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.
Ransomware Groups Up 49%: 8,159 Victims Hit in 2025 [2026]
The ransomware ecosystem did not shrink in 2025. It exploded. IBM’s X-Force Threat Intelligence Index 2026, published February 25, found 109 distinct extortion groups operating worldwide during the…
Node.js Crypto Module: 12 Steps, 30 Min [2026]
Node.js ships a built-in crypto module that gives you production-grade cryptography without installing a single npm package. In 30 minutes you will have working code for random-byte generation,…
Rate Limiting in Node.js: 12 Steps, 30 Min [2026]
A single unprotected API endpoint can absorb thousands of requests per minute from one IP address. Without rate limiting, that scenario degrades your service for legitimate users, exhausts…
ShinyHunters Breach Odido: 6.5M Hit, €1M Ransom [2026]
On March 1, 2026, a hacking crew published the personal records of more than 6.5 million people on the dark web. The victims were customers of Odido, the…
Node.js Session Management: 11 Steps, 30 Min [2026]
A session is the thin thread of trust between a logged-in user and your server. Break that thread and an attacker walks in as someone else. In 2026,…
AI Cyberattacks: 90% Autonomous, 40K Flaws [2026]
The cyberattack that defined the start of 2026 was not run by a human. In November 2025, Anthropic disclosed that a China-linked group it tracks as GTG-1002 had…
npm Supply Chain Attacks: 1.2M Malicious Packages [2026]
On March 31, 2026, a single compromised maintainer account turned axios, one of the most widely used JavaScript libraries on the planet, into a malware delivery system. The…
Lumma Stealer Returns: 394K Devices Hit [2026]
Lumma Stealer was supposed to be dead. In May 2025, Microsoft’s Digital Crimes Unit, the U.S. Department of Justice, Europol, and Japan’s JC3 ran one of the largest…
Infostealers Stole 1.8B Credentials in 2025 [2026]
Infostealer malware crossed a threshold in 2025 that changes how every security team should think about passwords. According to Flashpoint, these silent credential-grabbers contributed to the theft of…
Passkeys vs Passwords: 8.5s vs 31s Sign-In [2026]
The login box is changing. As of 2026, the FIDO Alliance counts 5 billion passkeys in active use, and the average passkey sign-in finishes in 8.5 seconds versus…
