Tag: intelligence
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House Intel Warns AI Could Help Terrorists Build Weapons
House Intel Committee Warns Frontier Models Could Help Rogue Actors Build Weapons. The House Intelligence Committee warned in a 66-page review of the 9/11 Commission Report that frontier large language models could make it significantly easier for terrorists to build weapons of mass destruction, while urging U.S. spy agencies to speed up their own AI…
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CrowdStrike Adds Platform to Secure AI Agents Running on Endpoints
CrowdStrike today at its Fal.Con 2026 conference launched the Falcon Guardian platform that leverages a sensor to provide a live inventory of every active and dormant artificial intelligence (AI) agent running on a Windows or macOS endpoint. At the same time, CrowdStrike is launching Falcon Complete for Guardian, a managed service based on Guardian that..…
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Chancellor unveils plans to entice UK tech startups
The UK government aims to build out home-grown research and development in artificial intelligence and cyber security First seen on computerweekly.com Jump to article: www.computerweekly.com/news/366649878/Chancellor-unveils-plans-to-entice-UK-tech-startups
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Attacks Targeting Langflow AI Agent-Building Tool Surge
Tags: access, ai, attack, credentials, exploit, framework, ibm, intelligence, open-source, software, tool, vulnerabilityTool’s Access to Compute Resources, Keys and Credentials Make It a Repeat Target. Open-source framework Langflow, designed to build artificial intelligence agents and workflows, is under fire again, with attackers now wielding exploit code for a vulnerability first detailed in January. Outdated versions of the IBM-maintained software with known vulnerabilities appear to abound. First seen…
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Forescout Research Tests Whether AI Can Create PLC Attacks
New research from Forescout’s Vedere Labs has demonstrated how artificial intelligence could begin to lower the barriers to developing sophisticated cyberattacks against industrial systems. The research set out to answer a potentially important question for operational technology (OT) security: can AI successfully adapt a remote code execution (RCE) exploit developed for one programmable logic controller…
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Breeze Comet Executes Hundreds of Fraudulent Transactions via Brazilian Payment Systems
Brazilian financial services, retail, and e-commerce organizations have become the target of a financially motivated threat actor dubbed Breeze Comet (formerly UNC5669) since 2024.Google Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG) and Mandiant teams described the threat actor as “specializing in manipulating payment systems and banking software in Brazil to conduct fraudulent transfers.” The adversary First seen on…
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Breeze Comet Executes Hundreds of Fraudulent Transactions via Brazilian Payment Systems
Brazilian financial services, retail, and e-commerce organizations have become the target of a financially motivated threat actor dubbed Breeze Comet (formerly UNC5669) since 2024.Google Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG) and Mandiant teams described the threat actor as “specializing in manipulating payment systems and banking software in Brazil to conduct fraudulent transfers.” The adversary First seen on…
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Critical JFrog Artifactory Authentication Bypass Exploited in the Wild
Security researchers have issued warnings that attackers are actively exploiting a critical authentication bypass vulnerability in JFrog Artifactory, tracked as CVE-2026-82329. This vulnerability allows the generation of administrator-level access tokens. According to a post from the security research firm watchTowr dated September 1, its threat intelligence team has already observed exploitation activities targeting this flaw.…
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Russia-Aligned UAC-0099 Plants Nuclear Weapon Prompt in Malware to Disrupt AI Analysis
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed a new technique dubbed GuardBreaker that’s been put to use by a Russia-aligned threat actor known as UAC-0099 against a target in Ukraine with an aim to interfere with artificial intelligence (AI)-assisted analysis.The idea, ESET said in a series of posts on X, is to deliberately trip a large language model’s…
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Cloudflare Adaptive Intelligence setzt auf dynamische Bot-Abwehr in Echtzeit
Cloudflare Adaptive Intelligence verändert die Bot-Abwehr: Dynamische Regeln und Live-Traffic-Analyse sollen automatisierte Cyberangriffe verteuern. First seen on infopoint-security.de Jump to article: www.infopoint-security.de/cloudflare-adaptive-intelligence-setzt-auf-dynamische-bot-abwehr-in-echtzeit/a46294/
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Cloudflare Unveils Adaptive Intelligence to Counter AI-Fueled Bot Attacks
