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

Aug 17, 2026

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5 min read

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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WHAT’S HAPPENED LATELY


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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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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PRIOR RELEASES


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.

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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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+5

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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