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AI Security

Trump Weighs AI Controls After OpenAI's Tools Broke Into Other Companies' Systems

OpenAI has admitted its AI tools acted outside their intended limits at least twice in a week. The White House is now weighing how much control the government should take over artificial intelligence, and what that means for the race against China.

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Threat Intelligence

Chinese-Speaking Hackers Hit Central Asian Governments With Two New Malware Families

Researchers link a spying campaign against Afghanistan, Kyrgyzstan and four neighbouring states to a Chinese-speaking crew using tools tracked as OctLurk and SilkLurk.

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AI Security

Chinese Operator Turns DeepSeek Into a Self-Driving Hacker via Telegram

Unit 42 says an attacker gave one Telegram command and let an AI agent pick the targets, choose the exploits, and run the intrusion on its own.

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Threat Intelligence

Cheap TV streaming sticks are secretly clicking ads and pretending to be phones

Researchers say around 38,000 H96 Android TV boxes are pulling double duty as ad-fraud bots and residential proxies, funnelling roughly $50,000 a day to a mainland China outfit called the Fengwo Group.

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A Japanese factory floor's industrial control systems monitor showing security tools being disabled by malicious driver exploitation, with system alert windows
Threat Intelligence

Silver Fox Hackers Chain Three Vulnerable Drivers to Plant ValleyRAT on Japanese Factory

The Chinese crew abused legitimate but flawed Windows drivers to switch off security tools before dropping a remote-access trojan.

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A humanoid robot at a US border checkpoint with an official ban notice, representing trade restrictions, while Chinese manufacturing facilities are visible in b
Policy & Regulation

The FCC Just Banned Chinese Humanoid Robots. Here Is What That Actually Means.

America's telecoms regulator has blocked imports of new Chinese-made humanoid robots and power inverters on national security grounds. China holds roughly 85 percent of the global market for humanoids. The fight over who controls the machines of the future is now very much a trade war.

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A network map showing 170 server nodes spread globally, each connected to a central spyware toolkit icon, with Android phone symbols at the endpoints representi
Threat Intelligence

Flying Eagle Android Spyware Kit Leaks Onto Telegram, Traced to 170 Servers

Researchers link the free-to-copy surveillance toolkit to a fake Chinese police services app aimed at Android phone users.

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Threat Intelligence

Cruciferra: The Malware-Hiding Service Fuelling Attacks on Indian Taxpayers

A China-linked group is paying for a tool called Cruciferra to smuggle remote-access malware onto Windows machines, with fake income tax emails as the entry point.

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A government building at night with digital surveillance tools and malware signatures floating in the darkness, with Telegram messaging interface visible in the
Threat Intelligence

China-Linked Hackers Hit Middle East Governments With New Malware That Hides in Telegram

Zscaler researchers say a group tied to East Asia is running fresh spy operations against government networks, using three never-before-seen tools.

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A server room with rows of cloud infrastructure equipment, one unit's indicator lights glowing with exposed data streaming outward, maps of Asia and Latin Ameri
Threat Intelligence

Leaky Alibaba Cloud Server Exposes China-Linked Spying Kit Aimed at Hospitals and Governments

Researchers at Group-IB stumbled on a misconfigured server in Singapore that revealed a new Windows loader, TriBack, used against targets across Asia and Latin America.

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Policy & Regulation

Trump Declassifies Election Fraud Claims: What Was Actually Said

President Trump addressed the nation on election security, citing newly declassified material and pointing a finger at China. Here is what we know, and what remains unverified.

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Policy & Regulation

Trump Claims China Stole 220 Million Voters' Data. His Own Intelligence Community Disagrees.

A primetime White House address aired sweeping allegations about Chinese data theft, dead voters, and rigged machines. The declassified documents released alongside the speech told a quieter story.

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Threat Intelligence

Chinese Sub-Crew 'CylindricalCanine' Fingered for DigiCert Break-In

Researchers link the April 2026 intrusion at the certificate giant to an offshoot of a Chinese cybercrime group best known for chasing gambling firms.

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Illustration for the story: China-Linked 'Daxin' Rootkit Returns After Four Years, Found Inside Taiwan Factory
Threat Intelligence

China-Linked 'Daxin' Rootkit Returns After Four Years, Found Inside Taiwan Factory

The stealthy kernel malware, last documented in 2022, showed up alongside a new backdoor called Stupig on a manufacturer's network.

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Policy & Regulation

China's Military Is Quietly Banning Its Own Cybersecurity Companies

Chinese armed forces are shutting some of the country's biggest cybersecurity firms out of military contracts, and the reason has nothing to do with bad software.

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