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ASEC Blog publishes Ransom & Dark Web Issues Week 3, August 2026         Customer and Operational Data of a South Korean Delivery Platform Offered for Sale Unauthorized Access Incident at a Japanese Cloud and Data Center Services Company ShinyHunters Threatens Data Disclosure Against a U.S. Live-Streaming Platform
Purpose and Scope The July 2026 Threat Trend Report on APT Groups summarizes the trend in which state-sponsored threat actors and financially motivated attackers are employing a combination of supply chain attacks, account takeovers, cloud breaches, and social engineering techniques.
A company can have strong firewalls, modern endpoint protection, and carefully controlled access—and still find its brand being used as a weapon against customers, employees, and partners. That is the new reality of digital impersonation. Attackers can register lookalike domains, clone websites, create fake executive profiles, publish fraudulent job advertisements and imitate customer-support accounts without ever breaking into the legitimate organization. The objective is pretty simple.
Huntress observed a 155x increase in password spraying attacks in H1 2026, including a campaign that generated more than 81 million login attempts in two weeks. The attacks exploited legacy authentication and gaps in MFA policies that left some login flows unprotected.
Latvia’s road traffic agency confirmed that hackers stole data connected to about two-thirds of the country’s population in a major cyberattack that has prompted calls for senior officials to resign.
A previously unreported cyber espionage operation dubbedSilkParasitehas been observed targeting government bodies in Central Asia. The intrusion set makes use of seven remote access tool (RAT) families, five of which have never been previously documented: DriveSilkRAT, CookiETagRAT, NomadRAT, GoginRAT, and NodeEdgeRAT. SilkParasite, first discovered in late 2025, is assessed to be a China-nexus threat cluster with medium confidence."What makes SilkParasite interesting is the traces of AI-assisted development running through otherwise expert code, which is a different thing from AI-generated malware," Bitdefender Labssaidin a technical report shared with The Hacker News.