Cybersecurity 101
SQL injection (SQLi) is one of the oldest and most damaging web vulnerabilities — a single unguarded input field can expose an entire database. Here is how SQLi attacks work, the main types, their real-world impact, and how to prevent them.
Supply Chain Attack
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.
Vulnerabilities
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.
Supply Chain Attack
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.
Application Security
Microsoft's Digital Crimes Unit disrupted Fox Tempest on May 19 — a malware-signing-as-a-service operation that issued over 1,000 fraudulent code-signing certificates to ransomware crews including Rhysida, Vanilla Tempest, and three Storm clusters at up to $9,500 per signed sample.
Threat Intelligence
Verizon's 19th DBIR re-baselines the threat model: vulnerability exploitation hit 31% of breaches up from 20% — now the #1 vector. Credential abuse fell to 13%. AI is shrinking patching windows from months to hours. Third-party breaches up 60% YoY.
Application Security
InfoGuard Labs disclosed seven CVEs in SEPPmail Secure E-Mail Gateway including CVE-2026-2743 (CVSS 10.0 path traversal to full appliance takeover) and CVE-2026-44128 (unauthenticated Perl eval() RCE). Patched in 15.0.2.1, 15.0.3, and 15.0.4.
Application Security
Mini Shai-Hulud pushed ~42 malicious packages through a compromised @antv maintainer account on May 19 with valid Sigstore Fulcio certificates and Rekor entries. The green "verified" badge defenders have been trusting now sits on malicious code.
Application Security
A single npm user account pushed four malicious packages, including a near-verbatim clone of the Shai-Hulud worm, within a week of TeamPCP open-sourcing the worm source on BreachForums. Mini Shai-Hulud has graduated from a campaign to an ecosystem capability.
AI Security
CrowdStrike extended Falcon AIDR to Kubernetes AI workloads with a 180-technique taxonomy and 99% sub-30ms benchmark — making AI runtime security a five-vendor category.
Cyber Attacks
Tycoon2FA is back six weeks after the Microsoft/Europol takedown — now phishing OAuth device-code consents against M365 via a Trustifi-laundered relay.
Cyber Attacks
Grafana caught a CoinbaseCartel breach via canary token, traced it to a pull_request_target Pwn Request, and refused to pay — the second Pwn Request hit in three weeks.