Tag: intelligence
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German Industry Reports Escalating Nation-State Cyberattacks
Bitkom Survey Finds Most Businesses Say They’ve Been Hacked. German businesses are increasingly under attack from hackers with links to foreign intelligence services, according to a major new study from digital industry association Bitkom. And that shift is clouding businesses’ visibility into their own vulnerability. First seen on govinfosecurity.com Jump to article: www.govinfosecurity.com/german-industry-reports-escalating-nation-state-cyberattacks-a-32657
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Hackers target Microsoft SharePoint RCE chain with PoC exploit
Attackers are now targeting a chain of two Microsoft SharePoint vulnerabilities that can allow them to execute arbitrary code on unpatched servers, according to threat intelligence company Defused. First seen on bleepingcomputer.com Jump to article: www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/hackers-target-microsoft-sharepoint-rce-chain-with-poc-exploit/
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Being Right Is the Easy Part
Tags: ai, banking, business, cloud, compliance, container, control, country, crypto, cryptography, data, email, encryption, endpoint, fraud, ibm, intelligence, jobs, strategy, technologyHome Blog <!– PKWARE Blog, "Being Right Is the Easy Part" – STYLES Design tokens + .pk-article class rules. Paste into a Code Block (or move the token layer to the child theme and keep only the .pk-article rules here). tags included. –> Guest Perspective Being Right Is the Easy Part The question I asked…
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OpenAI Bans Russian ChatGPT Accounts Used to Run Influence Operation
OpenAI on Tuesday said it banned a cluster of Russian ChatGPT accounts that used VPNs to bypass access restrictions and run an influence operation, which relied on its artificial intelligence (AI) tool to generate social media posts and comments that were shared on Substack, Telegram, X, Facebook and LinkedIn.The accounts “were being used to promote…
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Nucleus Security Adds Agentic AI Engine to Exposure Management Portfolio
Nucleus Security today extended its exposure management platform to add an artificial intelligence (AI) engine and a set of AI agents that have been trained to automate specific tasks. Additionally, Nucleus Security is providing enhanced remediation guidance, vulnerability-type routing, Patch Tuesday intelligence, end-of-life operating system insights, and the ability to enrich Stakeholder-Specific Vulnerability Categorization (SSVC),..…
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Oasis Security Researchers Reveal Security Flaw in NemoClaw AI Agent
Cybersecurity researchers from Oasis Security today disclosed a vulnerability in instances of the NemoClaw artificial intelligence (AI) agent running on a local machine that could lead to it being taken over. Elad Luz, head of research at Oasis Security, said the vulnerability (CVE-2026-65105) has been remediated in the latest update to NemoClaw but organizations will..…
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Chinese Hackers Accelerate Cyberattacks Using Low-Cost AI Tools: Research
Tags: ai, china, cyber, cyberattack, cybersecurity, group, hacker, intelligence, network, open-source, toolState-affiliated Chinese hackers are dramatically scaling up foreign cyberattacks by integrating open-source artificial intelligence (AI) models into their operations, according to new research from cybersecurity firms TeamT5 and Palo Alto Networks Inc.’s Unit 42. By offloading mundane tasks and automated target-mapping to cheap, accessible AI tools, state-backed cyber groups have more than doubled their attack..…
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Ukraine to give Britain access to battlefield data to train AI
Ukraine will give Britain access to a vast trove of battlefield data collected during the war with Russia, allowing U.K. companies and researchers to use it to train and test artificial intelligence systems. First seen on therecord.media Jump to article: therecord.media/ukraine-uk-ai-drone-data
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Map What Your Agent Can Reach Before It Deletes It FireTail Blog
Tags: access, ai, control, credentials, data, group, intelligence, jobs, leak, risk, threat, tool, vulnerabilityAug 24, 2026 – Ayush Sethi – What your workforce’s AI prompts reveal in aggregate Most AI security controls judge one prompt at a time. We built Topics to read the layer above them, where a workforce’s prompts add up into a pattern that no single message shows.Someone in your legal team pastes a contract…
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24th August Threat Intelligence Report
Latvia’s Road Traffic Safety Directorate (CSDD) has confirmed a breach affecting payment records of more than 1.2 million people roughly two-thirds of the country’s population as well as 200,000 organizations. The […] First seen on research.checkpoint.com Jump to article: research.checkpoint.com/2026/24th-august-threat-intelligence-report/
