A week in security (July 6 – July 12)
2026-07-13T08:51:55Z•f554587b47ab22e08c0c2b123ce855e5334d5206f0bba86d19365d6ea7385643
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What happened
Feed of Malwarebytes posts (July 6–13, 2026) covering multiple active threats and security topics: a new Windows RAT named GigaWiper capable of espionage and destructive wipes; critical Chrome vulnerabilities with rapid updates; Microsoft Defender patch for the RoguePlanet zero-day; a 6.9M-customer AssuranceAmerica data breach exposing driver’s license numbers; disruption of the NetNut residential-proxy botnet; multiple phishing and social-engineering campaigns (fake job offers, verified-X ads, Discord/Reddit false-report scams, mule-betting schemes); ClickFix campaigns using fake Google/Cloud
Why it matters
A reviewed impact interpretation has not been published for this record.
Evidence and limitations
- Source ID
- malwarebytes_labs
- Record identifier
- f554587b47ab22e08c0c2b123ce855e5334d5206f0bba86d19365d6ea7385643
- Enrichment time
- 2026-07-13T08:51:55Z
- AI-assisted enrichment
- Yes
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