Tag: intelligence
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Hackers Inject Destructive Commands into Amazon’s AI Coding Agent
Tags: ai, attack, breach, computer, cyber, data-breach, hacker, infrastructure, intelligence, malicious, threat, tool, vulnerabilityA significant security breach has exposed critical vulnerabilities in Amazon’s artificial intelligence infrastructure, with hackers successfully injecting malicious computer-wiping commands into the tech giant’s popular AI coding assistant. The incident represents a concerning escalation in cyber threats targeting AI-powered development tools and highlights the growing sophistication of attacks against machine learning systems. Security Breach Details…
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New Koske Linux malware hides in cute panda images
A new Linux malware named Koske may have been developed with artificial intelligence and is using seemingly benign JPEG images of panda bears to deploy malware directly into system memory. First seen on bleepingcomputer.com Jump to article: www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/new-koske-linux-malware-hides-in-cute-panda-images/
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Singapore’s cybersecurity paradox: Top firms rated A, yet all breached
Tags: access, attack, china, cybersecurity, espionage, exploit, group, incident response, infrastructure, intelligence, malicious, metric, mfa, network, resilience, risk, router, service, supply-chain, threat, update, vulnerabilitySingapore faces targeted threats: Beyond statistical exposure, Singapore is also facing targeted campaigns against its critical infrastructure. One such operation involves China-linked threat group UNC3886, recently observed exploiting vulnerabilities in Juniper (Junos OS) routers to infiltrate telecom and service provider networks.Gilad Maizles, threat researcher at SecurityScorecard, said, “The campaign appears to be operated through a…
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Singapore’s cybersecurity paradox: Top firms rated A, yet all breached
Tags: access, attack, china, cybersecurity, espionage, exploit, group, incident response, infrastructure, intelligence, malicious, metric, mfa, network, resilience, risk, router, service, supply-chain, threat, update, vulnerabilitySingapore faces targeted threats: Beyond statistical exposure, Singapore is also facing targeted campaigns against its critical infrastructure. One such operation involves China-linked threat group UNC3886, recently observed exploiting vulnerabilities in Juniper (Junos OS) routers to infiltrate telecom and service provider networks.Gilad Maizles, threat researcher at SecurityScorecard, said, “The campaign appears to be operated through a…
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Microsoft Integrates Data Lake With Sentinel SIEM
Microsoft Sentinel Data Lake aims to provide inexpensive storage for large volumes of telemetry, while threat intelligence will be included with Defender XDR at no extra cost. First seen on darkreading.com Jump to article: www.darkreading.com/threat-intelligence/microsoft-integrates-data-lake-with-sentinel-siem
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Warning to feds: US infrastructure is under silent attack
Tags: attack, awareness, breach, business, ceo, cisa, control, cyber, cybersecurity, data, defense, exploit, government, Hardware, infrastructure, intelligence, risk, technology, theft, threat, vulnerabilityIT and OT are fundamentally different: Robert M. Lee, CEO and co-founder of cybersecurity company Dragos, Inc., also spoke at the hearing, pointing out that enterprises and regulators must “recognize and account for” the differences between information technology (IT) and OT systems.”IT and OT systems differ fundamentally in both purpose and operation,” he said. “While…
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UK proposal would forbid ransom payments by gov’t agencies, but will it meaningfully decrease ransomware attacks?
