Serial number: AV26-806Date: August 12, 2026 As of August 11, 2026, Google is affected by a vulnerability in the following product: Chrome versions prior to 151.0.7922.138 The Cyber Centre encourages users and administrators to review the provided web link and apply any necessary updates as they become available. Google Chrome Security Advisory
Project CAV3RN is a modular espionage framework used against targets in Israel. This report expands on two earlier publications: the first was published in June 2026 as part of our Kaspersky Threat Intelligence Reporting service, and the second was published on Securelist the following month, further documenting the framework’s evolving architecture and C2 capabilities. Continued tracking of this cluster in early August 2026 uncovered several previously undocumented components that expanded the…
For the latest discoveries in cyber research for the week of 10th August, please download our Threat Intelligence Bulletin. TOP ATTACKS AND BREACHES North Carolina Ports, the US authority operating the ports of Wilmington, Morehead City and others, has suffered a cyberattack that forced some operations onto manual processes. The authority claims it has contained the intrusion, but degraded systems caused delays while affected services were restored. Ryde, an electric scooter operator in…
Serial Number: AV26-787Date: August 7, 2026 As of August 6, 2026, Google is affected by vulnerabilities in the following product: Chrome versions prior to 151.0.7922.109 The Cyber Centre encourages users and administrators to review the provided web link and apply any necessary updates as they become available. Google Chrome Security Advisory
Written by: Corné de Jong Introduction Mandiant security assessments frequently identify publicly exposed serverless applications that lack authentication, often as a result of specific business requirements. Serverless deployments typically run custom-developed code that incorporates third-party packages, making them targets for a wide range of application-level attacks, including: Local and Remote File Inclusion (LFI/RFI) Command Injection Successful exploitation of these vulnerabilities can…
For the latest discoveries in cyber research for the week of 13th July, please download our Threat Intelligence Bulletin. TOP ATTACKS AND BREACHES U.S. auto insurer AssuranceAmerica has disclosed a data breach affecting approximately 7 million people. Attackers targeted an employee and used compromised credentials to access company systems, stealing names, contact information, driver’s license numbers, insurance policy and account data, vehicle information, and claims details. Latvia’s state…
Background Today, in coordination with the FBI, Lumen, and others, Google took action against the NetNut residential proxy network, also known as Popa. This action builds on our disruption of the IPIDEA proxy network that took place in January 2026, and is a continuation of Google’s objective to dismantle malicious residential proxy networks. Actions Taken As a part of this disruption we took the following actions: Disabled Google accounts and associated Google services used by NetNut for…
Executive Summary Compaction is a context-management pattern used across agent systems to compress prior context into a denser working state for long-running tasks. SentinelLABS evaluated OpenAI’s native Responses API implementation against our automated malware analysis evaluation harness to measure real-world impact on task quality and cost. Compaction reduced input tokens by ~86% with no measurable change to the aggregate evaluation score. Our analysis found that compaction can significantly…
Research by: Alexey Bukhteyev Key Takeaways AI can turn high-level malicious ideas into concrete techniques, and can independently design and implement novel attack paths that have not yet appeared in real-world campaigns. In this research, DeepSeek connected unrealistic browser-malware concepts with a real browser capability, turning an AI-generated malware hallucination into a plausible browser-native ransomware technique. Although the generated sample was incomplete, it exposed a practical…
Written by: Jordan Jones Introduction Google Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG) has conducted an in-depth analysis of a .NET backdoor, tracked as STOCKSTAY, that has been continually developed and deployed by the Russia-linked threat actor Turla (aka SUMMIT, Secret Blizzard, VENOMOUS BEAR, UAC-0194) since at least December 2022. Turla has deployed STOCKSTAY against government and military organizations in Ukraine, as well as entities with an interest in Italian foreign policy. Used for ongoing…
This vulnerability allows remote attackers to initiate arbitrary server-side requests on affected installations of Oracle PeopleSoft. Authentication is not required to exploit this vulnerability. The ZDI has assigned a CVSS rating of 9.3. The following CVEs are assigned: CVE-2026-35273.
A previously undocumented Windows loader tracked as OXLOADER is delivering the CASTLESTEALER infostealer via malicious Google Ads, with low detection rates across static engines and sandbox detonations. The loader uses several obfuscation layers (control-flow flattening, opaque predicates, mixed Boolean-Arithmetic), self-modifying decryption stubs, and abuses the Windows .reloc section to stage shellcode. Elastic Security Labs identified OXLOADER in an active campaign targeting one of our…
Cybercriminals hijacked Google Ads searches for popular AI developer tools to funnel over 2,000 victims toward malicious download pages before quietly moving their operation onto claude.ai's own platform, turning the trusted domain into a delivery mechanism for credential-stealing malware.
