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The Hosting Company Behind LockBit, BlackSuit, and Play Just Got Indicted

Jul 17, 2026

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4 min read

The Hosting Company Behind LockBit, BlackSuit, and Play Just Got Indicted

Also: all it took to get root access at one company was a friendly phone call, and a hacker jailbroke Google's own AI to build a botnet in six minutes.

WHAT’S HAPPENED LATELY

Jul 15, 2026

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5 min read

Microsoft's AI Found So Many Bugs It Broke Its Own Patch Record

Also: Egyptian hacktivists hijacked Argentina's football federation over a World Cup grudge, and a Welsh doxxing site admin got two years for turning swatting into a hobby.

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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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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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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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The Department of Homeland Security Just Got Hacked. Again.

Also: hackers shoveled snow for network admin access, and the Supreme Court just said your location data needs a warrant.

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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.

CURRENT RELEASE

The Hosting Company Behind LockBit, BlackSuit, and Play Just Got Indicted

WHAT’S HAPPENED LATELY

Microsoft's AI Found So Many Bugs It Broke Its Own Patch Record

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

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

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

PRIOR RELEASES

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

The Department of Homeland Security Just Got Hacked. Again.

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.

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