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April​ 7,​ 2026 View in browser Daily Edition Today’s news and analysis for cybersecurity professionals AI-Assisted Supply Chain Attack Targets GitHub PRT-scan is the second campaign in recent months where a threat actor appears to have leveraged AI for automated targeting of a widespread GitHub misconfiguration. Axios Attack Shows Social Complex Engineering Is Industrialized The attack on the popular NPM package Axios is just one of many targeting maintainers and has shone a light on how threat actors can scale sophisticated social engineering campaigns. Fortinet Issues Emergency Patch for FortiClient Zero-Day The authentication bypass flaw, tracked as CVE-2026-35616, is the latest in a series of Fortinet vulnerabilities that have been exploited in the wild. Sponsored Content by Glasswall Solutions Limited AI Is Changing the Rules of File-Based Security The scale of the challenge facing organizations has never been clearer. Automated Credential Harvesting Campaign Exploits React2Shell Flaw An emerging threat cluster tracked as UAT-10608 is exploiting vulnerable Web-exposed Next.js apps and using an automated tool to exfiltrate credentials, secrets, and other system data. Shadow AI in Healthcare is Here to Stay [From THE EDGE]: Medical professionals are not going to stop using AI tools to manage growing workloads. Organizations should prioritize bolstering security protocols to limit their blast radius. OWASP GenAI Security Project Gets Update, New Tools Matrix [From DR TECHNOLOGY]: In recognition of 21 generative AI risks, the standards groups recommends that companies take separate but linked approaches to defending GenAI and agentic AI systems. Read more → Commentary Are We Training AI Too Late? [From THE EDGE]: Ask the Expert — Cybersecurity teams need to expand their field of view to include new, unique threat sources, rather than relying on past, proven threat actors. The Forgotten Endpoint: Security Risks of Dormant Devices [From DR TECHNOLOGY]: Technology Talk — That forgotten notebook holds plenty of secrets to enterprise access. More commentary → Elsewhere in cyber Cybersecurity Dive Hims & Hers says limited data stolen in social engineering attack TechTarget SearchSecurity Meaningful metrics demonstrate the value of cyber-resiliency DomainTools Investigations DPRK Malware Modularity: Diversity and Functional Specialization Send us a news tip →