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Ep. 90 - SafePay Claimed 590 Victims in 49 Countries Without Needing a Single Zero-Day

SafePay doesn’t need a zero-day. It logs in. The FBI, CISA, the US Secret Service and German and UK police just issued joint advisory AA26-293A on the ransomware crew, and its front door is your VPN. Tova Dvorin and Adrian Culley break down SafePay’s three initial-access routes, the five known CVEs across Cisco ASA, Veeam and SonicWall, its FileZilla, Mimikatz and ShareFinder.ps1 tool chain, and four controls to validate before a stolen password is used.

Ep. 89 - OpenAI's Agent Breached Australia's Medicare Portal. OpenAI Told Them 84 Days Later.

An OpenAI agent spent 84 days inside Australia’s Medicare statistics portal before anyone was told — and the only reason Australia found out is that OpenAI emailed a public disclosures inbox. Tova Dvorin and Adrian Culley walk the timeline, the Transluce logs showing agents escalating through proxy relays, Base64 scripts, filename guessing and SQL injection, and the three changes CISOs need now: a threat model for persistent non-malicious visitors, detection that doesn’t depend on the attacker volunteering, and scoping your own agents like pen testers.

Inside the HulkApps Shopify Checkout Hijack

Shopify phishing has evolved from the laughable “Dear Shopify Merchant” email into one of the most reliable account-takeover vectors in ecommerce. On the same pattern, Shopify shops have recently been hit with a checkout hijack campaign running through HulkApps, Swym, and Selleasy extensions, where shoppers on legitimate stores were redirected to a fake payment page on biliingtop that captured their card details before forwarding them to the real Shopify checkout.

ConnectWise Cloud Backup application abused in cross-tenant token sweep

Automated sign-ins used the vendor's Entra application identity to request Microsoft Graph tokens across consenting tenants On October 15, 2026, Sophos X-Ops researchers identified a series of service principal sign-ins in which a threat actor authenticated as the ConnectWise Cloud Backup application (formerly SkyKick) and requested app-only Microsoft Graph tokens from customer Microsoft 365 tenants.

Beyond the mailbox: Graph reconnaissance and ServiceNow user enumeration in a modern identity intrusion

Traditional business email compromise (BEC) is often thought of as a mailbox problem: a stolen account, unauthorized access to email, forwarding rules, and (sometimes) outgoing mail impersonating the compromised user. But more recent incidents show how far beyond “email only” these intrusions can extend once an attacker gains control of a cloud identity.

Yandex outage: Data shows that instead of going dark, malicious bots went on the move

Following reported strikes on Yandex data centers, claims circulated on the Internet that Russian bot farms and influence operations had been knocked offline. HTTP traffic charts showed steep drops, fueling speculation that the infrastructure damage had stopped these malicious actors. However, aggregate traffic metrics can easily mislead. There are two autonomous system numbers (ASNs) associated with Yandex: AS13238 is used by Yandex’s search engine, while AS200350 runs its cloud services.

The Cost of a Mid-Market Ransomware Attack

The extortion demand is the figure that gets quoted and rarely the largest line. Downtime, restoration, forensics, legal hours and notification each contribute, and for a mid-market company the regulatory components behave in a way that catches finance teams out. ‍ Reporting deadlines do not scale with headcount.

Report: Ransomware Attacks Involving Data Theft Are Surging

Ransomware attacks involving data theft have surged by 275% in 2026, according to a new report from Zscaler. Attackers exfiltrated more than 896.2 terabytes of data from victim organizations, more than seven times the amount stolen during the 2023–2024 reporting period.

Prompt Injection as the Defense Against Autonomous Cyberattacks?

I’ve watched AI-powered cyberattacks inch closer to autonomy throughout 2026, and I can point to dozens of real-world incidents as proof. AI-enabled cyberattacks surged by 56% over the last year, meaning 1 in 4 (25%) malicious breaches now involve artificial intelligence. The important one: on May 10, 2026, researchers documented the first fully autonomous LLM-driven post-exploitation attack in the wild.

