Deep dives, practical guides, and incident analyses from engineers who build Safeguard. No fluff, no vendor FUD — just what you need to ship secure software.
A defender's synthesis of the first half of 2026 — self-propagating package worms, the agentic-AI access-control problem, edge-appliance zero-days, and a healthcare ransomware surge — and what to prioritize next.
The August 2026 npm worm did not run its second stage in Node. It downloaded a standalone Bun binary first — a choice that defeats a surprising amount of build-pipeline monitoring.
A defender's synthesis of the first half of 2026 — self-propagating package worms, the agentic-AI access-control problem, edge-appliance zero-days, and a healthcare ransomware surge — and what to prioritize next.
TeamPCP (UNC6780) is the most active actor in the 2026 supply chain corpus, weaponizing the tools developers trust most. Here is how the operation works, and why a zero-CVE campaign breaks the model most teams still rely on.
An Iran-aligned group used a compromised admin account and Microsoft Intune to factory-reset roughly 200,000 of Stryker's devices in real time. The lesson is uncomfortable: your management plane is your biggest single point of failure.
ShinyHunters claimed 10 million records from Match Group's dating apps in late January 2026. Here is what was actually taken (Hinge, Match, and OkCupid — notably not Tinder), how a single vishing call opened the door, and why dating-app data raises the extortion stakes.
Healthcare ransomware dipped in volume in May 2026 but kept climbing in impact, and a former FBI cyber chief is asking Congress to treat hospital ransomware as terrorism. We weigh the policy debate against what actually protects patients.
The Kairos extortion group claims it stole roughly 574 GB from Australian luxury jeweller Gregory Jewellers. Here is what is verified, what the group's playbook tells us, and why pure data-extortion crews are the harder problem.
Attackers used a disused legacy credential at marketing-intelligence vendor Klue to push code that harvested customer OAuth tokens, then walked into Salesforce and Gong instances. A textbook SaaS-to-SaaS supply chain pivot.
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