Tag: intelligence
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No, Mr. Altman, Passwords Are Not Back in Vogue
OpenAI CEO Says AI Has Beaten Voice Recognition, But Experts Disagree OpenAI CEO Sam Altman recently claimed that artificial intelligence has fully defeated most of the ways that people authenticate currently, other than passwords. A host of security experts disagree and point out that passwords got us into this authentication mess to begin with. First…
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The AI Security Dilemma: Navigating the High-Stakes World of Cloud AI
Tags: access, ai, attack, cloud, container, control, credentials, cve, data, data-breach, flaw, google, identity, infrastructure, intelligence, least-privilege, microsoft, risk, service, software, tool, training, vulnerability, vulnerability-managementAI presents an incredible opportunity for organizations even as it expands the attack surface in new and complex ways. For security leaders, the goal isn’t to stop AI adoption but to enable it securely. Artificial Intelligence is no longer on the horizon; it’s here, and it’s being built and deployed in the cloud at a…
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Fake VPN and Spam Blocker Apps Tied to VexTrio Used in Ad Fraud, Subscription Scams
The malicious ad tech purveyor known as VexTrio Viper has been observed developing several malicious apps that have been published on Apple and Google’s official app storefronts under the guise of seemingly useful applications.These apps masquerade as VPNs, device “monitoring” apps, RAM cleaners, dating services, and spam blockers, DNS threat intelligence firm Infoblox said in…
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A Day in the Life of A SOC Operations Manager Prioritizing High-Risk Incidents to Improve SOC Efficiency
A Day in the Life of A SOC Operations Manager – Prioritizing High-Risk Incidents to Improve SOC Efficiency madhav Tue, 08/05/2025 – 05:14 Imagine the pulse of a Security Operations Center (SOC) where analysts, managers, and leaders navigate a whirlwind of incidents daily, with the stakes higher than ever. Picture them faced with an avalanche…
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Top cybersecurity M&A deals for 2025
Tags: 5G, access, ai, api, apple, application-security, attack, automation, awareness, banking, breach, business, ceo, cisco, cloud, compliance, control, crowdstrike, cyber, cybersecurity, data, ddos, defense, detection, edr, email, endpoint, finance, firewall, gitlab, government, group, ibm, identity, incident response, infrastructure, intelligence, leak, microsoft, mitigation, network, password, programming, risk, risk-management, saas, service, software, sophos, strategy, supply-chain, technology, threat, tool, training, vulnerability, waf, zero-trustPalo Alto Networks to buy CyberArk for $25B as identity security takes center stage July 30, 2025: Palo Alto Networks is making what could be its biggest bet yet by agreeing to buy Israeli identity security company CyberArk for around $25 billion. “We envision Identity Security becoming the next major pillar of our multi-platform strategy, complementing our leadership…
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Threat Actors Exploit AI to Scale Attacks and Target Autonomous Agents
Adversaries are using artificial intelligence (AI) to increase their operational efficiency in a fast-changing threat landscape. They are scaling attacks and focusing on autonomous AI agents that support contemporary enterprise ecosystems. According to frontline intelligence from CrowdStrike’s 2025 Threat Hunting Report, derived from elite threat hunters and analysts, threat actors are employing generative AI (GenAI)…
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CNCERT Accuses U.S. Intelligence of Cyberattacks on Chinese Military-Industrial Targets
China’s National Computer Network Emergency Response Technical Team/Coordination Center (CNCERT) has publicly accused U.S. intelligence agencies of orchestrating sophisticated cyberattacks against key military-industrial entities, building on the 2022 NSA breach at Northwestern Polytechnical University. The revelations detail two emblematic incidents that underscore the persistent targeting of China’s defense sector through advanced persistent threats (APTs). The…
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Russia Uses ISPs to Spy on Diplomats, Warns Microsoft
Russian Intelligence Tied to SSL Stripping Attacks Designed for Eavesdropping. Russian intelligence since 2024 has been using their country’s internet service providers to run adversary-in-the-middle attacks designed to infect diplomats inside the country’s borders with intelligence-gathering malware, Microsoft warns. First seen on govinfosecurity.com Jump to article: www.govinfosecurity.com/russia-uses-isps-to-spy-on-diplomats-warns-microsoft-a-29113
