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AI Found Critical Flaws in Fortinet Gear. The Clock Runs Out November 10.

Oct 28, 2026

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4 min read

AI Found Critical Flaws in Fortinet Gear. The Clock Runs Out November 10.

Also: a ransomware recovery firm allegedly just paid the hackers and kept the markup, and a file in Downloads can hijack your AI coding agent.

Ricky Dailey
Ricky Dailey

healthcare

+4

The Lab That Serves One in Three US Adults Is Back to Paper Requisitions

Oct 26, 2026

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4 min read

The Lab That Serves One in Three US Adults Is Back to Paper Requisitions

Also: researchers took over a forgotten Popcorn Time updater on millions of PCs just to switch it off, and ransomware crews let AI run break-ins.

Ricky Dailey
Ricky Dailey

ai security

+4

SafePay Went After 600 Critical Infrastructure Orgs Without a Single Affiliate

Oct 23, 2026

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4 min read

SafePay Went After 600 Critical Infrastructure Orgs Without a Single Affiliate

Also: Air Force crews planned missions on thumb drives bought from local vendors, and a judge put Meta on the hook for $25 billion.

Ricky Dailey
Ricky Dailey

ai security

+4

Eight Keys That Can Vouch for Any Website Leaked. Browsers Cut Them Off in Hours.

Oct 21, 2026

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4 min read

Eight Keys That Can Vouch for Any Website Leaked. Browsers Cut Them Off in Hours.

Also: WhatsApp's help pages secretly told its AI bot not to mention privacy regulators, and ransomware crews are skipping MFA on PAN-OS VPNs.

Ricky Dailey
Ricky Dailey

ai security

+4

China's Hacking Contractor Built a Portal for Browsing Other People's Stolen Email

Oct 12, 2026

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4 min read

China's Hacking Contractor Built a Portal for Browsing Other People's Stolen Email

Also: a Russian extortion gang plotted to sneak fake pizza guys into US law firms, and Anthropic's AI sent police a false murder tip.

Ricky Dailey
Ricky Dailey

healthcare

+8

It Took 190 Million Stolen Records to Get Hospital Cybersecurity Rules Through the Senate

Oct 9, 2026

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4 min read

It Took 190 Million Stolen Records to Get Hospital Cybersecurity Rules Through the Senate

Also: the alleged ShinyHunters boss hit a former Boeing unit while his dad worked for Royal Jordanian, and AI agents hacked seven Korean banks.

Ricky Dailey
Ricky Dailey

cloud security

+8

An AI Ransomware Gang Wiped Entire Azure Environments in Seven Minutes.

Oct 2, 2026

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5 min read

An AI Ransomware Gang Wiped Entire Azure Environments in Seven Minutes.

Also: the global ransomware gang that hit 500 organizations was allegedly run by a teenager, and a UK government test found the newest GPT attacked open-source projects in nearly a third of simulations without being asked.

Ricky Dailey
Ricky Dailey

ai security

+9

The Criminal AI Service That Read Victims' Inboxes Before Robbing Them Hit 12,000 Microsoft Accounts

Sep 23, 2026

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5 min read

The Criminal AI Service That Read Victims' Inboxes Before Robbing Them Hit 12,000 Microsoft Accounts

Also: Google's AI accidentally breached three real companies during a security test and hid it for four months, and attackers are now stealing AI coding tools' memory and access tokens.

Ricky Dailey
Ricky Dailey

sandworm

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Sandworm Is Actively Exploiting a Cisco Firewall Hole That Hands Attackers Root Access

Sep 14, 2026

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6 min read

Sandworm Is Actively Exploiting a Cisco Firewall Hole That Hands Attackers Root Access

Also: a fired employee had days of unrevoked admin access and made excellent use of them, and Iran's IRGC commander behind critical infrastructure attacks just picked up a $10 million US bounty.

Ricky Dailey
Ricky Dailey

developer tools

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JetBrains Got Hacked Through a Bug in JetBrains. The Credentials Your Pipeline Was Storing Are Gone.

Sep 9, 2026

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5 min read

JetBrains Got Hacked Through a Bug in JetBrains. The Credentials Your Pipeline Was Storing Are Gone.

Also: a ransomware gang published the ATF's own criminal investigation files after hacking the agency, and a malicious .git config can hijack Claude Code before you see any warning.

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

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

+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

+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

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

+6

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.

ai security

+5

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.

ai security

+6

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.

ai security

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

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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