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(g+) Artificial Intelligence: AI hasn’t gone rogue. It’s worse than that
Recent cyber attacks reflect what the technology was trained to do but safeguards are falling short First seen on golem.de Jump to article: www.golem.de/news/artificial-intelligence-ai-hasn-t-gone-rogue-it-s-worse-than-that-2608-212188.html
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(g+) Artificial Intelligence: AI hasn’t gone rogue. It’s worse than that
Recent cyber attacks reflect what the technology was trained to do but safeguards are falling short First seen on golem.de Jump to article: www.golem.de/news/artificial-intelligence-ai-hasn-t-gone-rogue-it-s-worse-than-that-2608-212188.html
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AI supplier assurance and governance expectations for UK SMEs
For many UK SMEs, the biggest risk with artificial intelligence is not whether the tool looks impressive in a demo. It is whether the supplier can be trusted to handle your data, support your business safely, and behave predictably when something goes wrong. That is where AI supplier assurance and governance expectations matter. In plain……
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91 Spring CVEs: The AI Vulnerability Consumption Problem
Tags: access, advisory, ai, attack, cloud, cve, cvss, data, data-breach, framework, guide, injection, intelligence, open-source, risk, service, software, tool, update, vulnerability<div cla TL;DR Broadcom released a large batch of Spring security advisories on August 20, 2026, with Sonatype tracking 91 CVEs across Spring Framework and related projects. At the time of publishing, Sonatype Guide currently identifies 209,569 software components affected by the security event. The disclosure comes amid a dramatic rise in AI-assisted vulnerability discovery. Broadcom…
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14 Trojanized npm Packages Drop RedC2 4.0 Linux Backdoor With AI-Assisted C2
Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a set of trojanized npm packages that masquerade as working calendar and streak utilities but are engineered to stealthily deliver an artificial intelligence (AI)-powered Linux implant dubbed RedC2 4.0.”When the module loads, it”¯locates”¯the bundled binary, marks it executable, and launches it as a detached background process,” TrendAI, Trend Micro’s First seen…
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Rethinking Threat Intelligence: New Tactics for the Age of AI
Joe Hladik, head of Rubrik Zero Labs, sat down with the CEO and founder of the Techstrong Group, Alan Shimel, at Black Hat 2026 to talk about how Zero Labs is taking novel approaches to threat intelligence. One emerging source of threat intelligence, Hladik said, has historically been overlooked in threat detection: backup data. “When..…
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‘AI Resist List’ launched to challenge tech industry narratives
A collation of journalists, scholars and researchers have launched a database to document the increasing grassroots pushback against artificial intelligence technologies First seen on computerweekly.com Jump to article: www.computerweekly.com/news/366649576/AI-Resist-List-launched-to-challenge-tech-industry-narratives
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Fake Conferences, OAuth and WhatsApp: Inside Russia’s New Espionage Tactics
Tags: access, authentication, conference, cyber, defense, espionage, google, group, intelligence, phishing, russia, tactics, threat, toolGoogle tracks three Russia-linked espionage clusters using phishing and legitimate authentication tools to target researchers, diplomats and defense staff. Google’s Threat Intelligence Group tracked three separate suspected Russia-linked cyber espionage clusters. All three focus on the same thing: abusing authentication features that are supposed to protect accounts to access them instead. Threat actors target researchers,…
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Wazuh and AI For Enhanced SOC Workflows
Artificial Intelligence (AI) has become one of this decade’s defining technologies. From healthcare and finance to manufacturing and education, organizations increasingly rely on AI to automate repetitive tasks, uncover patterns hidden within large datasets, and support faster decision-making. Cybersecurity has experienced a similar transformation. While attackers employ AI to automate First seen on thehackernews.com Jump…
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The Feynman Bet: Why You Still Won’t Vibe Code Your SIEM (Today)
Gemini about this blog The Feynman Betting Strategy and the Inertia of Security Many years ago, I read a book by the legendary quantum physicist Richard Feynman. One story from his time at Los Alamos during the war has always stuck with me. Feynman entertained himself by making bets with his colleagues about various wartime events in Europe.…
