Briefing — 29 August 2026
Qilin claims UK Government & Defence entity; PaperCut second emergency patch required; McKesson breached by ShinyHunters; 44 ransomware victims including 6 healthcare hits; Edge/Chromium RCE batch.…
Briefing — 28 August 2026
PaperCut zero-day under active exploitation; ATF confirms major ransomware incident; Manchester Airports Group breach exposes traveller data; 67 ransomware victims across 16 groups including 5 UK targets.…
Briefing — 27 August 2026
🎧 Subscribe to the podcast feed | Download episode Security News FBI seizes Chinese hacking tools used to attack NASA, DOE, and US Senate (The Register) — The FBI has seized command-and-control infrastructure and custom implants used by Chinese threat actors to compromise some of the most sensitive US government networks,…
Briefing — 26 August 2026
🎧 Subscribe to the podcast feed Security News CISA Warns of Exploited Gitea Vulnerability (SecurityWeek) — CISA issued an alert for an actively exploited vulnerability in the Gitea self-hosted Git service; organisations running Gitea internally should treat this as a priority patch. Alabama Launches Investigation Into OpenAI's Alleged Hack…
Briefing — 25 August 2026
🎧 Subscribe to the podcast feed Security News US sanctions Iranian cyber actors as UK discloses power plant attack (The Record) — Iran-linked actors caused an operational shutdown of a UK power generation facility; the US responded with sanctions against the responsible Iranian cyber operators. Sleepwalker backdoor targets Windows machines (The…
Daily Briefing – Monday, 24th August 2026
🎧 Subscribe to the podcast feed Security News North Korean Rust supply chain attack — full scope still emerging (BleepingComputer / SecurityWeek) The poisoned arrayref crate (1M+ monthly downloads) remains the key story as attribution to DPRK actors is confirmed. Developer teams running Rust build pipelines should audit dependency chains now. Microsoft Entra…
Weekly Security Roundup — week ending 23rd August 2026
🎧 Subscribe to the podcast feed Security Stories AI as operational attack capability Federal advisories this week confirmed AI-generated code has been used in actual attacks against critical infrastructure controllers — not proof-of-concept, not lab work. Real operations. China-linked SilkParasite used AI-assisted malware in Central Asia. A…
Daily Briefing – Sunday, 23rd August 2026
🎧 Subscribe to the podcast feed Security News Hackers infect Android car head units with proxy botnet malware (BleepingComputer) Supply-chain attack on legitimate device-update apps silently enlists compromised in-vehicle Android systems into a proxy botnet — no visible symptoms to the owner. The attack surface has reached automotive infotainment.…