This week's signal: attackers aren't hacking in — they're logging in. Identity-based techniques accounted for nearly two-thirds of initial intrusions last year, per Palo Alto Networks Unit 42's latest IR report.

→ Week #08/2026 also covers:

🇫🇷 🏦 France’s Ministry of Economy disclosed a breach that exposed 1.2 million accounts:

🌍️ African police arrested 651 suspects in a coordinated INTERPOL operation against investment fraud;

🔎 Anthropic launched Claude Code Security, an hashtag#AI tool that scans code for hashtag#vulnerabilities and suggests fixes;

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