Salt Typhoon breach IBM subsidiary in Italy: a warning for Europe’s digital defenses

2026-05-04T02:51:48Zb10dd25fd60cd0206c21b715ad148d258fc0c2e7c105a74021cf09bf878edc50
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What happened

Multiple May 2026 security developments: a late-April breach attributed to Salt Typhoon compromised Sistemi Informativi (an IBM Italy subsidiary that manages IT infrastructure for public and private organizations), raising supply-chain and China-linked APT concerns across Europe. CISA added a high-severity flaw (CVE-2026-41940, CVSS 9.3) affecting WebPros/cPanel to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. Other notable incidents include a Trellix source-code repository breach, discovery of the Python-based Deep#Door RAT with robust stealth/persistence, a surge in cyber-enabled cargo theft,

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