Dark Web Informer - Cyber Threat Intelligence

A former ransomware negotiator from Florida has been sentenced to federal prison for helping BlackCat/ALPHV ransomware actors extort U.S. victims while he was supposed to be helping victims respond to attacks.

A man already serving a federal prison sentence has been charged with allegedly stealing and laundering cryptocurrency that had been forfeited to the United States.

Security researchers at Wiz have disclosed GhostApproval, a vulnerability pattern affecting several major AI coding assistants and exposing a trust-boundary problem between developers, AI agents, and the local filesystem.

A threat actor using the alias Monkeydance claims to have breached the Thepha District Public Health Office, a local health authority in Thailand operating under the Ministry of Public Health.

Norway’s National Criminal Investigation Service, known as Kripos, says 28 men have been arrested across seven countries in an international dark web operation tied to Monero payments.

A threat actor using the alias 84City has posted an SQL dump they attribute to ESGI (École Supérieure de Génie Informatique), a private French higher-education school specializing in IT and digital technology, based in Paris with campuses across France.

U.S. insurance provider AssuranceAmerica has confirmed a data breach affecting nearly 7 million people, exposing personal information and driver’s license numbers.

A remote code execution vulnerability in Foxit PDF Reader, tracked as CVE-2024-30326, highlights the continued risk of malicious PDF files being used as an initial access vector.

Noma Labs has disclosed GitLost, a prompt injection vulnerability that showed how GitHub’s AI-powered Agentic Workflows could be tricked into leaking private repository data through a public GitHub issue.

A threat actor using the alias Saturne is selling a database from Follow, a French Ségur-certified medical software and patient-record platform used by specialist doctors and surgeons.

A threat actor using the alias TheSyndicate claims to have fully compromised Nayax, an Israeli global payments and fintech company (NASDAQ: NYAX, TASE: NYAX.TA), stating they have been inside its systems for almost a year.

A threat actor using the alias derm0nix (Hackero$ Crew) claims to have breached the Portal de Salud de Culiacán, the official digital health system of the Culiacán municipal government in Mexico, and has leaked the data for free.

CVE-2026-11405 is an undocumented authentication backdoor in multiple versions of Tenda router firmware.

Tokyo police have arrested a 15-year-old student over an alleged cyberattack targeting Bandai Channel, the anime and tokusatsu streaming service operated by Bandai Namco Filmworks.

Attackers are exploiting a maximum-severity ColdFusion path traversal vulnerability that can lead to remote code execution on unpatched servers.

CVE-2026-40138 is a critical pre-authentication vulnerability in the authentication subsystem of BeyondTrust Remote Support (RS) and Privileged Remote Access (PRA).

CVE-2026-53359 is a use-after-free in the Linux kernel's KVM x86 shadow paging code.

A threat actor using the alias dezetat is advertising a database from Malaysia's Inland Revenue Board (LHDN / IRBM), taken from the MyTax portal, for $20,000.

A threat actor using the alias EvaN47 claims to have breached the Libyan Ministry of Education (moe.gov.ly) and is threatening to publish a 287GB dataset of students' data if the ministry does not make contact.

How a coordinated strike against a 2-million-device botnet exposes the hidden economy of residential proxies, and what it means for anyone with a connected device at home.