PCI DSS SAQ A: What You Still Need to Verify About Script Attacks

Before you buy another security tool or remove an existing control, answer one question: how does your website actually present the payment form? For e-commerce merchants completing PCI DSS Self-Assessment Questionnaire A (SAQ A), that architectural detail matters. An embedded payment form, a redirect, and a fully outsourced payment process are different arrangements, with different implications for how the SAQ A script-attack eligibility criterion applies.

Not Making It Easy for Attackers Also Starts with Catching What Slips Through

Security is built on the small decisions we make each day. That’s why Cybersecurity Awareness Month 2026 focuses on the habits that make life harder for attackers—such as using strong passwords, enabling multi-factor authentication (MFA), recognizing and reporting scams, and keeping software updated. However, security awareness must also address the risks that arise when employees introduce new applications and services into their work.

Supabase Data Exposure | 16,000+ Open Databases and What Security Teams Can Do

We found more than 16,000 Supabase databases sitting wide open, and over half held personal data like names, phone numbers and passwords. The organizations behind them ranged from a valet service to a government consulate, and in many cases the owners never checked the settings AI wrote. What is the Supabase data exposure? Anyone visiting these sites could read the data in their databases. Many belong to vibe-coded apps, where AI coding tools often handle the database setup.

ASOS Cyber Incident: CYJAX on the Third-Party Risk Facing UK Retailers.

On 6 October 2026, ASOS customers received an extortion message through the retailer's own app claiming its Snowflake instance had been compromised. CYJAX looks at what happened, why third-party and cloud platform risk sits at the centre of the incident, and how organisations can monitor their extended supply chain before attackers do. By now, most people in the UK will have heard about the cyber incident that hit ASOS on 6 October 2026.

Power Grid Attacks Aren't New. So Why Are They So Electric Right Now?

In late July 2026, 36 municipal waste and water systems across Minnesota were targeted in a cyber attack. The attackers targeted Programmable Logic Controllers (PLCs) that were in control of pressure, pumps, and chemical dosing. When the news broke, it felt like it was everywhere. This was an attack on critical systems, systems that we require and use daily. But cyberattacks on U.S. critical infrastructure systems like water, hospitals, sewage, gas, and electricity aren’t new.

Unknown Threat Actor Uses AI-Driven ARTEX to Target South Korean Finance

CrowdStrike Intelligence identified infrastructure associated with a targeted campaign against South Korean financial organizations that resulted in exfiltrated data. The campaign was active from late September to early October 2026. Analysis of threat actor-controlled open directories uncovered Claude Code session histories, ARTEX configuration files, and Claude memory files, providing direct insight into the threat actor's operational methodology and tooling.

ASOS Cyber Attack: What IT Leaders Can Learn About Third-Party Risk

The ASOS cyber attack reported on 6 October 2026, has raised fresh questions about third-party access, SaaS security and how modern organisations manage an increasingly connected attack surface. The incident became public in an unusual way: customers received an unauthorised mobile push notification through the ASOS app claiming the retailer had been compromised. ASOS later confirmed that basic personal information, including names and contact details, may have been accessed.

Autonomous Attacks Are Already Here. The Defense Has to Match Their Speed.

Last week, Snyk CTO Manoj Nair sat down with Alon Krifcher, Head of Applied AI from Anthropic, for a live discussion on the coming wave of autonomous attacks. Manoj kept landing on one thing: the AI Hurricane has already arrived, and what's left is deciding whether your defense runs at the same speed as the threat.

Continuous Attacker Emulation: Testing Controls Between Annual Assessments

Security controls are built to stop attackers, but most organizations only find out whether those controls actually work once a year, during a scheduled assessment. In the months between those engagements, configurations change, new tools get deployed, and remediation work from the last test either holds up or quietly fails without anyone noticing. Continuous attacker emulation exists to close that gap, giving security teams an ongoing read on their actual exposure rather than a single snapshot frozen in time.

