active since 2023, racking up at least $245 million in ransom…

The external pressures redefining cybersecurity risk

Over the last four years, I’ve watched organizations get blindsided by threats that originated in a third-party network. More than 35% of data breaches are caused by a compromised vendor or partner, not by any failure in the organization’s controls. While many organizations know that the biggest threats to their security come from forces entirely…

Active Magecart Campaign Targets Spain, Steals Card Data via Hijacked eStores for Bank Fraud 

A large-scale magecart operation remained active for over 24 months, leveraging an infrastructure of 100+ domains. While the targeted victims are e-commerce websites, the actual pressure falls on banks and payment systems. As ANY.RUN’s analysis shows, threat actors applied multi-step checkout hijacking, payment page mimicry, and WebSocket-based exfiltration of card data.  This report provides both executive-level insights and technical analysis of the campaign.  Key Takeaways  The campaign demonstrates long-term persistence…