The Good, the Bad and the Ugly in Cybersecurity – Week 34
U.S.
Defense
20 articles
Fake Conferences, OAuth and WhatsApp: Inside Russia’s New Espionage Tactics
Google tracks three Russia-linked espionage clusters using phishing and legitimate authentication tools to target researchers, diplomats and defense staff. G...
Contractors’ CMMC Confidence Rises as Ability to Prove It Falls Behind
Two industry surveys released this week by Kiteworks and CyberSheath paint a consistent picture of the defense industrial base. The post Contractors’ CMMC Co...
Ransomware takes aim at enterprise resilience
Ransomware remains one of the most disruptive cyber threats organizations face. Companies have strengthened their cyber defenses over the years, but attacker...
Russia-Linked Hackers Exploit Legitimate Login Flows to Bypass 2FA and Steal Account Access
Three suspected Russian cyber espionage clusters abusing legitimate authentication mechanisms to hijack accounts belonging to academics, diplomats, defense p...
SilkParasite Uses Google Drive as C2 to Hide RAT Traffic Inside Trusted Cloud Services
SilkParasite, a long-running cyberespionage operation targeting government bodies across Central Asia through a compact but highly mature arsenal of remote a...
Suspected Russian Hackers Abuse Google OAuth and WhatsApp Linking to Hijack Accounts
Three distinct suspected Russian cyber espionage threat clusters have been observed leveraging legitimate authentication flows to single out individuals work...
China’s ‘SilkParasite’ espionage operation targeting Central Asia with AI-assisted malware
Suspected military-grade hackers based in China used artificial intelligence to develop malware in a campaign to penetrate Central Asian governments.
Senators press TikTok over withholding of safety features for some users
In a letter on Wednesday, Sens. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) and Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) criticized the company for having “knowingly withheld a critical safety...
ThreatsDay: Gogs 10.0 RCE, n8n Workflow-to-RCE, $10M Reward, GLM-5.3 AI Exploit and More
A lot of this week’s trouble starts with something trusted doing exactly what it was allowed to do. Signed drivers get turned against defenses.
New malware campaign combines social engineering with defense evasion
The campaign, observed in late July 2026, begins with compromised WordPress websites injected with obfuscated ErrTraffic JavaScript.
US Defense Contractors Admit Their Rising CMMC Scores May Not Be Accurate
Defense contractors in the US are doubting their own self-assessment scores under CMMC Phase I, even as those scores hit an all-time high
Hackers Use Fake CAPTCHA to Deploy Malware That Shuts Down Endpoint Security
Threat actors are pairing fake CAPTCHA verification pages with a commercial malware loader capable of disabling endpoint defenses, creating a high-impact inf...
Identity Abuse Through Trusted Communication Channels
Unit 42 details how attackers exploit enterprise collaboration tools for identity phishing and credential theft. Discover key defense strategies.
US Indicts 17 Iranians Over Years-Long Cyber Espionage Campaign
The US charged 17 Iranians over a years-long hacking campaign that stole 31TB from universities, companies and government agencies worldwide. Eight years aft...
13 Malicious Rabby Firefox Extensions Steal Wallet Keyrings Before They Are Encrypted
A broad Firefox add-on campaign that includes 13 malicious Rabby Wallet impersonators engineered to exfiltrate wallet keyring data before the application enc...
Airlock Digital Completes Independent IRAP Assessment at the PROTECTED Level
Adelaide, Australia, August 19th, 2026, CyberNewswire Independent assessment provides Australian organisations with additional evidence when evaluating appli...
OpenAI Pauses Frontier RL Training as It Tightens Defenses Against Unsafe AI Behavior
OpenAI on Tuesday revealed that it paused reinforcement learning (RL) training for its latest artificial intelligence (AI) models for two weeks while it shor...
A revisit of remote Spectre attacks on Cloudflare Workers
In 2024 and 2025, we reassessed remote Spectre attacks on our Workers infrastructure. We share details about the new attack primitives like Spectre gadgets, ...
SilkParasite Espionage Campaign Targets Central Asian Governments with Five New RATs
A previously unreported cyber espionage operation dubbed SilkParasite has been observed targeting government bodies in Central Asia. The intrusion set makes ...