Lucy Green
Data breaches & privacy
Lucy worked breach-notification regulation before moving into journalism. She covers data exposures, the legal aftermath, and what victims should actually do — beyond the platitudes.
Recent stories

Policy & Regulation
Six Security Leaders Who Changed Jobs in Early 2026
From Air Force intelligence to frontier AI, the CISO hiring market is moving. Here is who landed where — and what the patterns suggest.
Jun 18

Identity & Access
SailPoint to Buy Entro Security for a Reported $200 Million
The acquisition adds non-human identity and secrets management to SailPoint's governance platform — a gap that's become increasingly hard to ignore.
Jun 18

Vulnerabilities
Microsoft Acknowledges 'RoguePlanet' Defender Zero-Day, Patch Still in the Works
CVE-2026-50656 is a privilege escalation bug in the Malware Protection Engine — the component sitting at the heart of every Defender install.
Jun 17

Policy & Regulation
India Pulls Telegram Offline Until June 22 — and the Block Spilled Into the UAE
New Delhi cites leaked exam papers circulating in Telegram channels. Pavel Durov says Reliance Jio went further, hijacking BGP routes that broke the app well outside India's borders.
Jun 17

Breaches
DBIR 2026: Vulnerabilities and Ransomware Shape Incident Readiness
Verizon's latest report reveals exploitation of vulnerabilities and rising ransomware as key challenges. Preparation is crucial.
Jun 17

Threat Intelligence
UNC6508 Spent a Year Inside US and Canadian Research Networks via Trojanized REDCap
A China-linked espionage group hijacked REDCap's own upgrade process to plant persistent malware across academic, medical, and defense-adjacent research environments.
Jun 16

Threat Intelligence
SprySOCKS Crosses Over: Windows Variants Surface With Driver-Level Hiding
Two undocumented Windows builds of the China-linked backdoor — tagged WIN_DRV and WIN_PLUS — extend a toolset previously seen only on Linux.
Jun 16

Threat Intelligence
Contagious Interview Pivots to Dev-Review Lures in Two Fresh Campaigns
The North Korea-linked cluster is back with phishing pretexts aimed at developers — recruiter pitches and code-review requests that drop malware on engineers' workstations.
Jun 15

AI Security
Three-Bug Chain Turns Any LiteLLM User Into Root on the AI Gateway
A default low-privilege account on the popular open-source LLM proxy can escalate to admin and execute code, exposing every provider key the gateway holds.
Jun 15

Identity & Access
Behavioral AI Pitched as Triage Layer for Phishing and ATO Floods
A vendor webinar argues that pattern-learning models can cut investigation time on BEC and account takeover incidents. The harder question: what does that mean for breach-notification timelines?
Jun 15

Identity & Access
Sovereign Cloud Gives You a Data Center. Identity Governance Gives You Control.
European enterprises spent two years and real money on sovereign cloud deployments. What they found is that data residency is the easy part — and that AI agent identities are the part nobody governed.
Jun 15

Vulnerabilities
Palo Alto Confirms In-the-Wild Abuse of GlobalProtect Auth Bypass (CVE-2026-0257)
An unknown actor is exploiting a 7.8-rated authentication bypass in PAN-OS portals and gateways to slip past GlobalProtect logins.
Jun 15

AI Security
Agentjacking: Poisoned Sentry Error Reports Hijack AI Coding Assistants
Researchers describe a prompt-injection class that turns developer error-tracking pipelines into a remote code execution path against AI coding agents.
Jun 12

Threat Intelligence
Sniper Dz Phishing-as-a-Service Goes Dark After INTERPOL Sweep Nets 201 Arrests
Operation Ramz dismantled a decade-old PhaaS storefront and pulled in its alleged operator, 'Guedz', across 13 MENA jurisdictions.
Jun 12

Threat Intelligence
OceanLotus Turns SPECTRALVIPER on Vietnamese Investors and a Construction Firm
Two campaigns, one toolset. The Vietnam-aligned crew spent eighteen months inside a state-linked infrastructure builder before pivoting to a supply chain hit on retail stock investors.
Jun 11