04 March 2026
Kart-e-Char, Kabul, Afghanistan

Jessica Lyons

Articles by Jessica Lyons

Let them eat sourdough: ShinyHunters claims Panera Bread as stolen credentials victim

CryptoJanuary 28, 2026

ShinyHunters says it stole several slices of data from Panera Bread, but that's just the yeast of everyone's problems. The extortionist gang also claims to have stolen data from CarMax and Edmunds, i…...

A simple CodeBuild flaw put every AWS environment at risk – and pwned 'the central nervous system of the cloud'

CryptoJanuary 16, 2026

A critical misconfiguration in AWS's CodeBuild service allowed complete takeover of the cloud provider's own GitHub repositories and put every AWS environment in the world at risk, according to Wiz s…...

Windows info-disclosure 0-day bug gets a fix as CISA sounds alarm - theregister.com

TechnologyJanuary 15, 2026

Microsoft and Uncle Sam have warned that a Windows bug disclosed today is already under attack. The flaw, tracked as CVE-2026-20805 and discovered by Microsoft's own threat intel team, allows an aut…...

Python libraries in AI/ML models can be poisoned w metadata - theregister.com

TechnologyJanuary 15, 2026

Vulnerabilities in popular AI and ML Python libraries used in Hugging Face models with tens of millions of downloads allow remote attackers to hide malicious code in metadata. The code then executes …...

Brightspeed investigates breach as crims post stolen data for sale

CryptoJanuary 7, 2026

Internet service provider Brightspeed confirmed that it's investigating criminals' claims that they stole more than a million customers' records and have listed them for sale for three bitcoin, or ab…...

One criminal, 50 hacked organizations, and all because MFA wasn't turned on

CryptoJanuary 7, 2026

If you don't say "yes way" to MFA, the consequences can be disastrous. Sensitive data belonging to about 50 global enterprises is listed for sale and, in some cases, has already been sold on the dark…...

Bitfinex crypto thief who was serving five years thanks Trump for early release

CryptoJanuary 3, 2026

Ilya Lichtenstein, who pleaded guilty to money-laundering charges tied to the 2016 theft of about 120,000 bitcoins from the Bitfinex exchange and was sentenced to five years in prison, has been relea…...

Cybercrook claims to be selling infrastructure info about three major US utilities

CryptoJanuary 3, 2026

A cybercrook claims to have breached Pickett and Associates, a Florida-based engineering firm whose clients include major US utilities, and is selling what they claim to be about 139 GB of engineerin…...

Poisoned WhatsApp API package steals messages and accounts

CryptoDecember 23, 2025

A malicious npm package with more than 56,000 downloads masquerades as a working WhatsApp Web API library, and then it steals messages, harvests credentials and contacts, and hijacks users' WhatsApp …...

Crypto crooks co-opt stolen AWS creds to mine coins

CryptoDecember 19, 2025

Your AWS account could be quietly running someone else's cryptominer. Cryptocurrency thieves are using stolen Amazon account credentials to mine for coins at the expense of AWS customers, abusing the…...