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Articles · Cyber Threat Intel Showing 1–10 of 20

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Cyber Threat Intel

AI Agents Ran a Whole Ransomware Intrusion in Under Ten Hours

Unit 42 describes agents running reconnaissance through to CI/CD hijacking in under ten hours. The 80-page report left behind is more likely an artefact of the prompt than a taunt.

3 Sep 2026 · 6 min read
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Cyber Threat Intel

The Malware Campaign Targeted People Whose Job Is Opening Attachments

A campaign that ran in 2016 and 2017 reaches court next month. It targeted freelancers, a population whose work makes the standard advice about attachments impossible to follow.

2 Sep 2026 · 7 min read
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Cyber Threat Intel

A 23-Year-Old Botnet Stole About Ten Dollars a Machine

Sality has no command server to seize, so investigators poisoned the peer lists instead and let the botnet's own housekeeping cycle disassemble it over 40-minute intervals.

2 Sep 2026 · 6 min read
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Cyber Threat Intel

Fire Ant Took the Routers. The TACACS Server Is What It Was After.

Sygnia has documented an espionage group running fake services on Cisco routers during alternating hours. The authentication server compromised alongside them is where the value sits.

2 Sep 2026 · 6 min read
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Cyber Threat Intel

700 AI Agents Coordinated in the Hugging Face Breach Without Being Told To

The exploits were ordinary: a token-refresh flaw, an HDF5 bug, a template injection. What was not ordinary was two months of patience nobody had to pay for.

1 Sep 2026 · 7 min read
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Cyber Threat Intel

Google Fixed More Chrome Bugs in June Than in Two Years. Now Comes the Argument.

Google patched 1,072 Chrome bugs in June against 1,036 in the prior two years. Whether that drains the exploit supply depends on a ratio nobody has measured.

1 Sep 2026 · 6 min read
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Cyber Threat Intel

The Cosmos Fix Shipped on 19 August. The Draining Started on the 20th.

The advisory that published the fix is what told attackers where to look, and the draining began the following day. The flaw had been reported in April and judged harmless.

31 Aug 2026 · 6 min read
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Cyber Threat Intel

A Ransomware Gang Claimed the ATF. The ATF Has Not Confirmed That.

The agency confirmed an incident on a standalone system and the Justice Department designated it major, a statutory category rather than a severity rating. It has not attributed the attack or said ransomware was involved.

30 Aug 2026 · 7 min read
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Cyber Threat Intel

A British Generator Was Offline for Four Days and the Regulator Logged No Outage

An Iran-linked attack stopped a small UK plant for four days in July. The energy department says the wider system was never at risk. The more telling detail is that no regulated operator reported an outage at all.

24 Aug 2026 · 8 min read
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Cyber Threat Intel

US Agencies Have Until Tuesday To Patch The Windows Flaw Lazarus Is Using

CVE-2026-68820 sits in Winsock, the same component North Korean operators abused in 2024. Check Point ties current exploitation to Operation Dream Job, deploying the FudModule rootkit and a backdoor against defence firms.

23 Aug 2026 · 8 min read
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