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โ—๏ธ๐Ÿšจ BREAKING: Microsoft has fired the top leadership of its Israeli subsidiary following an internal investigation into Azure use by Israel's Ministry of Defense. Country General Manager Alon Haimovich is out, along with several managers from the governance department.

The probe found Israeli defense units were using Azure servers in Europe in ways that violated Microsoft's terms and exposed the company to EU legal risk. Microsoft Israel's management withheld this from headquarters.

Microsoft had already cut ties with IDF Unit 8200 in September 2025. The investigation found that was only part of the problem.

Microsoft Israel now reports to Microsoft France. The Ministry of Defense contract renewal is due by the end of 2026.
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โ€ผ๏ธ๐Ÿšจ BREAKING: NHS England has confirmed Palantir has access to identifiable UK patient data through a new "admin" role on the Federated Data Platform, the central data-sharing system the US spy-tech firm has run for the NHS since 2023 under a ยฃ330M contract.

Internal NHS documents admit the change risks "loss of public confidence" in patient data safeguards.
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POV: you are downloading npm packages in 2026
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โ—๏ธ๐Ÿšจ BREAKING: Chaotic Eclipse just published two more public Windows disclosures today and is also threatening Microsoft: "Next patch tuesday will have a big surprise for you Microsoft. And remember, I never failed to deliver a promise."

- YellowKey: claimed BitLocker bypass
- GreenPlasma: claimed CTFMON-based EoP

Source: https://deadeclipse666.blogspot.com/2026/05/two-more-public-disclosures-it-will.html

GH:
https://github.com/Nightmare-Eclipse/YellowKey
https://github.com/Nightmare-Eclipse/GreenPlasma
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๐Ÿšจ Odido CEO Sรธren Abildgaard says he will NOT compensate the 6.2 million customers exposed in February's ShinyHunters breach. Instead, he "promises to learn from this experience." (how nice of him)

Abildgaard claims no investigation has shown Odido broke any rules. Which is weird, since there are a lot of preventive measures they could've taken so their Salesforce didn't get drained of data. Salesforce has also been proactively contacting customers to help them harden and prevent attacks like the one Odido fell victim to.

Abildgaard also sent a video of himself to every customer today, where he is clearly reading text he got from the judicial department off a teleprompter. No empathy at all.

Context:
- ShinyHunters breached Odido on Feb 5 and 6 via voice phishing, impersonating internal IT staff
- ShinyHunters then accessed Odido's Salesforce, which they were able to DRAIN to the last drop
- Names, addresses, phone numbers, bank accounts, ID numbers, IBANs and DOBs of 6.2M current and former customers were stolen
- Odido refused to pay the ransom. The data was then dumped on the dark web
- Odido customers are now actively being targeted by criminals using the leaked data
- A class action by CUIC and a criminal investigation by the Dutch Public Prosecution Service are already running
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"I've been working in cybersecurity for 3 years and I feel great!" - Dave, 24
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๐Ÿšจ Signal shipped new in-app confirmations and educational prompts to help users spot scammers impersonating "Signal Support."

The change follows the March takeover of Arndt Freytag von Loringhoven, former Vice President of Germany's foreign intelligence service (BND), Bundestag President and Christian Democrat (CDU) Julia Klรถckner, and roughly 300 other German officials.

The campaign has been attributed to Russia by German and Dutch intelligence.
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โ€ผ๏ธ๐Ÿšจ Microsoft has patched a critical Windows DNS Client remote code execution vulnerability that allows an unauthorized attacker to execute code over a network. All it takes is a malicious DNS response.

The vulnerability is tracked as CVE-2026-41096 with a CVSS score of 9.8. It is a heap-based buffer overflow in dnsapi.dll, the Windows component that processes DNS answers on every machine.

To trigger it, an attacker needs a position where they can influence DNS responses: a rogue DNS server, a poisoned resolver, a compromised router, hostile WiFi, or a man-in-the-middle placement.

That puts ordinary Windows DNS activity in the blast radius. Browsers, VPN clients, enterprise apps, update checks, and background services constantly ask DNS where to connect. The vulnerable processing sits in the Windows DNS Client path, not an edge-facing server product.

Microsoft assessed exploitation as "less likely," and Rapid7 lists the issue as not publicly disclosed and not known to be exploited at release.

On the contrary, a 9.8 unauthenticated network RCE in DNS client handling is exactly the kind of bug defenders should assume will be reverse-engineered quickly.

Defenders should:
- Deploy the May 2026 cumulative updates and confirm coverage across endpoints and servers
- Restrict DNS traffic to trusted resolvers where possible
- Monitor Dnscache and svchost.exe for abnormal child processes or unexpected outbound activity
- Treat public WiFi and untrusted resolver paths as higher-risk until patching is complete

Source: https://hackingpassion.com/windows-dns-rce-2026/
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โ—๏ธ Love this new YouTube genre where a randomly laid-off Atlassian engineer with 8 years at the company just dropped a full technical breakdown of the entire place.

The video: youtu.be/55pTFVoclvE
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๐Ÿšจ New birth control efficacy data is in:

Condom: 98%
Pill: 99%
A career in IT: 100%
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๐Ÿšจ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ฑ Israeli-linked companies have built tooling that can locate Starlink terminals worldwide and, in many cases, link them to real individuals.

The Starlink terminal exposes a connection footprint. Smartphones underneath it leak advertising IDs, location and app telemetry through the adtech supply chain. Time and space correlation links a phone to a terminal, then the same ad ID seen on other networks links the device to an identity.

- ~1 million Starlink terminals monitored
- ~5.5 million connected devices visible through them
- ~200,000 terminals already deanonymized and linked to specific people or devices
- Map refreshes every ~6 minutes

The companies in question:
- TargetTeam (Cyprus-based, Israeli owners tied to Rayzone and Cognyte alumni) with a product called "Stargetz"
- Rayzone, which sells comparable capabilities under Israeli Ministry of Defense.

A TargetTeam salesman, quoted by Haaretz, summed it up bluntly: the ship can hide its AIS, but the crew still needs TikTok.

Sold to governments for counterterrorism, sanctions enforcement and security work. Targets shown in demos covered the Middle East, Gulf, Russia, China and maritime zones. Amnesty's Security Lab warns the same capability puts journalists, activists and civilians under internet shutdowns directly at risk.
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