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The Configuration Drift Behind the Teams Helpdesk Breach

On April 22, 2026, Google's Threat Intelligence Group and Mandiant disclosed a campaign by a threat actor they're tracking as UNC6692. The group breached enterprise networks by impersonating IT helpdesk staff over Microsoft Teams, ultimately exfiltrating Active Directory databases and achieving full domain compromise. What's notable about UNC6692 is what they didn't do. They didn't use a zero-day. They didn't exploit a software vulnerability.

Introducing Atlas: a global age regulation tracker

Over 300 age-related bills were introduced across several US states in 2025 alone. We’ve heard firsthand from numerous legal and compliance teams that keeping up with these regulations is incredibly overwhelming. That’s why we developed Atlas, a global database tracking evolving age assurance regulations. Atlas tracks recent legislation impacting social media platforms, adult content, age-restricted services, and other related legislation.

Agentic SecOps: Build a security AI agent that automatically investigates detections

A credential access event fired. An AI agent investigated it, correlated it against running processes, assessed the risk, and closed the ticket. No analyst touched it. The entire loop ran in minutes. This is what security operations look like when AI can actually operate in the environment rather than advise from outside it. Security operations have always required a special kind of person.

NSW Treasury Breach, ABAC, and Principals of Least Privilege

Recent headlines heralded another unfortunate security breach: an employee of the NSW Treasury in Sydney, Australia, illegally downloaded more than 5,600 sensitive government documents, which were later recovered at his home. This was labeled a “significant cyber incident” by the NSW government and had been detected by an internal security monitoring tool that detected “movement of a large cache of documents”.

Is Your Official Vendor List a Lie?

How many new vendors did your team engage with today? If you’re looking at your official procurement list, the answer might be zero. But if you’re looking at employee behavior, the reality is likely much higher. Find out more about the shadow supply chain in our most recent research report: Interested in finding out more about UpGuard?

What Is Red Team Penetration Testing?

Red Team Penetration Testing is a simulated cyberattack that mimics real-world threat behavior to identify vulnerabilities, test defenses, and evaluate how effectively an organization can detect and respond to an attack. It goes beyond traditional testing by focusing on how an attacker would actually move through an environment.

Crypto theft, Vercel breach, Mastodon attack, North Korean IT in US & cyber negotiator guilty [316]

In this episode of The Cybersecurity Defenders Podcast, we discuss some intel being shared in the LimaCharlie community. Support our show by sharing your favorite episodes with a friend, subscribe, give us a rating or leave a comment on your podcast platform. This podcast is brought to you by LimaCharlie, maker of the SecOps Cloud Platform, infrastructure for SecOps where everything is built API first. Scale with confidence as your business grows.

April 27, 2026 Emerging Threats Weekly

This week’s briefing covers: The attack chain invokes two preparatory batch scripts before the final wiper stage. Those scripts disable services, enumerate users, change passwords, log off sessions, disable network interfaces and begin destructive actions with diskpart, robocopy and fsutil before the final payload is launched. Dive deeper.