1,200 OpenAI agents colluded to cheat evaluations in lead-up to Hugging Face attack
OpenAI and more than 100 other organizations are now calling for urgent collective action on cyber defense.
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Fake Voicemail SVG Attachments Fuel Large-Scale Phishing Campaign
A large-scale phishing campaign used fake voicemail SVG attachments to bypass email defenses, targeting 5527 organizations with over 26,000 malicious messages
Russian APT BlueDelta Uses HOOKEDGE to Target Defense and Diplomatic Organizations
BlueDelta (APT28) uses webhook.site and Microsoft Edge to hide HOOKEDGE espionage traffic targeting European governments.
Tech, Cybersecurity Giants Unite Behind OpenAI-Led Cyber Defense Pledge
Nearly 130 tech and cybersecurity companies back a collective call to boost cyber defenses as AI-enabled attacks grow more sophisticated. The post Tech, Cybe...
BlueDelta Targets Defense and Diplomatic Organizations With HOOKEDGE Malware
Russian state-linked threat actor BlueDelta has launched a renewed espionage campaign against defense manufacturing, government, and diplomatic organizations...
Leaked University Files Reveal How Russia Trains Hackers for Military Cyber Operations
A cache of leaked internal records has exposed what appears to be a structured Russian military cyber-operator pipeline embedded inside Bauman Moscow State T...
OpenAI Warns AI-Enabled Cyberattacks Will Surge, Calls for Global Cyber Defense
OpenAI has issued a warning that AI-enabled cyberattacks could become significantly more widespread and sophisticated within months. The organization urges i...
New infosec products of the month: August 2026
Here’s a look at the most interesting products from the past week, featuring releases from A10 Networks, Abnormal AI, F5 Networks, Intezer, Netscout, Science...
Dark Caracal Deploys New Go Malware With Ethereum-Based C2 Fallback
Dark Caracal targets Venezuela with GoCaracal, an upgraded Bandook toolkit and an Ethereum fallback for resilient C2 communications. Dark Caracal is back wit...
100-plus companies call for ‘global surge’ in AI-powered cyber defense
OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Microsoft, and others say there’s a narrow “defenders’ window” to strengthen security before AI-powered attacks become more sophis...
How Threat Research and MDR Help SMBs Build a Defensive Edge
Threat research gives security teams insight into how attackers operate, while MDR turns that intelligence into faster detection and response. ESET explains ...
Dark Caracal group enhances cyberespionage with new GoCaracal malware
Arctic Wolf researchers discovered GoCaracal during an investigation into a targeted intrusion in Venezuela.
US Disrupts Chinese Hacking Platform Used in Military and Critical Infrastructure Attacks
The operation focused on a group named QTFY, which offers hacking services to the Chinese government and others. The post US Disrupts Chinese Hacking Platfor...
Russian Cyber Espionage Infrastructure Uses Evilginx and OAuth Phishing to Steal Accounts
Russian-linked cyber espionage operators are expanding account-compromise operations by combining OAuth abuse, device-code phishing, credential-harvesting in...
BlueDelta Targets Defense and Diplomacy with HOOKEDGE
Discover how the Russian state-sponsored threat group BlueDelta is using the HOOKEDGE backdoor to target defense and diplomatic organizations across Europe
Cellebrite launches portable field kit for military data extraction
The Cellebrite Tactical Extraction Kit, or C-TEK, is a backpack-sized kit containing ruggedized hardware and Cellebrite software, including Inseyets and Digi...
Officials disrupt Chinese espionage operation that hit multiple federal agencies
The full hacking suite, seized by authorities, allowed Chinese government funded attackers to intrude highly sensitive networks undetected for more than eigh...
Nimbus Manticore Expands Toolset With TWOSTROKE-Like Backdoor and SSH Tunneler
Cybersecurity researchers have discovered additional infrastructure and previously undocumented malware associated with Nimbus Manticore, an Iranian state-sp...
Why human-speed defense has failed
Defenders need AI today so they can run at the same speed as the attackers.
FBI disrupts proxy network enabling Chinese espionage operations
The FBI has disrupted infrastructure associated with a technical "quartermaster" that provided reconnaissance, proxy management, and operational routing capa...