Deeba Ahmed reports on some of TeamPCP’s dangerously effective recent activities: What Happened? The trouble began on 19 March 2026, when a hacking group calling themselves TeamPCP managed to break into Trivy, a popular tool used by developers to scan their code for security vulnerabilities. This was a supply chain attack, which occurs when hackers sneak malicious code…
The Iran-nexus threat actor known as UNC2428 has been observed delivering a backdoor known as MURKYTOUR as part of a job-themed social engineering campaign aimed at Israel in October 2024. Google-owned Mandiant described UNC2428 as a threat actor aligned with Iran that engages in cyber espionage-related operations. The intrusion set is said to have distributed…
Stacey Saldanha-Olson reports: Two undisclosed patients filed a lawsuit April 15 after a Lawrence physical therapist breached more than 400 people’s medical data to target women who’d had breast augmentation surgery and other plastic surgery, according to documents filed in the U.S. District Court of Kansas. The undisclosed patients are suing through a class action…
Matt Kapko reports that a Canadian national has consented to be extradited to the United States to face federal charges that could send him away for a long, long time: A Canadian citizen is one step closer to standing trial in the United States for his alleged involvement in a series of attacks targeting as…
A new campaign is making use of Cloudflare Tunnel subdomains to host malicious payloads and deliver them via malicious attachments embedded in phishing emails. The ongoing campaign has been codenamed SERPENTINE#CLOUD by Securonix. It leverages “the Cloudflare Tunnel infrastructure and Python-based loaders to deliver memory-injected payloads through a chain of shortcut files and obfuscated
Lawrence Abrams reports: An ex-ransomware negotiator is under criminal investigation by the Department of Justice for allegedly working with ransomware gangs to profit from extortion payment deals. The suspect is a former employee of DigitalMint, a Chicago-based incident response and digital asset services company that specializes in ransomware negotiation and facilitating cryptocurrency payments to receive a…
Most organizations assume encrypted data is safe. But many attackers are already preparing for a future where today’s encryption can be broken. Instead of trying to decrypt information now, they are collecting encrypted data and storing it so it can be decrypted later using quantum computers. This tactic—known as “harvest now, decrypt later”—means sensitive data…
