CURRENT RELEASE

A County Secretly Paid Hackers $1 Million. Then the Transcripts Leaked.

Jul 13, 2026

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4 min read

A County Secretly Paid Hackers $1 Million. Then the Transcripts Leaked.

Also: a red teamer stole a $250,000 trophy by pretending to fix the office Wi-Fi, and AI coding assistants are hallucinating the exact malware names attackers want them to install.

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WHAT’S HAPPENED LATELY

Jul 10, 2026

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4 min read

Accenture Got Hacked Again. This Is Its Third Time in Five Years.

Also: two convicted fraudsters built a bug-buying startup dangling $7 million payouts, and an AI agent ran a full ransomware attack start to finish, on its own.

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Jul 8, 2026

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4 min read

ShinyHunters Hit Medtronic. 3.8 Million People Just Found Out.

Also: a ransomware gang apologized to its own victim, and Iran's hackers may have gotten an AI assist building their malware.

Jul 6, 2026

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5 min read

The Linux Kernel Had a Three-Year-Old Bug. It Just Started Handing Out Root Access.

Also: a user swore a hacker named "General Failure" had invaded his PC, and an AI-built malware kit just learned to dodge nine different antivirus vendors.

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Scattered Spider Left the Casino. Your Insurance Company Is Next.

Also: BEC is a subscription business growing 1,380% per year, Cambodia's scam cloud got seized, and MSG's celebrity risk files changed hands

Russia kept using Cellebrite after the contract cancellation. Citizen Lab has the proof.

Also: a Huntress insider allegedly fed a ransomware gang live IR case details while the firm fought the breach, and KDDI's shared email system leaked 14 million accounts across six ISPs.

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A NASDAQ-listed company turned 1.5 million LG smart TVs into a criminal proxy network for hire

Also: the twice-convicted contractors who deleted 96 government FOIA databases when they got fired and then Googled how to erase the logs, and Cisco's SD-WAN had an undetected root-access zero-day for months.

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Five intelligence agencies just warned: AI cyberweapons are months away from public release

Also: The casino hacker who bragged to journalists mid-attack lasted one day at trial, and Apple's iPhone schematics are now leaking online.

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Your Fortinet credentials are already out there. Here's who has them.

Also: free smart TV apps quietly rent your home internet to AI companies, and North Korea backdoored 144 AI developer packages in under 90 minutes.

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Section 702 just expired. Congress votes again in 4 days.

Also: a ransomware gang stopped Australia's sugar harvest without leaving a ransom note, and ShinyHunters just hit Europe's human rights watchdog.

China hid inside US military and medical networks for 26 months before anyone noticed

Also: a Roblox cheater accidentally committed the largest education breach in US history, and your AI coding agent will execute whatever attackers tell it to.

ShinyHunters found an Oracle zero-day. Still no patch.

Also: FBI + Google + Lumen dismantled a $1.9B Chinese phishing franchise, and a county commissioner told a roomful of residents they would not be speaking about Flock tonight.

CURRENT RELEASE

A County Secretly Paid Hackers $1 Million. Then the Transcripts Leaked.

WHAT’S HAPPENED LATELY

Accenture Got Hacked Again. This Is Its Third Time in Five Years.

ShinyHunters Hit Medtronic. 3.8 Million People Just Found Out.

The Linux Kernel Had a Three-Year-Old Bug. It Just Started Handing Out Root Access.

Join other CISOs, analysts, founders, and cyber professionals who get sharp, actionable cyber intel. Delivered 3x a week.

PRIOR RELEASES

Scattered Spider Left the Casino. Your Insurance Company Is Next.

Russia kept using Cellebrite after the contract cancellation. Citizen Lab has the proof.

A NASDAQ-listed company turned 1.5 million LG smart TVs into a criminal proxy network for hire

Five intelligence agencies just warned: AI cyberweapons are months away from public release

Your Fortinet credentials are already out there. Here's who has them.

Section 702 just expired. Congress votes again in 4 days.

China hid inside US military and medical networks for 26 months before anyone noticed

ShinyHunters found an Oracle zero-day. Still no patch.

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