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For years, fraud has been a payments problem. Detect it at checkout. Measure success in chargebacks avoided. Build controls around transactions. That model made sense when fraud itself was transactional – and reactive. That era is over. Modern fraud operations are not waiting for a payment event. They are active earlier in the customer journey,…

Executive Summary On 3 April 2026, a disgruntled security researcher publicly released a working proof-of-concept for an unpatched Windows local privilege escalation (LPE) vulnerability named BlueHammer. The flaw combines a time-of-check to time-of-use (TOCTOU) race condition and path-confusion issue in Windows Defender’s signature-update mechanism. It allows a low-privileged local user to access the SAM database,…

Executive Summary On 7 April 2026, reports emerged in open source that multiple companies have suffered data theft attacks after a SaaS integration provider was breached and authentication tokens stolen. While numerous cloud storage and SaaS vendors were targeted using the stolen tokens, the majority of the data theft attacks targeted the cloud-based data warehouse platform Snowflake….

Executive Summary According to a released report by StepSecurity, on 30 March 2026, an unnamed threat actor compromised a npm account associated with the Axios library and published malicious package versions, impacting developers and organizations relying on the dependency. The threat actor introduced backdoored versions of 1.14.1 and 0.30.4 that included a hidden malicious component designed…

Executive Summary According to a released report from Rapid7 Labs, Chinese threat actor Red Menshen is targeting telecommunication networks in undisclosed regions with the goal of carrying out espionage against corporate and government agencies. This campaign, reported on 26 March 2026, has been a long-term operation gaining access to telecom critical environments for an extended period…

For years, fraud and cybersecurity have been treated as separate problems, owned by different teams and addressed with different tools. Fraud programs focused on screening transactions at checkout. Security programs focused on defending the perimeter. That division once made sense. Today, it no longer does. Modern attacks do not exploit infrastructure first, but rather identity….

Executive Summary On 24 March 2026, Sansec Researchers identified a novel payment skimmer leveraging WebRTC data channels rather than conventional web requests to load malicious code and exfiltrate stolen payment data, bypassing traditional security controls. Sansec reported the skimmer targeting ecommerce sites throughout March 2026 by exploiting a PolyShell vulnerability in Magento and Adobe Commerce. Key Takeaways  Novel Exfiltration Technique: This is reportedly the first observed instance of WebRTC being used…

Retail and hospitality organizations are adopting AI wherever speed and scale matter. Employees rely on public AI tools to draft content, analyze data, and resolve issues faster. Developers depend on AI code assistants as part of everyday workflows. Product teams build homegrown AI apps that sit directly inside websites, mobile apps, and support systems. Based…

Executive Summary In 2025, Unit 42 responded to more than 750 major cyber incidents. Our teams worked with large organizations facing extortion, network intrusions, data theft and advanced persistent threats. Targets spanned every major industry and more than 50 countries. In each case, the situation had escalated to the point where the SOC called for…

Executive Summary The threat group known as ShinyHunters is actively exploiting misconfigurations in Salesforce Experience Cloud and a externally developed security auditing tool to exfiltrate sensitive data from hundreds of high-profile organizations. By repurposing Mandiant’s AuraInspector tool, the actors identify guest user profiles with excessive permissions that allow for the direct querying of internal CRM objects. The…