Latest cybersecurity reporting from selected sources.

FBI says TeamPCP poisoned trusted developer tools to steal cloud credentials, spread malware through software updates, and extort victims. On July 2, 2026, the FBI published a FLASH alert identifying the criminal group called TeamPCP and detailing how it compromised widely used developer and security tools to steal credentials from victim environments at scale. The […]

A flaw in the Google Cloud Vertex AI SDK for Python let an attacker with no access to a victim's project hijack the victim's machine learning model upload and run code inside Google's serving infrastructure

Voice phishing is second most common initial access method across all IR probes, and top in cloud break-ins RSAC 2026 Voice phishing surged last year to become the second most common method used by cybercriminals to gain initial access to their victims' IT estate – and the No. 1 tactic used when breaking into cloud environments.…

A threat actor known as UNC6426 leveraged keys stolen following the supply chain compromise of the nx npm package last year to completely breach a victim's cloud environment within a span of 72 hours

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed nine cross-tenant vulnerabilities in Google Looker Studio that could have permitted attackers to run arbitrary SQL queries on victims' databases and exfiltrate sensitive data within organizations' Google Cloud environments

Exploitation of the command injection flaw in VMware Aria Operations could grant an attacker broad acess to victims' cloud environments.

Leaked Financial and Admissions Data Includes Contact Details for 'Top Donors'Harvard University has been named as a victim and doxed by hack-and-leak group ShinyHunters, apparently as a result of the cybercrime group's ongoing "live phishing" attacks that often attempt to trick IT help desks into giving attackers direct access to a victim's network and cloud-based data.

Leaked Financial and Admissions Data Includes Contact Details for 'Top Donors'Harvard University has been named as a victim and doxed by hack-and-leak group ShinyHunters, apparently as a result of the cybercrime group's ongoing "live phishing" attacks that often attempt to trick IT help desks into giving attackers direct access to a victim's network and cloud-based data.

AI + skilled malware developers = security threat VoidLink, the newly spotted Linux malware that targets victims' clouds with 37 evil plugins, was generated "almost entirely by artificial intelligence" and likely developed by just one person, according to the research team that discovered the do-it-all implant.…

Cloud-native, 37 plugins … an attacker's dream A brand-new Linux malware named VoidLink targets victims' cloud infrastructure with more than 30 plugins that allow attackers to perform a range of illicit activities, from silent reconnaissance and credential theft to lateral movement and container abuse. …

Crim used infostealer to get cloud credentials If you don't say "yes way" to MFA, the consequences can be disastrous. Sensitive data belonging to about 50 global enterprises is listed for sale – and, in some cases, has already been sold – on the dark web following a major infostealer campaign, with apparent victims including American utility engineering firm Pickett and Associates; Japan's homebuilding giant Sekisui House; and Spain's largest airline Iberia.…

Shai-hulud 2.0 campaign features a sophisticated variant capable of stealing credentials and secrets from major cloud platforms and developer services, while automating the backdooring of NPM packages maintained by victims. Its advanced tactics enable rapid, stealthy propagation across the software supply chain, putting countless downstream users at risk.

Seven packages published on the Node Package Manager (npm) registry use the Adspect cloud-based service to separate researchers from potential victims and lead them to malicious locations. [...]

Miscreants cost victims time rather than money During the two-hour window on Monday in which hijacked npm versions were available for download, malware-laced packages reached one in 10 cloud environments, according to Wiz researchers. But crypto-craving crims did little more than annoy defenders.…

Financially Motivated Actor Storm-0501 Systematically Probed Victim EnvironmentsAs enterprises go with hybrid cloud developments, so follow hackers, even if it means jumping through extra hoops to get to where the data is stored. Microsoft on Wednesday said it spotted a financially-motivated hacking group probing a hybrid on-premise.

Microsoft observed Storm-0501 pivot to the victim’s cloud environment to exfiltrate data rapidly and prevent the victim’s recovery

Don't let it happen to you Storm-0501, a financially motivated cybercrime crew, recently broke into a large enterprise's on-premises and cloud environments, ultimately exfiltrating and destroying data within the org's Azure environment. The criminals then contacted the victim via a Microsoft Teams account that they'd also compromised in the attack, demanding a ransom payment for the stolen files.…

The financially motivated threat group used cloud resources to conduct a complex, ransomware-style attack against an enterprise victim.

CRM Breach May Be Tied to Ongoing Scattered Spider and ShinyHunters CampaignCloud software giant Workday said its customer relationship management software has been breached and customer data stolen. The alert comes as attackers continue to pose as employees to trick help desks into giving them direct access to a victim's Salesforce CRM instance.

At Least 410,000 Patients Reported Affected, But Likely Even More VictimsMonths after news first broke that a hacking incident compromised legacy patient data hosted by Cerner electronic health record servers that were set to migrate to parent company Oracle's cloud environment, data breach reports related to the hack are still slowly trickling in to regulators. What's taking so long?