CURRENT RELEASE

A Ransomware Gang Tried to Blackmail Germany's Capital. Berlin Said No.

Aug 31, 2026

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4 min read

A Ransomware Gang Tried to Blackmail Germany's Capital. Berlin Said No.

Also: a DDoS botnet started renting out hacked smart devices as a side hustle, and a ransomware crew ran an AI coding assistant through victims' networks to break in faster.

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WHAT’S HAPPENED LATELY

Aug 28, 2026

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6 min read

A Cyberattack Just Froze Global Shipments of Pacemakers and Defibrillators

Also: a ransomware gang's own guy started scamming its victims behind its back, and a Chinese hacking crew quietly ran wild inside a perfect-10 Oracle bug for seven months before anyone noticed.

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Aug 26, 2026

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6 min read

ShinyHunters Tried to Hack a Cybersecurity Firm by Pretending to Be Its Own Security Team

Also: a Florida man's ChatGPT search stopped his wife from losing more to a fake jury duty scam, and a perfect-10 SAP bug used by 99 of the world's 100 biggest companies is already under attack.

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Aug 24, 2026

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4 min read

Hackers Are Using AI to Write Exploit Code for the Machines That Run Your Water and Power

Also: the agency that protects federal networks leaked its own AWS passwords on GitHub for six months, and researchers tricked Copilot into confessing its own security holes.

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PRIOR RELEASES

A Mystery Attacker Has Been Reading Salesforce and ServiceNow Data Worldwide for 17 Months

Also: a real-time deepfake mask glitched for less than a second and blew a fraudster's cover, and a $100 coin-sized gadget can hijack a Boeing 737's flight computers in under a minute.

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An AI Agent Ran a Full Cyberattack on Taiwan's Government With No Human Driving

Also: DEF CON attendees allegedly jammed a Delta flight's WiFi to phish fellow passengers mid-air, and Clop's ransomware spree just hit Shell, GE, and Philips.

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Microsoft Threatened Him With "Legal Action." He Responded With a Working Windows Defender Exploit.

Also: a cyberattack on Japan's biggest cold-storage company turned into a national KFC crisis, and ransomware locked hospital doors and killed the HVAC at Manitoba's largest hospital.

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A Hacked Shipping Company Just Exposed Steam Gamers, a Dutch Bank, and a Pro Soccer Club

Also: a ransomware gang hijacked a hospital's Facebook page to post its ransom demand, and North Korean hackers hid a Windows zero-day inside fake job offers to target defense contractors.

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A Zero-Day in a Business Intelligence Tool Just Breached LexisNexis, a Laptop Maker, and a Form Startup

Also: an IT department taped everyone's login credentials to their laptops and a contractor used them to break in, and a Senate hearing revealed AI fraud cost seniors $7.7 billion last year.

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A Phone Call Convinced Citadel, Point72, and Two Sigma They Needed New MFA. It Was a Scam.

Also: a hacker who couldn't hack breached 14 US companies with vague AI prompts, then got caught asking Claude to edit his resume, and a self-spreading worm just infected npm packages with 2 billion weekly downloads.

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One Broken Patch Turned Into a Backdoor for Every Company an MSP Touches

Also: a robot vacuum flaw let hackers spy through your camera and steal your WiFi password, and 114,000 UK police officers just had their contact info dumped on the dark web.

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A Firmware Bug Sat Dormant for Five Years. Then Someone Drained $70 Million in Bitcoin in 41 Minutes.

Also: an ad company's hacked script quietly rewrote people's crypto wallet addresses, and Anthropic caught its own Claude models hacking three real companies during a safety test.

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CURRENT RELEASE

A Ransomware Gang Tried to Blackmail Germany's Capital. Berlin Said No.

WHAT’S HAPPENED LATELY

A Cyberattack Just Froze Global Shipments of Pacemakers and Defibrillators

ShinyHunters Tried to Hack a Cybersecurity Firm by Pretending to Be Its Own Security Team

Hackers Are Using AI to Write Exploit Code for the Machines That Run Your Water and Power

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

PRIOR RELEASES

A Mystery Attacker Has Been Reading Salesforce and ServiceNow Data Worldwide for 17 Months

An AI Agent Ran a Full Cyberattack on Taiwan's Government With No Human Driving

Microsoft Threatened Him With "Legal Action." He Responded With a Working Windows Defender Exploit.

A Hacked Shipping Company Just Exposed Steam Gamers, a Dutch Bank, and a Pro Soccer Club

A Zero-Day in a Business Intelligence Tool Just Breached LexisNexis, a Laptop Maker, and a Form Startup

A Phone Call Convinced Citadel, Point72, and Two Sigma They Needed New MFA. It Was a Scam.

One Broken Patch Turned Into a Backdoor for Every Company an MSP Touches

A Firmware Bug Sat Dormant for Five Years. Then Someone Drained $70 Million in Bitcoin in 41 Minutes.

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