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Black Hat USA: Halcyon and Sophos tag-team ransomware fightback
Ransomware experts Halcyon and Sophos are to pool their expertise in ransomware, working together to enhance data- and intelligence-sharing and bringing more comprehensive protection to customers. First seen on computerweekly.com Jump to article: www.computerweekly.com/news/366628361/Black-Hat-USA-Halcyon-and-Sophos-tag-team-ransomware-fightback
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NVIDIA Triton Bugs Let Unauthenticated Attackers Execute Code and Hijack AI Servers
Tags: ai, control, exploit, flaw, intelligence, linux, nvidia, open-source, remote-code-execution, windowsA newly disclosed set of security flaws in NVIDIA’s Triton Inference Server for Windows and Linux, an open-source platform for running artificial intelligence (AI) models at scale, could be exploited to take over susceptible servers.”When chained together, these flaws can potentially allow a remote, unauthenticated attacker to gain complete control of the server, achieving remote…
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Proliferation of on-premise GenAI platforms is widening security risks
Research finds increased adoption of unsanctioned generative artificial intelligence platforms is magnifying risk and causing a headache for security teams First seen on computerweekly.com Jump to article: www.computerweekly.com/news/366628360/Proliferation-of-on-premise-GenAI-platforms-is-widening-security-risks
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Hacked Crimean servers reveal information about abducted children, Ukraine says
Ukraine’s military intelligence agency said it hacked into government servers in Russian-occupied Crimea that allegedly contained evidence of Russia’s forced deportation of Ukrainian children from occupied territories. First seen on therecord.media Jump to article: therecord.media/hacked-crimean-servers-abducted-children
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Microsoft deckt Secret Blizzard-Kampagne gegen Diplomaten auf
Kurzer Nachtrag von dieser Woche. Microsoft hat eine Kampagne der russischen Cybergruppe Secret Blizzard aufgedeckt und öffentlich gemacht. Die staatliche Gruppe nutzt eine Man-in-the-Middle-Position (AiTM), um eine maßgeschneiderte Malware ApolloShadow bei Botschaften in Moskau für Spionagezwecke einzusetzen. Microsoft Threat Intelligence … First seen on borncity.com Jump to article: www.borncity.com/blog/2025/08/03/microsoft-deckt-secret-blizzard-kampagne-gegen-diplomaten-auf/
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Google Cloud/Forrester Report: Top Challenges to Effective Threat Intelligence
Too many threat intelligence data feeds and not enough skilled analysts top the list of challenges for cybersecurity teams, says a new Google Cloud/Forrester report. First seen on techrepublic.com Jump to article: www.techrepublic.com/article/news-google-cloud-threat-intelligence-report/
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Top spy says LinkedIn profiles that list defense work ‘recklessly invite attention of foreign intelligence services’
Workers on joint US/UK/Australia nuclear submarine program are painting a target on themselves First seen on theregister.com Jump to article: www.theregister.com/2025/08/01/asio_espionage_social_media_warning/
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Cursor AI Code Editor Fixed Flaw Allowing Attackers to Run Commands via Prompt Injection
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed a now-patched, high-severity security flaw in Cursor, a popular artificial intelligence (AI) code editor, that could result in remote code execution.The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2025-54135 (CVSS score: 8.6), has been addressed in version 1.3 released on July 29, 2025. It has been codenamed CurXecute by Aim”¯Labs, which previously disclosed EchoLeak. First…
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AI Agents Can Hack Smart Contracts on Autopilot
AI Tools Can Steal Crypto Autonomously, Even From Audited Code. Armed with just a smart contract address, researchers developed an autonomous artificial intelligence tool that can scan for vulnerabilities, write working exploits in the Solidity blockchain programming language and siphon funds. It behaves more like a human hacker, said its co-creator. First seen on govinfosecurity.com…
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Chinese Threat Actors Hack 11,000 Android Devices to Deploy PlayPraetor Malware
