F5 Labs assesses the security risks and rewards of Chinese open-weight LLMs (Qwen, GLM, Kimi, MiMo, MiniMax, DeepSeek). It finds that strong offensive and defensive cyber capability does not translate into consistent resistance to attack. Cited examples include Kimi K3 finding 19 vulnerabilities in Redis and GLM 5.2 being self-hosted by H…
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS), under Secretary Markwayne Mullin, has issued an order under the Federal Acquisition Supply Chain Security Act of 2018 (FASCSA). It directs federal civilian agencies to stop buying and to remove products and services from Hangzhou DeepSeek Artificial Intelligence Co., Ltd. and its affiliates. It a…
Hardware hacker Joe Grand found tampered Trezor Model T and Trezor One wallets sold through unauthorized third-party channels (Facebook Marketplace in Canada in 2025, and a TikTok shop in August 2026, shipped from China). The attackers replaced the microcontroller with one running malicious firmware that hands users one of about a dozen p…
ThreatBook announced RedAgents on October 16, 2026. It is a SaaS platform that runs several AI penetration testing agents in parallel against authorized targets and shows the findings in one interface. The platform combines Artex Pro, Cyber(YanJi), Yanxun and CyberStrikeAI Enterprise Edition. ThreatBook says that combining agents improves…
CISA and the UK NCSC, with co-sealing partners, published advisory AA26-113A on China-nexus cyber actors' use of large, dynamic covert networks of compromised devices, mainly SOHO routers and IoT devices. These networks are shared by multiple threat actors and each may contain hundreds of thousands of endpoints. This makes static IP block…
The US State Department is offering up to US $10 million through Rewards for Justice for information on Zhang Yu, 44, a Chinese national accused of being a key figure in the state-sponsored group Hafnium (also tracked as Silk Typhoon). Zhang is described as a director at Shanghai Firetech Information Science and Technology, working under …
Israeli startup Hirundo reports that Alibaba's Qwen3-Coder shows a pro-CCP bias, producing more vulnerable code when asked to build applications for Western organizations. This is consistent with earlier findings by CrowdStrike (November 2025) and Booz Allen Hamilton (May 2026). Hirundo had the model build web services (sign-up, login, se…
X said it removed more than 13,000 accounts involved in three suspected foreign influence operations targeting US political debate ahead of the 3 November 2026 US midterm elections. The platform linked the operations to Iran, Russia and China. It said the networks used inauthentic accounts to post and amplify political content aimed at ca…
F5 Labs, using Efflux sensor telemetry, reports that CVE-2023-1389, an RCE in TP-Link Archer AX21 routers, was the most scanned-for CVE in December 2024 for the fifth consecutive month, with traffic far above any other tracked CVE. Other heavily scanned flaws include CVE-2022-24847 (GeoServer), CVE-2022-22947 (Spring Cloud Gateway), CVE-2…
F5 Labs published research on SparkRAT, a freely available, Go-based open-source Remote Access Trojan with a C2 server and builds for Windows, Linux and macOS. Public reporting since January 2023 shows use by a widening set of actors: Chinese-speaking groups, Winnti (APT41), Patchwork, TAG-100, suspected UAC-0194 against Ukraine, and Cybe…
TrendAI™ (Trend Micro) published its H1 2026 APT Activity Roundup on July 29, 2026. It finds nation-state actors used AI in more stages of the intrusion lifecycle than in any prior half-year the company has tracked. China-aligned actors used generative AI to refine exploits and iteratively build malware through "vibe coding", and one AI a…
In late August 2026, Sekoia's TDR team observed an attacker compromise an unauthenticated Flowise honeypot (emulating v2.2.8). The attacker harvested stored credentials, tried to plant a malicious chatflow with a callback to 154.217.251.226, and used prompt injection to turn the LLM agent into an offensive analysis assistant. The activity…
F5 Labs honeynet telemetry shows overall hostile activity rising 55.5% month over month in June 2026, a return to the levels of the earlier-year spike. Highlighted is CVE-2024-44000, an unauthenticated account takeover flaw (CVSS 9.8, CWE-522) in the LiteSpeed Cache WordPress plugin, which rose by 1,128 to 2,603 attacks (8). Scanning is i…