5/5/2026

~ The Cyber Beat
China-Linked UAT-8302 Targets Governments Using Shared APT Malware Across Regions

North Korean APT ScarCruft Targets Yanbian Gamers via Trojanized Platform

Small Defense Firms Lack Network Data to Stop Nation-State Hackers, Analyst Says

States Concerned Over Access to Frontier AI Model Pilots

AI Adoption Outpaces Safety Policies, Leaving Organizations Exposed to Cyber Risk

Researchers Gaslit Claude Into Giving Instructions to Build Explosives

Student Hacked Taiwan High-Speed Rail to Trigger Emergency Brakes

Karakurt Extortion Gang ‘Cold Case’ Negotiator Gets 8.5 Years in Prison

Romance Scammers Turn Sweet Talk Into £102M Payday

FTC to Ban Data Broker Kochava From Selling Americans’ Location Data

Australia Launches Cyber Review Board Modeled on Version Disbanded in U.S.		Real Estate Giant Cushman & Wakefield Confirms Vishing Incident as ShinyHunters and Qilin Both Come Knocking

ShinyHunters Claims Dump Puts 119K Vimeo Emails in the Wild

Instructure Hacker Claims Data Theft From 8,800 Schools, Universities

Microsoft Flags Mass Phishing Campaign Using Fake Compliance Emails

CloudZ Malware Abuses Microsoft Phone Link to Steal SMS and OTPs

DAEMON Tools Supply Chain Attack Compromises Official Installers with Malware

MetInfo CMS CVE-2026-29014 Exploited for Remote Code Execution Attacks

Critical Apache HTTP/2 Flaw (CVE-2026-23918) Enables DoS and Potential RCE

Google Now Offers up to $1.5 Million for Some Android Exploits

German Officials Advance Legislation That Would Expand Law Enforcement Use of Surveillance Technology

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