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A China-aligned threat actor has set its sights on European government and diplomatic organizations since mid-2025, following a two-year period of minimal targeting in the region. The campaign has been attributed to TA416, a cluster of activity that overlaps with DarkPeony, RedDelta, Red Lich, SmugX, UNC6384, and Vertigo Panda. "This TA416 activity included multiple

Researchers from FortiGuard Labs have uncovered a high-severity spying campaign targeting South Korean companies. Discover how North Korean…

The Qilin ransomware group has claimed responsibility for an attack against Die Linke ('The Left'), forcing an IT systems outage at the political party, and threatening sensitive data leak. [...]

CERT-EU blamed the cybercrime group TeamPCP for the recent hack on the European Commission, and said the notorious ShinyHunters gang was responsible for leaking the stolen data online.

Threat actors are increasingly using HTTP cookies as a control channel for PHP-based web shells on Linux servers and to achieve remote code execution, according to findings from the Microsoft Defender Security Research Team. "Instead of exposing command execution through URL parameters or request bodies, these web shells rely on threat actor-supplied cookie values to gate execution,

AI firm Mercor confirms a breach linked to a LiteLLM supply chain attack, as hackers claim to have stolen 4TB of sensitive data and internal systems.

Multi-extortion ransomware relies on stolen data to pressure victims with public leaks. Penta Security explains how its D.AMO platform keeps exfiltrated files encrypted and useless to attackers. [...]

What you’ll learn in this article This article explains why many breaches are driven by gaps in visibility rather than advanced exploits, how attackers move through modern environments, and what changes when organizations start connecting assets, identities, and attack paths into a single view. What is a visibility problem in cybersecurity? A visibility problem exists when security teams cannot clearly answer three basic questions: what assets exist, who or what can access them, and how those elements connect. When those answers are incomplete, decisions are made based on assumptions – and that creates conditions where risk can grow, unnoticed. As environments expand across cloud, SaaS, and hybrid infrastructure, the number of systems and identities grows quickly. What often falls behind is a clear understanding of how they relate to each other, and that gap is where attackers tend to operate. How visibility gaps turn into breaches A large medical technology organization experienced a breach driven by a series of compounding gaps rather than a single exploit. Internet-exposed assets created the initial entry point, while inconsistencies in device posture and identity enforcement, including gaps in platforms like Intune, weakened the security boundary. Attackers leveraged exposed or reused credentials and over-permissioned access to move laterally across systems. Without unified visibility across assets, identities, and managed devices, the attack path remained invisible until critical systems were reached. Each of these conditions is common on its own, but what makes them dangerous is how they connect. Why most attacks are not about flashy exploits This breach did not rely on a zero-day vulnerability or an advanced technique. It depended on an exposed asset, valid credentials, and inconsistent enforcement across identity and devices. Those elements exist in most environments, but without visibility into how they overlap, they can be combined into a viable attack path. Security teams often evaluate vulnerabilities individually, while attackers focus on how those weaknesses can be chained together. The risk is not just in what is vulnerable, but in how exposure allows movement. What a visibility-first approach looks like Improving outcomes depends on understanding how exposure exists across the environment and how different elements relate to each other. Asset visibility is the starting point. Many organizations cannot confidently identify everything that is externally accessible, and attackers often find assets that were never intended to be exposed. Continuously mapping assets across cloud and on-prem environments reduces that uncertainty and limits entry points. Identity is just as critical. Once access is established, movement depends on credentials and permissions. Stolen credentials, over-permissioned accounts, and weak authentication paths allow attackers to move beyond initial entry. Treating identity exposure as part of the attack surface

