Recorded Future has moved its headquarters from Somerville, MA, where it had been based for twelve years in a former laundromat, to downtown Boston at Post Office Square. The article is a corporate culture and recruitment piece. It describes the new open-plan office, which houses nearly 200 employees across customer success, security, dat…
Symantec reports that APT28 (also tracked as Swallowtail, Fancy Bear and Forest Blizzard), a group linked to Russia's GRU, compromised two defense firms and a law enforcement agency in NATO countries in recent months. The victims were a naval shipbuilder, a manufacturer of military aircraft engines and the agency. At the shipbuilder, oper…
Recorded Future's Insikt Group reports on TAG-193, a cluster that ran a sustained intelligence-collection campaign against government bodies from early 2025 through May 2026. Targets include diplomacy, economic development, agriculture and environmental agencies in Russia, Tajikistan, Belarus, Armenia and Uzbekistan. Lure documents and im…
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…
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…
Silent Lynx, tracked as UAT-6275 by Cisco Talos and TAG-193 by Recorded Future Insikt Group, has been linked to a new set of attacks on government organizations across the Commonwealth of Independent States. The activity ran from June 2025 through August 2026 and used four infection chains to deploy custom reverse shells (FoalShell, Chvos…
The Hudson Rock 2026 Infostealer Index benchmarks 34 threat intelligence vendors against nine criteria on a 100-point scale. The article is a summary by InfoStealers, which Hudson Rock operates, so the ranking is not independent. It frames infostealer malware as a dominant threat and cites a "massive AI supply chain hack of 2026" as an ex…
Symantec reports that the Russia-linked APT28 (aka BlueDelta, Fancy Bear, Forest Blizzard), tracked by Symantec as Swallowtail, targeted entities in two NATO member states. Victims include a law enforcement agency, a naval shipbuilder and a manufacturer of military aircraft engines. In the shipbuilder intrusion in late July 2026, operator…
Qilin and Settra ransomware groups are actively exploiting CVE-2026-0257, an authentication bypass in PAN-OS GlobalProtect and Prisma Access disclosed in May 2026, according to ReliaQuest. Because access arrives through the victim's own VPN, it can resemble legitimate remote work and go unnoticed until credential theft, lateral movement, …