Tag: intelligence
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Iran’s MOIS Tied to Coordinated Cyber Campaign Using Multiple Hacker Personas
A single Iranian state-directed operation is hiding behind several so”‘called “hacktivist” brands, using different online identities to run one coordinated global cyber campaign. New analysis links three prominent personas Homeland Justice, Karma/KarmaBelow80, and Handala to Iran’s Ministry of Intelligence and Security (MOIS), rather than to independent hacktivist groups as they claim. Researchers say these identities act as interchangeable…
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Crypto Exchange Grinex Blames Western Spies for $13m Theft
Russian crypto-exchange Grinex claims Western intelligence agencies were behind a $13m heist First seen on infosecurity-magazine.com Jump to article: www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/crypto-exchange-grinex-western/
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Crypto Exchange Grinex Blames Western Spies for $13m Theft
Russian crypto-exchange Grinex claims Western intelligence agencies were behind a $13m heist First seen on infosecurity-magazine.com Jump to article: www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/crypto-exchange-grinex-western/
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NSA Confirms Use of Anthropic’s Mythos Despite Pentagon Blacklist
The National Security Agency (NSA) is actively using Anthropic’s highly restricted >>Mythos<< artificial intelligence model, despite the developer currently being on the Department of Defense (DoD) blacklist. According to recent intelligence reports highlighted by the International Cyber Digest, the NSA is one of an exclusive group of approximately 40 organizations globally granted access to the…
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Responsible AI Governance for UK SMEs: A Practical Starting Point
Responsible AI Governance for UK SMEs: A Practical Starting Point Artificial intelligence is moving quickly into everyday business use. For many UK SMEs, that means AI is no longer a future topic. It is already helping with drafting content, summarising documents, handling customer queries, analysing data, and supporting internal decisions. That can bring real value,……
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$13.74M Hack Shuts Down Sanctioned Grinex Exchange After Intelligence Claims
Grinex, a Kyrgyzstan-incorporated cryptocurrency exchange sanctioned by the U.K. and the U.S. last year, said it’s suspending operations after it blamed Western intelligence agencies for a $13.74 million hack.The exchange said it fell victim to what it described as a large-scale cyber attack that bore hallmarks of foreign intelligence agency involvement. This attack led to…
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Finance Chiefs Warn New AI Models May Rattle Global Banking
Officials Warned New Models Could Accelerate Cyber Risks Faster Than Rules. Global finance officials meeting in Washington warned that advanced artificial intelligence models could expose structural weaknesses across banking and payment systems, speeding vulnerability discovery and cyber exploitation faster than regulators can build guardrails. First seen on govinfosecurity.com Jump to article: www.govinfosecurity.com/finance-chiefs-warn-new-ai-models-may-rattle-global-banking-a-31457
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Kyrgyzstan-based crypto exchange Grinex shuts down after $13.7M cyber heist, blames Western Intelligence
Grinex halted operations after a $13.7M hack, blaming Western intelligence. Stolen funds came from wallets of Russian users on the platform. Kyrgyz crypto exchange Grinex halted operations after a threat actor stole $13.7 million in a cyber attack that the company attributes to Western intelligence agencies. The stolen funds belonged to Russian users, as the…
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The Wall Around Claude 4.7 Does Not Extend to Dread
<div cla Anthropic released Claude Opus 4.7 on April 16, 2026 with automated cybersecurity safeguards and a Cyber Verification Program. Dark web intelligence from the same week, a cross-vendor prompt injection disclosure published the same morning, and the unanswered policy question of who decides which defenders deserve access to frontier AI all point to the…
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The Wall Around Claude 4.7 Does Not Extend to Dread
<div cla Anthropic released Claude Opus 4.7 on April 16, 2026 with automated cybersecurity safeguards and a Cyber Verification Program. Dark web intelligence from the same week, a cross-vendor prompt injection disclosure published the same morning, and the unanswered policy question of who decides which defenders deserve access to frontier AI all point to the…
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Moving Toward Identity Intelligence in Fraud Detection
Point Predictive’s Frank McKenna on Detecting Hidden Signals in Synthetic IDs. Fraud detection is moving beyond verification toward identity intelligence. Frank McKenna, co-founder and chief fraud strategist at Point Predictive says synthetic identities leave subtle signals such as thin profiles and behavioral traits that demand deeper analysis from fraud investigators. First seen on govinfosecurity.com Jump…
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Bank cyber teams on red alert as Anthropic promises them Mythos next week
Artificial intelligence supplier promises UK banks opportunity to review AI model, which has already revealed thousands of security flaws First seen on computerweekly.com Jump to article: www.computerweekly.com/news/366641763/Bank-cyber-teams-on-red-alert-as-Anthropic-promises-them-Mythos-next-week
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Grinex exchange blames “Western intelligence” for $13.7M crypto hack
Kyrgyzstan-based cryptocurrency exchange Grinex has suspended its operations after suffering a $13.7 million hack attributed to Western intelligence agencies. First seen on bleepingcomputer.com Jump to article: www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/grinex-exchange-blames-western-intelligence-for-137m-crypto-hack/
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Censys Warns 6 Million Public-Facing FTP Servers Are Still Exposed in 2026
A new security brief from internet intelligence firm Censys reveals that the 55 year old File Transfer Protocol continues to run on nearly 6 million internet facing hosts. As of April 2026, the dominant story of FTP exposure is not purpose built file transfer infrastructure, but rather a dangerous accumulation of platform defaults. Censys researchers…
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Production-first Security: Why Runtime Intelligence Should Drive Application Security
