Crook hawks millions of records allegedly plundered from corporate Azure tenants

2026-08-18T07:23:54Z42b1531abf95516430d46b4c238e903706e63fdc41d535a559f0b744e81423df
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What happened

Security news digest covering major breaches, credential compromise, ransomware and extortion, software supply-chain attacks, cloud data exposure, zero-days, critical-infrastructure threats, AI-enabled attacks, and newly disclosed vulnerabilities. The most significant items include alleged theft from corporate Azure tenants, the ChainDrop npm worm affecting 444 packages, large-scale customer data dumps, attacks on a nuclear safety agency, and a Microsoft Patch Tuesday containing 421 vulnerabilities, including one reportedly exploited by North Korean actors.

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