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Dark Web Monitoring: Finding a Data Leak Before the Extortion Email Does

Most organizations reassure themselves with one sentence: "we have not been hacked." But that sentence only describes what happens inside the network. Dark web monitoring answers a different question:

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Cyber Knight5d ago · 5 min read

11 Million Requests, One Choice: Moldova Switched Its Own Government Services Off

At around 2 a.m. on Sunday, Moldova's defenders were already awake. A fresh attempt to force access to government systems had just been spotted and blocked, and by Monday morning some digital public s

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Cyber KnightOct 23 · 4 min read

The Firm That Audits Everyone's Risk Just Landed on a Ransomware Leak Site

Nobody expects the auditors to get audited. On October 22, a new name appeared on the Everest ransomware group's leak site — and it made incident-response people across the world pause mid-scroll: PwC

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Vikram Kumar ShuklaOct 21 · 4 min read

SBI Cyberattack Case Study: How 3,897 Customer Records Ended Up on the Dark Web

On Wednesday, 21 October 2026, the State Bank of India did something Indian banks rarely do quickly. It told the public, through a stock exchange filing, that it had been hit by a cyberattack and that

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Cyber KnightOct 21 · 4 min read

A Cyberattack Brought the Company Down — The Smart Buildings Never Noticed

The lights stayed on. That's not how these stories usually go. When a building-automation company gets hacked, you brace for the headline where someone's thermostat, door locks, or factory floor go ha

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Shivam SharmaOct 18 · 5 min read

iRhythm Data Breach: 368K+ Patients Affected, Up to 8.2M at Risk — What to Do

If you've ever worn a Zio heart monitor — a small patch stuck to your chest for days while it recorded every heartbeat — your personal information may now be in a hacker's hands. iRhythm Technologies,

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Vikram Kumar ShuklaOct 16 · 4 min read

A brand-new ransomware group just put 38 shipping companies on one hit list. Monday is the deadline.

On 12 October, a ransomware operation most people had never heard of did something unusual: it named 38 companies at once. Not one victim, dripped out over weeks. Thirty-eight, in a single post. The g

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404 FoundersOct 6 · 3 min read

Denmark CPR Incident: 8.8M Records Accessed

Denmark's CPR administration disclosed a serious security incident on 5 October 2026. An unauthorized party abused a private Danish company's lawful access to search the Central Person Register and ac

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Vikram Kumar ShuklaOct 5 · 5 min read

An insurer's name sat on a ransomware leak site for six weeks. Nobody knew what it meant.

On August 22, 2026, a data-extortion crew calling itself Coinbase Cartel added Tower Insurance to its leak site. Tower Limited is a New Zealand insurer, listed on both the NZX and the ASX, with 323,00

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Vikram Kumar ShuklaOct 3 · 4 min read

A resident needed three clicks to find his city's leaked files on the dark web

On October 1, KOIN 6 News in Portland ran a story I can't stop thinking about. Not because the numbers were huge — they weren't — but because of how ordinary the whole failure was. McMinnville is a ci

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Dark Web Monitoring: Finding a Data Leak Before the Extortion Email Does

11 Million Requests, One Choice: Moldova Switched Its Own Government Services Off

The Firm That Audits Everyone's Risk Just Landed on a Ransomware Leak Site

SBI Cyberattack Case Study: How 3,897 Customer Records Ended Up on the Dark Web

A Cyberattack Brought the Company Down — The Smart Buildings Never Noticed

iRhythm Data Breach: 368K+ Patients Affected, Up to 8.2M at Risk — What to Do

A brand-new ransomware group just put 38 shipping companies on one hit list. Monday is the deadline.

Denmark CPR Incident: 8.8M Records Accessed

An insurer's name sat on a ransomware leak site for six weeks. Nobody knew what it meant.

A resident needed three clicks to find his city's leaked files on the dark web