Tag: group
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UAT-10147 Uses AI to Scale Server Attacks, Deploys SPECTRE With EDR Bypass and Linux Rootkit
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a Chinese-speaking cybercrime group dubbed UAT-10147 that’s targeting Windows and Linux web servers globally across the education, media, technology, and gaming sectors.The vast majority of the targets are located in Brazil, Bolivia, China, Canada, and Vietnam. Details of the threat activity came to light following the discovery of an…
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Rethinking Threat Intelligence: New Tactics for the Age of AI
Joe Hladik, head of Rubrik Zero Labs, sat down with the CEO and founder of the Techstrong Group, Alan Shimel, at Black Hat 2026 to talk about how Zero Labs is taking novel approaches to threat intelligence. One emerging source of threat intelligence, Hladik said, has historically been overlooked in threat detection: backup data. “When..…
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Russian network monitoring firm confirms cyberattack claimed by pro-Ukraine hackers
The statement came a day after a hacking group calling itself Black Spark claimed it had spent more than a month inside Microolap’s network and gained access to its internal systems, including EtherSensor, the company’s network traffic analysis platform. First seen on therecord.media Jump to article: therecord.media/russian-network-monitoring-firm-confirms-cyberattack-claimed-by-pro-ukraine-group
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US Bank Investigates Alleged Data Breach After LockBit Ransomware Extortion Claim
US Bank is currently investigating claims made by the LockBit ransomware group, which alleges that it breached the bank and stole sensitive data. The group has set a deadline of September 3 for the bank to meet an undisclosed extortion demand. As of now, the details of the alleged attack have not been independently verified,…
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Deepfake Ads Funnel Investors Into WhatsApp Groups Controlled by Fake Financial Analysts
Investment fraud is increasingly exploiting the one action banks struggle most to block: a payment the customer actively wants to make. Deepfake advertisements, impersonated financial experts, and coordinated WhatsApp groups are now being used to steer retail investors into manipulated stock trades and fake investment platforms. In 2025, investment scams became the largest fraud-loss category…
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Fake Conferences, OAuth and WhatsApp: Inside Russia’s New Espionage Tactics
Tags: access, authentication, conference, cyber, defense, espionage, google, group, intelligence, phishing, russia, tactics, threat, toolGoogle tracks three Russia-linked espionage clusters using phishing and legitimate authentication tools to target researchers, diplomats and defense staff. Google’s Threat Intelligence Group tracked three separate suspected Russia-linked cyber espionage clusters. All three focus on the same thing: abusing authentication features that are supposed to protect accounts to access them instead. Threat actors target researchers,…
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UAT-10147 Compromises Web Servers to Deploy BadIIS for SEO Fraud and Data Theft
Tags: china, cyber, cybercrime, data, data-breach, finance, fraud, government, group, linux, malware, technology, theft, vulnerability, windowsA Chinese-speaking cybercrime group, tracked as UAT-10147, targeting vulnerable Windows and Linux web servers worldwide to deploy BadIIS malware, steal data, and manipulate search engine results for financial gain. Talos observed victims in Brazil, Bolivia, China, Canada, and Vietnam, spanning government, education, media, technology, and gaming organizations. An operational security lapse exposed an attacker download…
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Head Mare APT Exploits TrueConf Server RCE Flaws to Deliver PhantomCore Malware
Tags: access, apt, attack, conference, cyber, exploit, flaw, group, kaspersky, malware, rce, remote-code-execution, russia, supply-chainThe Head Mare APT group has been linked to a supply chain compromise involving unpatched TrueConf Server instances, which enabled the delivery of PhantomCore malware to video conference participants. Kaspersky researchers identified this activity while investigating attacks against Russian organizations. Attackers hosted legitimate-looking TrueConf client installers on compromised servers that silently deployed the remote-access malware…
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Head Mare APT Exploits TrueConf Server RCE Flaws to Deliver PhantomCore Malware
Tags: access, apt, attack, conference, cyber, exploit, flaw, group, kaspersky, malware, rce, remote-code-execution, russia, supply-chainThe Head Mare APT group has been linked to a supply chain compromise involving unpatched TrueConf Server instances, which enabled the delivery of PhantomCore malware to video conference participants. Kaspersky researchers identified this activity while investigating attacks against Russian organizations. Attackers hosted legitimate-looking TrueConf client installers on compromised servers that silently deployed the remote-access malware…
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Cl0p Targets 40+ Organizations Through PTC Windchill Flaw
Cl0p claims over 40 organizations fell victim to attacks exploiting a PTC Windchill and FlexPLM vulnerability. Cl0p is using a familiar strategy again: exploit one flaw in enterprise software to attack many companies, then publish the victims’ names if they refuse to pay. The group claims it has targeted more than 40 organizations through a…
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China Is Strapping ‘Digital Bombs’ to Civilian Infrastructure”, Is the US Ready?
