Alessandro Mascellino
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China-Linked Hackers Impersonate AI Experts to Target US Policy (opens the original)
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A China-aligned group has posed as well-known AI policy figures and economists to steal login credentials from AI policy specialists at US think tanks, universities and law firms. Proofpoint, which tracks the group as TA419, said in research published October 1 that it has been running credential phishing against staff at think tanks, defense contractors, universities and law firms in the US and Japan since at least April 2025. It is the first public report on TA419. From July 8, the attackers s
CloudSyncD MacOS Backdoor Hides Behind Fake Zoom Installer (opens the original)
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A new macOS backdoor has been hidden inside a fake Zoom installer that prompts users for their login password before launching an embedded second stage. The malware, dubbed CloudSyncD, has moved from development testing to samples configured against live command-and-control (C2) infrastructure. Jamf Threat Labs first encountered CloudSyncD on September 15 in a build that was still under development, according to research published September 30. Two days later, it found samples configured against
AI-Found Vulnerabilities More Likely to Enable RCE, Google Says (opens the original)
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Vulnerabilities found with the help of AI are disproportionately likely to enable remote code execution (RCE), as disclosures and exploitation both accelerated in 2026. In research published September 30, Google Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG) found that 50% of vulnerabilities it identified as likely AI-discovered resulted in RCE, against 26% of other CVEs. Vulnerability disclosures doubled from 5045 in January 2026 to 10,477 in July, reaching 10,740 in August. Exploited vulnerabilities rose fr
Trump, Six AI Giants Sign 'Super Intelligence' Safety Accord (opens the original)
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The White House has secured a voluntary safety commitment from six major AI companies, with the firms agreeing to implement internal controls, independent audits and board-level oversight for frontier models. President Donald Trump and the executives signed the White House Accord on Super Intelligence on September 29. The signatories include Google CEO Sundar Pichai, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, OpenAI president Greg Brockman, xAI's Elon Musk and NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang.
RatHat's Evolving C2 Panel Points to Malware-as-a-Service Model (opens the original)
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The infrastructure behind the RatHat Android banking trojan has changed more than the malware itself, with successive command-and-control (C2) panels able to build malware, manage infected devices and use AI to rank potential victims. In research published September 28, Cleafy said the implant had changed little from late 2025 through September 2026, while its C2 panel went through three generations in six months and rebranded from BlackCat to Panda Workshop. Nearly 100 separate deployments sinc
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