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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.