The Rainmaker Report

Ex-L3Harris Executive Sentenced for Selling Zero-Days to Russian Broker Peter Williams, former general manager of L3Harris's Trenchant cybersecurity unit, was sentenced to 87 months in prison for stealing and selling 8 zero-day exploits to Russian broker Operation Zero for $1.3M in cryptocurrency. The theft caused $35M in losses and could enable access to millions of devices worldwide. • https://w...

🎰 Wynn Resorts Las Vegas Hit by Cybersecurity Breach 🎰 What happens in Vegas... apparently gets stolen by ShinyHunters. Wynn Resorts, one of Las Vegas's biggest casino operators, just confirmed they got hacked. And when I say hacked, I mean eight hundred thousand employee records—complete with Social Security numbers—stolen by ransomware criminals who are now demanding a million and a half dolla...

🚨 Conduent Breach Now Largest in US History - 25+ Million Affected Conduent Business Services confirmed one of the largest data breaches in U.S. history affecting 25+ million individuals. Safepay ransomware group stole 8TB of data including SSNs, medical histories, and health insurance details between October 2024 and January 2025. Sources: • https://cybersecuritynews.com/conduent-data-breach/ •...

🚨 Texas Sues TP-Link Over Chinese Hacking Risks 🚨 Texas sued TP-Link Systems alleging the company deceptively marketed routers as secure while firmware vulnerabilities enabled Chinese state-backed hackers to compromise American users' devices and networks. Sources: • https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/texas-sues-tp-link-over-chinese-hacking-risks-user-deception/ • https://www.texasat...

🔴 Google Patches First Chrome Zero-Day of 2026 — Actively Exploited 🔴 Google released emergency updates on February 16, 2026 to patch CVE-2026-2441, a high-severity use-after-free vulnerability in Chrome with a CVSS score of 8.8. The flaw is being actively exploited in the wild, allowing remote attackers to potentially execute code by getting victims to visit a crafted webpage. This is Chrome's...

🦀Infostealer Steals OpenClaw AI Agent Secrets🦀 Information-stealing malware has been observed for the first time specifically targeting OpenClaw, a popular agentic AI assistant framework, stealing API keys, authentication tokens, and cloud credentials stored in its configuration files. This attack vector is particularly dangerous because compromised AI agent credentials can give attackers access...

📬 Hackers Are Literally Mailing You Fake Letters 📬 Threat actors are sending physical letters through postal mail pretending to be from Trezor and Ledger, manufacturers of cryptocurrency hardware wallets. The letters use official-looking branding and urgent language to trick recipients into revealing their wallet recovery phrases on fake websites. The scam represents a sophisticated blend of phy...

🤖 Hackers Weaponize Google's Gemini AI in Multi-Stage Attacks 🤖 Google Threat Intelligence Group published a report warning about AI model extraction and distillation attacks where threat actors abuse legitimate API access to systematically probe AI models. Attackers are using Gemini AI across all stages of cyber attacks, from reconnaissance to payload delivery. Sources: • https://www.bleepingco...

📝 Windows 11 NOTEPAD RCE ZERO-DAY Executes Files Silently 📝 Microsoft patched a remote code execution vulnerability in Windows 11 Notepad that allowed attackers to execute local or remote programs through specially crafted Markdown links without triggering Windows security warnings. Users could be tricked into clicking malicious links in seemingly harmless text files. Sources: • https://www.blee...

🚨 Microsoft Patches 6 Actively Exploited Zero-Days 🚨 Microsoft's February 2026 Patch Tuesday fixes dozens of Windows and Office bugs, including six zero-day vulnerabilities actively exploited in the wild. Security teams are urged to patch quickly, especially for flaws tied to SmartScreen bypass and privilege escalation. Sources: • https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/microsoft-februar...

🏢 Conduent Breach Balloons to Millions 🏢 The data breach at government technology giant Conduent has expanded dramatically, now affecting millions more Americans. The Safeway ransomware group claims responsibility for stealing over 8 terabytes of data containing personal and health information. Conduent handles data for more than 100 million people across America, making this one of the largest...

⚠️ BeyondTrust Critical RCE Flaw Patched ⚠️ BeyondTrust patched a critical pre-authentication remote code execution vulnerability (CVE-2026-1731) in Remote Support and PRA products. Attackers could run OS commands via crafted requests without authentication. Approximately 11,000 exposed instances were found online. Security patches have been released for all affected versions. Sources: • https://t...

✈️ Air France Data Breach Exposes 2M+ Records ✈️ Threat actors claim access to Air France admin panel exposing over 2 million customer purchase records including PII, Flying Blue loyalty data, and booking details. If you've ever flown Air France, your data might be at risk. Sources: • https://darkwebinformer.com/threat-actor-claims-air-france-vulnerability-exposes-2-million-customer-records-via-ad...