Chinese-speaking threat actors have used the PlayPraetor Remote Access Trojan (RAT) to infiltrate more than 11,000 Android devices globally in a sophisticated Malware-as-a-Service (MaaS) operation. This allows for on-device fraud (ODF) by controlling the device in real time. First investigated by Cleafy Threat Intelligence in June 2025, the campaign impersonates legitimate Google Play Store pages…
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China accuses US of exploiting Microsoft zero-day in cyberattack
The accusation, the latest from Beijing, says U.S. intelligence agencies attacked two Chinese military enterprises. First seen on cyberscoop.com Jump to article: cyberscoop.com/china-accuses-us-of-exploiting-microsoft-zero-day-in-cyberattack/
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Blizzard Group’s ApolloShadow Malware Installs Root Certificates to Trust Malicious Sites
Tags: blizzard, cyber, cyberespionage, data-breach, group, intelligence, Internet, malicious, malware, microsoft, russia, service, threatMicrosoft Threat Intelligence has exposed a sophisticated cyberespionage operation orchestrated by the Russian state-sponsored actor tracked as Secret Blizzard, which has been actively compromising foreign embassies in Moscow through an adversary-in-the-middle (AiTM) technique to deploy the custom ApolloShadow malware. This campaign, ongoing since at least 2024, leverages an AiTM position at the Internet Service Provider…
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AI-Generated Malicious npm Package Drains Solana Funds from 1,500+ Before Takedown
Cybersecurity researchers have flagged a malicious npm package that was generated using artificial intelligence (AI) and concealed a cryptocurrency wallet drainer.The package, @kodane/patch-manager, claims to offer “advanced license validation and registry optimization utilities for high-performance Node.js applications.” It was uploaded to npm by a user named “Kodane” on July 28, 2025. The First seen on…
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Search Engines Are Indexing ChatGPT Chats, Here’s What Our OSINT Found
A significant privacy breach has emerged in the artificial intelligence landscape, as ChatGPT shared conversations are being indexed by major search engines, effectively transforming private exchanges into publicly discoverable content accessible to millions of users worldwide. This discovery has exposed thousands of supposedly confidential conversations, ranging from personal mental health discussions to sensitive business information.…
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Top spy says LinkedIn profiles that list defence work ‘recklessly invite attention of foreign intelligence services’
Workers on joint US/UK/Australia nuclear submarine program are painting a target on themselves First seen on theregister.com Jump to article: www.theregister.com/2025/08/01/asio_espionage_social_media_warning/
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SentinelLabs uncovers China’s hidden cyber-espionage arsenal
CSOonline that the most important pieces of new information gleaned from the findings are that “China’s contracting ecosystem forces many companies and individuals to collaborate on intrusions. This means many China-based Advanced Persistent Threats (APTs) may actually contain many different companies with many different clients.”The nation’s diverse private sector offensive ecosystem, he said, “supports a…
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Silver Fox Hackers Exploit Weaponized Google Translate Tools to Deliver Windows Malware
The Knownsec 404 Advanced Threat Intelligence Team has lately discovered increased activity from the Silver Fox cybercrime gang, which has been using fake versions of popular programs as weapons to spread malware in a complex cyber threat landscape. Tracing back to 2024, these attacks often masquerade as legitimate Google Translate interfaces, employing deceptive JavaScript redirects…
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Ransomware up 179%, credential theft up 800%: 2025’s cyber onslaught intensifies
Exploits multiply as defenders play catch-up: Vulnerability disclosure rose by 246%, and publicly available exploits increased by 179%, with over 20000 vulnerabilities disclosed in the first half of 202535% of which already have exploit code.A backlog of 42000 vulnerabilities awaiting NVD analysis and delays in CVE enrichment leave organizations blind to many critical flaws, the…
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Espionage costing Australia $8 billion each year, warns intelligence chief
Mike Burgess, who leads the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation, said at the Annual Hawke Lecture at the University of South Australia that he was putting a dollar figure on the economic cost of espionage for the first time to stress the “real, present and costly danger” facing Australia. First seen on therecord.media Jump to article:…