A London jury convicted the teenage LAPSUS$ hackers whose SIM swaps, MFA-fatigue pushes, and helpdesk manipulation breached Nvidia, Microsoft, Okta, Uber, and Rockstar — closing the criminal case that proved identity is the real perimeter.
CVE-2023-38831 let a crafted WinRAR archive execute attacker code off a decoy file click — and researchers proved APT campaigns had been exploiting the 2004-era parser flaw for months before the August 2023 fix.
Roughly 100,000 Discord.io user accounts were dumped for sale in August 2023 — and the confusion with Discord itself proved that brand-adjacent third parties are breach surface for your users even when your systems are never touched.
August 2023's dual CPU side-channel reveals — Downfall on Intel and Inception on AMD — proved transient execution is a permanent tax on modern computing, payable in microcode updates and measured performance regressions.