Iran Expands Handala Brand to Physical Threats
Iran's MOIS expands its Handala brand to hybrid cyber and physical threat operations, recruiting proxies to conduct attacks, espionage, and sabotage against ...
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Insight bundles exposure management, patch operations, and XDR into one service
Insight has launched Insight Managed Exposure Defense, a managed security service designed to help organizations identify and address vulnerabilities. The se...
As the Pentagon Pushes for Battlefield AI, Some Military Leaders Urge Caution
AI’s use in the military is part of the administration’s larger push to grow the capability it sees as a unique American advantage. The post As the Pentagon ...
Helping defense's use of AI catch up with offense, cost of the vulnpocalypse, news - Evan Powell - ESW #461
The Pentagon Finally Admits That Location Data Is a Battlefield Problem
The Pentagon confirmed adversaries are using commercial location data to track U.S.
OWASP Agent Memory Guard: Stop AI agents from being weaponized through their own memory
AI agents keep memory across sessions. Conversation history, vector stores, scratchpads, and RAG indexes persist between runs, and anything written into that...
Afghan finance officials targeted by suspected Pakistani cyberespionage campaign
A suspected Pakistan-linked hacking group has targeted Afghanistan's Ministry of Finance and provincial government officials in a new cyberespionage campaign...
Google Chrome’s DBSC Now Generally Available to Prevent Account Takeovers
Google has officially made Device Bound Session Credentials (DBSC) generally available for the Chrome browser on Windows. This architectural upgrade delivers...
Russia-aligned crime group Greyvibe extensively uses AI in attacks
Researchers have uncovered a previously undocumented Russian group that makes extensive use of large language models (LLMs) in its attacks against private, g...
Meet GREYVIBE, the Russia-Linked Hacking Group Using AI to Target Ukraine and Still Making Rookie Mistakes
GREYVIBE, a Russia-linked group active since 2025, targets Ukraine with AI-assisted malware and five attack chains. Researchers say it’s part spy op, part cr...
U.S. military personnel targeted using commercial location data
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GCHQ announces AI-powered cyber shield to protect UK infrastructure
GCHQ director Anne Keast-Butler revealed plans for a new national cyber defense capability that will integrate advanced AI into machine-speed cyber defense s...
Cheap AI has changed the economics of hacking
AI has reduced the cost of hacking, but has the cost of mounting a defense dropped at the same rate?
Kimsuky Deploys HTTPSpy, Expands Arsenal with HelloDoor and VS Code Tunnels
The North Korean state-sponsored threat actor known as Kimsuky (aka Velvet Chollima) has been attributed to a fresh set of cyber attacks targeting South Kore...
New infosec products of the month: May 2026
Here’s a look at the most interesting products from the past month, featuring releases from Alation, AppOmni, Apricorn, ASAPP, Babel Street, Checksum, Cogent...
5 ways to mount a strong defense in the AI era
Here’s how to mitigate the risk from AI-assisted attacks.
Google Unveils AI Threat Defense Platform to Fight AI-Powered Cyberattacks
New AI Threat Defense platform combines capabilities from Mandiant, Wiz and Gemini to help customers fight AI with AI. The post Google Unveils AI Threat Defe...
Oil shipments, drone makers, and a poisoned code library targeted in recent APT campaigns
Geopolitical pressure drove much of the state-sponsored cyber activity recorded between October 2025 and March 2026, according to ESET’s latest APT Activity ...
Employees are unknowingly inviting tech support impersonators into firms, says FBI
Online or telephone IT support scams have been tricking employees into downloading or clicking on malware for years. But according to the FBI, one group that...
Rudd orders Cyber Command reviews as Pentagon presses reform agenda
Army Gen. Joshua Rudd, who took the twin-leadership reins of Cyber Command and the NSA in March, recently tapped MITRE to conduct a potentially wide-ranging ...