This Week's Top Five Stories in Cyber TeamPCP’s Mini Shai-Hulud Campaign Breaches TanStack npm The new wave of Mini Shai-Hulud campaign unearthed in the wild is proof that software supply chain poisoning is quickly becoming the repeat hit of 2026. On May 11 2026, there were rumblings of a coordinated supply chain attack targeting the npm (node package manager) and PyPi (Python package index) ecosystems. The threat actor behind it was found to be TeamPCP – a financially motivated threat cluster responsible for the recent Trivy supply chain attack and Checkmarx KICS incident. The group published malicious packages on the repository that would trigger a credential stealer payload, when developers downloaded legitimate software packages, thereby casting a wider net over the internet. Akamai: Why AI-Driven Threats are Intensifying for Finance Despite the clear gains financial services continue to reap from digital transformation, one of the most pressing and complex challenges it introduces is the expanded attack surface for cybercriminals. And that surface is only widening. Akamai’s AI-Empowered Botnets and API Visibility Gaps: Attack Trends in Financial Services State of the Internet (SOTI) Security report underscores this shift, positioning the sector as a primary target for increasingly sophisticated and persistent distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks. “Cybercriminals and hacktivists continue to escalate DDoS from nuisance attacks to a sustained siege encompassing both hacktivism and cybercrime and financial services are in the crosshairs," says Steve Winterfeld, Advisory CISO of Akamai. SailPoint Straps Security to AI Agents with Agentic Fabric To help support the enterprise deployment of AI, SailPoint has introduced Agentic Fabric, a platform that aims to provide enterprises with visibility and control over AI agents and other non-human identities that access systems and data. The launch responds to organisations deploying AI at scale across cloud environments without clear oversight of what these autonomous