Payload Ransomware claims the hack of Royal Bahrain Hospital

Multiple high-impact incidents reported: Payload Ransomware claims a breach of Royal Bahrain Hospital and publication of ~110 GB of stolen data. Starbucks disclosed a phishing-driven breach of its Partner Central portal impacting 889 employees. Microsoft-linked research attributes a credential-theft campaign to Storm-2561 using SEO-poisoned search results and spoofed Ivanti/Cisco/Fortinet VPN sites to harvest corporate logins. Law enforcement disrupted the SocksEscort proxy service tied to the AVrecon botnet (≈360,000 infected devices) and INTERPOL’s Operation Synergia III dismantled ~45,000 악