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Links to this week’s stories:

• https://www.securityweek.com/openai-hit-by-tanstack-supply-chain-attack/
• https://thehackernews.com/2026/05/developer-workstations-are-now-part-of.html
• https://thehackernews.com/2026/05/ivanti-fortinet-sap-vmware-n8n-patch.html
• https://www.theregister.com/cyber-crime/2026/05/14/security-pros-doubt-canvas-attackers-really-deleted-stolen-student-data/5240799

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Links to this week’s stories:

• https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/instructure-reaches-agreement-with-shinyhunters-to-stop-data-leak/
• https://www.theregister.com/security/2026/05/06/1-in-8-workers-say-selling-company-logins-is-justifiable/5231104
• https://www.theregister.com/security/2026/05/02/ai-digs-up-decades-of-code-debt-patch-up/5219734
• https://www.theregister.com/security/2026/05/11/anthropics-bug-hunting-mythos-was-greatest-marketing-stunt-ever-says-curl-creator/5238111
• https://www.securityweek.com/cyber-insurance-data-gives-cisos-new-ammo-for-budget-talks/

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Links to this week’s stories:

• https://www.darkreading.com/cloud-security/csa-cisos-prepare-post-mythos-exploit-storm
• https://www.csoonline.com/article/4159292/insurance-carriers-quietly-back-away-from-covering-ai-outputs.html
• https://www.livescience.com/technology/artificial-intelligence/hackers-used-ai-to-steal-hundreds-of-millions-of-mexican-government-and-private-citizen-records-in-one-of-the-largest-cybersecurity-breaches-ever
• https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/payouts-king-ransomware-uses-qemu-vms-to-bypass-endpoint-security/
• https://cybermagazine.com/news/how-cybercriminals-breached-gta-maker-rockstar