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Threat Intelligence

Your Business Is Not Too Small to Be an Iranian Hacker's Next Target

Groups linked to Iran's intelligence services are not hand-picking victims. They are scanning the internet for any door left unlocked, and a GPS company and a medical-device maker have already paid the price.

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Threat Intelligence

Your Business Is Already a Wartime Target. Here Is What to Do About It.

Nation-states attacking private companies is not a future risk. It happened at scale in 2017 and the conditions that made it possible have only grown more complicated since.

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AI Security

Britain Plans AI Sentinels to Guard Its Networks Around the Clock

The UK's National Cyber Security Centre has published a blueprint for an autonomous AI defence system called Cyber Shield. The ambition is real. So are the unsolved problems.

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Vulnerabilities

Siemens tells industrial customers to patch RUGGEDCOM switches now, cites dozens of flaws in SINEC OS

The German engineering giant has shipped version 4.0 of its ruggedised network operating system to close a long list of bugs, including one rated 9.8 out of 10.

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Threat Intelligence

Spanish police arrest suspected helper of pro-Russian hacking crews

The man in Palencia allegedly helped a Ukrainian hacker flee toward Russia and supported groups linked to attacks on U.S. water and energy sites.

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Threat Intelligence

Meet BusySnake: The Stealthy Malware Quietly Raiding Government Networks

A newly discovered hacking group is hitting government offices and critical services in three countries with a cunning piece of spy software. Here is what it does and who is at risk.

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Threat Intelligence

Armored Likho: the newly-named hacking crew hitting power grids and government offices

Russian security firm Kaspersky says the group mixes espionage against big institutions with money-driven attacks on ordinary people.

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Threat Intelligence

Iran, Russia, and China Have Been Quietly Attacking Water Systems — and the Door Was Usually Left Unlocked

A new threat-intelligence report finds three governments targeting water and wastewater infrastructure, not primarily to poison anyone, but to cause fear, probe weaknesses, and pre-position for future conflict. The tools they're using are embarrassingly basic.

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Vulnerabilities

Schneider Electric patches three flaws in PowerLogic P7 grid protection gear

The most serious bug lets an unauthenticated attacker knock the device's control screen offline. A firmware update is out.

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Vulnerabilities

CISA Flags Three Daktronics Controller Flaws That Could Let Attackers Hijack Highway Signs

A researcher found the vulnerabilities in controllers widely used to drive digital billboards and roadway message signs. Exploitation could mean someone else controls what drivers read.

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Threat Intelligence

TinyRCT Backdoor Surfaces in CL-STA-1062 Intrusions Across Southeast Asia

Palo Alto Networks ties the previously undocumented implant to a Chinese-speaking cluster targeting state-owned energy and government entities.

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Threat Intelligence

ASIO Found State Hackers Pre-Positioned for Sabotage Inside Australian Critical Infrastructure

Australia's domestic intelligence agency says a foreign state actor had stolen valid credentials from IT staff at a critical infrastructure operator — and was staging for disruption, not just espionage.

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Policy & Regulation

ICS Security's 25-Year Reunion Is Headed to Nashville

The Industrial Control Systems Cybersecurity Conference marks a quarter-century in October 2026, touching down at the W Nashville for three days of OT threat intelligence.

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Threat Intelligence

Iranian Group Handala Claimed It Could Poison California's Water. Forensics Say Otherwise.

California Water Service brought in Mandiant after Handala threatened disruption. Investigators found no evidence the group ever touched operational technology.

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Policy & Regulation

Accenture Moves to Acquire Dragos, runZero, and NetRise in $4.1 Billion OT Security Consolidation

The deal values Dragos alone at $3.25 billion. runZero and NetRise would fold under the Dragos umbrella post-close.

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