CrowdStrike reports that the cybercriminal group SLIM SPIDER breached a Brazilian financial institution in late March 2026 to obtain credentials and information tied to digital assets. The group did not attack Pix or the Central Bank directly. It targeted the cloud environments that banks and fintechs use. CrowdStrike also recorded a 171%…
Microsoft assesses that the China-aligned actor Storm-0940 used the agentic AI penetration testing framework ARTEX to compromise the Microsoft 365 tenants of ConnectWise, then pivoted to its downstream customers. The campaign began in September 2026 and targeted hundreds of organizations worldwide across aerospace and defense, energy, fin…
CrowdStrike researchers analyzed AI infrastructure left openly exposed on web servers by four previously unreported criminal groups (Chinese-, Spanish/English-, Indonesian- and Russian-speaking). The groups ran attacks between May and August 2026 using mostly older versions of Anthropic's Claude and open-weight Deepseek models. All four b…
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…
A Chinese-speaking threat operator combined the agentic penetration-testing framework ARTEX with Claude Code, Codex and configurations requesting DeepSeek, GLM and Grok models to coordinate attacks on organizations worldwide. Recovered prompts dated August 4 to October 4, 2026 referenced targets in financial services, cryptocurrency, reta…
The PHP security team released emergency fixes on October 21, 2026 for two critical core flaws, CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619, nicknamed PHP2Shell. Both are rated CVSS v4.0 9.2 and allow unauthenticated remote code execution (RCE) as the web worker account. They can also expose process memory that may hold credentials and API keys (…