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AI is reshaping foreign malign influence operations in subtle but consequential ways. Our analysis of pro-Russia and pro-China inauthentic accounts on X across 2024–2026 shows actors are not leveraging AI primarily to flood platforms with volume. Inste…
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Two new Ransomware-as-a-Service (RaaS) entrants publicly recruited affiliates, underscoring a rapid reconsolidation of the ransomware market and a sharpening competition for skilled operators. An actor using the handle hyflock123 posted a recruitment t…
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A sophisticated, long-running cyberespionage campaign attributed to UNC6508, a People’s Republic of China (PRC)-nexus threat actor, that systematically targets North American academic, medical, and military research institutions. The campaign, ac…
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A single developer-known online as RockyBelling has assembled a highly modular PhaaS/MaaS ecosystem that affiliates worldwide use to launch highly targeted IRS and SSA-themed phishing campaigns that predominantly hit U.S. victims. SOCRadar research spa…
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Microsoft has triggered widespread browser security warnings after allowing the TLS certificate for a critical Microsoft 365 connectivity testing domain to expire, raising concerns over certificate lifecycle management practices. The affected domain, c…
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Microsoft 365 Copilot has been found vulnerable to a critical one-click data exfiltration attack chain dubbed “SearchLeak,” exposing sensitive enterprise data through a combination of AI-specific and traditional web vulnerabilities. Discovered by Varon…
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A financially motivated campaign dubbed “Payroll Pirate” has emerged using advanced phishing and adversary-in-the-middle (AiTM) session hijacking to bypass multifactor authentication (MFA) and reroute payroll disbursements. This operation t…
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A remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability in Jenkins, tracked as CVE-2026-53435, is now actively exploited in the wild. The flaw, stemming from insecure deserialization during Jenkins’ config.xml processing, allows unauthenticated or low-privileged a…
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Windows 11 cumulative update KB5094126, released on June 9, 2026, for builds 26200.8655 and 26100.8655, is triggering a wave of user reports about system freezes, forced BitLocker recovery screens, and broken OneDrive integration in File Explorer on so…
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A long-running, highly disciplined intrusion attributed to the China-nexus actor known as Velvet Ant has been revealed as a near-decade campaign of silent access that culminated in the replacement of core authentication components OpenSSH binaries and …
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