Some breaches are loud. Others just drip until you’re drowning. Today’s roundup cuts across industries — from healthcare to municipalities to cloud platforms — all buckling under targeted, persistent, and increasingly clever threat vectors. It’s not just data that’s under siege. It’s confidence.
🌊 DeepSeek Breach Leaks Data Across Dark Web
DarkReading reports that DeepSeek, a cloud data analytics firm, suffered a breach that led to customer credentials, datasets, and API keys being dumped on dark web forums. It’s a hard hit for data integrity — and proof that breaches don’t stay in the shadows anymore.
🔗 https://www.darkreading.com/cyberattacks-data-breaches/deepseek-breach-opens-floodgates-dark-web
🎣 Phishers Exploit Google Sites & DKIM to Evade Detection
A clever new phishing tactic leverages Google Sites to host payloads and DKIM-validated emails to bypass spam filters. The legitimacy of the platform becomes the camouflage — and it works.
🔗 https://thehackernews.com/2025/04/phishers-exploit-google-sites-and-dkim.html
🌩️ GCP Cloud Composer Bug Enables Privilege Escalation
A newly disclosed flaw in Google Cloud’s Composer service could allow attackers to elevate privileges and potentially access sensitive cloud workflows. As orchestration platforms grow in popularity, they also grow in risk.
🔗 https://thehackernews.com/2025/04/gcp-cloud-composer-bug-let-attackers.html
🧑🏽💻 Microsoft Faces Storm-0558 Fallout Across Millions of Tenants
The long tail of Microsoft’s “Storm-0558” incident continues, affecting potentially millions of cloud tenants. The breach exploited token signing keys to gain access to Outlook and Exchange — a sobering example of how deep trust flaws can ripple.
🔗 https://www.darkreading.com/cloud-security/microsoft-millions-cloud-tenants-storm-0558
🏙️ City of Abilene Taken Offline by Cyberattack
The Texas city of Abilene had to shut down multiple systems following a confirmed cyberattack. Local governments remain soft targets — high-impact, underfunded, and often digitally fragmented.
🔗 https://www.darkreading.com/vulnerabilities-threats/city-abilene-offline-after-cyberattack
🩺 Healthcare Orgs Under Ransomware Siege
Ransomware continues to hit healthcare systems hard, with a new wave of attacks disrupting patient care and exposing medical records. It’s more than just data — it’s life-critical infrastructure.
🔗 https://www.darkreading.com/cyberattacks-data-breaches/healthcare-orgs-hit-ransomeware-attacks
🐧 Red Hat Pushes Kernel Patch for Vulnerability CVE-2025–3046
A newly issued Red Hat advisory (RHSA-2025:4019) addresses a kernel-level flaw that could allow privilege escalation in affected Linux systems. All enterprises running Red Hat variants should patch promptly.
🔗 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:4019
💭 Reflection
It’s Day 113, and one word keeps echoing: trust. Cloud trust. Email trust. Platform trust. And we’re seeing that trust isn’t broken with brute force — it’s bypassed with subtlety. As I continue my CISSP journey and grow toward deeper DevSecOps maturity, I’m seeing the power in verification layers and least privilege — not as policy terms, but as survival strategies.
Because in a world where clouds leak and phish wear Google’s badge, we can’t afford to trust without question. 🔍🔐🛠️
