Cybersecurity 101
What Is a DDoS Attack and How Does It Work?
A complete guide to DDoS attacks — how distributed denial-of-service attacks work, the main types, why attackers launch them, and how to defend against them.
Data Breaches
Three breach disclosures landed in one cycle — Radiology Associates of Richmond (266,183 people), DocketWise (143,480), and a vendor breach at the Oncology Institute. None is a novel attack. Together they map 2026's two structural failures: repeat victimization and third-party risk.
Nation-State Cyber Threats
Fox-IT disclosed RemotePE, a RAT the North Korea-linked Lazarus Group runs entirely in memory and never writes to disk. It is the final stage of a multi-stage chain, deployed only after the noisier RATs are deliberately cleaned up.
Supply Chain Attack
Socket disclosed TrapDoor, a coordinated attack that planted more than 34 malicious packages across npm, PyPI, and Crates.io at once. Its novel move: poisoned .cursorrules and CLAUDE.md files designed to trick a developer's AI coding assistant.
Vulnerabilities
Attackers are exploiting CVE-2026-26980, a CVSS 9.4 SQL-injection flaw in Ghost CMS, to hijack more than 700 websites — Harvard, Oxford, and DuckDuckGo among them — and serve visitors a fake-CAPTCHA ClickFix lure. The flaw was patched three months ago.
Cybersecurity 101
A complete guide to malware — the major types, how it spreads and infects devices, the warning signs of an infection, and how to remove and prevent it.
Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Anthropic says Project Glasswing's Claude Mythos Preview has surfaced more than 10,000 high- or critical-severity vulnerabilities in roughly a month. The numbers move the defender bottleneck: finding flaws is no longer the hard part — verifying, disclosing, and patching them is.
Supply Chain Attack
A coordinated attack on Packagist, the PHP package registry, poisoned eight Composer packages by hiding malicious code in package.json — the JavaScript manifest — instead of composer.json, exploiting the blind spot where PHP and JavaScript toolchains coexist but are reviewed separately.
Supply Chain Attack
GitHub has made npm staged publishing generally available. A direct publish no longer ships a package; the tarball waits in a stage queue until a maintainer passes a 2FA challenge to approve it. It is the first ecosystem-level structural answer to the 2026 supply-chain wave.
Cybersecurity 101
A complete guide to incident response — the six-phase lifecycle, the response team, plans and playbooks, frameworks, and the practices that limit breach damage.
Between May 19 and 22, Europol hosted the third and most successful operational week of Project A.S.S.E.T., bringing 31 countries and more than 40 agencies into one room to trace criminal money. The result: hundreds of bank accounts and crypto wallets identified.
The FBI's IC3 has warned organizations about Kali365, a Telegram-sold phishing-as-a-service kit that runs device-code phishing against Microsoft 365 — stealing the OAuth tokens issued after the victim genuinely passes MFA on Microsoft's real sign-in page.
Researchers found more than 700 malicious version tags published across the Laravel-Lang PHP project on May 22-23, 2026 — yet the official repositories were never modified. The attacker pointed Git tags at a fork they controlled to drop a credential stealer.
Researchers at ADAMnetworks disclosed Underminr, a domain-fronting-style flaw they say affects roughly 88 million domains. Its defining property is invisibility: because the TLS SNI and HTTP Host header match, the CDN-side checks built to kill domain fronting never trigger.
CVE-2026-48172, a CVSS 10.0 flaw in the LiteSpeed User-End cPanel plugin, lets anyone with a valid cPanel account run code as root. LiteSpeed confirms it is being actively exploited. On shared hosting, one cheap account is now a path to every account on the server.
A complete guide to vulnerability management: what vulnerabilities are, how they are scored and disclosed, the management lifecycle, and how to build a program.
Dutch financial-crime investigators seized 800 servers and arrested two men tied to Stark Industries, a hosting firm researchers have long described as a bulletproof hoster. The action targets the shared infrastructure layer beneath Russian state-aligned cyber and influence operations.
Ubiquiti has patched three maximum-severity flaws in UniFi OS — the operating system behind its gateways, Dream Machines, and network video recorders. All three are rated CVSS 10.0, and all three are remotely exploitable by an attacker with no privileges.
Trend Micro's own Incident Response team discovered CVE-2026-34926, a directory-traversal zero-day in Apex One, while it was being exploited. CISA added it to the KEV catalog with a June 4 federal deadline. Its modest 6.7 CVSS score conceals an environment-wide blast radius.
An automated campaign called Megalodon pushed 5,718 malicious commits to 5,561 GitHub repositories in six hours, hiding secret-stealing payloads inside CI/CD workflow files. It weaponizes the merge — the most routine action in software development.
Trump Mobile confirmed customer names, email and mailing addresses, phone numbers, and order identifiers were exposed to the open internet via a third-party platform provider, and said it is still evaluating whether it must notify affected customers.
Palo Alto Networks' Unit 42 is tracking Screening Serpens, an Iran-nexus APT that fuses DLL sideloading with AppDomainManager hijacking to make .NET applications switch off their own security mechanisms, then deploys six new RATs across the U.S., Israel, and the UAE.