Understanding Trend Structure: Higher Highs and Lower Lows Explained

Multiple mid-May 2026 incidents highlight elevated risk across developer tool supply chains, banking malware campaigns, and rapid vulnerability exploitation aided by AI. Key items: a reported GitHub breach where the threat actor TeamPCP used a malicious VS Code extension to steal ~3,800 internal repositories and is selling the data; Banana RAT malware delivered via fake invoices and fake security-update screens targeting customers of 16 Brazilian banks (including QR-fraud elements); a phishing campaign abusing Word documents and trusted remote-access tooling that exposes an enterprise blind-­-