RESPONSEHuntress Reconstructs Akira Ransomware Attack From Registry Artifacts After Post-Compromise EDR InstallNEW YORKNoah ParkDETECTIONCrowdStrike Shows Attackers Bypass LLM Safety Classifiers by Splitting Harmful Goals Into Benign SubtasksLONDONAva OkelloTOOLSUnit 42 Tracks ChainDrop and PolinRider Stealing Cloud Build Credentials Through Blockchain C2 Dead DropsAUSTINJames WhitfordTHREAT INTELCisco Talos Tracks UAT-11985 Phishing Taiwan Researchers With AI-Assisted Invites and Real-Time Google Login RelaysSINGAPOREPriya ShahRESPONSEHuntress Sees Active Exploitation of AhsayCBS Backup Flaws Dropping Webshells and XMRig Across Five OrganizationsNEW YORKNoah ParkDETECTIONMalware Now Embeds Instructions Meant to Steer AI Analysis Tools, Cisco Talos Finds Across 84 SamplesLONDONAva OkelloTHREAT INTELRussia-Aligned Spies Retool MATCHBOIL Malware and Widen Attacks to Ukrainian Transport, Manufacturing and Energy FirmsSINGAPOREPriya ShahRESPONSEFBI and Secret Service Warn FortiBleed Hackers Are Locking Some Fortinet Customers Out of Their Own FirewallsNEW YORKNoah ParkDETECTIONAttackers Are Testing Stolen AWS Keys for Amazon Bedrock Access, Leaving a Pattern Defenders Can SpotLONDONAva OkelloRESPONSEPoisoned Tensorlake npm Release Hid a Worm That Deletes Home Directories if Victims Revoke the Stolen TokenNEW YORKNoah ParkTHREAT INTELFBI Seizes Integrity Tech Hacking Tools as Allies Detail How China-Linked Hackers Steal Government EmailSINGAPOREPriya ShahDETECTIONMalware That Reads Its Orders From a Poem on GitHub Has Hit More Than 3,400 Exposed AI and Developer ServersLONDONAva OkelloTHREAT INTELIran-Linked Hackers Posing as Dubai Airports Recruiters Hide Malware in a Visual Studio Coding TestSINGAPOREPriya ShahTHREAT INTELFake ChatGPT and Gemini Ad Portals Use Browser-in-the-Browser Pop-Ups to Steal Logins and MFA CodesSINGAPOREPriya ShahDETECTIONMicrosoft Warns ClickFix Lures Now Hide Their Payload in the Browser CacheLONDONAva OkelloTHREAT INTELClingSTUN Backdoor Turns Unpatched IoT Devices Into Proxies Hidden in Public STUN TrafficSINGAPOREPriya ShahDETECTIONThales SConnect Flaw Opened Drive-By Code Execution on PCs Used for SWIFT 3SKey Sign-InLONDONAva OkelloRESPONSECitrix Patches NetScaler SAML Zero-Day CVE-2026-88779 After Attacks Reboot Freshly Patched AppliancesNEW YORKNoah ParkTHREAT INTELRapid7 Tracks BPFDoor and AVERAT Implants Mimicking Asian Mail GatewaysSINGAPOREPriya ShahRESPONSEMicrosoft Tracks Unauthenticated Zimbra SNMP Command Injection Exploited as CVE-2026-73570NEW YORKNoah ParkOPINIONSOC Autonomy Without Governance Recreates the Same Failure Modes AI Was Meant to FixLONDONElena VosTHREAT INTELMandiant Warns ShinyHunters Bypass WAFs to Resume PeopleSoft Mass ExploitationSINGAPOREPriya ShahDETECTIONMicrosoft Tracks EvilTokens Phishing Kit Behind Device Code Token TheftLONDONAva OkelloRESPONSECitrix Confirms Two NetScaler RCE Zero-Days Exploited in the WildNEW YORKNoah ParkDETECTIONHuntress Finds Threat Actor Compiling Silent XMR Miner Directly on EndpointLONDONAva OkelloRESPONSECISA Puts MikroTik RouterOS SSH Workflow Flaw CVE-2026-67279 on KEVWASHINGTONNoah ParkRESPONSECheck Point Patches Actively Exploited Management Server Path TraversalNEW YORKNoah ParkDETECTIONReport Finds Nearly Half of Deployed Detections Need Attention Before SOCs Can Trust ThemDALLASAva OkelloRESPONSEHuntress Reconstructs Akira Ransomware Attack From Registry Artifacts After Post-Compromise EDR InstallNEW YORKNoah ParkDETECTIONCrowdStrike Shows Attackers Bypass LLM Safety Classifiers by Splitting Harmful Goals Into Benign SubtasksLONDONAva OkelloTOOLSUnit 42 Tracks ChainDrop and PolinRider Stealing Cloud Build Credentials Through Blockchain C2 Dead DropsAUSTINJames WhitfordTHREAT INTELCisco Talos Tracks UAT-11985 Phishing Taiwan Researchers With AI-Assisted Invites and Real-Time Google Login RelaysSINGAPOREPriya ShahRESPONSEHuntress Sees Active Exploitation of AhsayCBS Backup Flaws Dropping Webshells and XMRig Across Five OrganizationsNEW YORKNoah ParkDETECTIONMalware Now Embeds Instructions Meant to Steer AI Analysis Tools, Cisco Talos Finds Across 84 SamplesLONDONAva OkelloTHREAT INTELRussia-Aligned Spies Retool MATCHBOIL Malware and Widen Attacks to Ukrainian Transport, Manufacturing and Energy FirmsSINGAPOREPriya ShahRESPONSEFBI and Secret Service Warn FortiBleed Hackers Are Locking Some Fortinet Customers Out of Their Own FirewallsNEW YORKNoah ParkDETECTIONAttackers Are Testing Stolen AWS Keys for Amazon Bedrock Access, Leaving a Pattern Defenders Can SpotLONDONAva OkelloRESPONSEPoisoned Tensorlake npm Release Hid a Worm That Deletes Home Directories if Victims Revoke the Stolen TokenNEW YORKNoah ParkTHREAT INTELFBI Seizes Integrity Tech Hacking Tools as Allies Detail How China-Linked Hackers Steal Government EmailSINGAPOREPriya ShahDETECTIONMalware That Reads Its Orders From a Poem on GitHub Has Hit More Than 3,400 Exposed AI and Developer ServersLONDONAva OkelloTHREAT INTELIran-Linked Hackers Posing as Dubai Airports Recruiters Hide Malware in a Visual Studio Coding TestSINGAPOREPriya ShahTHREAT INTELFake ChatGPT and Gemini Ad Portals Use Browser-in-the-Browser Pop-Ups to Steal Logins and MFA CodesSINGAPOREPriya ShahDETECTIONMicrosoft Warns ClickFix Lures Now Hide Their Payload in the Browser CacheLONDONAva OkelloTHREAT INTELClingSTUN Backdoor Turns Unpatched IoT Devices Into Proxies Hidden in Public STUN TrafficSINGAPOREPriya ShahDETECTIONThales SConnect Flaw Opened Drive-By Code Execution on PCs Used for SWIFT 3SKey Sign-InLONDONAva OkelloRESPONSECitrix Patches NetScaler SAML Zero-Day CVE-2026-88779 After Attacks Reboot Freshly Patched AppliancesNEW YORKNoah ParkTHREAT INTELRapid7 Tracks BPFDoor and AVERAT Implants Mimicking Asian Mail GatewaysSINGAPOREPriya ShahRESPONSEMicrosoft Tracks Unauthenticated Zimbra SNMP Command Injection Exploited as CVE-2026-73570NEW YORKNoah ParkOPINIONSOC Autonomy Without Governance Recreates the Same Failure Modes AI Was Meant to FixLONDONElena VosTHREAT INTELMandiant Warns ShinyHunters Bypass WAFs to Resume PeopleSoft Mass ExploitationSINGAPOREPriya ShahDETECTIONMicrosoft Tracks EvilTokens Phishing Kit Behind Device Code Token TheftLONDONAva OkelloRESPONSECitrix Confirms Two NetScaler RCE Zero-Days Exploited in the WildNEW YORKNoah ParkDETECTIONHuntress Finds Threat Actor Compiling Silent XMR Miner Directly on EndpointLONDONAva OkelloRESPONSECISA Puts MikroTik RouterOS SSH Workflow Flaw CVE-2026-67279 on KEVWASHINGTONNoah ParkRESPONSECheck Point Patches Actively Exploited Management Server Path TraversalNEW YORKNoah ParkDETECTIONReport Finds Nearly Half of Deployed Detections Need Attention Before SOCs Can Trust ThemDALLASAva Okello

