The Malware Brief Threat Desk is the part of the Malware Brief newsroom that covers attacks, malware, scams and the groups behind them. It is a newsroom desk, not a single person. Sections: Cyber Attacks, Malware & Ransomware, Threat Intelligence. Stories start from more than 150 monitored sources. Drafts are prepared with AI assistance and checked by software against the cited sources before they are published. It has published 6 articles so far. See the editorial policy or report an error.
A community-built launcher for Halo: The Master Chief Collection introduces massive multiplayer capacity, campaign co-op and automatic mod downloading for PC users.
Attackers injected malicious workflows into tens of thousands of repositories to harvest cloud and AI keys since October 2026.
Threat actors exploit visual similarities between Cyrillic and Latin letters to mimic legitimate websites in Chromium-based browsers, according to The Register.
Attackers compromised two open-source maintainer accounts to plant credential-stealing workflows in over 340 repositories, exposing projects to data theft.
Attackers hijacked three country-code top-level domains to issue unauthorised HTTPS certificates for Google properties, though core systems remained secure.
The fashion retailer confirms a breach after attackers sent push notifications alleging they had fully compromised the company’s cloud storage infrastructure.