cyber espionage
Singapore telcos breached in China-linked cyber espionage campaign
Singapore’s four major telecommunications companies were hit by a coordinated cyber espionage campaign last year, the country’s Cyber Security Agency (CSA) has revealed. …
State-backed phishing attacks targeting military officials and journalists on Signal
German security authorities are warning that a likely state-backed hacking group is engaged in attempts at phishing senior political figures, military officials, diplomats, …
Russian hackers are exploiting recently patched Microsoft Office vulnerability (CVE-2026-21509)
Russian state-sponsored hackers Fancy Bear (aka APT 28) are exploiting CVE-2026-21509, a Microsoft Office vulnerability for which Microsoft released an emergency fix last …
Notepad++ supply chain attack: Researchers reveal details, IoCs, targets
Rapid7 researchers have attributed the recent hijacking of the Notepad++ update mechanism to Lotus Blossom (aka Billbug), a Chinese state-sponsored group known for targeting …
Ex-Google engineer found guilty of stealing AI secrets
A federal jury in California convicted former Google software engineer Linwei Ding, also known as Leon Ding, on seven counts of economic espionage and seven counts of theft of …
Cisco fixes AsyncOS vulnerability exploited in zero-day attacks (CVE-2025-20393)
Cisco has finally shipped security updates for its Email Security Gateway and Secure Email and Web Manager devices, which fix CVE-2025-20393, a vulnerability in the …
Cisco email security appliances rooted and backdoored via still unpatched zero-day
A suspected Chinese-nexus threat group has been compromising Cisco email security devices and planting backdoors and log-purging tools on them since at least late November …
How a noisy ransomware intrusion exposed a long-term espionage foothold
Getting breached by two separate and likely unconnected cyber attack groups is a nightmare scenario for any organization, but can result in an unexpected silver lining: the …
Chinese cyber spies used Claude AI to automate 90% of their attack campaign, Anthropic claims
Anthropic threat researchers believe that they’ve uncovered and disrupted the first documented case of a cyberattack executed with the help of its agentic AI and minimal …
Cyber-espionage campaign mirroring Sandworm TTPs hit Russian and Belarusian military
A spear-phishing campaign aimed to compromise Russian and Belarusian military personnel by using military-themed documents as a lure has been flagged by Cyble and Seqrite …
Unpatched Windows vulnerability continues to be exploited by APTs (CVE-2025-9491)
A Windows vulnerability (CVE-2025-9491, aka ZDI-CAN-25373) that state-sponsored threat actors and cybercrime groups have been quietly leveraging since at least 2017 continues …
Humanoid robot found vulnerable to Bluetooth hack, data leaks to China
Alias Robotics has published an analysis of the Unitree G1 humanoid robot, concluding that the device can be exploited as a tool for espionage and cyber attacks. A robot that …
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