State of (in)security - Week 13, 2026

During the week of March 23–30, 2026, cybersecurity incidents surged to 32 (up from 14 the prior week), impacting over 14.6 million individuals, with malware/ransomware as the leading cause (11 incidents) and healthcare and government as the most targeted sectors. The week also saw 16 vulnerability advisories, including critical zero-days in F5 BIG-IP and Telegram alongside supply chain attacks and breaches affecting organizations from the European Commission to major healthcare providers.

**Treat AI browser extensions as extremely dangerous high-privilege agents. If you use the Claude Chrome Extension, make sure it's updated to version 1.0.41 or higher immediately! Older versions allow attackers to silently hijack your browser session and access your email, documents, and chat history without any clicks. Review what permissions the extension has and stay alert for suspicious sites that may have exploited this before the patch.**
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📋 Lab Report #20260329 is LIVE!

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State of (in)security - Week 12, 2026

During the week of March 16–23, 2026, there were 17 vulnerability advisories and 14 data breach/incident events. Social engineering, phishing, and unauthorized access are the leading causes impacting nearly 9 million individuals across government, healthcare, and tech sectors. Key threats included actively exploited zero-days in Chrome, SharePoint, and iPhones, a major supply chain attack on Aqua Security's Trivy scanner. Major incidents are the 5-million-record Companies House data leak and a paralyzing ransomware attack on Foster City.

**If you use Trivy, trivy-action, or setup-trivy in your pipelines, this is urgent and important! Treat all secrets that ran through affected pipelines as compromised: rotate them now and investigate logs for all systems where those secrets may have given access. Then immediately pin to the known safe versions GitHub Actions to full commit SHA hashes instead of version tags, since tags can be silently rewritten to point to malicious code.**
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📋 Lab Report #20260322 is LIVE!

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State of (in)security - Week 11, 2026

During the week of March 9–16, 2026, the cybersecurity landscape saw 22 advisories and 16 incidents including ransomware, data breaches, and actively exploited vulnerabilities in products like SolarWinds, Ivanti, and Salesforce. Over 3.3 million individuals impacted, largely by a single Cal AI breach exposing 3 million records. Malware/ransomware and software vulnerability exploits were the leading causes, hitting sectors from healthcare and finance to consulting and food & beverage.

**If you use AI platforms and chatbots, remember that they are just web applications and have a bunch of other possible flaws. Make sure databases, API endpoints, and system prompts are locked down with proper authentication, access controls, and integrity monitoring, not left exposed as an afterthought. Regularly audit your AI infrastructure for basic web application flaws like exposed APIs, SQL injection, and missing authentication, because even the most advanced AI tools can be undone by classic, well-known security mistakes.**
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📋 Lab Report #20260315 is LIVE!

Our lab tested 20 trending products this week. Top performer: Lenovo Smart Glasses Remote Control Touch Photo Camera Recording Translator Voice Assist

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State of (in)security - Week 10, 2026

During the week of March 2–9, 2026, there were 15 vulnerability advisories (including 5 actively exploited flaws in products like VMware, Cisco, and WordPress) and 17 incidents led by the LexisNexis AWS cloud breach (400K individuals affected), an FBI surveillance systems breach. Multiple ransomware attacks hitt government, healthcare, and education sectors.

**Update your Comet browser, or even better, wipe it from your system. It's too dangerous. Treat AI agents as untrusted insiders and manually restrict their access to sensitive websites or local files. Always enable 'ask before filling' in your password manager to prevent agents from accessing credentials without your explicit consent. Treat AI documentation feeds as executable code and never assume a tool is safe just because it has high GitHub stars. Limit your AI assistant's file system permissions and verify the source of all instructions delivered through MCP servers.**
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📋 Lab Report #20260308 is LIVE!

Our lab tested 20 trending products this week. Top performer: NEW Wireless CarPlay Android Auto Wireless Adapter Smart Mini Box Plug and play Connect

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State of (in)security - Week 9, 2026

During the week of Feb 23–Mar 2, 2026, there were 21 vulnerability advisories and 15 data breach/ransomware incidents, heavily concentrated in healthcare impacting over 53 million individuals, highlighted by the ManoMano breach (38M records) and a billion-record exposure from a system misconfiguration.

**Treat AI tool configuration files with the same suspicion as executable binaries. Treat local AI agents as high-privilege and very dangerous Be aware that most AI tools are half-baked extremely vulnerable products that developers didn't design or test properly and push the security problem on the user. Ideally, don't use them. If you do use them, DO NOT TRUST THEM. Isolate them on a separate computer, severely limit their access and granted abilities.**
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📋 Lab Report #20260301 is LIVE!

Our lab tested 20 trending products this week. Top performer: Custom Cartoon Baby Name Stamp Kit - Reusable for Cotton/Modal Clothes & School Bags, No

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