SANS Institute Launches AI Cybersecurity Hackathon

The China-linked cyber-espionage group UNC5221 is compromising network appliances that cannot run traditional EDR agents to deploy new versions of the “Brickstorm” backdoor.

Stay cool: Mythos 5 is an upgrade over Mythos Preview while Fable 5 is Mythos “made safe for general use,” Anthropic explained.

Just a few years ago, the cloud was touted as the “magic pill” for any cyber threat or performance issue. Many were lured by the “always-on” dream, trading granular control for the convenience of managed services. In recent years, many of us have learned (often the hard way) that public cloud service providers are not…

AI agents promise to automate everything from financial reconciliations to incident response. Yet every time an AI agent spins up a workflow, it has to authenticate somewhere; often with a high-privilege API key, OAuth token, or service account that defenders can’t easily see. These “invisible” non-human identities (NHIs) now outnumber human accounts in most cloud…

Deepfakes are becoming more realistic and more popular. Luckily, defenders are still ahead in the arms race.

The Vietnam-aligned threat actor known as OceanLotus has been attributed to two distinct campaigns that targeted domestic entities and stock investors with a backdoor known as SPECTRALVIPER. The campaigns involve a prolonged cyber espionage operation aimed at a Vietnamese infrastructure and transport construction corporation between mid-2024 and February 2026, as well as a supply chain…