Sophos observed ransomware-linked operators using AI-assisted development workflows to accelerate EDR evasion testing and Active Directory discovery. The defensive lesson: validate controls, harden identity, and monitor behavior before attackers iterate around your tooling.
Unit 42’s FlutterBridge research shows macOS malvertising evolving from adware into FlutterShell backdoor delivery. Here is what SMBs and government contractors should tighten first.
Mustang Panda’s fake browser updater chain shows why defenders still need to hunt LNK-to-PowerShell execution, DLL sideloading, user-context persistence, and suspicious HTTPS beaconing.
Attackers are abusing CVE-2026-35616 in FortiClient EMS to push a credential stealer through trusted endpoint management workflows. Here is what defenders should check first.
Attackers reportedly abused Meta’s AI support assistant during Instagram account recovery. The lesson for SMBs and contractors: recovery workflows are identity infrastructure and need MFA, monitoring, and guardrails.
SolyxImmortal combines persistence, browser credential theft, document collection, screenshots, keylogging, and webhook exfiltration. Here is what SMB and government-contractor defenders should do about it.
Lumen and PwC reporting on Showboat, Red Lamassu, and JFMBackdoor shows how China-linked telecom intrusions combine Linux footholds, proxying, and Windows backdoors. Here is what SMBs and government contractors should harden now.
Attackers are exploiting CVE-2026-8732 in WP Maps Pro to create rogue WordPress administrator accounts. Here is what SMBs and contractors should patch, audit, and verify.
SideCopy/APT36 targeted Afghanistan finance officials with Pashto-language lures and XenoRAT. Here is what SMBs and government contractors should take from the campaign.
Microsoft found 33 malicious npm packages abusing dependency confusion to profile developer and build environments. The defender lesson: treat package installation as code execution and lock down internal namespace hygiene before attackers do reconnaissance at scale.
