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Ricky Dailey
Ricky Dailey

healthcare

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Attackers Turned a Login Bypass Into Full Admin Control of JFrog Artifactory in Three Days

Sep 4, 2026

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4 min read

Attackers Turned a Login Bypass Into Full Admin Control of JFrog Artifactory in Three Days

Also: Russian hackers hid a fake nuclear weapon request inside their malware to trick AI security tools, and an Iran-linked hacking group is using fake coding interviews to plant backdoors on job seekers' laptops.

Ricky Dailey
Ricky Dailey

healthcare

+6

ShinyHunters Wants $55 Million From McKesson. The Deadline Already Passed.

Sep 2, 2026

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4 min read

ShinyHunters Wants $55 Million From McKesson. The Deadline Already Passed.

Also: fraudsters cloned a stranger's credit card off their own phone in a 13-minute scam call, and a bug in software used by hospitals, schools, and governments everywhere is already under attack.

Ricky Dailey
Ricky Dailey

ai security

+5

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.

Ricky Dailey
Ricky Dailey

ai security

+5

A Cyberattack Just Froze Global Shipments of Pacemakers and Defibrillators

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.

Ricky Dailey
Ricky Dailey

threat-intelligence

+5

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.

Ricky Dailey
Ricky Dailey

ai security

+4

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

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.

Ricky Dailey
Ricky Dailey

ai security

+4

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

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.

Ricky Dailey
Ricky Dailey

ai security

+4

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

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.

Ricky Dailey
Ricky Dailey

ai security

+5

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.

Ricky Dailey
Ricky Dailey

ai security

+6

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.

Ricky Dailey
Ricky Dailey

ai security

+6

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

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.

Ricky Dailey
Ricky Dailey

ai security

+4

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

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.

Ricky Dailey
Ricky Dailey

ai security

+5

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

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.

Ricky Dailey
Ricky Dailey

ai security

+4

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

Aug 5, 2026

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4 min read

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.

Ricky Dailey
Ricky Dailey

ai security

+4

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

Aug 3, 2026

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5 min read

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.

Ricky Dailey
Ricky Dailey

ai security

+5

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

Jul 31, 2026

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6 min read

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.

Ricky Dailey
Ricky Dailey

ai security

+5

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

Jul 29, 2026

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4 min read

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.

Ricky Dailey
Ricky Dailey

ai security

+7

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

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.

Ricky Dailey
Ricky Dailey

ai security

+9

The Department of Homeland Security Just Got Hacked. Again.

Jul 3, 2026

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4 min read

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.

Ricky Dailey
Ricky Dailey

AI

+6

Section 702 just expired. Congress votes again in 4 days.

Jun 19, 2026

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6 min read

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.

Ricky Dailey
Ricky Dailey
China hid inside US military and medical networks for 26 months before anyone noticed

Jun 17, 2026

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5 min read

China hid inside US military and medical networks for 26 months before anyone noticed

Also: a Roblox cheater accidentally committed the largest education breach in US history, and your AI coding agent will execute whatever attackers tell it to.

Ricky Dailey
Ricky Dailey
 ShinyHunters found an Oracle zero-day. Still no patch.

Jun 15, 2026

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6 min read

ShinyHunters found an Oracle zero-day. Still no patch.

Also: FBI + Google + Lumen dismantled a $1.9B Chinese phishing franchise, and a county commissioner told a roomful of residents they would not be speaking about Flock tonight.

Ricky Dailey
Ricky Dailey
Exzec Cyber | June 12, 2026

Jun 12, 2026

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6 min read

Exzec Cyber | June 12, 2026

Meta built an AI to help recover locked Instagram accounts. Attackers used it to hijack 20,000. Also: ServiceNow's unauthenticated API exposed customer records, and CISA is scrapping CVSS scores.

Ricky Dailey
Ricky Dailey
Exzec Cyber | June 10, 2026

Jun 10, 2026

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6 min read

Exzec Cyber | June 10, 2026

Chinese deepfake software lets scammers swap their face and voice on live video calls. Also: Microsoft breaks its own Patch Tuesday record, and a Cisco SD-WAN zero-day has no patch.

Ricky Dailey
Ricky Dailey
Exzec Cyber | June 8, 2026

Jun 8, 2026

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6 min read

Exzec Cyber | June 8, 2026

A ransomware gang fired its own affiliate and apologized for him. Also: an AI found 20 years of hidden FFmpeg bugs for $1,000, and attackers built their ransomware toolkit with Claude Opus.

Ricky Dailey
Ricky Dailey

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