A threat group tracked as UNC6692 uses social engineering to deploy a new, custom malware suite named “Snow,” which includes a browser extension, a tunneler, and a backdoor. Their goal is to steal sensitive data after deep network compromise through credential theft and domain takeover. According to Google’s Mandiant researchers, the attacker uses “email bombing” tactics to create urgency, then contact targets via Microsoft Teams, posing as IT helpdesk agents. A recent Microsoft report highlighted the growing popularity of this tactic in the cybercrime space, tricking users into granting attackers remote access via Quick Assist or other remote access tools. In…
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The Trump administration is vowing to crack down on foreign tech companies’ exploitation of U.S. artificial intelligence models, singling out China at a time that country is narrowing the gap with the U.S. in the AI race. In a Thursday memo, Michael Kratsios, the president’s chief science and technology adviser, accused foreign entities “principally based in China” of engaging in deliberate, industrial-scale campaigns to “distill,” or extract capabilities from, leading AI systems made in the U.S. and “exploiting American expertise and innovation.” The administration, Kratsios wrote, will work with American AI companies to identify such activities, build defenses and find…
Google announced three updates to Search and AI Mode this week, which Roger Montti reported for SEJ. Reading his article motivated me to examine these updates, the broader pattern, and their implications for search this year. Looking at this in detail, it appears the updates push more of what used to be a results-page experience into task completion. What Google Announced Google launched individual hotel price tracking in Search, now available globally for signed-in users searching in English and Spanish. Email alerts notify users of rate changes during selected dates. Additionally, in March, Canvas trip planning in AI Mode moved from…
Bluetooth is a fantastic feature on mobile phones, but if you use it to listen to your favorite tunes regularly, you might notice it sometimes sounds dead, tinny, or just plain bad. The culprit might actually be the default codec your phone is using for Bluetooth. Fortunately, there are a few ways to improve it, typically available right on your device. Bluetooth quality improvements begin with the codecs Not all Bluetooth audio is the same The media files you use every day require a codec to play back properly. This is usually software (but can occasionally be hardware). It basically…
Ravie LakshmananApr 24, 2026Malware / Threat Intelligence Chinese-speaking individuals are the target of a new campaign that uses a trojanized version of SumatraPDF reader to deploy the AdaptixC2 Beacon post-exploitation agent and ultimately facilitate the abuse of Microsoft Visual Studio Code (VS Code) tunnels for remote access. Zscaler ThreatLabz, which discovered the campaign last month, has attributed it with high confidence to Tropic Trooper (aka APT23, Earth Centaur, KeyBoy, and Pirate Panda), a hacking group known for its targeting of various entities in Taiwan, Hong Kong, and the Philippines. It’s assessed to be active since at least 2011. “The threat…
Meta Account gives users of Meta apps and devices a simpler way to access and manage their accounts. Accounts Center will automatically be updated to a Meta Account as part of a gradual rollout over the next year. Users will be notified when the change occurs. It supports Meta technologies including Facebook, Instagram, Messenger, Threads, Meta AI, AI glasses, and Meta Quest headsets. WhatsApp can be added optionally. It is only included if it was previously added in Accounts Center or if the user chooses to add it later. Sign-in and protection Users can set up a single password for…
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Microsoft says it’s rolling out a revamped Windows Insider Program experience as part of the broader plans to address reliability concerns in Windows 11. For those unaware, the Windows Insider Program is a beta testing program that allows you to test early Windows releases and provide your feedback to Microsoft. Until now, Microsoft has not really listened to all the feedback from testers, and all that has added up to a poor Windows experience. To address this, Microsoft is now making the Windows Insider Program simpler and more transparent in the hope that it will help with the development of…
What you need to knowA user on the Google Home subreddit reports that their Nest Hub Gen 2 is struggling with the time.The post says their device will set an alarm properly (on its display), but the AI speech will say “it’s set for 3 am,” when in reality it’s set for “3 pm.”Google recently rolled out Continued Conversations for Gemini on its smart home devices.Issues surface with Google’s Nest Hub, as user reports on social media highlight a strange problem with its sense of time.It’s unclear just how widespread this issue is, but a user on the Google Home…
At least one US federal agency was infected with a backdoor as part of a widespread China-linked espionage campaign targeting Cisco firewalls. In May 2024, Cisco patched two vulnerabilities in its Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) firewall platform that had been exploited as zero-days in a state-sponsored campaign tracked as ArcaneDoor. A year later, the company fixed two more zero-days linked to the same campaign, tracked as CVE-2025-20333 and CVE-2025-20362, and impacting the VPN web server of ASA and Secure Firewall Threat Defense (FTD) software. In September 2025, the US cybersecurity agency CISA issued Emergency Directive 25-03 (ED 25-03), urging federal…