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Researchers uncovered an extensive cyberespionage campaign that used novel backdoors and familiar evasion techniques to maintain persistent access to regional targets.

Google on Thursday announced it’s rolling out new artificial intelligence (AI)-powered countermeasures to combat scams across Chrome, Search, and Android. The tech giant said it will begin using Gemini Nano, its on-device large language model (LLM), to improve Safe Browsing in Chrome 137 on desktops. “The on-device approach provides instant insight on risky websites and…

A never-before-seen threat activity cluster codenamed UNK_SmudgedSerpent has been attributed as behind a set of cyber attacks targeting academics and foreign policy experts between June and August 2025, coinciding with heightened geopolitical tensions between Iran and Israel. “UNK_SmudgedSerpent leveraged domestic political lures, including societal change in Iran and investigation into the

Attackers can use them to inject arbitrary prompts, exfiltrate personal user information, bypass safety mechanisms, and take other malicious actions.

Organizations in the region should expect to see threat actors accelerate their use of AI tools and mount ongoing “harvest now, decrypt later” attacks for various malicious use cases.