Tag: attack
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New Mirai-Based Evooo1Bot Botnet Targets Linux Devices
Evooo1Bot is a Mirai-based Linux botnet that hijacks routers and IoT devices for DDoS attacks, credential theft and criminal proxy services. Fortinet’s FortiGuard Labs disclosed Evooo1Bot in mid-August, a previously undocumented Linux botnet that’s been active since July 2026. The bot borrows Mirai’s DDoS engine but adds encrypted command-and-control communications, an SSH brute-force scanner, a…
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Hackers Turn Claude Code and Codex Into AI-Powered Tools for Credential Theft and Cloud Attacks
Threat actors are increasingly using coding assistants as operational tools. Detailed research from Gambit Security highlights three campaigns where Claude Code, OpenAI Codex, and large language models facilitated activities ranging from ransomware preparation to the harvesting of secrets on a large scale and exploiting cloud accounts. These cases demonstrate how AI can speed up attackers’…
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A hollowed out data layer is making CISOs fly blind into AI attacks
The security industry is currently transitioning to an era where both offense and defense are AI-led, and every SOC operates at machine speed. However, what most CISOs have … First seen on helpnetsecurity.com Jump to article: www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/08/18/siem-data-blind-spots-mapping/
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Encrypted messaging provider Threema hit by large-scale DDoS attacks
First seen on scworld.com Jump to article: www.scworld.com/brief/encrypted-messaging-provider-threema-hit-by-large-scale-ddos-attacks
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OpenAI President Urges Enterprises to Deploy AI Agents
Greg Brockman Says Defenders Must Automate Security Before Attackers Gain Ground. OpenAI president Greg Brockman believes every enterprise should bring agents to its security teams as urgently as possible to combat sophisticated attacks, even after its own agents were responsible for an attack against model repository Hugging Face. First seen on govinfosecurity.com Jump to article:…
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‘Turf War’ Between Claude Agents Leads to Self-Replicating Malware
Three testing models with the same goal but different directives engaged in increasingly aggressive territorial attacks on one another, according to Anthropic. First seen on darkreading.com Jump to article: www.darkreading.com/threat-intelligence/turf-war-claude-agents-self-replicating-malware
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OpenAI President Urges Enterprises to Deploy AI Agents
Greg Brockman Says Defenders Must Automate Security Before Attackers Gain Ground. OpenAI president Greg Brockman believes every enterprise should bring agents to its security teams as urgently as possible to combat sophisticated attacks, even after its own agents were responsible for an attack against model repository Hugging Face. First seen on govinfosecurity.com Jump to article:…
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7 Reasons Teams Add Email Security Beyond Microsoft 365 E5
<div cla Quick answer: why teams layer email security on top of Microsoft 365 E5 Microsoft 365 E5 is the ceiling of Microsoft native email security. It includes Defender for Office 365 Plan 2, which adds automated investigation, Threat Explorer, and Attack Simulation Training on top of the Plan 1 detection that now ships with…

