The US Coast Guard and FBI boarded the Liberian-flagged supertanker VL Prosperity mid-voyage after its network may have been compromised by a foreign actor. The vessel was carrying about 2.3 million barrels of crude oil from Egypt's Sidi Kerir terminal to Galveston, Texas. The Coast Guard reports no disruption to operations, injuries or e…
A joint advisory (AA26-281A) attributes China-based malicious cyber activity to Integrity Technology Group (Integrity Tech), a for-profit company with links to the Chinese government. The company builds and sells tools, hosts infrastructure and compromises networks worldwide. The actors' TTPs are consistent with Flax Typhoon, Ethereal Pan…
The NSA, CISA, FBI, DOE and EPA issued a joint advisory (AA26-231A) warning of an active threat to Siemens S7 Series PLCs in U.S. critical infrastructure. Unattributed threat actors are conducting reconnaissance and capability development against U.S.-based installations using AI-generated exploitation scripts disguised as legitimate OT m…
A joint StopRansomware advisory (AA26-293A) from the FBI, CISA, USSS, Germany's Landeskriminalamt Rheinland-Pfalz, the UK's National Crime Agency and the North West Regional Organised Crime Unit details SafePay ransomware activity observed through August 2026. SafePay has been highly active since August 2024 and was among the most active …
The FBI has publicly called on remaining ShinyHunters members to surrender. Cyber division assistant director Brett Leatherman released a video thanking Dutch police for arresting a 24-year-old in Amsterdam. The FBI calls him "one of the alleged leaders" of the group, while Dutch police say only that he played a role. He is also suspected…
U.S. federal investigators pursuing ShinyHunters, which recently stole sensitive personnel data from the FBI recruitment site fbijobs.gov, reportedly identified executives at two ransomware negotiation firms with unusually close ties to the group. One U.S. consulting firm executive is suspected of helping operate the now-defunct extortion…
A joint advisory (AA25-343A) from FBI, CISA, NSA and some 18 other US, European, Five Eyes and Czech agencies warns that pro-Russia hacktivist groups are conducting opportunistic, low-sophistication attacks on critical infrastructure OT. The groups named are Cyber Army of Russia Reborn (CARR), Z-Pentest, NoName057(16) and Sector16. They e…