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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.
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A 15-year-old operating as "breach3d" breached France's ANTS national ID agency exposing 11.7 million accounts with passport and driver's license data — and listed 12–19 million records for sale on criminal forums.
Policy & Government
Operation PowerOFF enters its prevention phase — 75,000 warning letters to identified DDoS-for-hire customers, 53 domains seized, 4 arrests, and 3 million criminal accounts as a persistent enforcement asset.
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The FBI warns cybercriminals stole nearly $725M in cargo in 2025 — a 60% surge — by hacking freight broker systems and posting fraudulent load board listings to hijack high-value shipments.
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Krebs on Security reveals Huge Networks — a Brazilian DDoS protection firm — was enabling a Mirai-based botnet attacking other Brazilian ISPs, with the CEO's own SSH keys found in the malicious attack archive.