Threat Intelligence
BlueNoroff compromised a North American Web3 company using a fake Zoom meeting interface populated with AI-generated deepfakes, deploying a fileless PowerShell implant that maintained persistent access for 66 days while stealing cryptocurrency wallet credentials, browser data, and live webcam footage repurposed to lure future victims. GLOBAL — Arctic Wolf Labs has
Vulnerabilities
Microsoft's February patch for a Windows zero-day actively exploited by Russia's APT28 blocked the remote code execution path — but left behind a zero-click authentication coercion flaw. Akamai researchers found it while testing the fix. That flaw is now CVE-2026-32202, confirmed exploited in the wild, and added
Trending
A Chinese state-linked contract hacker, Xu Zewei, has been extradited from Italy to the United States and charged for his alleged role in the Silk-Typhoon (Hafnium) campaigns that targeted U.S. universities conducting COVID-19 vaccine research and later thousands of Microsoft Exchange email servers worldwide. WASHINGTON, D.C. — In a
Cyber Attacks
China-linked Mustang Panda (TA416 / RedDelta) has broadened its targeting from predominantly government and policy entities in the West to India’s banking sector and Korean peninsula policy actors. Using an updated LOTUSLITE backdoor delivered via CHM files and DLL sideloading of legitimate Microsoft-signed executables, the campaign marks a strategic shift
Threat Intelligence
An update on the macOS ClickFix threat: North Korean actors Sapphire Sleet and UNC1069 are now deploying AppleScript-based delivery chains and "Terminal-paste" lures to steal crypto-wallets and credentials from enterprise targets. SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA — The "ClickFix" social engineering phenomenon has officially evolved into a targeted nation-state
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German authorities say a wave of phishing attacks targeting lawmakers and senior officials via Signal was “presumably run from Russia,” marking a major escalation in a broader campaign against European political figures. BERLIN, GERMANY — What began as a targeted intrusion has evolved into a full-scale diplomatic and espionage crisis. German
Decentralized Finance (DeFi)
Original $293M LayerZero bridge attack caused 43x larger $13B TVL crash across Aave (-43%) + 26 protocols. North Korea's Lazarus hits $578M in 18 days as bridges become primary attack vector. GLOBAL — The fallout from the Kelp DAO exploit has officially mutated from a singular protocol theft into a
AI Security
Federal adoption hits 82% vs 41% private sector as FedRAMP 20x accelerates unvetted agents into classified networks. WASHINGTON, D.C. — While the commercial world cautiously debates the ROI of agentic AI, the federal government has quietly surged ahead, creating a massive, unmanaged attack surface. According to recent IDC and Salesforce
Spearphishing
Chinese AVIC engineer Song Wu impersonated U.S. researchers for five years to steal export-controlled aerospace software from NASA, the Air Force, Navy, and top universities. Here's how the IP theft pipeline worked — and why it went undetected for so long.
Data Breaches
33.7M user leak → US investor lawsuits → Congressional intervention → Delayed security consultations. How a consumer data breach became a national security crisis. SEOUL — What began as a corporate data leak has spiraled into an unprecedented diplomatic standoff between Washington and Seoul. The Coupang data breach, which exposed the personal information
Cyber Warfare
SentinelOne uncovers ShadowBrokers-referenced cyberweapon that silently corrupted engineering math; likely US/Israel operation against Iranian nuclear program. SINGAPORE — Everything we knew about the origins of state-sponsored cyber-sabotage was just rewritten. Today, at Black Hat Asia 2026, SentinelOne researchers Vitaly Kamluk and Juan Andrés Guerrero-Saade unveiled FAST16, a precision-engineered malware sample
AI Security
White House OSTP accuses DeepSeek and Moonshot AI of industrial-scale extraction attacks; bipartisan sanctions bill advances to protect American frontier models. WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Trump administration has officially signaled a major escalation in the AI arms race, shifting focus from hardware export controls to the protection of the software