All posts tagged: Attacks

The drone attacks Putin doesn’t want Russians to see

The drone attacks Putin doesn’t want Russians to see

Published by Sam Flores

Credit: ASTRA /Telegram, Russia-1 The Ukrainian FP-1 Firepoint drone buzzed as it raced across the Moscow region skyline, locked onto a residential tower block in Khimki. Horrified onlookers filmed until it smashed into the side of the building, exploding in a fireball that sent a billowing column of smoke, and debris falling hard to the ground. One person died. That attack was just one of 1,300 during the weekend as Moscow region was bombarded by the largest aerial campaign in more than a year, and oil pumping stations near the Russian capital caught fire. And yet anyone in Russia who wanted to know what happened was offered four sanitised photos, reproduced across state media, tabloids, television bulletins and Telegram channels. Despite being able to see for themselves what was happening, terrified residents were told: “Overnight and into this morning, air defence forces repelled one of the most massive Ukrainian drone attacks since the start of the ‘special military operation’.” This is the new reality in Vladimir Putin’s Russia. Last week, Moscow’s anti-terrorism commission introduced restrictions …

5 ways to fortify your network against the new speed of AI attacks

5 ways to fortify your network against the new speed of AI attacks

Published by skeptic

Jeffrey Hazelwood/ZDNET; Shutterstock Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET’s key takeaways Attacks on enterprise networks are becoming more frequent. Cybercriminals are using AI, but humans remain the weakest link. Defending against attacks requires structural changes to the network. Here’s the paradox of modern cyberwarfare: Increasingly, the attackers are using machines that can work orders of magnitude faster than the humans who control them. In response, the targets are increasingly turning to automated systems to detect and repel those intruders. But in this machine-versus-machine combat, humans remain the center of each battle, and we mere mortals continue to be the weak point. That’s the conclusion of this year’s survey of the enterprise security landscape from Mandiant, a US cybersecurity firm — now part of Google Cloud — that specializes in investigating major global security breaches and advising organizations on how to protect themselves from cyber threats. Also: Stopping bugs before they ship: The shift to preventative security Modern enterprise networks are widely distributed and can hand off tasks to partners via software-as-a-service. The …

Iraqi man accused of NYC synagogue plot after attacks in Europe and Canada in response to Iran war

Iraqi man accused of NYC synagogue plot after attacks in Europe and Canada in response to Iran war

Published by Sam Flores

NEW YORK (AP) — An Iraqi national accused of plotting at least 18 terror attacks in Europe in retaliation for the U.S. and Israel’s war with Iran, including firebombing a bank in Amsterdam and stabbing Jewish men in London, has been arrested and charged with supporting Iran-backed terrorist organizations. According to a complaint unsealed Friday in federal court in Manhattan, Mohammad Baqer Saad Dawood Al-Saadi sought to attack a New York City synagogue last month and provided an undercover law enforcement officer with photos and maps of Jewish centers in Los Angeles and Scottsdale, Arizona, that he planned to target. Al-Saadi is also accused of involvement in two recent attacks in Canada: an attack on a synagogue and a shooting at the U.S. consulate in Toronto in March. U.S. prosecutors said he directed and urged other people to attack U.S. and Israeli interests, including by killing Americans and Jews. Al-Saadi posted about the attacks on Snapchat and Telegram and spoke about them in phone calls recorded by an FBI informant whose help he solicited in …

Four AI supply-chain attacks in 50 days exposed the release pipeline red teams aren’t covering

Four AI supply-chain attacks in 50 days exposed the release pipeline red teams aren’t covering

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Four supply-chain incidents hit OpenAI, Anthropic and Meta in 50 days: three adversary-driven attacks and one self-inflicted packaging failure. None targeted the model, and all four exposed the same gap: release pipelines, dependency hooks, CI runners, and packaging gates that no system card, AISI evaluation, or Gray Swan red-team exercise has ever scoped. On May 11, 2026, a self-propagating worm called Mini Shai-Hulud published 84 malicious package versions across 42 @tanstack/* npm packages in six minutes flat. The worm rode in on release.yml, chaining a pull_request_target misconfiguration, GitHub Actions cache poisoning, and OIDC token extraction from runner memory to hijack TanStack’s own trusted release pipeline. The packages carried valid SLSA Build Level 3 provenance because they were published from the correct repository, by the correct workflow, using a legitimately minted OIDC token. No maintainer password was phished. No 2FA prompt was intercepted. The trust model worked exactly as designed and still produced 84 malicious artifacts. Two days later, OpenAI confirmed that two employee devices were compromised and credential material was exfiltrated from internal code repositories. …