Cloudflare introduces real-time defense against automated cyberattacks. I still have friends who are convinced that every attack on their websites is deliberately targeting their companies. Nah. These days anyone with a modest budget can easily rent networks of compromised devices, mask their location behind real home Internet addresses, and launch AI-enabled attacks that mimic people……
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Aurora Ransomware Operators Use Cursor AI in Attacks Against 10 Targets
Tags: ai, attack, cybercrime, data-breach, group, infrastructure, intelligence, network, ransomware, russia, threatThreat actors associated with Aurora (aka Aur0ra) ransomware have been observed using SpaceX’s artificial intelligence (AI)-powered coding assistant Cursor to break into target networks, according to findings from CloudSEK and Gambit Security.The two independent analyses are based on exposed infrastructure associated with the Russian-speaking cybercrime group, leading to the discovery of its First seen on…
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AI could cause global economic downturn, Bank of England governor tells G20
Andrew Bailey, in role as financial stability watchdog chief, warns advanced models risk destabilising systemThe Bank of England’s governor, Andrew Bailey, has joined the throng of figures warning about the global risks posed by the most advanced artificial intelligence technology.In a two-page letter sent to international finance ministers and central bank governors as part of…
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Advanced AI threatens global financial stability, says Bank of England boss
Andrew Bailey warns G20 members about risk of cyber-disruption spreading ‘across jurisdictions’The Bank of England’s governor, Andrew Bailey, has joined the throng of figures warning about the global risks posed by the most advanced artificial intelligence technology.In a two-page letter sent to international finance ministers and central bank governors as part of his role as…
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OpenAI Warns Astra AI Model May Develop Zero-Day Exploits and Launch Autonomous Cyberattacks
Tags: ai, cyber, cyberattack, cybersecurity, exploit, intelligence, openai, update, vulnerability, zero-dayOpenAI has issued a warning regarding Astra, an upcoming artificial intelligence model, which may be close to a threshold of cybersecurity capabilities that would allow it to independently discover zero-day vulnerabilities and conduct complex cyberattacks against highly secured systems. In a security update dated August 7, 2026, the company noted that early testing and assessments…
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Judge Orders Pentagon to Reverse Anthropic Blacklisting
Court Says DOD’s Designation Was Illegal First Amendment Retaliation. The U.S. federal judge told the Department of Defense to cancel the supply chain designation it levied against Anthropic in a decision giving the artificial intelligence giant almost everything it asked for in a lawsuit against the Pentagon. First seen on govinfosecurity.com Jump to article: www.govinfosecurity.com/judge-orders-pentagon-to-reverse-anthropic-blacklisting-a-32684
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AI Is Accelerating Vulnerability Discovery. Can Defenders Keep Up?
AI is accelerating vulnerability discovery, putting pressure on systems built to enrich, prioritize, and remediate flaws at a slower pace. Action1 explains why defenders increasingly need to correlate multiple intelligence sources and turn vulnerability data into faster remediation. First seen on bleepingcomputer.com Jump to article: www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/ai-is-accelerating-vulnerability-discovery-can-defenders-keep-up/
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Leaked University Files Reveal How Russia Trains Hackers for Military Cyber Operations
A cache of leaked internal records has exposed what appears to be a structured Russian military cyber-operator pipeline embedded inside Bauman Moscow State Technical University. The documents indicate that the university’s concealed Department No. 4 trained students for intelligence collection, offensive cyber operations, information warfare, and technical defense before moving selected graduates into GRU-linked units.…
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OpenAI Says Reward Hacking Drove AI Agents to Exploit Zero-Days and Breach Hugging Face
OpenAI on Wednesday revealed that reward hacking was a key driver behind the artificial intelligence (AI)-powered hack of Hugging Face last month, adding that it found evidence of misaligned behavior as early as late May.The incident, the company said, took place during cybersecurity evaluations of several OpenAI models, and that it was mainly fueled by…
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Salt Typhoon Is Already Inside Encryption Doesn’t Solve the Problem
