CyberSecurity Updates

The quest for greater tech independence

The Trump administration’s shift in tone and approach toward traditional allies has understandably unsettled many nations, raising doubts about U.S. reliability and concerns over dependence on American technology. Many had become used to China and Russia’s often belligerent tone, flexing their economic and military muscles, but watching the world’s most powerful nation and flag bearer of liberal democracy reach for similar tactics against its friends has certainly been a wake-up call.  Europe’s push for tech sovereignty …

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Over 320 NPM Packages Hit by Fresh Mini Shai-Hulud Supply Chain Attack

A fresh Mini Shai-Hulud supply chain attack has hit over 320 NPM packages, along with GitHub Actions and a VS Code extension, security researchers report. The NPM maintainer account ‘atool’, which has access to multiple packages across the @antv namespace, and which publishes timeago.js (1.5 million weekly downloads), was compromised and used to publish malicious package versions. The attack propagated downstream to other highly popular packages, including echarts-for-react (~1.1 million weekly downloads), “impacting a much…

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B1ack’s Stash Marketplace Gives Away 4.6 Million Stolen Credit Cards

The notorious B1ack’s Stash dark web carding marketplace has announced the free download of 4.6 million stolen credit card records. The data, it says, was dumped after sellers were caught reselling card data purchased from B1ack’s Stash on competing platforms, a violation of the marketplace’s policies. B1ack’s Stash allegedly suspended 8 million stolen CVV2 records in response to the sellers’ misconduct, and decided to release the card data for free, instead of deleting it from…

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CISA Admin Leaked AWS GovCloud Keys on Github

Until this past weekend, a contractor for the Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) maintained a public GitHub repository that exposed credentials to several highly privileged AWS GovCloud accounts and a large number of internal CISA systems. Security experts said the public archive included files detailing how CISA builds, tests and deploys software internally, and that it represents one of the most egregious government data leaks in recent history. On May 15, KrebsOnSecurity heard from…

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7-Eleven Data Breach Confirmed After ShinyHunters Ransom Demand

7-Eleven, the world’s largest convenience store chain, has confirmed suffering a data breach after the notorious ShinyHunters hacker group claimed to have stolen information from its systems. The company has started sending out security incident notices revealing that an intrusion into 7-Eleven systems used to store franchisee documents was detected on April 8.  According to a notification submitted to the Maine Attorney General’s Office, unspecified personal information has been compromised.  The exposed information was provided…

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Why geopolitical turmoil is a gift for scammers, and how to stay safe

Digital Security Conflict is a boon for opportunistic fraudsters. Look out for their ploys. Phil Muncaster 15 May 2026  •  , 5 min. read It didn’t take long for tensions in the Middle East to spill over into the cyber domain. There’s been significant disruption of a major US medtech provider, the compromise of OT assets in US critical infrastructure, and ongoing ransomware attacks on businesses by Iran-nexus groups. But what about regular internet users?…

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PoC Code Published for Critical NGINX Vulnerability

Technical details and proof-of-concept (PoC) exploit code targeting a newly patched critical-severity vulnerability in NGINX are now available. Tracked as CVE-2026-42945 (CVSS score of 9.2), the issue was patched in the widely used web server this week as part of F5’s latest quarterly patch release, 16 years after it was introduced. The bug is described as a heap buffer overflow in the ngx_http_rewrite_module component that could be exploited to trigger a restart, creating a denial-of-service…

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In Other News: Big Tech vs Canada Encryption Bill, Cisco’s Free AI Security Spec, Audi App Flaws

SecurityWeek’s weekly cybersecurity news roundup offers a concise overview of important developments that may not receive full standalone coverage but remain relevant to the broader threat landscape. This curated summary highlights key stories across vulnerability disclosures, emerging attack methods, policy updates, industry reports, and other noteworthy events to help readers maintain a well-rounded awareness of the evolving cybersecurity environment. Here are this week’s highlights: Nvidia cloud gaming partner suffers data breach Nvidia has confirmed that…

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FrostyNeighbor: Fresh mischief and digital shenanigans

This blogpost covers newly discovered activities attributed to FrostyNeighbor, targeting governmental organizations in Ukraine. FrostyNeighbor has been running continual cyberoperations, changing and updating its toolset regularly, updating its compromise chain and methods to evade detection – targeting victims located in Eastern Europe, according to our telemetry. Key points of the report: FrostyNeighbor is a long-running cyberespionage actor apparently aligned with the interests of Belarus. The group primarily targets governmental, military, and key sectors in Eastern…

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OpenAI Hit by TanStack Supply Chain Attack

OpenAI has disclosed the impact of the recent TanStack supply chain attack, warning that credential material was exfiltrated from internal source code repositories. The open source web application development stack TanStack was hit on May 11, when the TeamPCP hacking group exploited security weaknesses in the package publishing process to release 84 malicious artifacts across 42 packages. Over 170 packages across several high-profile NPM and PyPI namespaces were compromised on the same day as part…

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