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Former Ransomware Negotiators Pleads Guilty to Running BlackCat Attacks Against the Companies They Were Hired to Protect

Angelo Martino, a 41-year-old former ransomware negotiator at cybersecurity incident response firm DigitalMint, has pleaded guilty to targeting U.S. companies with BlackCat (ALPHV) ransomware while simultaneously working as a negotiator supposedly helping victims resolve attacks. Martino is the third defendant to plead guilty in a case that

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Scattered Spider Member Pleads Guilty to Hacking Dozen Companies and Stealing $8 Million in Cryptocurrency

Tyler Robert Buchanan, a 24-year-old from Dundee, Scotland, has pleaded guilty in a California federal court to conspiracy to commit wire fraud and aggravated identity theft for his role in a hacking operation that breached at least twelve companies and stole $8 million in cryptocurrency from individual victims

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Vercel Breached via OAuth Supply Chain Attack — Attacker Bypassed MFA Without Stealing a Single Credential

A threat actor has breached Vercel's developer infrastructure through an identity supply chain attack that bypassed multi-factor authentication entirely — without stealing a single credential. The compromise, disclosed in April 2026, exploited a breached third-party OAuth integration to inherit valid Google Workspace sessions belonging to Vercel developers,

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KelpDAO Loses $290 Million in Cross-Chain Exploit as Lazarus Group Indicators Emerge

Attackers have drained approximately $290 million from KelpDAO in one of the largest DeFi exploits of 2026, targeting the protocol's rsETH liquid restaking configuration through a sophisticated infrastructure-level attack that bypassed verification controls without compromising private keys or exploiting a direct protocol flaw. The attack targeted the

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RedLine Infostealer Administrator Extradited to US, Faces Up to 20 Years for Running MaaS Infrastructure

The US Department of Justice has announced the extradition and first court appearance of Hambardzum Minasyan, an Armenian national accused of serving as an administrator of the RedLine infostealer malware operation. Minasyan appeared in a Texas court on Wednesday facing charges that carry up to 20 years in prison. According

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ShinyHunters Claims 100 High-Profile Victims in Salesforce Data Heist Using Modified Mandiant Tool to Exploit Experience Cloud Misconfigurations

The ShinyHunters extortion gang claims to have stolen data from approximately 100 high-profile companies — including Salesforce itself, Snowflake, Okta, LastPass, Sony, and AMD — in a months-long campaign exploiting misconfigured Salesforce Experience Cloud sites using a weaponized version of an open-source tool originally developed by Mandiant for defensive

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FBI Investigates Breach of Internal Surveillance System Containing Wiretap Data and Investigation Subject PII

The FBI has disclosed to Congress that it is investigating a breach of an internal system containing sensitive surveillance data — including wiretap-related records and personally identifiable information on subjects of FBI investigations. The bureau began investigating abnormal log activity on February 17, 2026, and notified members of Congress this

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Iranian Drone Strikes Hit Three AWS Data Centers in UAE and Bahrain — First Kinetic Attacks on Major Cloud Infrastructure

Iranian drone strikes have physically damaged three Amazon Web Services data centers across the Middle East — two in the United Arab Emirates that were "directly struck" and a third in Bahrain damaged when a drone landed nearby — marking the first time a major cloud infrastructure provider has suffered

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French Health Ministry Software Supplier Breached — 15.8 Million Patient Records Stolen Including Doctors' Notes on HIV and Sexual Orientation

Attackers breached Cegedim Santé, a software supplier to France's health ministry, stealing approximately 15.8 million administrative patient files — including 165,000 containing free-text notes written by doctors that in some cases documented HIV/AIDS status, sexual orientation, and other sensitive medical history. The breach, confirmed in

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PayPal Confirms Six-Month Data Exposure After Loan System Code Error Leaked Social Security Numbers

PayPal has confirmed a data exposure incident affecting its Working Capital (PPWC) business loan service, where a software code change left sensitive customer information accessible for nearly six months before being detected. The exposure ran from 1 July 2025 to 12 December 2025, when the error was finally discovered and

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ShinyHunters Claims 600,000 Customer Records From Canada Goose as Third-Party Payment Processor Breach

Data extortion group ShinyHunters has published over 600,000 customer records from Canadian luxury outerwear brand Canada Goose, including personal information, partial payment card data, and detailed e-commerce order histories. Canada Goose, a Toronto-based brand founded in 1957 with a global retail footprint and nearly 4,000 employees,

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Qilin Ransomware Gang Breaches Romania's National Oil Pipeline Operator Conpet, Claims 1TB Data Theft

Romania's national oil pipeline operator Conpet S.A. has confirmed that the Qilin ransomware group breached its corporate IT infrastructure and stole company data in an attack last week, marking another critical infrastructure target hit by the increasingly aggressive ransomware operation. Conpet S.A. is a strategic company