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SafePay Ransomware Hit 600+ Organizations — and Hid Behind the VPN You Trust

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Original illustration: a dark server room where shadowy hooded figures dissolve into streams of encrypted data flowing through a glowing VPN tunnel, red warning lights on backup servers behind, teal-and-amber cinematic grade

In brief A joint advisory (AA26-293A), published October 20, 2026, by CISA, the FBI, the US Secret Service, Germany’s Landeskriminalamt Rheinland-Pfalz, and two UK agencies, names SafePay one of the most active ransomware operations of 2026. SafePay has affected at least 600 organizations across multiple critical infrastructure sectors since August 2024, with victims in North … Read more

Ticketmaster Goes AI-First: New CTO, Brazil Data Leak Unanswered

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Original illustration of a concert arena at night with glowing phone screens and a circuit-board canopy in the sky, representing AI and ticketing data

Ticketmaster Goes AI-First: New CTO, Brazil Data Leak Unanswered Standfirst: Ticketmaster just hired an ex-Amazon executive to make “every function AI-first” — agentic tools, deeper personalization, tougher bot defenses. But as the company collects more data, one question from Brazil is still unanswered: what happened to the leaked ticketing records, and was Ticketmaster ever breached … Read more