Tags: attack, backup, business, ceo, dark-web, data, finance, government, group, hacker, intelligence, law, ransom, ransomware, threatBusinesses often want to pay ransom: Fred Chagnon, principal research director at Info-Tech Research Group noted that, from a business continuity perspective, it can make sense to pay the ransom.”Paying the ransom can sometimes be the quickest and least damaging path to restoring operations, especially if backups are compromised or recovery is prohibitively slow. While…
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Russia turns to Kyrgyzstan’s booming crypto sector to evade sanctions, researchers say
According to a new report by blockchain intelligence firm TRM Labs, Kyrgyz-registered exchanges have repeatedly been used by sanctioned Russian entities. First seen on therecord.media Jump to article: therecord.media/russia-turns-to-kyrgystan-crypto-sanctions
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New ACRStealer Exploits Google Docs and Steam for C2 Server Using DDR Technique
ACRStealer, an infostealer malware that has been circulating since last year and gained momentum in early 2025, continues to evolve with sophisticated modifications aimed at evading detection and complicating analysis. Initially documented by AhnLab Security Intelligence Center (ASEC) for leveraging Google Docs and Steam as command-and-control (C2) servers through the Dead Drop Resolver (DDR) technique,…
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Seemplicity Leverages AI to Optimize Cybersecurity Remediation Efforts
Seemplicity today added artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities to its platform for managing cybersecurity remediations that promise to make teams more efficient. First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump to article: securityboulevard.com/2025/07/seemplicity-leverages-ai-to-optimize-cybersecurity-remediation-efforts/
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New DCHSpy Android Malware Targets WhatsApp, Call Logs, Audio, and Photos
Security researchers at Lookout have identified four novel samples of DCHSpy, an advanced Android surveillanceware attributed to the Iranian threat actor group MuddyWater, believed to be affiliated with Iran’s Ministry of Intelligence and Security (MOIS). These samples emerged approximately one week following the onset of the Israel-Iran conflict, highlighting the rapid adaptation of malware tooling…
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Microsoft ‘digital escorts’ reveal crucial US counterintelligence blind spot
Tags: access, china, cio, cloud, compliance, country, cyber, cybersecurity, data, defense, firewall, framework, google, government, injection, intelligence, law, microsoft, military, oracle, risk, service, threat, update, vulnerabilityWhat the program was, and how it worked: The digital escort model, according to ProPublica, was designed to comply with federal contracting rules that prohibit foreign nationals from directly accessing sensitive government systems. Under this framework:China-based engineers would file support tickets for tasks such as firewall updates or bug fixes.US-based escorts, often former military personnel…
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UK blames Russia’s infamous ‘Fancy Bear’ group for Microsoft cloud hacks
Authentic Antics malware tool to target Microsoft cloud accounts were the handiwork of the notorious Russian Fancy Bear hacking group, the UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) has said.Authentic Antics was discovered after a cyberattack in 2023 which prompted an NCSC technical teardown of the malware that it published in May this year. The agency…
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UK Sanctions 3 Russian Military Cyber Units
Leaders of the Russian Military Intelligence Units of the GRU Also Targeted. The U.K. government on Friday sanctioned three Russian Military Intelligence Service units 29155, 26165 and 74455 in the United Kingdom and Ukraine. The sanctions also targeted 18 Russian officials for their role in GRU cyber operations dating back to 2013. First seen on…
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Iran-Linked DCHSpy Android Malware Masquerades as VPN Apps to Spy on Dissidents
Cybersecurity researchers have unearthed new Android spyware artifacts that are likely affiliated with the Iranian Ministry of Intelligence and Security (MOIS) and have been distributed to targets by masquerading as VPN apps and Starlink, a satellite internet connection service offered by SpaceX.Mobile security vendor Lookout said it discovered four samples of a surveillanceware tool it…
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Gefährliche Schwachstelle in lokaler Sharepoint-Installation
Hacker greifen Behörden und Unternehmen über eine Schwachstelle in lokalen Sharepoint-Installationen an. Ein Kommentar von Michael Sikorski, CTO und Head of Threat Intelligence für Unit 42 bei Palo Alto Networks: ‘Unit 42 beobachtet eine wirkungsvolle, andauernde Bedrohungskampagne, die auf lokale Microsoft-Sharepoint-Server abzielt. Während Cloud-Umgebungen nicht betroffen sind, sind lokale Sharepoint-Implementierungen einem unmittelbaren Risiko ausgesetzt […]…
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The Overlooked Risk in AI Infrastructure: Physical Security
As artificial intelligence (AI) accelerates across industries from financial modeling and autonomous vehicles to medical imaging and logistics optimization, one issue consistently flies under the radar: Physical security. First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump to article: securityboulevard.com/2025/07/the-overlooked-risk-in-ai-infrastructure-physical-security/
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Surveillance Firm Exploits SS7 Flaw to Track User Locations
Tags: attack, cyber, exploit, flaw, infrastructure, intelligence, international, mobile, phone, threat, vulnerabilityA sophisticated surveillance operation has been discovered exploiting critical vulnerabilities in the global telecommunications infrastructure to track mobile phone users’ locations without authorization, security researchers have revealed. The attack leverages weaknesses in the decades-old SS7 (Signaling System No. 7) protocol that underpins international cellular networks. New Attack Method Discovered Security experts at Enea’s Threat Intelligence…
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Is AI here to take or redefine your cybersecurity role?
