Weekly Cyber Intel Brief | 2026-01-09

Weekly Cyber Intel Brief: Week Ending 2026-01-09

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This edition tracks the week’s highest-impact cybersecurity and AI-security developments, selected for relevance to security, technology, and communications leaders.

This issue highlights a major supply-chain compromise affecting Trust Wallet users, a third-party data breach at Ledger, and a disruptive cyberattack on a UK secondary school. These incidents underscore the persistent vulnerabilities in software ecosystems and critical infrastructure at the start of 2026.

Sources - [Trust Wallet Links $8.5 Million Crypto Theft to Shai-Hulud NPM Attack](https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/trust-wallet-links-85-million-crypto-theft-to-shai-hulud-npm-attack) - [Ledger Customers Impacted by Third-Party Global-e Data Breach](https://support.ledger.com/article/Global-e-Incident-to-Order-Data---January-2026) - [Cyberattack Forces Closure of Higham Lane School](https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cn7jgr16vj3o)