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TOOLS · REDMOND

Microsoft folds SIEM and threat protection into Defender as ISOC enters preview

REDMOND - Microsoft on September 23, 2026, announced Integrated Security Operations Center, or ISOC, in Microsoft Defender, a preview foundation that puts security information and event management and native threat protection on one shared platform so analysts and agents can investigate and act without stitching separate stacks.

Ava Okello, Detection, London

TOOLS · WASHINGTON

CISA Scales Free SIEM-as-a-Service to Shorten Federal Response Windows

WASHINGTON - The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency is expanding its security information and event management as a service offering for federal civilian agencies, aiming to give agency and CISA hunters shared SIEM telemetry at no cost to participating departments while cutting the time needed to start an investigation.

September 25, 2026

James Whitford, Tools, Austin

Diagram of the ChainDrop npm worm attack flow from malicious package install through credential harvest and EtherHiding C2. — Figure: Unit 42, Figure 1, attack flow of the ChainDrop npm worm, Oct 7, 2026 (fair use).

TOOLS · AUSTIN

Unit 42 Tracks ChainDrop and PolinRider Stealing Cloud Build Credentials Through Blockchain C2 Dead Drops

Unit 42 says supply chain worms are resolving command-and-control through EtherHiding, cross-chain transaction data, and NullReceiver address encoding so CI pipelines and developer hosts leak ephemeral cloud keys without hard-coded domains.

James Whitford, Tools, Austin

TOOLS · MOUNTAIN VIEW

SentinelOne Extends Wayfinder Threat Hunting to AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud

MOUNTAIN VIEW - SentinelOne on September 24, 2026, said it has expanded Wayfinder Threat Hunting to AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud. In a Business Wire announcement that day, the company said the service pairs Singularity Platform telemetry with human-led hunting, and that it uses threat intelligence and intrusion findings from SentinelOne and Google Threat Intelligence in one workflow. SentinelOne said the cloud step follows earlier Wayfinder coverage of endpoints and of identity hunting for Okta and Microsoft Entra ID.

September 25, 2026

James Whitford, Tools, Austin

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