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Thu 8 Oct1
AU
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In the wake of an agentic attack against its own Medicare systems, Australia's government is feeling out what regulations might look like for frontier AI companies.
Mon 5 Oct1
CN
An emerging threat group known as TA419 established seemingly legitimate professional relationships with AI policy experts working for US think tanks, universities, and legal organizations.
Thu 1 Oct1
CN
A year-old Chinese threat actor looks like a cybercrime gang, acts like a state-associated APT, and attacks organizations in unexpected places.
Fri 18 Sept1
CN
Amid the US and China's fight for eco-colonial influence in Latin America, a stealthy backdoor has taken flight.
Wed 16 Sept1
KP
A likely North Korean advanced persistent threat (APT) group used a previously undocumented Linux espionage toolkit to compromise load balancers, gain access to communications, and further exploit networks.
Fri 11 Sept1
ID
The GoldFactory threat group exploits the Android Work Profile feature to deliver the Gigabud Trojan, while Mantax Otax spreads separately.
Tue 8 Sept1
CN
A Chinese-language group is compromising government and education sites to create a reverse-proxy network with gambling-themed sites.
Wed 2 Sept1
PH
Threat actors exploited commodity in ownCloud to gain initial access, resulting in stolen reactor databases, personnel records, and credential stores.
Fri 28 Aug1
CN
An untold numbers of ZBT routers sold around the world as white-label products come with several implants built by the manufacturer.
Thu 20 Aug1
IN
A nation-state threat actor is picking on immature organizations run by the Taliban, but failing against more prepared government agencies in India.
Wed 19 Aug2
CN
A spear-phishing campaign by a Chinese-nexus group linked to FamousSparrow provides insight into geopolitical, technical, and strategic global moves by China's APTs.
CN
In the first purported "near-autonomous" attack on a nation-state, a Chinese-language operator used a complex AI framework to target and compromise government agencies, likely in Taiwan.