7/9/2026

~ The Cyber Beat
China, India-Linked Hacking Groups Targeted Pakistani Law Enforcement

Iran’s Cyber Crosshairs Focus Beyond Critical Infrastructure

NSA Revives ‘Tailored Access Operations’ Name for Elite Hacking Unit

New CREST AI Security Charter Backed by Over 70 Cyber Firms

A Majority of European Lawmakers Voted Against Letting Big Tech Read Our Messages. They’re Going to Anyway

EU Takes Member States To Court Over Unimplemented Cybersecurity Law

Mexico’s New Cyber Plan Faces Its First Real Test

OpenMandriva Linux Says Contributor Tried to Sabotage the Project

Dormant GitHub Accounts Help Attackers Blend In While Mapping Corporate Orgs

75% CISOs Fear Executives Don’t Understand Cybersecurity Risks Employees Face

Restaurants Are Downplaying Their Cybersecurity Risk

Madison Square Garden Alleged To Track and Assign Risk Scores to Celebrities

Chinese-Funded Interpol Cybercrime Crackdown Leads to 5,800 Arrests

Russian Man Pleads Not Guilty in U.S. Cyber Espionage Case		Connecticut Department of Children and Families Staffers’ Emails Breached in Phishing Attack

An Unnamed U.S. County – Perhaps in Ohio – Paid $1M Extortion Demand to Cybercriminals

City of Winkler (MB) Hit by Cyberattack

Latvian Forestry Company LVM Still Restoring Systems Weeks After Ransomware Attack

New GigaWiper Windows Backdoor Bundles Disk Wiping, Fake Ransomware, and Spyware

G-dDamn Ransomware Uses PoisonX Driver to Disable Endpoint Defenses

New Helix Vishing Group Emerges in SharePoint Data Theft Attacks

New Forg365 Phishing Platform uses AI to Target Microsoft 365 Accounts

Injective SDK on npm Infected With Cryptocurrency Wallet Stealer

Vibe-Coded Malware Caught in Active Directory Attack

Fake 7-Zip Installers Turn Devices Into Residential Proxy Nodes

Cybercriminals Plant Malicious AI Agents in Open Source Tool Repositories

GhostApproval Flaw Hits Six Major AI Coding Assistants

Microsoft Patches RoguePlanet Defender Flaw That Can Grant SYSTEM Privileges

Microsoft’s Patch Tuesdays Are About To Get Bigger

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