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Threat Intelligence

Mars Security Launches Tool That Turns Threat Advisories Into Live Detection Rules in Minutes

A new platform feature promises to close the gap between a published hacking report and an actual working defence, automatically tested against a company's own historical data before anyone clicks deploy.

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Identity & Access

Machine Accounts Are Now the Likeliest Way Into Your Company, and Almost Nobody Is Watching Them

A new SpyCloud survey of 750 security leaders finds that automated accounts and AI agents have become the single most common entry point for attackers, yet fewer than four in ten organisations are actively monitoring them.

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Threat Intelligence

Half of All Real Attacks Now Target Logins, Says Prophet Security Review

A quarter of investigating every alert across customer environments shows identity abuse, help-desk trickery and old-school phishing still doing most of the damage.

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AI Security

Anthropic Says Criminals and State Hackers Are Weaponising Claude

The AI firm's own threat report describes Claude being used to automate break-ins, draft propaganda, and support weapons research between December 2025 and August 2026.

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Identity & Access

Why knowing about a threat isn't the same as stopping it

Attackers are turning fresh leaks and new bug disclosures into working break-ins faster than most defenders can read the alert.

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Threat Intelligence

Kaspersky Names Three Hacking Crews Going After Russian Companies

Kaspersky says NightEagle, Hacking Cat and Toy Ghouls are running separate campaigns against Russian firms, with NightEagle showing fresh persistence tricks.

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Threat Intelligence

Jaguar Land Rover to Cut Up to 4,000 Jobs After Cyber Attack and Trump Tariffs Hit Revenue

Britain's largest car maker is opening a voluntary redundancy programme after falling sales, a cyber attack, and new US import taxes stripped away profit.

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Threat Intelligence

Phishing gang hides invisible characters inside emails to slip past filters

Microsoft says attackers are splitting bait words like 'funding' with unprintable Unicode tags so security scanners never see them.

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AI Security

A Former Internet Godfather Explains How AI Gives Criminals a Head Start

Brett Johnson built some of the first organised online crime networks. Now he's showing security conferences exactly how fast AI lets attackers work, and why defenders are still catching up.

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Threat Intelligence

Fake Software Download Sites Push Malware That Turns Off Windows Update

Microsoft says a long-running campaign is pushing rigged installers to Chinese-speaking users and staff at multinationals operating in China, disabling defences on the way in.

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Threat Intelligence

Chinese-Speaking Crew Slips Malicious Apache Modules Onto Brazilian .gov and .edu Sites

Check Point tracks the cluster as Gambling Goblin, with medium-confidence links to Chinese-speaking SEO-poisoning operators active since mid-2025.

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Threat Intelligence

Why Small Firms Are Turning to Outside Analysts to Catch Ransomware Early

ESET argues that pairing threat research with managed detection gives smaller companies a fighting chance against ransomware crews that now industrialise their attacks.

3 min read
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Threat Intelligence

AI Malware Is Real. It Is Also Mostly Hype.

Palo Alto Networks studied 405 malware samples linked to AI tools. Only 12 ever reached a real computer, and existing defences caught every single one.

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Vulnerabilities

Microsoft says the patching window is shrinking fast. Here is what that means for ordinary people.

Software flaws are being turned into working attacks within hours of being made public. Microsoft says companies can no longer patch their way out fast enough, and is pushing a network-level defensive layer to buy time.

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Threat Intelligence

New 'SynkLoader' Malware Could Be the Opening Move in Future Ransomware Attacks

Researchers at Expel found a modular malicious program that tricks employees into handing over their passwords, hides from security tools, and looks built to prepare corporate networks for ransomware.

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