Threat Intelligence
Dragos published an intelligence brief on May 6, 2026, documenting a cyber-attack against Servicios de Agua y Drenaje de Monterrey — a municipal water utility in northern Mexico — between December 2025 and February 2026 in which attackers used Anthropic's Claude and OpenAI's GPT to plan the operation,
Policy & Government
Poland's Internal Security Agency (ABW) published a public report on May 7, 2026 — its first activity summary in 12 years — warning that hackers targeted water treatment stations in five Polish municipalities, gaining access in some cases to industrial control systems and developing the ability to alter technical parameters
Policy & Government
On Friday, May 1, 2026, Australian Home Affairs and Cyber Security Minister Tony Burke announced the establishment of the Cyber Incident Review Board, a seven-member statutory body modeled on the U.S. Cyber Safety Review Board the Trump administration disbanded mid-investigation in January 2025. Australia's version is chaired
Threat Intelligence
ESET disclosed a North Korea-aligned APT37/ScarCruft supply-chain compromise of sqgame.net, a Yanbian-themed gaming platform serving the ethnic-Korean community on the China-North Korea border. Trojanized Android APKs deploy a new BirdCall backdoor port. The APKs are still live.
Policy & Government
The Department of Homeland Security used a 1930s customs law to demand Google hand over a Canadian's location, activity logs, and identifying information — over anti-ICE posts. The Canadian has not entered the United States in more than ten years. The ACLU is suing. WIRED reported on May 4,
Data Breaches
33.7M user leak → US investor lawsuits → Congressional intervention → Delayed security consultations. How a consumer data breach became a national security crisis. SEOUL — What began as a corporate data leak has spiraled into an unprecedented diplomatic standoff between Washington and Seoul. The Coupang data breach, which exposed the personal information
National Security
Internal DoD email outlines retaliation against allies refusing Iran war basing rights; UK reaffirms "unchanged" Falklands sovereignty amid diplomatic firestorm. WASHINGTON, D.C. — A high-level operational security breach has exposed a widening rift within the NATO alliance. A leaked internal Pentagon email, circulating since Thursday evening, outlines a