Written by: Patrick Whitsell, John McGuiness, Muhammad Umair Google Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG) has identified a sophisticated campaign attributed to UNC6508, a People's Republic of China (PRC)-nexus threat actor, targeting institutions in the North American academic, medical, and military research community. While remaining undetected for over a year, the threat actor compromised externally facing web applications, deployed bespoke malware, pivoted to sensitive internal systems, and…
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Written by: Chad Reams, Tufail Ahmed, Keith Knapp, Ashley Frazer, Tyler McLellan Introduction From January through May 2026, Mandiant identified a financially motivated data theft extortion campaign executed by the threat cluster UNC3753 (also tracked as "Luna Moth," “Chatty Spider,” and "Silent Ransom Group") targeting dozens of organizations across professional, legal, and financial services in the United States. UNC3753 leverages voice phishing (vishing) and social engineering deception…
A malspam campaign abusing Google's DoubleClick delivers the loader through a five-stage chain that evades detection and blinds Windows telemetry before persisting
In this roundup, Tony looks at attacks against Polish water treatment facilities, how AI-directed attacks failed in Mexico, and what Google believes is the first AI-generated zero-day exploit
Tycoon 2FA is currently the most prolific Phishing-as-a-Service (PhaaS) platform among AiTM phishing kits. First observed in August 2023 and attributed to Storm-1747 (per Microsoft Threat Intelligence), the kit provides turnkey adversary-in-the-middle (AiTM) capabilities that bypass multi-factor authentication and steal authenticated session tokens from Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace accounts. At its peak, Tycoon 2FA accounted for roughly 62% of phishing attempts blocked by Microsoft,…
While Russian-speaking threat actors have historically dominated the phishing-as-a-service (PhaaS) landscape, a rival ecosystem is rapidly growing within the Chinese-language underground. Google Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG) analyzed a dozen current PhaaS offerings in the Chinese underground, all of them mature services and many likely tied intricately to the broader criminal ecosystem in that region. These services not only lower the barrier to entry for Chinese cyber criminals, but reveal…
Google omylem zveřejnil funkční exploit na dosud neopravenu zranitelnost v jádru Chromium, která existuje už zhruba tři a půl roku a ovlivňuje prohlížeče jako Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge, Brave či Opera. Útok lze spustit pouhou návštěvou škodlivé stránky a umožňuje vytvořit skryté trvalé spojení přes funkci Background Fetch (stahování na pozadí), čímž může zařízení sloužit jako proxy, součást botnetu nebo k omezenému sledování aktivity (bez přímého přístupu k datům v systému). Riziko spočívá…
Deleting a Google API key doesn't revoke it immediately. Our testing found successful authentications up to 23 minutes after deletion, and Google has declined to fix it. Category: Vulnerabilities & Threats
Executive Summary Since our February 2026 report on AI-related threat activity, Google Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG) has continued to track a maturing transition from nascent AI-enabled operations to the industrial-scale application of generative models within adversarial workflows. This report, based on insights derived from Mandiant incident response engagements, Gemini, and GTIG’s proactive research, highlights the dual nature of the current threat environment where AI serves as both a…
ESET researchers uncovered fraudulent apps on Google Play that claim to provide the call history “for any number” and had been downloaded more than seven million times before being taken down
Google ha rilasciato gli aggiornamenti di sicurezza di maggio per sanare una vulnerabilità con gravità “critica” che interessa il sistema operativo Android. Tale vulnerabilità, qualora sfruttata, potrebbe consentire ad un utente malintenzionato su rete locale di eseguire codice arbitrario sul sistema.
Written by: JP Glab, Tufail Ahmed, Josh Kelley, Muhammad Umair Introduction Google Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG) identified a multistage intrusion campaign by a newly tracked threat group, UNC6692, that leveraged persistent social engineering, a custom modular malware suite, and deft pivoting inside the victim’s environment to achieve deep network penetration. As with many other intrusions in recent years, UNC6692 relied heavily on impersonating IT helpdesk employees, convincing their victim…
Introduction Advances in AI model-powered exploitation have demonstrated that general-purpose AI models can excel at vulnerability discovery, even without being purpose-built for the task. Eventually, capabilities such as these will be integrated directly into the development cycle, and code will be more difficult to exploit than ever; however, this transition creates a critical window of risk. As we harden existing software with AI, threat actors will use it to discover and exploit novel…
Written by: Jamie Collier, Robin Grunewald Germany has reclaimed its position as a primary focus for cyber extortion in Europe. While data leak site (DLS) posts rose almost 50% globally in 2025, Google Threat Intelligence (GTI) data shows that the surge is hitting German infrastructure harder and faster than its regional neighbors, marking a significant return to the high-pressure levels previously observed in the country during 2022 and 2023. Cyber Criminals Pivoting Back to Germany Germany…
Huntress now delivers ITDR for Google Workspace to protect identities against BEC, inbox rule manipulation, and account takeover, all with a 24/7 SOC-led response.
Huntress uncovers a tax-themed malvertising campaign using Google Ads, dual cloaking, rogue ScreenConnect, and an undocumented Huawei driver to kill AV/EDR.
Modern BEC attacks now abuse Google Workspace identities. Discover why BEC is an identity problem, and learn how to secure your organization against these threats.