Tags: ai, attack, automation, business, ceo, cloud, compliance, conference, control, crowdstrike, cyber, cybersecurity, data, governance, intelligence, jobs, monitoring, phishing, risk, skills, soc, software, strategy, technology, threat, training, vulnerability“AI is coming, and will take some jobs, but no need to worry.”That headline ran atop a CSO story published in 2016. Nine years later, the prediction feels closer to coming true, with questions around jobs being replaced or redefined and whether cybersecurity pros should be worried taking on greater nuance, and still hanging in…
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Cyberangriff auf einen Öl- und Gasproduzent in Russland?
Ukrainian hackers wipe databases at Russia’s Gazprom in major cyberattack, intelligence source says First seen on kyivindependent.com Jump to article: kyivindependent.com/ukrainian-intel-hackers-hit-gazproms-network-infrastructure-sources-say-07-2025/
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Novel malware from Russia’s APT28 prompts LLMs to create malicious Windows commands
Tags: ai, api, attack, computer, control, cyber, cyberattack, cybercrime, data, detection, dos, exploit, government, group, hacking, infrastructure, intelligence, LLM, malicious, malware, military, network, phishing, programming, russia, service, tool, ukraine, vulnerability, windows.pif (MS-DOS executable) extension, though variants with .exe and .py extensions have also been observed.CERT-UA attributes these attacks to a group it tracks as UAC-0001, but which is better known in the security community as APT28. Western intelligence agencies have officially associated this group with Unit 26165, or the 85th Main Special Service Center (GTsSS)…
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UK Creative Community, Big Tech Resume AI Copyright Talks
New Working Group Launched After 2 Failed Attempts to Resolve AI Training Impasse. The U.K. government on Wednesday began its latest round of talks between creative owners and the artificial intelligence sector to work out a potential deal on the use of copyrighted content to train AI models. The discussions follow two previous failed attempts.…
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NCSC exposes Fancy Bear’s Authentic Antics malware attacks
Amid a new round of UK government sanctions targeting Moscow’s intelligence apparatus, the NCSC has formally attributed attacks orchestrated with a cleverly-designed malware to the GRU’s Fancy Bear cyber unit First seen on computerweekly.com Jump to article: www.computerweekly.com/news/366627547/NCSC-exposes-Fancy-Bears-Authentic-Antics-malware-attacks
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Security, AI Oversight Are Flashpoints in Draft Defense Bill
House, Senate Versions of 2026 NDAA Offer Competing Approaches to Cyber. Washington is wagering that future conflicts will unfold as much in cyberspace as on the battlefield, with House and Senate lawmakers unveiling dueling drafts of a nearly $900 billion defense bill that spotlights needs for cybersecurity and artificial intelligence technology. First seen on govinfosecurity.com…
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UK ties GRU to stealthy Microsoft 365 credential-stealing malware
The UK National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) has formally attributed ‘Authentic Antics’ espionage malware attacks to APT28 (Fancy Bear), threat actor already linked to Russia’s military intelligence service (GRU). First seen on bleepingcomputer.com Jump to article: www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/uk-ties-russian-gru-to-authentic-antics-credential-stealing-malware/
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China’s Massistant Tool Secretly Extracts SMS, GPS Data, and Images From Confiscated Phones
Cybersecurity researchers have shed light on a mobile forensics tool called Massistant that’s used by law enforcement authorities in China to gather information from seized mobile devices.The hacking tool, believed to be a successor of MFSocket, is developed by a Chinese company named SDIC Intelligence Xiamen Information Co., Ltd., which was formerly known as Meiya…
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Top US senator calls out supply-chain risk with DoD contractors
The Senate Intelligence Committee chairman questioned the security of Microsoft’s “digital escort” arrangement with its Chinese employees. First seen on cybersecuritydive.com Jump to article: www.cybersecuritydive.com/news/microsoft-china-employees-us-military-senate-letter/753465/
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The Challenges of Operationalizing Threat Intelligence
Most security teams subscribe to more threat”‘intel feeds than they can digest, yet attackers keep winning. Cyware’s Jawahar Sivasankaran explains why: Outside the Fortune”¯500 and federal agencies, many organizations still treat cyberthreat intelligence (CTI) as another inbox rather than an engine for action. They know intel is “absolutely critical,” but legacy tools and skill gaps..…