This week on “Uncanny Valley,” Andy Greenberg discusses sitting in on a war game simulating a cyberattack from the Chinese hacking group Volt Typhoon First seen on wired.com Jump to article: www.wired.com/story/china-is-strapping-digital-bombs-to-civilian-infrastructure-is-the-us-ready/
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China Is Strapping ‘Digital Bombs’ to Civilian Infrastructure”, Is the US Ready?
This week on “Uncanny Valley,” Andy Greenberg discusses sitting in on a war game simulating a cyberattack from the Chinese hacking group Volt Typhoon First seen on wired.com Jump to article: www.wired.com/story/china-is-strapping-digital-bombs-to-civilian-infrastructure-is-the-us-ready/
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US man sentenced to 77 years for child sexual abuse tied to online extremist group
Kyle Spitze of Tennessee faced federal charges for targeting girls online as part of ‘764 network’ investigated by FBIA 27-year-old Tennessee man described by the US justice department as a “nihilistic violent extremist” was sentenced to 77 years in prison on Wednesday for his targeting of girls online as part of <a href=”https://www.theguardian.com/technology/ng-interactive/2026/jul/21/764-network-gamification-of-harm-the-com-cybercrime-ntwnfb”>the 764 network,…
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U.S. Agencies: AI-Based Attacks Threaten Water, Manufacturing, Other CI Sectors
CISA, the EPA, and other U.S. agencies are warning that unnamed threat groups are using AI to help breach Siemens S7 Series PLCs in attempts to attack critical infrastructure systems in such sectors as water, agriculture, manufacturing, and chemicals. First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump to article: securityboulevard.com/2026/08/u-s-agencies-ai-based-attacks-threaten-water-manufacturing-other-ci-sectors/
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UAT-10147: Chinese-speaking adversary integrates agentic AI into post-compromise operations
Cisco Talos discovered a Chinese-speaking cybercrime group, tracked as UAT-10147, that targets a wide range of vulnerable web servers. This is an overview of the campaign, examining the countries affected, potential impact of BadIIS infections, the attack chain, and post-compromise tactics. First seen on blog.talosintelligence.com Jump to article: blog.talosintelligence.com/uat-10147-chinese-speaking-adversary-integrates-agentic-ai-into-post-compromise-operations/
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Critical Citrix NetScaler Flaw Allows Attackers to Bypass Authentication
Cloud Software Group has issued a critical security bulletin regarding two vulnerabilities that affect customer-managed NetScaler ADC and NetScaler Gateway appliances. Among these, there is an authentication-bypass flaw that could expose remote-access environments to unauthenticated breaches. Citrix NetScaler Flaw The most severe issue, tracked as CVE-2026-19490, has a CVSS v4 base score of 9.3 and…
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Critical Citrix NetScaler Flaw Allows Attackers to Bypass Authentication
Cloud Software Group has issued a critical security bulletin regarding two vulnerabilities that affect customer-managed NetScaler ADC and NetScaler Gateway appliances. Among these, there is an authentication-bypass flaw that could expose remote-access environments to unauthenticated breaches. Citrix NetScaler Flaw The most severe issue, tracked as CVE-2026-19490, has a CVSS v4 base score of 9.3 and…
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Medusa ransomware group attacked more than 500 victims since 2021
First seen on scworld.com Jump to article: www.scworld.com/news/medusa-ransomware-group-attacked-more-than-500-victims-since-2021
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Smashing Security podcast #481: Never say this to a robot dog
At Black Hat this month, a group of security researchers took a $9,000 robot dog, plugged Google’s AI into its brain, and jailbroke it by telling it – with a completely straight face – that it was a Pokemon. What followed involved a wall, a blue ice chest, and anyone in the room wearing white…
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Bluesky Hit by Second Major DDoS Attack in Months
Bluesky suffered its second major DDoS attack in months, causing hours of disruption as a threat group claimed responsibility for the outage. First seen on esecurityplanet.com Jump to article: www.esecurityplanet.com/threats/news-bluesky-second-ddos-attack-outage/
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SilkParasite Threatens Central Asian Orgs With Flurry of RATs
