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The dominant narrative around AI in security is one of emboldened defenders suppressing attackers. Yet, not everyone is convinced the future will be so rosy. In a recent Defender Fridays episode, Josh Neil, Co-founder and CTO of Alpha Level, made an argument that cuts against the celebratory mood: as AI makes known attack vectors harder to use, adversaries don't disappear. They adapt. For MSSPs and SOC teams, an adversary that looks like a user is a harder problem than one that looks like malware.

Ransomware is pivoting toward faster, more targeted data-extortion models, where encryption is no longer the primary objective. According to WatchGuard’s 2026 cybersecurity predictions, crypto-ransomware will lose ground to models driven by data exfiltration and reputational leverage, lowering the technical bar for threat actors while increasing their attack velocity. This shift has a direct consequence.

The industry has spent the past few weeks focused on Claude Mythos Preview and the rise of autonomous offensive AI. As outlined in Claude Mythos, Project Glasswing, and the Machine-Speed Security Race, this shift is not only about faster attacks. The same AI-driven acceleration that helps attackers discover weaknesses faster can also help defenders validate exposure sooner. For security operations teams, the challenge is turning that strategic shift into action.

On May 26, 2026, at 14:00 UTC, the CrowdStrike Counter Adversary Operations team executed a coordinated takedown of the Glassworm botnet, a global threat targeting software developers through the open-source supply chain. In collaboration with Google and the Shadowserver Foundation, we struck all four of Glassworm's command-and-control (C2) channels simultaneously, severing the operators from their infected machines and their ability to deliver new malicious payloads.

In the IT world, there is something quietly sinister about a bank holiday. It’s not the holiday itself – who doesn’t love a bank holiday – a long weekend, a reason to grill something in unpredictable weather, the particular pleasure of feeling like you’ve slipped a Monday… The sinister part is structural.

Ransomware has moved beyond simple malware attacks. It is now operating under a structured business model that disrupts operations, not just systems. Attackers are not depending on phishing or malicious files to deploy ransomware. They instead use compromised identities and existing tools present within environments to move undetected. By the time encryption starts, the attack has already progressed across systems.

On May 22, 2026, we detected an active supply chain attack against Laravel-Lang. We filed a report with the maintainers immediately. The attacker published malicious version tags across three widely used repositories, injecting credential-stealing code that loads automatically via composer’s autoloader feature. What makes this particularly sneaky is that the malicious code was never committed to the official repos at all.

On May 22 and May 23, 2026, an attacker republished hundreds of malicious versions under historical release tags for four community-maintained Laravel localization libraries that are published on Packagist under the laravel-lang namespace.