Over half of organizations that experienced a ransomware event in the past year were hit during a weekend or holiday, according to a Semperis report. Those periods often come with thin staffing, slower investigation, and fewer eyes on identity systems. Intruders know that reduced attention allows them to move deeper before alarms are raised. 60% of incidents happened after a merger, acquisition, restructuring, or similar shift inside the business. The most common trigger was an … More →
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Trojanized PyPI AI Proxy Steals Claude Prompt, Exfiltrates Data
A malicious PyPI package, hermes-px, that masquerades as a “Secure AI Inference Proxy” while secretly stealing user prompts and abusing a private university AI service.
