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Aug
The Maintenance Excuse: Zbtlink, the National Intelligence Law, and the Case Against Trusting Chinese Router Firmware- 295

The Maintenance Excuse: Zbtlink, the National Intelligence Law, and the Case Against Trusting Chinese Router Firmware- 295

August 8, 2026 On August 6, Chinese router maker Zbtlink told a reporter that a hidden remote-command implant researchers
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03
Aug
One police force, two foreign intelligence services: how China and India ended up spying on the same Pakistani database- 290

One police force, two foreign intelligence services: how China and India ended up spying on the same Pakistani database- 290

July 11, 2026 Cybersecurity researchers have documented something unusual even by the standards of state-linked cyberespionage: hacking groups tied
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03
Aug
Tax season as an attack surface: how a suspected Chinese hacking cluster is running parallel RAT campaigns across India, Japan, and China- 283

Tax season as an attack surface: how a suspected Chinese hacking cluster is running parallel RAT campaigns across India, Japan, and China- 283

July 7, 2026 A suspected China-nexus threat cluster has spent the current Indian tax filing season running a precisely-
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24
Jul
Washington Recasts Pig-Butchering as a National-Security Problem: Inside the $43 Million Network That Fed China-Bound Laundering Pipelines- 271

Washington Recasts Pig-Butchering as a National-Security Problem: Inside the $43 Million Network That Fed China-Bound Laundering Pipelines- 271

July 21, 2026 The indictment of two Brooklyn and Queens residents accused of laundering more than $43 million in cyber-
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22
Jul
Bulletproof No Longer: The Unsealing of the Media Land Indictment- 270

Bulletproof No Longer: The Unsealing of the Media Land Indictment- 270

July 16, 2026 Three years after federal prosecutors first built their case, the US Justice Department this week unsealed an
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20
Jul
The Certificate Authority's Blind Spot: How a Trusted Signing Chain Became a Weapon- 255

The Certificate Authority's Blind Spot: How a Trusted Signing Chain Became a Weapon- 255

July 18, 2026 In April 2026, a routine support interaction at DigiCert — a customer service chat, a screenshot-disguised ZIP
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19
Jul
The offense-defense balance in cyber has a shelf life, and CNAS just estimated it- 229

The offense-defense balance in cyber has a shelf life, and CNAS just estimated it- 229

May 6, 2026 Cybersecurity has operated for years on a comfortable, if uneasy, assumption: AI-driven detection tools favor defenders,
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19
Jul
From Signatures to Behavior: How Real-Time AI Attacks Disrupted Global Cyber Defense- 224

From Signatures to Behavior: How Real-Time AI Attacks Disrupted Global Cyber Defense- 224

May 4, 2026 A retail chain in Hungary lost €15.5 million because an AI-polished email looked exactly like
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19
Jul
Google's GTIG report confirms AI has crossed from cybercrime convenience to zero-day creation- 223

Google's GTIG report confirms AI has crossed from cybercrime convenience to zero-day creation- 223

May 14, 2026 Google's Threat Intelligence Group has documented the first case it can trace of a functioning
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19
Jul
A university researcher just proved a city's EV chargers can be switched off with one script- 220

A university researcher just proved a city's EV chargers can be switched off with one script- 220

April 24, 2026 At Black Hat Asia, a Tsinghua University researcher showed a room full of security professionals something more
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