SOCRadar's Threat Research Unit (STRU) found open directories on 45.227.254.43 in late September 2026. They led to six more adversary servers tied to INC Ransom and The Gentlemen affiliates. The servers held 8,257 AI messages across 133 sessions, source code, stolen credentials, victim workspaces and 46 victim-specific INC encryptor build…
The NSA, CISA and FBI issued joint advisory AA26-251A warning that China-based AI companies are running industrial-scale knowledge distillation campaigns against U.S. frontier AI models. The named companies are DeepSeek, Moonshot AI, Alibaba, MiniMax, StepFun and Z.AI. According to the agencies, they have extracted billions of tokens acro…
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…