[krybit]

June 21, 2026

• DeadLock is expanding its abuse of Polygon blockchain smart contracts — moving beyond chat-proxy rotation to host its data-leak site entirely on-chain (75 victims since February), with HTML ransom notes fetching victim data live from the contract (ESET). Nextron flagged KRYBIT, a new double-extortion strain whose YARA profile overlaps heavily with the leaked Babuk codebase (Nextron), and Prinz Eugen emerged prioritizing recently-modified files for faster encryption while leaving no ransom note (BleepingComputer). · Ransomware & EDR Evasion

in FortiBleed Exposes 86,000 FortiGate Devices as North Korea's Sapphire Sleet Poisons the Mastra npm Catalog

June 20, 2026

FortiBleed Burns 86,000 FortiGate Devices as Novo Nordisk Loses 1.3TB — Including AI Models — to a Leaked GitHub Token

FortiBleed has compromised ~86,644 internet-facing FortiGate devices in a credential-harvesting campaign, while a leaked GitHub token gave FulcrumSec access to Novo Nordisk, exfiltrating 1.3TB including unreleased drug formulas and internal AI models. Mastra npm packages were trojanized by Sapphire Sleet (North Korea–nexus), and multiple AI infrastructure flaws emerged: SearchLeak (CVE-2026-42824) in Microsoft 365 Copilot, Pickle in the Middle in Google Vertex AI, and vulnerabilities in LiteLLM. Ransomware gangs including Qilin, Gentlemen, and DragonForce continue dominating the threat landscape with EDR-killing tradecraft and cloud-based C2 abuse.

June 17, 2026

• KRYBIT emerged as a fast-moving ransomware operation — 49 victims across 20+ countries and all sectors since early April. Ido Cohen. · Data Breaches & Extortion

in Microsoft 365 Copilot 'SearchLeak' Enables One-Click Data Theft as Novo Nordisk Loses Internal AI Models to Extortionists