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MITRE ATT&CK is a publicly maintained knowledge base of real-world adversary tactics and techniques used to classify cyberattack behavior.
Picus Security's Blue Report 2026 puts prevention at 69% across 338 million simulated attacks. The vendor says prevention falls to 37% once an attacker has authenticated access, while the alert score has not moved from 14%.
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Health-ISAC warned members in September 2026 that ShinyHunters-linked crews extort healthcare without encrypting files, in one case taking over 1TB. A dev.to write-up of the warning points to new factor enrollments and bulk exports as the signals to watch.
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Nozomi Networks Labs reports persistent abuse of weak or default credentials and exposed industrial and IoT assets between June and August 2026. Faster exploit cycles and botnets that generate opportunistic traffic add volume on top, the vendor says.
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Integrity Technology Group, a government-linked Chinese firm, enables China-linked hackers to breach US and foreign networks, ten agencies said. The advisory treats the firm and its crews as one set of actors, so a single hunt can span sectors.
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A single actor used a free Chinese pentest agent and four commercial AI models to breach South Korean financial firms in about two weeks. The free, resold toolkit let one person breach several firms at once, and researchers expect adversaries to keep using it to lift their tempo.
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Fortinet confirmed a 9.8-rated, unauthenticated file-write zero-day in FortiMail that attackers are using to drop a reboot-surviving ld.so.preload rootkit. Patching closes the hole but leaves any implant already on the appliance in place.
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Gunra actors entered a victim's network through an SSL VPN admin account still on default credentials, according to a 10 August 2026 advisory. The path used no software flaw, so it tests credential changes, lockout and account reviews on edge devices.
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Detection at the first hop forced CISA's red team onto donated access at Organization B. It did not stop the team reaching the same sensitive systems it reached at Organization A.
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Five US agencies report attackers scanning for exposed S7 PLCs and using a public library to read and write data blocks. The mitigation list reads like a commissioning checklist.
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Unit 42 worked a ransomware intrusion where the operator handed tactical execution to frontier AI agents, and the chain from a public API endpoint to stolen cloud AI keys closed inside a single working day with no zero-day.
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The federal cyber agency now recommends planting fake records, credentials and files across critical infrastructure networks, and its pitch to understaffed teams is that an alert on a decoy needs no analyst to interpret it.
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Conifers assessed 14,652 customer detections and found 47% at the average organization need attention while still showing as deployed. Against the ATT&CK techniques relevant to each customer, average protection stood at 64%, leaving one in three without a reliable detection.
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SANS's 2026 hunting survey found 72.7% of hunters who caught nation-state actors saw them living off the land, against 63.4% for ransomware crews. Hunters rank data quality as their top barrier, so detecting misused admin tools starts with the telemetry those hunts depend on.
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Island says the adversary-in-the-middle service runs on at least 755 domains against hundreds of organizations. The session it steals arrives after an authentication the identity provider records as entirely normal.
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Microsoft and Omdia put the average security operations centre at close to 3,000 alerts a day with 42% never investigated, while a 2026 benchmark scored the best frontier model at 3.8% on finding malicious events in raw Windows logs.
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Kaspersky's responders found no encrypted files and no malware on disk across the Windows estate of a Middle East manufacturer in April 2026. The impact arrived through one Group Policy Object linked at the domain root.
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The demo uploads a model file as base64 chunks over GET, then starts an inference server on it. It shows why egress and WAF rules keyed on the HTTP verb miss what the URL is doing.
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Palo Alto's Unit 42 says a human directing AI agents went from a public API endpoint to cloud keys in under 10 hours in summer 2026. The control that blocked the backdoor attempt was a repository setting.
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The PIVOT program was announced on September 15 with Broadcom, CrowdStrike, Fortinet, Palo Alto Networks and Sophos signed up, and the first comparative results are due in January 2027. MITRE's rival test drew 11 vendors in 2025.
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The Enterprise matrix now runs 15 tactics, and the two that replaced Defense Evasion leave different forensic evidence, so detection content mapped to the old tactic has to be reassigned technique by technique.
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