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A Windows device identifier helped federal investigators track an alleged Scattered Spider hacker, raising questions about how much activity can be tied back to a specific PC through Microsoft’s telemetry and service records. According to a newly unsealed federal complaint, the FBI used a Microsoft Global Device Identifier, or GDID, to connect a Windows installation to online activity linked to a May 2025 breach at a luxury jewelry retailer.

Self-hosted deployment on Kubernetes sounds manageable when it lives in a launch plan. Then the real installs start, and it turns into a different job entirely. You’ve got the Helm chart, the docs, the customer portal, the update path, and the security story. And still, the install drags. Every customer has a different level of isolation and a different set of constraints. The issues vary every time.

There’s a misunderstanding of how modern cybercrime actually operates. Society has trained us to view threat actors as digital magicians. We picture isolated savants sitting in dark rooms, furiously typing green code to magically breach a corporate firewall for the thrill of the hack. The reality is much more corporate — and much more boring. Modern cybercriminals aren’t digital magicians; they’re highly disciplined project managers.

Cybersecurity researchers from Source Defense have uncovered a digital skimming campaign targeting global e-commerce websites that uses an Ethereum blockchain platform as its command-and-control infrastructure. Reliance on a blockchain platform enables cybercriminals to take advantage of dynamically generated infrastructure to evade traditional methods for detecting credit card skimmers, also known as Magecart attacks.

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Open Source Compliance Now Has a Deadline. Accountability Now Has a Name. The US federal safety net that followed Log4j has thinned in the same window the EU Cyber Resilience Act wrote obligations for commercial users of open source software into law, with reporting requirements beginning September 2026. The accountability for what enters your products is moving toward the organizations that consume it, on someone else’s timeline.

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MELBOURNE, Fla., July 8, 2026, CyberNewswire – OpenMatter Network today announced that it has joined the founding group of organizations participating in the Hashgraph Online (HOL) Partner Program, where the company will help develop standards, policies and verification frameworks for secure autonomous AI systems and agentic computing environments.

What happened Researchers have uncovered a new phishing campaign using the EvilTokens phishing kit that employs a technique known as “ghost phishing” to bypass traditional email security controls. The campaign primarily targets organizations across the United States and Europe and focuses on compromising Microsoft 365 accounts through Microsoft’s legitimate Device Code Authentication process.

What happened Researchers at Elastic Security Labs have uncovered a banking malware campaign, tracked as REF6045, that is actively targeting customers of Mexican banks, fintech companies, payment processors, and cryptocurrency exchanges. The operation uses ClickFix social engineering techniques to trick victims into infecting their own devices. According to researchers Jia Yu Chan and Salim Bitam, victims are presented with a fake CAPTCHA page that mimics a legitimate security check.