Cybersecurity

Breaches, CVE post-mortems, zero-day reporting and practical defense. We cover how attacks happen, what went wrong, and the concrete steps that keep accounts, devices and infrastructure safe.

Luna Moth: $20M Ransom, 100+ Law Firm Attacks [2026]

Silent Ransom Group walked into US law firm offices in 2025 and 2026, plugging USB devices into workstations while posing as IT technicians. One victim paid $20 million…
By Dr. Elena Marchetti · Jun 29, 2026

Carnival Corporation Breach: ShinyHunters Expose 6M Passports [2026]

Carnival Corporation, the world’s largest cruise operator, confirmed in late May 2026 that a social engineering attack exposed the personal records of nearly 6 million customers across five…
By Marcus Bell · Jun 29, 2026

Wazuh vs Splunk: $0 vs $300K/yr SIEM [2026]

Your SIEM choice determines whether your security operations center spends $300,000 or $62,000 per year for the same core threat visibility. In 2026, that gap has become a…
By Tom Vance · Jun 29, 2026

CVE-2026-41940: cPanel Auth Bypass Hits 1.5M Servers, CVSS 9.8 [2026]

A critical authentication bypass vulnerability in cPanel and Web Host Manager (WHM), tracked as CVE-2026-41940, exposed roughly 1.5 million internet-facing servers to complete, unauthenticated root takeover for approximately…
By Daniel Roth · Jun 28, 2026

Spectrum Breach: ShinyHunters Steal 4.9M Records [2026]

ShinyHunters posted Charter Communications on its dark-web extortion site on May 26, 2026, one day before a ransom deadline expired. The criminal group claimed to hold between 40…
By Ryan Cole · Jun 28, 2026

WEF Cybersecurity Outlook 2026: Fraud Tops CEO Fears, 94% Cite AI Risk

The World Economic Forum’s Global Cybersecurity Outlook 2026, published on January 12, 2026, in collaboration with Accenture, is the most comprehensive survey of cybersecurity leadership sentiment produced this…
By Laura Bennett · Jun 25, 2026

SQL Injection Prevention in Node.js: 12 Steps [2026]

SQL injection remains the most reliably exploited web vulnerability in 2026. According to the Verizon 2025 Data Breach Investigations Report, injection attacks account for 17% of all confirmed…
By Marcus Bell · Jun 25, 2026

FortiBleed: 86,644 Fortinet Firewalls Exposed in 194 Countries [2026]

A Russian-speaking cybercriminal syndicate has quietly harvested verified administrator and VPN credentials from 86,644 Fortinet FortiGate firewalls across 194 countries, exposing roughly half of all internet-facing Fortinet perimeter…
By Tom Vance · Jun 24, 2026

Palo Alto GlobalProtect CVE-2026-0257: CVSS 7.8 Auth Bypass Exploited [2026]

Palo Alto Networks confirmed on May 13, 2026 that CVE-2026-0257, a high-severity authentication bypass in its GlobalProtect VPN portal and gateway, was being actively exploited in the wild.…
By Laura Bennett · Jun 21, 2026

npm audit: 12 Steps to Fix Node.js Vulnerabilities [2026]

Every Node.js project accumulates vulnerable dependencies. The npm registry holds over 2.5 million packages, and researchers found 454,000 malicious or vulnerable packages uploaded in 2025 alone. Without a…
By Dr. Heinrich Vogel · Jun 20, 2026

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