Canary Trap’s Bi-Weekly Cyber Roundup

This bi-weekly roundup highlights multiple active cybersecurity threats: a confirmed breach at France’s ANTS potentially exposing up to 19 million records; a guilty plea from an insider who aided the BlackCat/ALPHV ransomware group; public PoC exploits (including CVE-2026-33825) that allow attackers to weaponize Microsoft Defender and escalate to SYSTEM; legislative debate on tougher penalties for hospital-targeting ransomware; and the emergence of Lotus, a destructive data wiper used against Venezuelan energy and utility firms.