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Owen Flowers, 18, and Thalha Jubair, 20, were each sentenced to five and a half years at Woolwich Crown Court on Thursday, 16 July 2026, for the 2024 hack of Transport for London. The attack left 148 TfL systems inoperable and forced all 27,000 of the transport authority’s employees into an office to get their…

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Cybersecurity researchers have shed light on a large-scale campaign that has turned compromised GitHub repositories into distributed attack infrastructure designed to target cPanel and WebHost Manager (WHM) instances. The activity involves malicious Packagist development versions spanning 10 packages associated with a legitimate PHP and DevOps developer, dinushchathurya, between July 12 and 13, 2026. The list…

Thailand’s Ministry of Finance Targeted With Hermes AI Agent Running Unattended, Hades Implant Staged Pierluigi Paganini July 24, 2026 Hunt.io uncovered a cyber-espionage attack on Thailand’s Finance Ministry using Hermes AI agent and Hades malware for reconnaissance and persistence. Researchers at Hunt.io have uncovered an intrusion targeting Thailand’s Ministry of Finance that offers a rare…

Opening or previewing a malicious email was enough for Russian-linked hackers to compromise users of vulnerable Zimbra webmail servers. The campaign required no link click or attachment download, allowing the exploit to run as soon as the message appeared in the webmail client. Proofpoint attributes the activity to TA488, a Russia-aligned espionage group also tracked…

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