Frontier AI Impact Series, Part 1: Why Attackers Stopped Waiting for Zero-Days | Bitsight

Frontier AI can shrink weeks of vulnerability research into exploitation in hours. What does that mean for the flaws your team deprioritized years ago? Bitsight’s Emma Stevens, Senior Threat Intelligence Advisor, breaks it down in the first video of our new series.

Request, Aggregate, Bypass: How Attackers Can Evade LLM Safety Classifiers

Modern frontier AI models deploy safety classifiers. These are second AI models that sit between the user and the frontier model, evaluating every request in real time. If a request is flagged as harmful, the classifier blocks it before the model can respond. Significant investment and safety model expertise have made these classifiers effective. Anticipating how adversaries circumvent these systems is a security problem that requires different expertise.

[Cybersecurity Awareness Month] Cyber Espionage: When the Attacker's Best Asset Is You

Spies have always relied on technology, disguises, secret communications and clever gadgets, at least if the movies are to be believed. But some of the most effective tools in the espionage business have always been people. Convince the right person to open a door, reveal a secret or trust someone they should not, and suddenly bypassing the sophisticated security system becomes unnecessary.

Threat Actors Abuse Trusted Accounts and Internal Tools to Launch Convincing BEC Attacks

Attackers are continually finding new ways to refine business email compromise (BEC) attacks, according to Douglas McKee, Director of Vulnerability Intelligence at Rapid7. When attackers compromise trusted tools and accounts, they can manipulate victims’ view of reality. One way attackers can achieve this is through what McKee calls “calendar warfare,” in which attackers use calendar meetings to trick users into falling for attacks.

The cyberattack your security team has no framework for

At the opening bell, your stock drops fifteen percent due to a data breach that never actually happened. Fake screenshots, a fake CEO statement, no actual hack. Your security team looks into it, but finds nothing because there's nothing to find. And the damage is already done. Gartner is calling disinformation attacks like this a top threat, and most companies aren’t prepared to handle it. For more insightful videos, visit ManageEngine Insights.

Supply Chain Attacks in the SaaS Era: Unpacking the Drift Breach | Cloudflare x The CISO Signal

It was just a little chat window in the corner of the screen. But behind it was a web of trusted connections reaching deep inside the enterprise. Here’s how attackers turned a trusted integration into a massive supply chain breach. Expand for more details and resources In August 2025, attackers tracked as UNC6395 compromised OAuth tokens associated with Salesloft’s Drift integration. This turned trusted connections to Salesforce environments into an attack path reaching hundreds of companies, including top-tier cybersecurity organizations.

The first 72 hours of a ransomware attack: Why restored isn't recovered

You start the day with reports that your employees cannot access critical systems. A ransom note soon explains why: attackers have encrypted them and demand $2 million in bitcoin for a decryption key. Your team contains the attack and confirms that the backups are safe, yet this is only the beginning. Restoring your servers can take weeks, but recovering the business can take much longer.

Zero-Day Attack Prevention: Catching Unknown Vulnerabilities Before Threat Actors Do

On September 1, 2026, OpenAI announced that its Astra model had reached the Critical tier for cyber capability under the company’s Preparedness Framework, a first for its systems. While working through an internal benchmark of 20 recently disclosed vulnerabilities in Google’s V8 engine, the model found two zero-days that no one had asked it to look for and used them in a working exploit chain. OpenAI is disclosing both flaws and restricting the capability to vetted testers.

PoSA v1.11: Turning Fragmented Attack Signals Into Actionable Risk

With PoSA v1.11, we focused on a practical problem: detecting more attack activity does not necessarily help fraud and security teams make better decisions. PoSA already identifies activity across digital impersonation, credential theft, attacker devices and account access. The challenge is making the connections between that activity easier to understand, identifying which users and devices require attention, and making that intelligence available to the systems and teams responsible for responding.