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Belgian authorities are investigating Chinese hackers for breaching its State Security Service (VSSE), stealing 10% of emails from 2021 to May 2023. The Belgian federal prosecutor’s office is probing a possible security breach on its State Security Service (VSSE) by China-linked threat actors. Chinese hackers gained access to the VSSE’s email server between 2021 and […]
OpenAI has banned ChatGPT accounts used by Chinese threat actors, including ones leveraged for the development of spying tools.
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Australia bans Kaspersky software over national security concerns, citing risks of foreign interference, espionage, and sabotage of government networks. Australian Government banned products and services provided by Russian cybersecurity firm Kaspersky over national security concerns. The Secretary of the Department of Home Affairs has issued a mandatory directive under the Protective Security Policy Framework (PSPF) […]
A researcher dives into Chinese reports attributing cyberattacks on Northwestern Polytechnical University to the NSA’s TAO division.
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Mandiant warns that multiple Russian APTs are abusing a nifty Signal Messenger feature to surreptitiously spy on encrypted conversations.
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Hackers believed to be operating on behalf of the Iranian government have deployed malware to Iraqi government networks.
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Researchers warns enterprise users about a latest malware campaign targeting Middle East-based firms. The campaign…
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Microsoft announced that it caught Chinese, Russian, and Iranian hackers using its AI tools—presumably coding tools—to improve their hacking abilities.
From their report:
In collaboration with OpenAI, we are sharing threat intelligence showing detected state affiliated adversaries—tracked as Forest Blizzard, Emerald Sleet, Crimson Sandstorm, Charcoal Typhoon, and Salmon Typhoon—using LLMs to augment cyberoperations.
The only way Microsoft or OpenAI would know this would be to spy on chatbot sessions. I’m sure the terms of service—if I bothered to read them—gives them that permission. And of course it’s no surprise that Microsoft and OpenAI (and, presumably, everyone else) are spying on our usage of AI, but this confirms it…
An APT group, tracked as TAG-70, linked to Belarus and Russia exploited XSS flaws in Roundcube webmail servers to target over 80 organizations. Researchers from Recorded Future’s Insikt Group identified a cyberespionage campaign carried out by an APT group, tracked as TAG-70, linked to Belarus and Russia. The nation-state actors are known to carry out […]
Phishing, infostealer malware, ransomware, supply chain attacks, data breaches and crypto-related attacks are among the top evolving threats in the financial sector, says Sekoia.