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Business and cybersecurity leaders stand around a towering dark structure representing the expanding cyber threat landscape highlighted in Verizon's 2026 DBIR report.

The 5 Biggest Shifts in Verizon’s 2026 DBIR: Security Teams Worked Harder and Still Lost Ground

Two shadowy figures in fedoras manipulate a pinball machine displaying online casino and live betting screens, with fake IDs on the playfield, glowing TILT in red

Organized Crime Turns iGaming Fraud Into a Business Model

Ghost-like figure moving through legacy Windows and browser interfaces representing MSHTA malware abuse and living-off-the-land attacks

MSHTA Won’t Die, and Attackers Know It

Pwn2Own Berlin 2026 Closes With $1.3M Paid, 47 Zero-Days and a New Champion

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Pwn2Own Berlin 2026 Closes With $1.3M Paid, 47 Zero-Days and a New Champion

DEVCORE's Orange Tsai-led team dominated all three days to claim the 2026 Master of Pwn title, while STARLabs SG delivered the weekend's most technically significant moment with a memory corruption exploit that broke out of a VMware ESXi hypervisor and crossed tenant boundaries.

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May 18, 2026