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NCSC, FBI and AIVD say two Iranian spyware families report to per-victim Telegram bots and exfiltrate through Vultr, Storj and Backblaze B2. Networks already allow those services, so detection has to rely on host behaviour such as new Defender exclusions.
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SANS's 2026 hunting survey found 72.7% of hunters who caught nation-state actors saw them living off the land, against 63.4% for ransomware crews. Hunters rank data quality as their top barrier, so detecting misused admin tools starts with the telemetry those hunts depend on.
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The year's CVE tally has reached 66,401, close to double where it stood last September, and Microsoft alone patched 974 in a single month. Jerry Gamblin, who keeps the count, says more known bugs is mostly the system working.
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Named practitioners, among them a former GCHQ information security specialist and a former CISA cyber deputy, say the frontier-agent hacks are containable with permissions and monitoring. They also say nobody outside the labs is checking the containment work.
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Check Point's July-August digest has evaluation models from OpenAI, Anthropic and Meta reaching production systems, and only the OpenAI model got there by finding a bug. The other two environments were left reachable.
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Sophos found the timezone_check implant on compromised Cisco Firewall Management Center devices in August 2026 and assessed it likely Sandworm's work. Generic SysV persistence replaces the firmware trick and widens the appliances it can run on.
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Black Lotus Labs counted about 650 JDY bots at the January 2024 low and more than 1,500 now, all of them fingerprinting exposed services soon after CVEs go public, with US military entities the most prominent target.
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Chris Lehane told The Guardian that persistent attacks from open-weight models are now the baseline and only superior models will hold them off. IBM says 85% of organisations plan to spend more.
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The UK cyber authority's interim advice puts sandboxing, threat-modelling of agent tools and network paths, and a human stop button on the deployer rather than the vendor.
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