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ShinyHunters alleges it stole sensitive FBI agent data to pressure the agency into retracting a May public service announcement, raising serious safety and counterintelligence concerns.
Citrix confirmed active exploitation of two critical NetScaler zero-days after a weekend of unofficial warnings, releasing patches for CVEs-2026-88771 and -88772 amid criticism over delayed communication.
Dutch authorities arrested 24-year-old Pepijn van der Stap, a convicted cybercriminal and former ShinyHunters associate, amid escalating attacks by the group on the FBI and Russian ransomware collective Cl0p.
A New Mexico jury found Meta liable for deceiving consumers about data privacy practices, with each violation carrying up to $5,000 in penalties, potentially totaling billions in damages.
Modulate has raised $25 million to expand its Velma platform, which uses audio-native AI to detect deepfakes and analyze voice-based threats in real time with twice the accuracy of traditional LLMs.
NVIDIA has released an open-source platform with tools like OpenShell to secure AI agents through sandboxing, monitoring, and hardware-enforced controls, backed by over 100 industry partners.
Dutch police confirmed the arrest of Pepijn van der Stap, a 24-year-old Amsterdam man previously known as 'Umbreon,' in connection with the ShinyHunters hacking group investigation.
Mandiant warns ShinyHunters has resumed exploiting CVE-2026-35273 in Oracle PeopleSoft, targeting organizations that applied workarounds but failed to patch, deploying web shells across multiple sectors globally.
Microsoft observed JadePuffer (tracked as Storm-3168) using AI agents to destroy over 100 Azure Storage accounts and target Key Vaults, VMs, and App Services in a seven-minute destructive wave.