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The Feynman Bet: Why You Still Won’t Vibe Code Your SIEM (Today)
Gemini about this blog The Feynman Betting Strategy and the Inertia of Security Many years ago, I read a book by the legendary quantum physicist Richard Feynman. One story from his time at Los Alamos during the war has always stuck with me. Feynman entertained himself by making bets with his colleagues about various wartime events in Europe.…
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The Feynman Bet: Why You Still Won’t Vibe Code Your SIEM (Today)
Gemini about this blog The Feynman Betting Strategy and the Inertia of Security Many years ago, I read a book by the legendary quantum physicist Richard Feynman. One story from his time at Los Alamos during the war has always stuck with me. Feynman entertained himself by making bets with his colleagues about various wartime events in Europe.…
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China’s ‘SilkParasite’ espionage operation targeting Central Asia with AI-assisted malware
Suspected military-grade hackers based in China used artificial intelligence to develop malware in a campaign to penetrate Central Asian governments. First seen on therecord.media Jump to article: therecord.media/china-cyber-espionage-central-asia
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Manic: The Android Malware That Exfiltrates Data Even When the Phone Is Offline
Manic Android malware combines banking fraud and spyware, using a Bluetooth relay to steal data even when devices are offline. ThreatFabric’s Mobile Threat Intelligence team has identified a new Android malware, dubbed Manic, which has been active in the wild since at least February 2026. The researchers state that the malware is still under development…
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OpenAI Unveils Private Safety Processing to Detect AI Misuse Without Storing Enterprise Data
OpenAI announced Wednesday that it is testing a new security protocol designed to protect enterprise privacy without compromising system safety. The feature, Private Safety Processing, would allow businesses to deploy highly advanced frontier artificial intelligence (AI) models while maintaining a policy of Zero Data Retention (ZDR). The move highlights a growing rift between Silicon Valley’s..…
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AI-Generated Exploit Scripts Target Siemens S7 PLCs in U.S. Critical Infrastructure
The U.S. government on Wednesday warned of an “active threat” targeting critical infrastructure organizations in the country using artificial intelligence (AI)-generated exploit scripts.The activity is targeting Siemens S7 SeriesProgrammable Logic Controllers (PLCs) to conduct reconnaissance and capability development using AI-generated scripts disguised as legitimate monitoring tools. That First seen on thehackernews.com Jump to article: thehackernews.com/2026/08/ai-generated-exploit-scripts-target.html
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Cribl Acquires AI Assets from Radiant Security to Further SOC Ambitions
Cribl this week revealed it has acquired technology assets from Radiant Security that will provide the foundation for building a security operations center (SOC) based on artificial intelligence (AI). The AI technologies acquired from Radiant Security enable AI agents to autonomously triage, investigate, and resolve security alerts. Cribl, via the acquisition of this intellectual property,..…
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Hackers Actively Target Siemens PLCs With AI Cyberattacks
‘We Are Crossing a Threshold’ Warns Critical Infrastructure Security Expert. An artificial intelligence-assisted cyberattack campaign is targeting widely used online operational technology devices made by Siemens, the U.S. cyber defense agency warned Wednesday – the first time it’s called out an AI-assisted cyber campaign against OT. First seen on govinfosecurity.com Jump to article: www.govinfosecurity.com/hackers-actively-target-siemens-plcs-ai-cyberattacks-a-32616
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PoliceAI outlines plans to test and assure AI for policing
Computer Weekly speaks with PoliceAI a national body set up to build, test and assure artificial intelligence models for policing contexts about how it plans to approach the development and implementation of automated policing tools First seen on computerweekly.com Jump to article: www.computerweekly.com/news/366648764/PoliceAI-outlines-plans-to-test-and-assure-AI-for-policing
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Microsoft Defender Update Crashes Virus Scans on Windows PCs
Microsoft Defender has been aborting Quick, Full, and Offline virus scans on Windows systems following a series of Security Intelligence updates released on August 18, 2026. This issue has affected both consumer devices and Microsoft Defender for Endpoint-managed environments, disrupting a critical malware-detection capability for administrators and home users alike. Microsoft Defender Update Crashes Virus…