Unit 42 (Palo Alto Networks) describes how adversaries move beyond the initial foothold and pivot across the enterprise, exploiting the visibility gaps left by disconnected security tools. The 2026 Unit 42 Global Incident Response Report found that 43% of attacks involved activity across four or more attack surfaces, and some cases spanne…
An $80 million settlement has been proposed to resolve the consolidated class action In Re Conduent Business Services Data Breach Litigation, pending in the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey. The suit stems from the 2024 breach at Conduent Business Services, LLC, in which an unauthorized party had network access from Octo…
Multiple ransomware groups, including Qilin and INC, are exploiting CVE-2026-0257, an authentication bypass in Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS GlobalProtect portals and gateways. Unit 42 has been investigating intrusions since early June across many sectors, including finance, healthcare and manufacturing. The flaw was patched on May 13 and ini…
The Hakai Security Research Team disclosed CVE-2026-44706, a SQL Injection in Chatwoot versions <= 4.11.1. Any authenticated user with agent privileges, the lowest access level, can read the entire PostgreSQL database. The flaw sits in the FilterService, where user input is interpolated directly into SQL. Exposed data includes bcrypt pass…
F5 Labs published its November 2025 AI Security Insights, drawn from the Comprehensive AI Security Index (CASI) and Agentic Resistance Scoring (ARS). Anthropic models took the whole top tier of the CASI leaderboard (Claude Haiku 4.5 at 95.89, Claude Sonnet 4.5 at 95.86, Claude Sonnet 4 at 95.33), while the GPT-5 family slipped, with GPT-5…
Unit 42 researchers found that in default AWS AgentCore Harness deployments, prompt injection can steer the agent's built-in shell tool to exfiltrate plaintext credentials resolved from AgentCore Identity. The shell tool is enabled by default and runs as root, in the same UID as the harness runtime (PID 1, python3.10 -m loopy.server). Tha…
In September 2026, Swiss medical device company Medela was targeted in a ShinyHunters "pay or leak" extortion campaign. The data allegedly obtained in the breach was later published and covers about 424k unique email addresses, mostly belonging to healthcare professionals, Medela staff and sales leads. Have I Been Pwned added the dataset …
In August 2026, data centre operator CyrusOne was targeted in a ShinyHunters "pay or leak" extortion attempt. The group later published data allegedly stolen from the company, covering about 373k unique email addresses across records for users, sales leads and CyrusOne employees. The data is mostly corporate contact information, and also …
In January 2026, the company intelligence platform Crunchbase was targeted in a ShinyHunters "pay or leak" extortion attempt. Data allegedly stolen from the company was later published, covering about 560k unique email addresses, mostly belonging to leads and business contacts. Crunchbase subsequently confirmed that a threat actor had exf…
A joint StopRansomware advisory (AA26-293A) from CISA, the FBI, the USSS, Germany's Landeskriminalamt Rheinland-Pfalz, the UK's National Crime Agency and the North West Regional Organised Crime Unit details SafePay ransomware activity observed through August 2026 (cisa.gov). The group has been active since August 2024 and has compromised …
Central Ohio Primary Care Physicians, a large physician-owned primary care group based in Westerville, Ohio, with more than 80 locations, disclosed a breach affecting about 1.4 million current and former patients. In August 2026, an unauthorized third party used a voice phishing (vishing) attack to obtain credentials that gave access to i…
A multinational advisory (CISA, NSA, FBI, AIVD, MIVD, NCSC-UK and others) warns that the Russian state-supported APT LAUNDRY BEAR (aka Void Blizzard, TA488) has compromised Western government, defense industrial base and NGO organizations running Zimbra Collaboration Suite (ZCS) since at least July 2025. The campaign uses a view-based XSS…
The FBI, CISA, DC3, NSA, USSS and the Republic of Korea's KNPA issued joint advisory AA26-222A on Gunra ransomware. Gunra appeared in April 2025 as a double-extortion variant derived from the leaked Conti source code. It launched a structured RaaS affiliate program in January 2026, also operating under the alias Golden Community, and recr…
A SafeDep researcher describes an experiment that uses Gryph (an audit trail for AI coding agents) and TypeSafe AI's Jev model to separate a developer's normal agent activity from attacks. The article cites threats to agents such as Claude Code and Codex: the Mini Shai-Hulud worm commits Claude Code hooks into repositories, malicious npm …
FortiGuard Labs describes an intrusion in which a compromised Jenkins EC2 build host, tied to Shai Hulud persistence, was used to steal instance role credentials via IMDS and pivot into the victim's AWS environment. The actor used the credentials from external IPs, created an admin IAM user named cloudops-monitor, opened network paths to …
In April 2026, Kaspersky GERT responded to an incident at a Middle East manufacturing organization where the actor gained domain admin-equivalent control of Active Directory. The actor created and linked a malicious GPO named PAYLOAD at the domain root. It pushed ransom notes, a wallpaper and lock screen, a logon banner and a local admini…
Zscaler ThreatLabz's 2026 Ransomware Report describes ransomware operators using generative AI to sharpen phishing, speed up reconnaissance and pick out the most sensitive corporate data to steal. The report records 896.2 TB exfiltrated by the top 10 ransomware groups between April 2025 and March 2026. The article cites a 275.8% annual in…
F5 Labs published its March 2026 CASI Leaderboard update, which is now dominated by OpenAI and Anthropic. Z.ai's GLM-5 performs well on price and capability but has a weak security posture (CASI 37.56 vs 96.61 for Claude Opus 4.6 and 92.58 for GPT-5.2). The report also spotlights Sugar-Coated Poison (SCP), a multi-turn technique that grad…
Proofpoint and the Ponemon Institute released their fifth annual Cyber Insecurity in Healthcare report, based on a survey of 705 IT and security practitioners at U.S. healthcare organizations. 97% of respondents experienced at least one cyberattack in the past 12 months, and 74% of those reported disruption to patient care. The average nu…
Unit 42 analyzed the operational environment of a previously unreported, financially motivated, English-speaking actor using the handle BUGSTER. The actor ran the Hermes Agent framework with DeepSeek V4 as its reasoning engine and the Cursor IDE as a secondary tool, with safety controls disabled in both. With AI-generated scripts and reco…