A spear-phishing campaign by a Chinese-nexus group linked to FamousSparrow provides insight into geopolitical, technical, and strategic global moves by China’s APTs. First seen on darkreading.com Jump to article: www.darkreading.com/threat-intelligence/silkparasite-central-asian-orgs-flurry-rats
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Quantum-Safe Isn’t Cyber-Safe
Tags: access, ai, api, breach, communications, compliance, computer, computing, credentials, cryptography, cyber, data, defense, encryption, exploit, flaw, google, group, ml, openai, password, radius, risk, threat, update<div cla In the same week federal agencies began scoping migrations under the White House’s new Post-Quantum Cryptography Executive Order, a group of academic researchers published a paper that, on its face, had nothing to do with quantum computing at all. It described a flaw in how three of the most security-conscious engineering organizations on…
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The long tail of Clop’s PTC hack is just beginning to emerge
The data theft extortion group likely compromised a critical vulnerability affecting PTC’s product lifecycle management software in June, a month before it sent threatening emails to victims. First seen on cyberscoop.com Jump to article: cyberscoop.com/clop-zero-day-attacks-ptc-windchill-flexplm/
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Balonx PhaaS Steals Bank OTPs in Real Time While AI Calls and Android RAT Target Victims
Mexico’s banking sector is facing a more industrialized fraud threat as the Balonx Sistema phishing-as-a-service (PhaaS) operation combines real-time OTP theft, Android malware, and AI-generated vishing calls. Balonx is not a conventional credential-harvesting kit. It operates as a subscription-based criminal service that rents access to affiliates, lowering the barrier for telemarketing fraud groups and inexperienced…
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Google Mandiant AI Agents Find Over 100 Critical Vulnerabilities in Source Code Within Two Days
Tags: ai, breach, corporate, cyber, google, group, incident response, intelligence, mandiant, penetration-testing, RedTeam, threat, vulnerabilityGoogle’s Threat Intelligence Group has announced that its Agentic Vulnerability Discovery Harness (AVDH) identified over 100 critical true-positive vulnerabilities in stolen corporate source code repositories within just two days. This result highlights how agentic AI can significantly accelerate vulnerability discovery during incident response, red teaming, penetration testing, and proactive secure code reviews, especially when adversaries…
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AndroidKombination beantragt Kredite und leitet Daten weiter
Group-IB hat die Android-Malware WindRelay dokumentiert, die zusammen mit SpyNote Smartphones in gefälschte Kartenlesegeräte verwandelt. First seen on it-daily.net Jump to article: www.it-daily.net/it-sicherheit/cybercrime/android-malware-kredite
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CISA confirms 2025 Windows Task Host flaw exploited by ransomware groups
First seen on scworld.com Jump to article: www.scworld.com/news/cisa-confirms-2025-windows-task-host-flaw-exploited-by-ransomware-groups
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More than 200 victims of Medusa ransomware identified over the last year, CISA says
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and FBI updated an advisory on the group initially released in March 2025, writing that as of April 2026, Medusa actors have hit more than 500 victims. CISA previously said 300 victims, many of which are in critical infrastructure sectors, were attacked as of 2025. First seen on…
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Ransom Busters Claims It Hacked Ransomware Servers, Asks Victims for Up to $60,000
A ransomware affiliate calling itself Ransom Busters has been spotted proactively sending emails to victim organizations and claims to delete stolen data from ransomware groups’ servers in exchange for a fee ranging from $20,000 to $60,000.”In these messages, the third-party offers to help the victim recover from ransomware attack. This immediately stands out as anomalous,”…
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Medusa ransomware tallies hundreds of new victims, says updated advisory on group’s tactics
The updated warning from the FBI, CISA and HHS draws on a year’s worth of investigations to detail how the group gains initial access and what it does afterward. First seen on cyberscoop.com Jump to article: cyberscoop.com/medusa-ransomware-tactics-cisa-advisory/