Starbucks Data Breach Impacts Employees

Multiple high-impact security incidents and patches were reported: Starbucks disclosed a phishing-driven breach of an employee portal affecting hundreds of employees. Iran-linked threat actors are expanding operations against Middle Eastern and U.S. targets, with a disruptive attack on Stryker that used endpoint management tooling to wipe devices. Law enforcement disrupted the SocksEscort proxy service powered by the AVrecon botnet (affecting ~360,000 devices). Multiple exploited vulnerabilities were addressed: Chrome 146 fixes two exploited zero-days, and Apple released legacy iOS/iPadOS 16.7