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Computer intrusion carried out by or for governments, usually for espionage, data theft, or disruption of rival states.
Paul Chichester, the NCSC's director of operations, says Russia, China, North Korea and Iran all use AI to attack the UK. New Scientist's report of the interview includes no attack counts, so the size of any rise in volume is unstated.
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DOJ and FBI seized seven domains tied to Integrity Tech's Microscan and FishHub tools, the second action against the Flax Typhoon contractor. The company still had live scanning and phishing infrastructure to seize after the September 2024 botnet takedown.
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Montenegro extradited Turkish-Iranian Amir Barati to face US charges over a university hacking campaign that US officials say did $3.4 billion in damage. Where he chose to travel decided the case: police picked him up on holiday in Kotor, nine years after the charged hacking ended.
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Check Point says the Operation Dream Job chain now escalates through CVE-2026-68820 to install FudModule v3.1. CISA has told federal agencies to patch by August 25.
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CVE-2026-20079 hands unauthenticated attackers root on Secure Firewall Management Center. CISA wants federal boxes fixed by September 12. The hot fix closes the path but does not evict anyone who already walked it.
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New research counted roughly 350 of the ads on Meta's platforms, some built from images of real children, and lawmakers have said they will investigate. In the same week Meta launched a personal AI agent it says was built with security and privacy in mind.
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