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Chinese Threat Actor CL-UNK-1068 Targets Asian Critical Infrastructure Across Seven Sectors in Years-Long Espionage Campaign

Palo Alto Networks Unit 42 has disclosed a years-long espionage campaign by a previously undocumented Chinese threat group designated CL-UNK-1068 targeting high-value organizations across seven critical infrastructure sectors in South, Southeast, and East Asia. The campaign, assessed with moderate-to-high confidence as cyber espionage, targets

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Iranian Threat Actors Intensify IP Camera Exploitation Across Six Countries to Support Missile Operations and Battle Damage Assessment

Check Point Research has disclosed that multiple Iran-nexus threat actors have intensified exploitation of IP cameras across six countries in the Middle East and Eastern Mediterranean since the onset of hostilities — activity assessed to support battle damage assessment (BDA) and target correction for Iranian missile operations. The targeting, which

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APT41-Linked Silver Dragon Targets Governments Across Europe and Southeast Asia Using Google Drive C2 and Three Distinct Infection Chains

Check Point has disclosed a previously undocumented APT group dubbed Silver Dragon operating within the APT41 umbrella that has been targeting government entities across Europe and Southeast Asia since at least mid-2024 using three distinct infection chains, custom loaders, and a backdoor that uses Google Drive as its command-

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SloppyLemming Targets Pakistan and Bangladesh Government and Critical Infrastructure With Dual Malware Chains and 112 Cloudflare Workers Domains

The South Asian threat actor SloppyLemming (also tracked as Outrider Tiger and Fishing Elephant) has been attributed to a sustained campaign targeting government entities and critical infrastructure operators in Pakistan and Bangladesh spanning January 2025 through January 2026, according to new research from Arctic Wolf. The campaign deploys two distinct

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Steaelite RAT Bundles Ransomware, Credential Theft, and Live Surveillance Into Single Double-Extortion Platform

A new remote access trojan called Steaelite is being sold on cybercrime forums and Telegram that consolidates nearly every offensive capability an attacker needs — credential theft, ransomware deployment, cryptocurrency stealing, live surveillance, and DDoS — into a single browser-based dashboard, effectively eliminating the need for multiple tools or coordination between

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ScarCruft Deploys Six Malware Families in Ruby Jumper Campaign to Breach Air-Gapped Networks via USB Propagation

North Korean threat actor ScarCruft has deployed a fresh arsenal of six malware families in a campaign codenamed Ruby Jumper that targets air-gapped networks through USB-based propagation and abuses Zoho WorkDrive as command-and-control infrastructure — the first time the group has used this cloud service in its

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New Threat Actor UAT-10027 Deploys Dohdoor Backdoor Against US Education and Healthcare Using DNS-over-HTTPS for Stealth C2

Cisco Talos has disclosed a previously undocumented threat activity cluster tracked as UAT-10027 that has been targeting US education and healthcare organizations since at least December 2025 with a novel backdoor called Dohdoor. The backdoor uses DNS-over-HTTPS (DoH) for command-and-control communications and hides behind Cloudflare

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Aeternum C2 Botnet Uses Polygon Blockchain as Sole Command Infrastructure, Making Traditional Takedowns Impossible

Qrator Research Lab has identified a new botnet called Aeternum C2 that represents a fundamental shift in how botnets maintain command and control: it uses the Polygon blockchain as its sole C2 infrastructure, publishing all operator commands through smart contracts that are replicated across thousands of nodes worldwide. Unlike previous

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US Sanctions Russian Exploit Broker Operation Zero for Acquiring Stolen Zero-Days From Jailed L3Harris Executive

The US government has sanctioned Russian exploit broker Operation Zero (Matrix LLC), its owner Sergey Sergeyevich Zelenyuk, and six associated individuals and entities for acquiring and distributing cyber exploits that harmed national security. The sanctions directly follow the sentencing of Peter Williams, the former L3Harris/Trenchant cyber executive who was

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AWS Reports 600+ FortiGate Firewalls Compromised in AI-Augmented Campaign by Russian-Speaking Cybercrime Group

A financially motivated Russian-speaking cybercrime group compromised more than 600 internet-exposed FortiGate firewalls across 55 countries in just over a month, using off-the-shelf generative AI tools to scale an operation that would traditionally require a well-resourced team, according to a new incident report from AWS.

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ClickFix Campaign Compromises Legitimate Sites to Deploy MIMICRAT — A Custom C++ RAT With 22 Post-Exploitation Commands

Elastic Security Labs has disclosed a new ClickFix campaign that leverages compromised legitimate websites as delivery infrastructure to deploy a previously undocumented remote access trojan dubbed MIMICRAT (also tracked as AstarionRAT). The campaign, discovered earlier this month, demonstrates significant operational sophistication — from multi-stage PowerShell chains that bypass Windows security

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ShinyHunters Linked to Device Code Vishing Attacks Targeting Microsoft Entra Accounts via OAuth 2.0 Abuse

A new wave of attacks is combining voice phishing (vishing) with OAuth 2.0 device authorization abuse to compromise Microsoft Entra accounts at technology, manufacturing, and financial organizations — bypassing traditional phishing infrastructure entirely. Sources told BleepingComputer they believe the ShinyHunters extortion gang is behind the campaigns, which the threat actors