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A ransomware group encrypted a national payment gateway and collapsed transaction authorization for merchants across multiple states. A state-aligned espionage group ran an eBPF rootkit in kernel space across 70 organizations in 37 countries for over a year. The same privileged access vendor disclosed a second pre-authentication RCE in 14 months. An attacker used LLM automation to reach AWS admin privileges before the defender's observation loop initiated.
Verification was not defeated. It was absent at the layer where authority executed.
Payment runtime, kernel space, pre-authentication surfaces, cloud control planes. Four layers. Verification operates above all four.
AUDIENCE_SCOPE: CISO_ONLY
VERDICT_MODE: INSTITUTIONAL_FRAME
PRESSURE_CLASS: SINGULAR
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