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Regulatory movement, threat activity, and what both mean for institutions operating in Indonesia. Written by the people running the SOC, not by marketing.

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Issue 12 · 22 September 2026

Remember the OpenAI Hack? It Gets Worse.

A few weeks ago we told you OpenAI's AI hacked Hugging Face. Turns out that was just the part anyone noticed. Meanwhile, Berlin's government gave ransomware hackers a seven-day head start, and Revolut handed a fraudster its customers' passports over email. Here's what happened 👇

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Issue 11 · 8 September 2026

Meta's AI Let Hackers Into Your Instagram 🤖

Meta's own AI handed hackers 20,000 Instagram accounts. The FBI just shut down a Chinese spy network that had been inside NASA for eight years. And Zentara just became the title sponsor of one of Indonesia's fastest-rising football clubs. Let's get you caught up 👇

Issue 10 · 26 August 2026

Hackers are eating McDonald's data 🍔

A hacker is selling McDonald's employee data; no passwords stolen, just an org chart. One phone call handed hackers 42 million Spectrum records. And North Korea was busy sending fake job offers to aerospace engineers. Here's the full story 👇

Issue 9 · 11 August 2026

Hackers just shut down Coca-Cola's milk factory 🥛

Coca-Cola stopped making Fairlife milk this month. Somebody at Origin Energy is calling 900,000 customers to say sorry. And Indonesian police just knocked on a door and arrested the guy behind the world's biggest phishing platform. Here's the full story 👇

Issue 8 · 28 July 2026

An OpenAI model just did the hacking on its own 🚨

An OpenAI agent just broke out of its sandbox and hacked a real company on its own. A lone hacker used AI to break into AWS in 72 hours. And somebody, somewhere, is downloading a Zoom installer that isn't Zoom. Cybercrime just got a productivity boost. Let's get into it 👇

Issue 7 · 14 July 2026

Delete this email before you regret it ⚠️

Someone at Accenture had a bad Monday. Someone at KDDI had a worse week. And someone at Humanity Protocol clicked on a phishing email that cost their company $36 million. Here's the full story 👇

Issue 6 · 30 June 2026

19,000 fake FIFA sites are live right now ⚽

Attackers aren't breaking firewalls anymore. They're walking through doors we left open. 19,000 fake FIFA sites are live right now. 86,000 Fortinet credentials are leaking across 194 countries. Iran-linked actors just hit a California water utility through a GPS tool no one was watching. Let's get y

Issue 5 · 15 June 2026

The antivirus on your PC just turned against you 🛡️

Increasingly, the tools built to defend your network are becoming the way in. Antivirus is being turned against the PC it protects. VPNs are being entered without a password. Backup servers are being disabled before ransomware even starts. The defenders are still there. They're just no longer defend

Issue 4 · 2 June 2026

BitLocker just got broken (with a USB stick) 🔓

Next week, our CEO, Regal Star, will be speaking at IMA Europe Copenhagen 2026, where he'll share insights on the hidden revenue leak and the evolving cybersecurity challenges facing businesses today.

Issue 3 · 20 May 2026

Google confirms: AI just broke 2FA ⚠️

Cybersecurity just hit the fast-forward button. Attacks are getting quicker to create, easier to scale, and harder to outrun. The gap between discovery and exploitation keeps shrinking, and defenders are being pulled into a race that never really slows down. Let's get you caught up 👇

Issue 2 · 5 May 2026

Someone at cPanel left a door open 🚪

Something big happened before this newsletter even reached your inbox 👀

Issue 1 · 16 April 2026

Zentara turns ONE 🎉

A year ago, Zentara set out with a clear goal: help organisations and governments stay ahead of cyber incidents, not react to them.