Cyber & Information Warfare

55+ min ago   (490+ words) New Zealand's political parties are receiving briefings on AI-powered cyber threats ahead of the election, as the country's latest cyber security report warns that advanced AI tools, currently limited to leading frontier models, could be in the hands of malicious…...

3+ hour, 24+ min ago   (234+ words) Cyberattacks on medical institutions jumped from 18 in 2020 to 107 in 2024, with 62 ransomware attacks targeting EMR and PACS systems ◇ System Encryption and Ransom Demands: ‘Ransomware’ Breaches of patient treatment information totaled 71 cases between 2022 and 2025, with 62 of these being ransomware attacks. Ransomware is…...

10+ hour, 54+ min ago   (334+ words) No ransoms were paid to hackers during the cyberattacks that hit the University of Mississippi Medical Center or Institutes of Higher Learning this year, officials confirmed to Mississippi Today. "No state taxpayer dollars were used" to pay the perpetrators of…...

2+ hour, 44+ min ago   (721+ words) Whether produced by Russia, China or far-right influencers, deepfakes and disinfo are being used to spread deceitful narratives Russian disinformation campaigns are varied in their falsehoods and strategies. The narratives range from a deepfake Tom Cruise slamming the Paris Olympics…...

14+ hour, 27+ min ago   (453+ words) Over 1000 organizations globally were hit with ransomware attacks during August, as the number of cyber extortion campaigns reached a new high for 2026, analysis of incidents has warned. According to NCC Group’s Cyber Threat Intelligence Report for August 2026, published on September…...

11+ hour, 1+ min ago   (942+ words) Cybersecurity is moving out of the server room and into the center of defense planning. In Europe, the shift is being driven by the need to keep transportation networks, government systems and critical infrastructure functioning during a major crisis. In…...

10+ hour, 51+ min ago   (513+ words) Foundation for Defense of Democracies Maritime Cyber Incidents Test Coast Guard Cyber Preparedness The Coast Guard and the FBI are investigating multiple suspected cyberattacks on oil tankers that have disrupted trade routes throughout the Atlantic Ocean. On August 7, an oil…...

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1+ day, 11+ hour ago   (547+ words) In late July 2026, Proofpoint threat researchers detected a concentrated Microsoft 365 brute-force campaign targeting Chilean organizations. The attacker's tooling left a familiar artifact: the hardcoded user agent unique to TeamFiltration - a cross-platform offensive framework publicly documented by Proofpoint in the UNK_SneakyStrike blogpost....

8+ hour, 18+ min ago   (1126+ words) Vitaly, in a gray jacket, and Igor, right, shortly before they ran from Seznam Zprávy journalists after being confronted with questions. At left is Bohumil Kartous, whom they had tried to interview According to Seznam Zprávy, the operation began with…...