Tag: intelligence
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IRGC-Linked Hackers Target Financial, Government, and Media Organizations
A sophisticated network of hackers with ties to Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) unleashed a barrage of cyber-operations designed to disrupt adversaries, steal sensitive data, and propagate ideological narratives. SecurityScorecard’s STRIKE threat intelligence team analyzed over 250,000 messages from 178 active groups, revealing a highly coordinated digital campaign that mirrored military actions on the…
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Microsoft unveils Project Ire: AI that autonomously detects malware
Microsoft’s Project Ire uses AI to autonomously reverse engineer and classify software as malicious or benign. Microsoft announced Project Ire, an autonomous artificial intelligence (AI) system that can autonomously reverse engineer and classify software. Project Ire is an LLM-powered autonomous malware classification system that uses decompilers and other tools, reviews their output, and determines the…
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The AI-Powered Security Shift: What 2025 Is Teaching Us About Cloud Defense
Now that we are well into 2025, cloud attacks are evolving faster than ever and artificial intelligence (AI) is both a weapon and a shield. As AI rapidly changes how enterprises innovate, security teams are now tasked with a triple burden:Secure AI embedded in every part of the business.Use AI to defend faster and smarter.Fight…
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Microsoft unveils Project Ire: AI that autonomously detects malware
Microsoft’s Project Ire uses AI to autonomously reverse engineer and classify software as malicious or benign. Microsoft announced Project Ire, an autonomous artificial intelligence (AI) system that can autonomously reverse engineer and classify software. Project Ire is an LLM-powered autonomous malware classification system that uses decompilers and other tools, reviews their output, and determines the…
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Microsoft unveils Project Ire: AI that autonomously detects malware
Microsoft’s Project Ire uses AI to autonomously reverse engineer and classify software as malicious or benign. Microsoft announced Project Ire, an autonomous artificial intelligence (AI) system that can autonomously reverse engineer and classify software. Project Ire is an LLM-powered autonomous malware classification system that uses decompilers and other tools, reviews their output, and determines the…
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The AI-Powered Security Shift: What 2025 Is Teaching Us About Cloud Defense
Now that we are well into 2025, cloud attacks are evolving faster than ever and artificial intelligence (AI) is both a weapon and a shield. As AI rapidly changes how enterprises innovate, security teams are now tasked with a triple burden:Secure AI embedded in every part of the business.Use AI to defend faster and smarter.Fight…
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Beef up AI security with zero trust principles
Tags: access, ai, attack, control, data, data-breach, defense, intelligence, LLM, mitigation, mitre, monitoring, risk, strategy, tactics, threat, update, vulnerability, zero-trustStrategies for CSOs: Brauchler offered three AI threat modelling strategies CSOs should consider:Trust flow tracking, the tracking of the movement of data throughout an application, and monitoring the level of trust that is associated with that data. It’s a defense against an attacker who is able to get untrusted data into an application to control…
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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/