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chalk and debug npm package compromise incident
A phished maintainer account led to a malicious npm publish of chalk, debug, and 16 related packages, exposing a crypto-clipper to billions of weekly downloads.
Jul 10, 20267 min read
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Western Sydney University 2025 Breach: Third-Party Cloud Misconfiguration
From June to September 2025 an attacker quietly accessed a third-party cloud system linked to Western Sydney University and exfiltrated data on 10,000 students. We unpack the supply-chain anatomy.
Jul 9, 20267 min read
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Salesloft Drift OAuth Breach: 700+ Salesforce Tenants Compromised
UNC6395 stole Salesloft Drift OAuth tokens to exfiltrate Salesforce data from more than 700 organisations including Cloudflare, Zscaler, and Palo Alto Networks in August 2025.
Jun 14, 20266 min read
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MGM Ransomware One Year Later: A Retrospective
A 2025 retrospective on the September 2023 MGM Resorts ransomware incident, what changed, what stalled, and how supply chain defenders should adjust.
May 21, 20264 min read
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Kettering Health Interlock Ransomware: A 14-Hospital System Goes Dark
On May 20, 2025, Interlock ransomware encrypted Kettering Health across 14 Ohio hospitals. The actor sat in the network for 41 days before encryption. We unpack the dwell time and the recovery.
May 20, 20267 min read
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Coinbase TaskUs Insider Breach: When the BPO Becomes the Attack Surface
In May 2025 Coinbase disclosed that contractor support agents at TaskUs had been bribed to leak customer data for months. We unpack the insider-threat supply-chain anatomy and what crypto and fintech defenders must change.
May 16, 20267 min read
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The Vercel Breach: A Forgotten OAuth Grant Became a SaaS Supply-Chain Pivot (May 2026)
An infostealer infection at AI startup Context.ai let attackers reuse a Vercel employee's months-old Google Workspace OAuth grant to bypass MFA and exfiltrate customer environment variables. Disclosed April 2026, the fallout deepened through May.
May 12, 202612 min read
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Co-op UK DragonForce Breach: When the Helpdesk Becomes the Backdoor
In late April 2025 the Co-operative Group joined Marks & Spencer and Harrods as victims of a DragonForce-affiliated cluster that targeted UK retail through helpdesk social engineering. We unpack the playbook and what retailers must change.
May 10, 20267 min read
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Hitachi Vantara Akira Ransomware: When the Recovery Vendor Goes Down
Akira ransomware forced Hitachi Vantara to take its own servers offline on April 26, 2025. We trace the attack pattern and the implications when an enterprise data-recovery provider becomes the incident.
Apr 24, 20267 min read
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