North Korean IT worker lands federal job, Azure records go up for sale, GitHub goes down

Cybersecurity Headlines · Aug 18, 2026 · 7m

Federal agency hires North Korean IT worker

Millions of Azure records allegedly for sale

GitHub outage hits Actions and Copilot

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