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The U.S. has charged 17 Iranians, alleged members of a hacking-for-hire company called Mabna Institute, involved in years-long operations that stole data from American organizations.
Following GreenPlasma, YellowKey and MiniPlasma, RoguePlanet and GreatXML , and LegacyHive , the Nightmare-Eclipse disclosure actor has published ShieldBreak — its latest Windows proof of concept (PoC) released shortly after Microsoft's August 2026 Patch Tuesday.
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.
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
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.