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Recorded Future is a cybersecurity company providing threat intelligence on hackers, malware, and geopolitical risk; Insikt Group publishes attribution reports.
Recorded Future says TAG-217 was testing infrastructure and assembling attack tools in August 2026, weeks before South Korea's bank breaches surfaced. Insikt says exposed directories gave it the timeline and give defenders openings to spot related activity.
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New Zealand's NCSC says a North Korean operative hired as a remote IT contractor threatened to leak a large business's sensitive data once exposed. Coder Trove counts five of the 10 steps in a fake remote hire as running through HR.
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Cisco Talos and Recorded Future tie a June 2025 to August 2026 campaign against CIS governments to UAT-6275. Talos rates its Kazakhstan nexus at medium confidence, and Recorded Future tracks the same activity as TAG-193.
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Recorded Future's Insikt Group assesses that Russia's VPN, platform and shutdown controls since mid-2025 will likely fall short of a sovereign internet. Organizations operating in Russia face rising surveillance and legal risk from the controls, Insikt says.
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North Korean fake IT workers are submitting as many as 60 job applications a day, ITPro reported from new research. Interviews are where these candidates succeed, so identity checks at hiring belong on the security team's list.
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Israel's National Cyber Directorate traced a hijacked chicken coop camera to Iranian-linked hackers, the Wall Street Journal reported. Pro-Ukraine and Russian operators run the same collection, but this account ties factory passwords only to the Israeli case.
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Japan's Active Cyber Defense law has made designated critical-infrastructure operators register covered systems and report incidents since October 1, 2026. Powers to collect and act on communications data wait until November 23, 2027, so reporting runs about 13 months ahead of the detection meant to support it.
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Recorded Future says filtering, verification and training still blunt most AI phishing, with deepfaked voice and video the exception. Its advice is to stop treating a familiar face or voice on a call as proof of identity.
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The new backdoor, HOOKEDGE, is a Windows batch script that beacons to a free webhook.site endpoint. Insikt Group calls the BlueDelta attribution moderate confidence, resting on overlap with the older HEADLACE implant.
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Huntress found suspected DPRK workers inside an Australian healthcare company and a sales hire wearing a stolen identity, which puts the screening that catches them in the hands of recruiters and background-check vendors.
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Recorded Future's Insikt Group says Russia-linked sabotage in Europe rose four-fold from 2023 to 2024 and held at that level in 2025. It expects Russia to escalate in the near term, possibly into a full-scale New Generation Warfare campaign.
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Recorded Future's profile of a phishing and money-laundering vendor on the Dabai and Xinbi guarantee marketplaces documents at least 100 Telegram usernames and multiple virtual numbers bought via Fragment Market.
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Insikt Group counted 215 actively exploited CVEs in six months, up 34% year on year, and describes attackers running them through remote access utilities, package registries and payment flows defenders already permit.
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The vendor reports an average 63% cut in alert volume from its new relevance classifier, publishes no accuracy figure for it, and switches it on by default for new customers.
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The National Cybersecurity Plan 2025-2030 loads its operational machinery into a single legislative year. Firms operating in Mexico should budget for weak state incident response until it lands.
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Recorded Future logged three CopyCop impersonations against the US-Armenian Firebird AI data center in a 20-day window, the last of them fabricating an Iranian military case for hitting it.
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Recorded Future says one PurpleDelta cluster applied at more than 1,100 companies and was likely employed at ten or more. The control point is the recruiting funnel, not the SOC.
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