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Europe
Europe’s technology backbone is becoming a cyber target

Disruptive attacks on public-facing services, financially motivated cybercrime and compromises of shared technology providers are increasing cybersecurity risks across Europe. …

AI
One runaway AI agent racked up a $50,000 cloud bill

Organizations are deploying autonomous AI systems that execute API calls, optimize production configurations, and analyze telemetry across hybrid cloud environments. At the …

botnet
What breach and attack simulation needs to become in the AI era

Breach and attack simulation (BAS) has always had a supply chain. Somebody has to read the threat report, pull out the techniques, and turn them into something that will …

Claude
Most of the bugs Claude Mythos found have never been checked by a human

Anthropic pointed Claude Mythos Preview at 281 open-source projects and collected 23,019 candidate vulnerabilities. External security firms reviewed 1,900 of them. Maintainers …

ransomware
Ransomware attackers are zeroing in on mid-market companies

Mid-sized companies accounted for 73% of publicly disclosed ransomware and data-extortion incidents with known revenue in North America and Europe between January 2023 and …

GitHub Dependabot malware alerts now cover eight ecosystems

GitHub has flagged npm malware since March 2026. Anyone pulling in a bad PyPI, Maven, RubyGems, NuGet, Go, crates.io, or PHP Composer package has had no such warning, because …

Chainloop
Chainloop: Open-source evidence store and policy engine for the software supply chain

Chainloop is an open source evidence store for the software supply chain. A command line tool runs inside a GitHub Actions, GitLab, Jenkins, or Dagger pipeline, picks up what …

botnet
Suppliers, logins, and AI tools are all becoming attack paths

Cybercriminals and state-backed hacking groups are abusing trusted identities, cloud services, AI tools, and software supply chains to gain access while avoiding detection, …

critical infrastructure
The energy sector’s OT cybersecurity talent is retiring faster than it can be replaced

A ransomware hit lands a chemical plant in a safe state. Nobody is hurt, the site holds steady, and the operators begin the restart. The systems stay down. Every attempt to …

GitHub
GitHub delays version updates so malware gets caught first

An automated update tool watches a package registry, catches a new release the moment it publishes, and opens a pull request for your team. That is the job it was built to do. …

ransomware
Ransomware gangs find Europe’s weakest link in third-party suppliers

Ransomware attacks against European organizations increased during the first months of 2026, with third-party suppliers becoming a major entry point for attackers. Black Kite …

EU
Software supply chains are heading for a transparency test

Software supply chain visibility is becoming part of product security work as the EU Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) moves toward application in December 2027. ENISA’s SBOM …

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