Between March 12 and 18, 2026, the GreyNoise Observation Grid (GOG) recorded 242,666 new scanning IPs geolocating to Hong Kong, 48.9% of all new scanning IPs seen that week. 99.7% never completed a TCP handshake, so GreyNoise classes them as "spoofable" (unverified source addresses). They carried no payloads and triggered no signatures. G…
Between May 9 and May 18, 2026, GreyNoise observed a major spike in scanning of SonicWall SonicOS management interfaces. The May 12 peak of about 597,000 sessions was the largest single-day total on the SonicWall SonicOS API Scanner tag in 90 days, roughly 46x the typical daily volume. Earlier spikes on this tag (January 18, January 30 an…
GreyNoise announced Project Swarm, a research initiative that opens its deception platform, the Global Observation Grid (5,000+ sensors in 80 countries, 500M+ sessions per day), to outside contributors. The stated aim is better visibility into attacks on network edge devices (firewalls, VPN gateways, routers, load balancers). These device…
GreyNoise analyzed 147.8 million sessions over 103 days across 276 vendor-specific tags covering 18 network infrastructure vendors. It found that surges in scanning and exploitation activity regularly precede vendor advisories. Of 104 detected surges, 68 preceded a vendor-matched CVE (33 vulnerabilities across 16 vendor families), with a …
GreyNoise analyzed 4 billion sessions targeting edge infrastructure over 90 days and concluded that IP reputation feeds are structurally ineffective against residential proxy traffic. Attackers route scanning and reconnaissance through compromised home broadband, mobile and small-business connections, so source IPs look like legitimate us…
GreyNoise reports that on 14 May 2026 its Global Observation Grid recorded 119,842 malicious, non-spoofable IPs targeting edge infrastructure. Compared against eleven widely used OSINT and commercial feeds, average coverage was 2.0%, and no single feed exceeded 5%. Even the largest list (Avastel, about 500,000 IPs) caught under 2%, and ve…
GreyNoise observed automated scanners impersonating the web crawlers of OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Perplexity, DeepSeek and Amazon while requesting environment files, cloud access keys, private keys and password stores. A cluster of 13 forged AI crawler names from eight companies was seen; six names (belonging to Anthropic, OpenAI, Google…
F5 Labs' 2025 Advanced Persistent Bots Report analyzes more than 200 billion web and mobile API transactions from F5 Bot Defense customers between November 2023 and September 2024. It finds that 10.2% (21.22 billion) of requests were bots or automation. Of these, 4.8% were unwanted bots mitigated by F5, 3.5% were flagged automation and 2.…
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…
Recorded Future's Insikt Group tracks the actor behind the October 2026 AI-assisted intrusions into South Korean financial institutions as TAG-217. The group was testing infrastructure and assembling attack tools as early as August 2026, weeks before the campaign became public. South Korea's Financial Services Commission (FSC) disclosed t…
Recorded Future's Insikt Group (report of October 16) tracks a suspected Chinese-speaking actor, TAG-217, linked to attacks on South Korean financial institutions. The actor used Claude Code, DeepSeek, Grok and Zhipu AI alongside ARTEX, an open-source Chinese-language AI penetration testing framework. Public reporting cited in the investi…
Cloudflare published defensive guidance following the disclosure of actively exploited Citrix NetScaler vulnerabilities. CVE-2026-88771 allows unauthenticated command execution on affected appliances, including in the default configuration. CVE-2026-88772 affects configurations using DTLS. Citrix's September 27, 2026 bulletin reported obs…
A multinational advisory (CISA, NSA, FBI, AIVD, MIVD, NCSC-UK and others) warns that the Russian state-supported APT LAUNDRY BEAR (aka Void Blizzard, TA488) has compromised Western government, defense industrial base and NGO organizations running Zimbra Collaboration Suite (ZCS) since at least July 2025. The campaign uses a view-based XSS…