Prince of Persia (also tracked as Infy), an Iranian state-sponsored APT active for nearly 20 years, hosted a command-and-control server in the United States this year, according to Semperis. It is the first time the group has done so since 2016. The group went quiet for three months after SafeBreach's February 2026 report, the longest con…
Rapid7's Q3 2026 threat landscape report finds that high-severity vulnerabilities were exploited an average of three days after disclosure, with 71% exploited within the first seven days. 79% of them are classed as 'holy grail' flaws, meaning remote and needing no credentials or user interaction. Ransomware remains the dominant threat. Th…
Federal prosecutors say former OpenAI engineer Abdulrahman Alfozan, a 35-year-old Saudi national, was "mere days" from fleeing to Saudi Arabia before his arrest. A San Francisco federal judge (Alex Tse) denied his request for home confinement. Prosecutors allege he secretly installed an audio recording device in an executive conference ro…
SecurityWeek's weekly roundup covers several security incidents. Symantec linked APT28 (tracked as Swallowtail) to Hookedge backdoor intrusions against a law enforcement agency, a naval shipbuilder and a military aircraft engine maker in two NATO states. A researcher found that 333 Tor exit relays (about a tenth of all exits), running on …