19/06/2026
The Business Layer Is Under Attack | Weekly Cyber Risk Brief
This week reminded us that attackers are not always breaking down doors. Sometimes they are just walking through ones that were left open. Here is what happened.
💉 | A weight-loss drug giant had visitors for two months. Nobody noticed. — A hacking group calling itself FulcrumSec claims it spent over two months inside Novo Nordisk's network — the company behind Ozempic and Wegovy — quietly copying around 1.3TB of data. We're talking source code, drug research, clinical trial records, even AI models. They asked for $25 million. Novo Nordisk said no. Two months is a long time for nobody to notice someone going through your files.
🔥 | 74,000 firewalls got hacked. Not with a fancy exploit, but with old passwords. — Researchers uncovered a massive campaign nicknamed "FortiBleed," where attackers cracked old, leaked passwords and used them to access roughly 74,000 firewalls and VPN devices across 194 countries. No clever trick. No new vulnerability. Just credentials that were stolen somewhere else, never changed, and reused. A good reminder that the password you forgot to update years ago might still be working — just maybe not for you anymore.
🛠️ | Microsoft just released its biggest update ever. And one bug was already being used by hackers. — This month's Patch Tuesday fixed over 200 security issues, including six zero-days. One of them, an Exchange email vulnerability, was already being actively exploited before the fix was even available. With that many updates at once, the real challenge for IT teams is not just patching everything — it is figuring out what to patch first.
Three very different stories. One same lesson: attackers are not always doing anything fancy. They are finding the door nobody locked, the password nobody changed, or the update nobody got to yet.
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Sources: Reuters, TechCrunch, Dark Reading, BleepingComputer