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

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.

threat-intelligence

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Ricky Dailey
Ricky Dailey

WHAT’S HAPPENED LATELY


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.

ai security

+4

Aug 21, 2026

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5 min read

Japan's Biggest Cloud Provider Found a 1.36-Million-Account Breach by Accident

Also: a ransomware gang's own anti-detection trick broke its own encryption tool, and one web page can trick Grok into leaking your name, location, and full chat history.

ai security

+4

Aug 19, 2026

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5 min read

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.

ai security

+4

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PRIOR RELEASES


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

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.

ai security

+6

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

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.

ai security

+6

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

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.

ai security

+4

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

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.

ai security

+5

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

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.

ai security

+4

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

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.

ai security

+4

A Coordinated Cyberattack Just Hit 30 Minnesota Water Utilities. One Plant Went Dark.

A Coordinated Cyberattack Just Hit 30 Minnesota Water Utilities. One Plant Went Dark.

Also: a ransomware gang extorted a rival ransomware gang and posted an apology on its own victim's site, and an AI music startup's 55 million users just learned their breach happened nine months before anyone told them.

ai security

+5

Russian Spies Read NATO's Mail for Months. The Patch Didn't Evict Them.

Russian Spies Read NATO's Mail for Months. The Patch Didn't Evict Them.

Also: MyPillow's Mike Lindell got his own ransomware deadline, and nobody was watching the AI agent that hacked Thailand's treasury for days.

ai security

+5

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