Navy warns of multi-pronged adversary campaign targeting personnel and installations
The campaign includes direct threats and harassment via social media, doxing, drone activity near Navy assets, ground-level surveillance, physical attacks, and probes of security measures.
New Agent Tesla malware version uses emoji obfuscation to evade detection
The latest Agent Tesla campaign utilizes a JScript dropper that incorporates Unicode emoji characters to disrupt signature-based detection and obscure the malicious code.
Army seeks AI agents for cyber defense amid evolving threats
Project Griffin, also known as the Intelligent Response and Orchestration Node (IRON), is a pilot program designed to create an ecosystem of AI agents capable of analyzing data from the Army's extensive network sensors and autonomously executing...
Researchers find way to weaponize Windows Defender's own driver
Check Point Research disclosed a technique that uses Microsoft Defender's boot-time remediation driver, BTR.sys, to perform arbitrary kernel-level file and registry operations on Windows 7 through Windows 11 25H2.
Senator Wyden seeks review of federal law enforcement hacking tools
Wyden has formally requested the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) to conduct a comprehensive inquiry into how agencies such as the FBI, DEA, ICE Homeland Security Investigations, and the Secret Service utilize these sophisticated...