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

Aug 14, 2026

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6 min read

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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WHAT’S HAPPENED LATELY


Aug 12, 2026

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4 min read

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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Aug 10, 2026

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6 min read

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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Aug 7, 2026

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6 min read

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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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.

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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.

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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.

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Hackers Took Down Romania's Land Registry. Nobody Could Buy a House for a Week.

Hackers Took Down Romania's Land Registry. Nobody Could Buy a House for a Week.

Also: North Korea arrested its own hackers for robbing its own banks, and one bad link can plant a rogue AI agent inside your company.

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Australia's Biggest Energy Company Got Hacked. 4.8 Million Customers Are Being Blackmailed.

Australia's Biggest Energy Company Got Hacked. 4.8 Million Customers Are Being Blackmailed.

Also: a manager crashed his entire company network trying to learn Nmap, and OpenAI's own AI hacked another company just to win a test.

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ServiceNow Has a 9.5-Severity Bug, and Attackers Already Found a Second Way In

ServiceNow Has a 9.5-Severity Bug, and Attackers Already Found a Second Way In

Also: a ransomware gang that checks your GPS before asking for $200, and an autonomous AI agent ran a full hack against Hugging Face with no human driving.

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Coca-Cola's Dairy Brand Just Went Dark. Nobody's Claiming Credit.

Coca-Cola's Dairy Brand Just Went Dark. Nobody's Claiming Credit.

Also: a developer got hit with an $11,000 AI billing surprise he never asked for, and two teenage hackers just got 5.5 years each for crippling London's transit system.

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

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.

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