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Today's cybersecurity landscape highlights several significant threats and trends. An attacker leveraged 4,837 hijacked GitHub accounts to deploy a secret stealer in over 1,800 repositories, underscoring the risks associated with compromised credentials. Poland's national e-government platform was taken offline following a cyberattack, disrupting public services. A critical vulnerability in Apache HTTP Server's HTTP/2 module could allow remote code execution, emphasizing the need for prompt patching. Additionally, threat actors exploited stolen AI credentials to generate $740,000 in free compute resources, indicating the increasing value of AI tokens in cybercrime. Finally, unauthorized access incidents linked to ScreenConnect affected 288 endpoints across 48 organizations, prompting security measures from ConnectWise.
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