Is Someone Hacking DoD Refrigerators?
It sure seems like it. The stores confirmed to be affected include Fort Irwin, Calif.
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China-linked Fire Ant Hides Inside Trusted Infrastructure
Fire Ant hijacked Cisco routers, stole credentials and altered logs to hide its tracks, using trusted infrastructure to reach high-value networks. Chinese-li...
Judge Says Pentagon’s Measures Against Anthropic Were ‘Illegal and Baseless’
The ruling is part of Anthropic's legal battle against the Pentagon after the government labeled the company as a supply chain risk earlier this year. The po...
China-Linked Fire Ant Hijacks Cisco Routers to Steal Credentials and Blind Security Logs
A China-nexus cyber espionage actor tracked as Fire Ant has expanded a long-running campaign beyond VMware hypervisors to compromise Cisco IOS XR routers, Te...
Former DIA IT specialist pleads guilty to attempting to leak classified information
A former Defense Intelligence Agency IT specialist has pleaded guilty to attempting to pass secret and top-secret information to foreign spies following a su...
Sonu Shankar named principal deputy CIO at Defense Department
Shankar previously served as a strategic advisor to Pentagon leadership through the Business Operators for National Defense (BOND) initiative, which aims to ...
GPUThor hardware attack can root Nvidia GPU systems
Hardware security researchers from University of Toronto have developed a new memory bit flipping technique that significantly improves on previously known a...
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.
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...