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The Kazakhstan flag is shown before the finals of Kok-boru Finals against Kyrgyzstan during the World Nomad Games at the Hippodrome Racetrack on September 6, 2026 in Cholpon-Ata, Kyrgyzstan. Turla, a notorious cyberespionage group aligned with the Russian government, has been wielding a new, customizable toolset to compromise governments around the world over the past year, including Kazakhstan. (Photo by Mitchell Layton/Getty Images)

Russian Turla group used new toolset to silently pilfer emails from Kazakhstan, Romanian governments

Nicknamed “Turla’s Cereal,” the tools target Microsoft Exchange servers and lack many obvious indicators of compromise or malicious telemetry, per a new ESET report.
The Department of Justice building in Washington, DC, on February 9, 2022. (Photo by STEFANI REYNOLDS/AFP via Getty Images)

Officials seize domain of top bulletproof hosting provider Virtualine

The Russian-speaking cybercrime storefront was among the most active bulletproof hosting providers this year to date, receiving almost one-fifth of all illicit-attributed inflow tracked by researchers.
UNITED STATES – DECEMBER 10: Rep. Pat Harrigan, R-N.C., arrives for the House Republican Conference meeting in the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday, December 10, 2025. (Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)

Exclusive: Bipartisan bill would develop federal guidance for distillation attacks, convene industry on defensive cyber

One of the bill’s sponsors told CyberScoop it’s “incredibly expensive” for U.S. AI companies to stay ahead and distillation attacks incentivize stealing over innovation.
U.S. intelligence officials have assessed that the Russian government’s efforts were largely in support of Trump while Iranian influence efforts were primarily targeted towards helping the electoral chances of Democratic candidate Kamala Harris. (Image Source: Getty Images)

OpenAI says Iran, Russia used AI journalists, think tanks to influence Western media

The two campaigns were rated 4 and 5 out of 6 for severity, the first time OpenAI has reported what it considers a high-impact influence campaigns.
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