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China, Iran, North Korea Hackers Exploit Gemini Across Attack Life CycleState-backed hackers weaponized Google's artificial intelligence model Gemini to accelerate cyberattacks, using the productivity tool as an offensive asset for reconnaissance, social engineering and malware development. Google said it has disabled accounts and strengthened defenses.

Espionage groups from China, Russia and other nations burned at least two dozen zero-days in edge devices in attempts to infiltrate defense contractors’ networks.

Several state-sponsored actors, hacktivist entities, and criminal groups from China, Iran, North Korea, and Russia have trained their sights on the defense industrial base (DIB) sector, according to findings from Google Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG)

CISA lost a third of its staff and its acting leader uploaded sensitive docs to public ChatGPT — while China sits inside U.S. critical infrastructure.

Meanwhile, IP-stealing 'distillation attacks' on the rise A Chinese government hacking group that has been sanctioned for targeting America's critical infrastructure used Google's AI chatbot, Gemini, to auto-analyze vulnerabilities and plan cyberattacks against US organizations, the company says.…

Operation Cyber Guardian involved 100-plus staff across government and industry Singapore spent almost a year flushing a suspected China-linked espionage crew out of its telecom networks in what officials describe as the country's largest cyber defense operation to date.…

Operation Cyber Guardian was Singapore’s largest and longest running anti-cyber threat law enforcement operation

A dual Chinese and St. Kitts and Nevis national was sentenced to 20 years in prison in absentia for his role in an international cryptocurrency investment scheme (also known as pig butchering or romance baiting) that defrauded victims of more than $73 million. [...]

Security Service Says China-Linked Actor Compromised Vulnerable Network DevicesNorway's security service confirmed it was targeted by the China-linked Salt Typhoon campaign, marking one of Europe’s clearest public acknowledgements that the cyberespionage operation extended beyond U.S. telecom and federal networks into allied infrastructure.

The Chinese threat actor tracked as UNC3886 breached Singapore's four largest telecommunication service providers, Singtel, StarHub, M1, and Simba, at least once last year. [...]

The Cyber Security Agency (CSA) of Singapore on Monday revealed that the China-nexus cyber espionage group known as UNC3886 targeted its telecommunications sector

PLUS: China broadens cryptocurrency crackdown; Australian facial recognition privacy revisited; Singapore debuts electric VTOL; and more! Asia In Brief The Commissioner of Police in the Indian city of Hyderabad, population 11 million, has called for AI agents to be issued with identity cards – or at least their digital equivalent.…

PLUS: OpenClaw teams with VirusTotal; Crypto kidnappings in France; Critical vulns at SmarterMail; And more Infosec In Brief So-hot-right-now AI assistant OpenClaw, which is very much not secure right now, has teamed up with security scanning service VirusTotal.…