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CrowdStrike's latest Global Threat Report is out, and the numbers are sobering. The firm is now tracking over two hundred eighty one adversaries spanning nation states, organized cybercrime, and hacktivist groups. Senior Vice President Adam Meyers put it plainly at HumanX — your connected fridge is not just a convenience, it is a potential entry point for people who mean serious harm.
Staying on the theme of things that may not survive the year, World Liberty Financial's treasury arm has filed with the SEC acknowledging it may not make it through two thousand twenty six. The company marked its seven point two eight billion WLFI tokens at seven hundred six million dollars — roughly half their original cost basis — while noting those holdings remain locked with serious liquidity concerns hanging over them.
And on a quieter but persistent front, three hundred fourteen npm packages have been compromised in what researchers are calling the Mini Shai-Hulud campaign. For developers, npm supply chain attacks are becoming a recurring nightmare — malicious code buried inside trusted packages, waiting to surface in production environments around the world.
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