<div cla TL;DR Traditional application security focuses on finding vulnerabilities before code ships. However, pre-production scanning identifies theoretical risks while production reveals what is actually reachable, exploitable, and under active attack. Production-first security leverages runtime intelligence to prioritize remediation, giving teams visibility into real-world attack patterns rather than hypothetical weaknesses. First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump…
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Mallory Launches AI-Native Threat Intelligence Platform, Turning Global Threat Data Into Prioritized Action
What are the real threat vectors for our organization?What’s actually exploitable in our environment right now?What should we proactively fix?The platform monitors thousands of threat sources, contextualizes them against a user’s actual attack surface, and puts that intelligence to work across hunt, detection, and exposure management use cases. One platform. Answers, not alerts.Modern teams receive…
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Curity looks to reinvent IAM with runtime authorization for AI agents
Multiple approaches to agent security: Today, agent security falls into one of several camps, which include increasingly inadequate inline approaches such as API gateways and web application firewalls (WAFs), and out-of-band analysis systems that infer intent by analyzing agent behavior against a baseline.Curity’s Access Intelligence, by contrast, is a self-hosted microservice that acts as a…
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Curity looks to reinvent IAM with runtime authorization for AI agents
Multiple approaches to agent security: Today, agent security falls into one of several camps, which include increasingly inadequate inline approaches such as API gateways and web application firewalls (WAFs), and out-of-band analysis systems that infer intent by analyzing agent behavior against a baseline.Curity’s Access Intelligence, by contrast, is a self-hosted microservice that acts as a…
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Curity looks to reinvent IAM with runtime authorization for AI agents
Multiple approaches to agent security: Today, agent security falls into one of several camps, which include increasingly inadequate inline approaches such as API gateways and web application firewalls (WAFs), and out-of-band analysis systems that infer intent by analyzing agent behavior against a baseline.Curity’s Access Intelligence, by contrast, is a self-hosted microservice that acts as a…
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Sweden reports cyberattack attempt on heating plant amid rising energy threats
Sweden says a pro-Russian group attacked a heating plant in 2025. The failed cyberattack highlights growing threats to Europe’s energy infrastructure. Sweden has blamed a pro-Russian group linked to Russian intelligence for a failed cyberattack on a heating plant in 2025. Officials say the incident is part of a broader wave of attacks targeting critical…
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UK financial regulators rush to assess risks of Anthropic AI model
Banks called in by regulators as latest artificial intelligence model identifies thousands of software vulnerabilities First seen on computerweekly.com Jump to article: www.computerweekly.com/news/366641563/UK-financial-regulators-rush-to-assess-risks-of-Anthropic-AI-model
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UK Government Sound Alarm Over AI Security Risk
This week, UK government leaders and cyber officials are sounding an increasingly urgent alarm over the security risks posed by artificial intelligence, warning that the technology is both amplifying existing cyber threats and reshaping the balance between attackers and defenders. In a joint open letter to business leaders, ministers and the National Cyber Security Centre…
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4 questions to ask before outsourcing MDR
2. Can your team separate real threats from noise?: Alert fatigue is one of the biggest barriers to effective security. Tools generate volumes of signals, but not all alerts represent real risk. When everything looks critical, teams either burn out or miss the alerts that matter most.MDR helps by applying human expertise and threat intelligence…
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Your Fraud Detection Model Is Already Too Late to the Party
Real-Time Payments, AI-Led Exploits Are Exposing Flaws Fraud Detection Can’t Catch For years, fraud prevention has followed a familiar script. A transaction is initiated. A model evaluates it. Fraud still gets detected as it happens or after it occurs. But this model is breaking down with the rise of instant payments and artificial intelligence tools.…
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GEOINT in the Iran War: Targeting, Intelligence, and the Battle for Information Access
First seen on resecurity.com Jump to article: www.resecurity.com/blog/article/geoint-in-the-iran-war-targeting-intelligence-and-the-battle-for-information-access
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AI-Driven Pushpaganda Scam Exploits Google Discover to Spread Scareware and Ad Fraud
Cybersecurity researchers have unmasked a novel ad fraud scheme that has been found to leverage search engine poisoning (SEO) techniques and artificial intelligence (AI)-generated content to push deceptive news stories into Google’s Discover feed and trick users into enabling persistent browser notifications that lead to scareware and financial scams.The campaign, which has been First seen…
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Q1 2026 Open Source Malware Index: Adaptive Attacks, Familiar Weaknesses
Tags: access, ai, api, attack, automation, cloud, credentials, crypto, data, github, guide, intelligence, kubernetes, linux, macOS, malicious, malware, open-source, pypi, risk, software, supply-chain, tactics, theft, tool, update, windows, worm<div cla TL;DR Sonatype identified 21,764 open source malware packages in Q1 2026, bringing the total logged since 2017 to 1,346,867. npm accounted for 75% of malicious packages this quarter. Trojans dominated, with most activity focused on credential theft, host reconnaissance, and staged payload delivery. The quarter’s defining pattern was trust abuse: attackers succeeded by…
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How AI is transforming threat detection
Tags: ai, attack, automation, best-practice, business, ceo, cisa, cve, cyber, data, detection, email, endpoint, framework, google, governance, group, incident response, intelligence, international, jobs, kev, malware, network, nist, organized, phishing, risk, skills, soc, switch, technology, threat, toolReducing alert fatigue: In alert triage, AI agents are reducing alert fatigue by clustering alert patterns and enabling risk-based prioritization, adds Dipto Chakravarty, chief product and technology officer at Black Duck.For example, natural language processing agents can summarize threat alerts at scale and correlate them with threat intel feeds such as CVE.org and the CISA KEV Catalog,…