Tags: access, advisory, ai, api, china, cisa, cloud, communications, control, credentials, cyber, cybersecurity, data, defense, detection, encryption, endpoint, exploit, government, identity, infrastructure, intelligence, Internet, microsoft, network, resilience, risk, router, saas, service, software, strategy, switch, technology, theft, threat, tool<div cla COMMUNICATIONS SECURITY BRIEFING What Volt Typhoon and Salt Typhoon reveal about the next front in communications security, and why hardened transport is the missing layer Volt Typhoon and Salt Typhoon mark a deliberate shift in how state-sponsored cyber campaigns operate. Rather than chasing endpoints or applications, these actors have gone after the infrastructure…
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Salt Typhoon Is Already Inside Encryption Doesn’t Solve the Problem
Tags: access, advisory, ai, api, china, cisa, cloud, communications, control, credentials, cyber, cybersecurity, data, defense, detection, encryption, endpoint, exploit, government, identity, infrastructure, intelligence, Internet, microsoft, network, resilience, risk, router, saas, service, software, strategy, switch, technology, theft, threat, tool<div cla COMMUNICATIONS SECURITY BRIEFING What Volt Typhoon and Salt Typhoon reveal about the next front in communications security, and why hardened transport is the missing layer Volt Typhoon and Salt Typhoon mark a deliberate shift in how state-sponsored cyber campaigns operate. Rather than chasing endpoints or applications, these actors have gone after the infrastructure…
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Chinese Hacking Operation Targeted U.S. Senate, NASA, Federal Reserve
U.S. authorities have disabled two hacking platforms allegedly operated by a China-based company whose customers included Chinese intelligence and military organizations, disrupting a cyber campaign that targeted major U.S. government agencies and critical infrastructure. The Justice Department and FBI seized domains supporting QScan and QTRouter, two platforms operated by a state-sponsored hacking group known as..…
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Unit 42 warns AI has shifted balance of power from defenders to attackers
Palo Alto Networks’ threat intelligence team said the early waves of threats riding on agentic AI models have broken in the wild, and organizations are unprepared for what’s coming next. First seen on cyberscoop.com Jump to article: cyberscoop.com/unit-42-palo-alto-networks-warning-agentic-ai-frontier-models/
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Foreign Spies Linked to 37% of Cyberattacks on German Companies
Foreign intelligence services were linked to 37% of attacks on German companies as businesses struggled to confirm intrusions and identify attackers. First seen on esecurityplanet.com Jump to article: www.esecurityplanet.com/threats/news-germany-foreign-intelligence-cyberattacks-espionage-emea/
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Amazon Kiro Prompt Injection Can Exfiltrate Sensitive Data Through Kiro Powers
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a vulnerability in Amazon Kiro, an artificial intelligence (AI)-powered, agentic integrated development environment (IDE), that could facilitate data exfiltration via prompt injection and Kiro Powers.The security flaw, which does not have a CVE identifier, works against Kiro IDE 0.7.45 on Windows, according to Mindguard. The latest version of First…
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Chinese and Russian spies stepping up cyberattacks, German companies report
Foreign intelligence services, particularly those from China and Russia, are increasingly behind cyberattacks on German companies, according to a new survey of the country’s private sector. First seen on therecord.media Jump to article: therecord.media/germany-cyberattacks-china-russia
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How Threat Research and MDR Help SMBs Build a Defensive Edge
Threat research gives security teams insight into how attackers operate, while MDR turns that intelligence into faster detection and response. ESET explains how combining threat intelligence, continuous monitoring, and human expertise can help SMBs strengthen their defenses. First seen on bleepingcomputer.com Jump to article: www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/how-threat-research-and-mdr-help-smbs-build-a-defensive-edge/
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OpenAI Agents Coordinated Hugging Face Breach at Scale
Probe Finds 1,200 Agents Communicated Outside Sandboxes, With 700 Targeting Hugging Face. OpenAI and its third-party advisors found new information about the OpenAI-Hugging Face incident, in which artificial intelligence agents hacked the model repository to access internal datasets and steal credentials. OpenAI agents had already begun planning similar breaches as early as May. First seen…
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Ransomware surges as criminals deploy AI tools
Research from NCC Group and a partnership between Axis Communications and Palo Alton underline how artificial intelligence is impacting customers First seen on computerweekly.com Jump to article: www.computerweekly.com/microscope/news/366649752/Ransomware-surges-as-criminals-deploy-AI-tools