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Vietnamese-linked operation "AccountDumpling" has compromised 30,000 Facebook Business accounts by sending phishing emails from Google's legitimate AppSheet address — bypassing spam filters and running a criminal resale storefront for stolen accounts.
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CVE-2026-42208 in LiteLLM — the open-source AI gateway with 45K GitHub stars — was exploited within 36 hours of disclosure with no public PoC. A successful attack yields OpenAI org keys, Anthropic workspace admin keys, and AWS Bedrock credentials.
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276 suspects arrested and 9 cryptocurrency fraud centers dismantled in a joint US-China operation targeting pig-butchering scams that have cost American victims millions — the DOJ called it "unprecedented" bilateral cooperation.
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Official SAP npm packages were backdoored on April 29 in the latest Mini Shai-Hulud wave — adding browser credential theft across Chrome, Safari, and Edge to the campaign's existing cloud secret harvesting. Over 1,100 victim repositories confirmed.
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Wiz discovered CVE-2026-3854 — a critical GitHub RCE where a single crafted git push gave attackers cross-tenant code execution and access to millions of private repositories. 88% of GHES instances were still unpatched at public disclosure.
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Ryan Goldberg (Sygnia) and Kevin Martin (DigitalMint) were sentenced to 4 years in federal prison for acting as BlackCat ransomware affiliates while employed as incident response professionals — attacking the same clients they were hired to help.
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Trend Micro publishes full technical attribution of Shadow-Earth-053 — confirming the China-linked group targets journalists and civil society activists alongside governments and defense sectors across Asia and one NATO member state.
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Peter Stokes (alias "Bouquet"), 19, was arrested in Finland on April 10 while boarding a flight to Tokyo — charged with four Scattered Spider intrusions since age 16, including an $8M ransom demand against a luxury retailer.
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Europol's IOCTA 2026 warns that cybercrime has industrialized — AI, encryption, and CaaS are widening the velocity gap between criminal innovation and law enforcement capability, with 120+ ransomware variants and $10.5T in projected 2026 costs.
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CrowdStrike documents Cordial Spider and Snarky Spider — two new Com-affiliated groups running vishing and SSO phishing campaigns against enterprise SaaS environments with seven-figure extortion demands and no malware deployed.
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CISA added CVE-2026-41940 in cPanel and WHM to its KEV catalog with a binding 48-hour patch mandate for all federal agencies — a critical authentication bypass already exploited in the wild granting full host takeover.
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Versions 2.6.2 and 2.6.3 of PyTorch Lightning were compromised in a supply chain attack — executing credential-stealing malware automatically on import, targeting SSH keys, cloud credentials, GitHub tokens, and crypto wallets.