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Registration and CFP for 🆘VOLUME II is officially OPEN!
On October 22, 2026, we return to Brussels to showcase a day of community and discussions on the latest developments in state-sponsored operations and the actors & institutions that champion them.
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‼️At the end of last year, there was a series of coordinated attacks in Polish cyberspace.
📌Today, our team is publishing a report describing the technical analysis of these events. We show the scheme of operation and the tools used by the attackers.
➡️cert.pl/uploads/docs/CERT_Po…
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NEW: The U.S. govt accused Peter Williams, ex general manager of hacking tool maker L3Harris Trenchant, of stealing trade secrets and selling them to buyer in Russia.
Earlier this year Trenchant investigated a leak of internal tools. It's unclear if the investigation is related.
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So this October 2025 F5 security notification is pretty wild because of the sheer volume of vulnerabilities disclosed: more than 30 high-severity CVEs (!) and around a dozen medium-severity ones in a single release cycle. This affects almost every F5 product family, BIG-IP (all modules), BIG-IP Next, F5OS, and related components. Something we don’t see very often... and a lot of these vulnerabilities score above 8.0; remote exploitation, denial-of-service or privilege escalation. Also, the number of affected software branches (from 15.x through 17.x) means most F5 deployments are touched in some way. YMMV.
In short, this quarter’s bulletin is probably F5’s heaviest security updates ever. If you run F5 products, patch now. my.f5.com/manage/s/article/K…
⌛️ Time is running out!
📧 Submit your talk NOW!
💀 Don’t miss your chance to SOS!
stateofstatecraft.com/cfp
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⏰ LIVE from Black Hat: Brandon Dixon (PassiveTotal/RiskIQ/Microsoft) joins the buddies to parse the AI hype and set expectations for what's coming @juanandres_gs
LISTEN everywhere securityconversations.com/ep…
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Russian military intelligence routinely uses cyber and information operations to sow chaos, division and disorder in Ukraine and across the world.
Today, the UK is exposing this activity and sanctioning those responsible ⬇️
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🚨Today, the NCSC is revealing that Russian military intelligence has been responsible for deploying a sophisticated malware dubbed AUTHENTIC ANTICS as part of its operations.
ncsc.gov.uk/news/uk-call-out…
📣 Researchers, analysts, and strategists —
The #StateOfStatecraft CFP is OPEN!
Share your work on espionage, intelligence, and global affairs.
⏳ Submit before the deadline: stateofstatecraft.com/cfp
#InternationalRelations #Strategy #OSINT
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State of Statecraft (SOS) is a new security and intelligence conference purposed to bring together observers of espionage, sabotage, influence, and other unique forms of covert statecraft to share their work with a community hyper-focused on tackling state-sponsored ops.
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The 2025 OT Cybersecurity Action Guide (Europe) turns threat intelligence from our annual #YearInReview report into tactical steps to defend industrial sites. A practical playbook to close gaps & strengthen defenses. Download now → hubs.la/Q03bRMDr0 #ICSsecurity
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Estonia 🇪🇪 prepared for all scenarios during our synchronisation with Europe.
But we could never have predicted that Estonia’s nature-inspired designer pylons would get so many new international fans.
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It’s another historic day for European integration.
🇪🇪 Estonia, 🇱🇻 Latvia, & 🇱🇹 Lithuania have now unplugged from Russia’s power grid.
🧵 Here’s how our new connection as part of Europe will turbocharge energy security.
(Also, check out Estonia’s nature-inspired pylons!)
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⚡️ A historic day for Latvia 🇱🇻, Estonia 🇪🇪 and Lithuania 🇱🇹 as we have disconnected from the BRELL electricity grid that had connected the Baltic countries with Russia and Belarus. The next step towards full energy independence is connecting to the European network.
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Today, we took a major step towards energy independence. The Baltic States finally disconnected from Russia’s BRELL electricity grid.
This move strengthens Lithuania’s energy security, allowing us to fully control our power system & invest in a more resilient future for Europe.
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🆕 research from @Google Threat Intelligence Group and friends in @GoogleDeepMind on adversary misuse of gen AI. productivity gainz 💪, but no 🚫 new novel capabilities observed yet. really great work from many across the team!
cloud.google.com/blog/topics…
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The J-Magic Show: Magic Packets and Where to Find Them | by @lumentechco
- Backdoor targeting #Juniper routers listens for a hidden "magic packet" to activate
- Enables remote control and long-term access
Sounds like the stuff we love to read about:
- Difficult to detect (especially on these black-box network devices)
- Top-tier malware, probably nation-state
🔗 blog.lumen.com/the-j-magic-s…
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Frequent freeloader part II: After co-opting the tools and infrastructure of another nation-state threat actor to facilitate espionage activities, Secret Blizzard used those tools and infrastructure to compromise targets in Ukraine. These campaigns consistently led to the download of Secret Blizzard’s custom malware, with the #Tavdig backdoor creating the foothold to install their #Kazuar V2 backdoor.
#SecretBlizzard
microsoft.com/en-us/security…
Turla keeps on a-Turlin’. Fantastic research.
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VirusTotal is already using YARA-X in production.
virustotal.github.io/yara-x/…