#openclaw (formerly Clawdbot/Moltbot) exploded to 160,000 GitHub stars in 6 weeks and represents a fundamental shift in AI: autonomous agents that execute terminal commands, manage emails, and operate 24/7 without human oversight. This isn't a chatbot. It's AI with hands. In this 30-minute talk, I break down the security nightmare keeping CISOs awake: active vulnerabilities (CVE-2026-25253), 1.5 m...

⚠️ Chinese Hackers Hijack Notepad++ Updates for Months ⚠️ Chinese state-sponsored hackers compromised Notepad++ update infrastructure from June through December 2025, delivering malware to select targets via hijacked hosting provider. The attack used Microsoft Warbird obfuscation APIs and went undetected for half a year. Sources: • https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/notepad-plus-plus-u...

🚨 CISA Director Uploaded Classified Docs to ChatGPT (After Failing Polygraph) 🚨 The acting Director of CISA, America's top cybersecurity agency, uploaded classified government documents to public ChatGPT four times. He specifically requested access even though it's blocked on DHS networks. Oh, and he failed a polygraph test before getting the job. Classic "do as I say, not as I do." Sources: - h...

📦 That WinRAR "Free Trial" You Never Paid For? Hackers Are Exploiting It Right Now 🚨 A WinRAR vulnerability patched last July (CVE-2025-8088) is still being actively exploited by Russian APTs, Chinese threat actors, and cybercrime gangs six months later. The path traversal flaw lets attackers slip malicious files into your system when you extract see...

💔 10M Dating App Users Exposed in Match Group Breach 💔 ShinyHunters cybercrime group claims to have stolen over 10 million records from Match Group (NASDAQ: MTCH), owner of Tinder, Hinge, Match.com, and OkCupid. The alleged breach, posted January 28, 2026, includes user behavioral data from Appsflyer analytics (swipes, matches, sessions, geo-locations), hundreds of internal corporate documents,...

🤖 Hundreds of Clawdbot Servers Exposed with API Keys & Private Chats 🔓 Security researchers have discovered hundreds of publicly exposed Clawdbot control servers containing API keys, private messages, and OAuth credentials. The viral AI assistant, which went mainstream over the weekend, has critical authentication vulnerabilities allowing unauthorized access to users' complete chat histories, fi...

🇬🇧 UK Lords Vote to Ban VPNs for Kids 🇬🇧 The UK House of Lords voted 207 to 159 to ban VPNs for anyone under 18, claiming it will prevent children from bypassing age verification on social media and adult content. The amendment would require VPN providers to implement age verification, likely through government IDs or facial scans. Privacy advocates are calling it surveillance infrastructure disgu...

🎵⚖️ Spotify Pulled Off a SECRET LAWSUIT to Stop Pirates Who Stole 300TB of Music 🎵⚖️ Shadow library Anna's Archive, which scraped nearly 300 terabytes of Spotify's music catalog in December 2025, lost its primary .org domain after Spotify and major record labels filed a sealed lawsuit and secured a court order before the site even knew it was being sued. A federal judge granted a preliminary inj...

🤖 NVIDIA & Meta Caught Pirating 500TB to Train AI Models 🏴‍☠️ Billion-dollar tech companies got caught red-handed downloading hundreds of terabytes of pirated books to train their AI. NVIDIA literally asked a piracy site for 500TB of stolen content, got WARNED it was illegal, and said "send it anyway." Meanwhile Zuckerberg's playing dumb even though internal messages show he approved it…classic...

🚨 LastPass Phishing Alert: Fake Backup Emails Target Your Master Password 🔐 LastPass users are being targeted by a phishing campaign that started January 19th, with fake emails claiming urgent maintenance requires vault backups within 24 hours. The emails redirect victims to malicious sites attempting to steal master passwords. The campaign was deliberately launched during the MLK holiday weeken...

🚨 ESA Breached Twice in 2 Weeks: Space Mission Data Stolen 🚀 - https://cisoseries.com/cybersecurity-news-esa-confirms-new-data-heist-ni8mare-lets-hackers-hijack-n8n-servers-taiwan-blames-cyber-army-for-intrusion-attempts/ - https://www.theregister.com/2026/01/07/european_space_agency_breach_criminal_probe/ - https://www.space.com/space-exploration/esa-email-credentials-on-dark-web - https://www....

🚨 CyberArk Labs Hacks the Hackers with XSS on StealC Credential Stealing Malware. 🚨 • https://www.cyberark.com/resources/threat-research-blog/uno-reverse-card-stealing-cookies-from-cookie-stealers • https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/stealc-hackers-hacked-as-researchers-hijack-malware-control-panels/ • https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/stealc-hackers-hacked-as-researcher...