Moscow, Russia, 3rd April 2026, CyberNewswire

This is the sixth update to the TeamPCP supply chain campaign threat intelligence report, When the Security Scanner Became the Weapon (v3.0, March 25, 2026). Update 005 covered developments through April 1, including the first confirmed victim disclosure (Mercor AI), Wiz's post-compromise cloud enumeration findings, DPRK attribution of the axios compromise, and LiteLLM's release resumption after Mandiant's forensic audit. This update covers intelligence from April 1 through April 3, 2026. CRITICAL: CERT-EU Confirms European Commission Cloud Breach via Trivy Supply Chain Compromise CERT-EU disclosed on April 2-3, 2026 that the European Commission's Europa web hosting platform on AWS was breached through the Trivy supply chain compromise (CVE-2026-33634). This is the highest-profile governmental victim disclosure to date. Key details from the CERT-EU advisory: Initial access: AWS API keys stolen via the compromised Trivy scanner on March 19 Detection: European Commission Security Operations Center fired alerts on March 24 (5 days after initial intrusion) CERT-EU notified: March 25; access revoked same day Data exfiltrated: 340 GB uncompressed (91.7 GB compressed archive) from the compromised AWS account Email exposure: Approximately 52,000 email-related files (2.22 GB) of outbound communications Scope: 71 clients affected: 42 internal European Commission departments plus 29 other EU entities, meaning at least 30 Union entities were potentially impacted Data publication: ShinyHunters published the stolen data on their dark web leak site on March 28 Lateral movement: CERT-EU confirmed no lateral movement to other Commission AWS accounts was detected Europa.eu websites remained unaffected throughout Analysts assess this disclosure is significant on multiple dimensions. First, it confirms that TeamPCP-harvested credentials reached a major governmental institution, not just private-sector targets. Second, the involvement of ShinyHunters in the data publication raises questions about the credential distribution chain, as ShinyHunters is operationally distinct from TeamPCP's known LAPSUS$ and Vect partnerships. Third, the five-day dwell time between initial access (March 19) and detection (March 24) is consistent with the 24-hour operational tempo that Wiz documented for TeamPCP's post-compromise cloud enumeration. Recommended action: EU institutions and organizations hosted on Europa infrastructure should review CERT-EU's advisory for specific exposure indicators. Organizations with AWS credentials that may have been exposed through the Trivy compromise should treat the EC breach as confirmation that stolen credentials are being actively used against high-value targets. The CERT-EU disclosure timeline (initial access March 19, detection March 24, notification March 25, public disclosure April 2) demonstrates that even well-resourced organizations required five days to detect the intrusion. HIGH: Sportradar AG Breach Details Co

Microsoft is investigating and working to resolve Exchange Online mailbox access issues that have intermittently affected Outlook mobile and macOS users for weeks. [...]

WebinarTV searches the internet for public Zoom invites, joins the meetings, secretly records them, and publishes (alternate link ) the recordings. It doesn’t use the Zoom record feature, so Zoom can’t do anything about it.

The maintainer of the Axios npm package has confirmed that the supply chain compromise was the result of a highly-targeted social engineering campaign orchestrated by North Korean threat actors tracked as UNC1069. Maintainer Jason Saayman said the attackers tailored their social engineering efforts "specifically to me" by first approaching him under the guise of the founder of a

The next major breach hitting your clients probably won't come from inside their walls. It'll come through a vendor they trust, a SaaS tool their finance team signed up for, or a subcontractor nobody in IT knows about. That's the new attack surface, and most organizations are underprepared for it. Cynomi's new guide, Securing the Modern Perimeter: The Rise of Third-Party

Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a new version of the SparkCat malware on the Apple App Store and Google Play Store, more than a year after the trojan was discovered targeting both the mobile operating systems. The malware has been found to conceal itself within seemingly benign apps, such as enterprise messengers and food delivery services, while

A former core infrastructure engineer has pleaded guilty to locking Windows admins out of 254 servers as part of a failed extortion plot targeting his employer, an industrial company headquartered in Somerset County, New Jersey. [...]

Solana-based decentralized exchange Drift has confirmed that attackers drained about $285 million from the platform during a security incident that took place on April 1, 2026. "Earlier today, a malicious actor gained unauthorized access to Drift Protocol through a novel attack involving durable nonces, resulting in a rapid takeover of Drift’s Security Council administrative powers," the&

A large-scale credential theft campaign targeting senior executives has been linked to a previously unknown automated phishing platform called Venom

Starting this week, Microsoft has begun force-upgrading unmanaged devices running Windows 11 24H2 Home and Pro editions to Windows 11 25H2. [...]

The European Union's Cybersecurity Service (CERT-EU) has attributed the European Commission cloud hack to the TeamPCP threat group, saying the resulting breach exposed the data of at least 29 other Union entities. [...]