The first four months of 2026 have brought an unprecedented wave of coordinated cyber attacks against US and Western targets by state and criminal actors. Key victims include the FBI (Director's inbox, wiretap network), Lockheed Martin (375TB), and Mercor—the $10 billion AI training-data vendor critical to OpenAI, Anthropic, and Meta. Four distinct threat clusters—Iran-backed Void Manticore, the ShinyHunters/Scattered Spider/LAPSUS$ alliance, North Korea's open-source supply-chain attacks, and Russia's APT28—are operating in parallel.
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We May Be Living Through the Most Consequential Hundred Days in Cyber History
Simultaneous coordinated breaches of the FBI, Lockheed Martin (375TB), and AI vendor Mercor by four distinct state/criminal actors signal an unprecedented escalation in parallel cyber warfare targeting US infrastructure and AI supply chains.
Monday, April 13, 2026 12:00 PM UTC2 MIN READSOURCE: Hacker NewsBY sys://pipeline
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