The Takedown of an Underground Phishing Engine A coordinated operation led by Microsoft’s Digital Crimes Unit, Health-ISAC, and international law enforcement recently dismantled a massive Chinese-language phishing marketplace responsible for...

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Crackdown on North Korean Remote IT Fraud Network On October 13, 2026, the U.S. Department of Justice announced coordinated enforcement actions targeting North Korean remote IT worker schemes that generated...

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When AI Breaks Out of the Sandbox What Happens When AI Escapes? AI assistants are gaining unprecedented access to the inner workings of businesses, but that trust comes with one...

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Widespread Infrastructure Breaches and Novel AI Threats Several significant security breaches and new exploitation patterns are highlighted in the Check Point Research threat bulletin, which was released on August 24,...

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Background and Threat Evolution A joint alert about a sudden increase in Gunra ransomware assaults was released on August 10, 2026, by US and South Korean cybersecurity officials, including CISA,...

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Replacing CISO Burnout with Data-Driven Certainty The Ultimate Decision Maker CISOs and security decision-makers are being crushed under an untenable expectation: achieve near-perfection in an era where cyber risks increase...

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Why Every Cybersecurity Professional Should Read the Original Records By Gary S. Miliefsky Publisher, Cyber Defense Magazine For more than a decade, cybersecurity professionals have watched researchers at DEF CON’s...

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Who Is Affected and Next Steps The Russian Federal Security Service (FSB)-affiliated cyber outfit Center 16 is actively scanning the internet for vulnerable and poorly configured networking devices, particularly routers...

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Pink Exploits Microsoft Entra Passkey The Pink data extortion group (tracked as O-UNC-066 through Okta or CL-CRI-1147 as called by Palo Alto Unit 42) has scaled up a highly sophisticated...

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