Downtime has become a $600 billion business problem
2026-05-22T08:51:55Z•4b10fed39e94ef09b518fedaa75d434c573039fcfd7b8f014d905f72443f0a70
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What happened
This feed highlights a mix of strategic risk trends, law‑enforcement actions, supply‑chain and endpoint incidents, and AI/security product releases. Key operational risks: Splunk reports global downtime costs hitting ~$600B for the Global 2000, and Visa documents rising AI‑enabled, faster social‑engineering payment fraud. Incidents: law enforcement dismantled First VPN (Operation Saffron) used by ransomware actors; a malicious VS Code extension (Nx Console) in the TanStack supply chain led to credential theft and exfiltration of ~3,800 GitHub repos impacting GitHub and Grafana Labs. Vulnerabil
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- helpnetsecurity
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- 4b10fed39e94ef09b518fedaa75d434c573039fcfd7b8f014d905f72443f0a70
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- 2026-05-22T08:51:55Z
- AI-assisted enrichment
- Yes
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