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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

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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

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

Jul 27, 2026

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5 min read

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.

Jul 24, 2026

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5 min read

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

Jul 22, 2026

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5 min read

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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Jul 20, 2026

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5 min read

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

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.

ShinyHunters Hit Medtronic. 3.8 Million People Just Found Out.

Jul 8, 2026

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4 min read

ShinyHunters Hit Medtronic. 3.8 Million People Just Found Out.

Also: a ransomware gang apologized to its own victim, and Iran's hackers may have gotten an AI assist building their malware.

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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

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Russia kept using Cellebrite after the contract cancellation. Citizen Lab has the proof.

Jun 29, 2026

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6 min read

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

Jun 26, 2026

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8 min read

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

Jun 24, 2026

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6 min read

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.

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

data breach

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

ShinyHunters Hit Medtronic. 3.8 Million People Just Found Out.

The Department of Homeland Security Just Got Hacked. Again.

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

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

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