Israeli attacks in Gaza have stepped up since halt in bombing in Iran

Israeli attacks in Gaza have stepped up since halt in bombing in Iran

Published by Sam Flores

At least five Palestinians were killed in Israeli strikes on the Gaza Strip on May 17. Israel has stepped up attacks in Gaza in the weeks since halting its ​joint bombing ‌with the US in Iran. Netanyahu’s government says Hamas fighters are tightening their grip on the strip. The devastated Palestinian territory has seen near-daily Israeli fire since the ceasefire between Israel and Hamas went into effect in October. Keywords for this article Source link

US-Iran truce under strain amid stalled talks and attacks on US allies

US-Iran truce under strain amid stalled talks and attacks on US allies

Published by Sam Flores

Washington and Tehran have been swapping proposals in an effort to end the conflict which broke out on February 28. The two sides have held a single round of talks so far amid a fragile ceasefire in place since April 8. The truce has come under strain following a likely-Iranian attack near a UAE power plant. The stalled talks and rising tension are also worrying markets. FRANCE 24’s Philip Turle breaks it down for us. Keywords for this article Source link

Trump warns Iran ‘clock is ticking’ as new drone attacks hit UAE and Saudi Arabia

Trump warns Iran ‘clock is ticking’ as new drone attacks hit UAE and Saudi Arabia

Published by Sam Flores

The “Clock is Ticking” for Iran, President Donald Trump has warned, as deadlocked diplomacy and new drone attacks against U.S. allies in the Gulf fueled fears of a renewed outbreak of war. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get unlimited access to ad-free articles and exclusive content. Trump said Sunday on Truth Social that Iran had “better get moving, FAST, or there won’t be anything left of them,” reviving his threats to annihilate the country with efforts stalling to end to the war the U.S. and Israel began nearly three months ago. Talks over a deal that would end the conflict, address Iran’s nuclear program and restore traffic through the Strait of Hormuz appear to have made little progress in recent weeks. Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmail Baghaei appeared to respond to the threat Monday, saying that Tehran was not “intimidated” but emphasizing that the “process of talks and negotiations” remained “ongoing.” Tehran had now responded to a new U.S. proposal, Baghaei said. “Our concerns were conveyed to the American side,” he told a news …

Demonic attacks in dreams follow a chilling multi-night pattern

Demonic attacks in dreams follow a chilling multi-night pattern

Published by José Betancourt

A recent study published in the journal Dreaming suggests that demonic encounters in nightmares often follow a predictable pattern of escalating threats across multiple nights of dreaming. The research provides evidence that these terrifying dreams are tied to feelings of powerlessness and eerie environmental shifts, shedding light on how the brain processes intense emotional distress during sleep. By tracking dreamers over a two-week period, the findings offer a detailed look at the anatomy of exceptionally severe nightmares. Scientists Patrick McNamara, John Balch, and Chanel Reed wanted to explore the thematic and psychological associations of demonic content in dreams. “I had noticed in my work on content of nightmares that many participants in those studies reported greater distress when they felt that they encountered something ‘evil’ or demonic in the nightmare,” said McNamara, a professor of psychology at National University, an associate professor of neurology at the Boston University School of Medicine, and co-director of the Cognitive Neuroscience of Religious Cognition (CNRC) Project. While feeling an evil presence during sleep is a well-documented phenomenon, the specific …

Ukrainian Drone Attacks on Russian Apartment Building Kills 4

Ukrainian Drone Attacks on Russian Apartment Building Kills 4

Published by Sam Flores

new video loaded: Ukrainian Drone Attacks on Russian Apartment Building Kills 4 Ukrainian drones struck an apartment building and ignited a fire at an oil refinery in the Russian city of Ryazan on Friday. At least four people were killed in the attack on the residential building, according to the regional governor. The barrage follows a series of Russian drone strikes that killed at least 24 people in Kyiv, Ukraine. By Monika Cvorak, Jorge Mitssunaga and Nataliya Vasilyeva May 15, 2026 Source link