#social-engineering

Apollo Global Management confirmed on August 21, 2026 that it had suffered a data breach stemming from a social engineering attack. Between July 6 and July 10, 2026, attackers used voice phishing,...

A sophisticated multi-year supply chain attack compromised the widely used xz compression library, embedding a backdoor in liblzma that targeted OpenSSH authentication on systemd-based Linux distributions. The attacker, operating under the persona 'Jia Tan,' spent over two years building trust as a contributor before gaining maintainership and inserting the malicious code.