CTO at NCSC Summary: week ending July 12th

IBM’s 2025 Cost of a Data Breach Report found that 16% of breaches studied involved attackers using AI tools, most often for phishing or deepfake impersonation attacks. For security teams, that has direct implications for the service desk. The service desk is a natural target for social engineering, as an attacker that convinces an agent…

Artificial intelligence (AI) is changing the enterprise faster than most security models were built to handle. In just a few years, it has become part of everyday enterprise work. And soon, AI agents will do much more than provide assistance. They will act autonomously across applications, workflows, data stores and infrastructure. This shift is already…

Ravie LakshmananJul 10, 2026Software Supply Chain / Malware Unknown threat actors compromised the Injective Labs SDK project’s GitHub repository and leveraged it to publish a malicious package on the npm registry to steal cryptocurrency wallet private keys and mnemonic seed phrases. The compromised version, @injectivelabs/sdk-ts@1.20.21, came embedded with fake telemetry functionality that exfiltrated data from…

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) said today it worked with industry partners to seize hundreds of domains associated with NetNut, a sprawling residential proxy service operated by the publicly-traded Israeli company Alarum Technologies [NASDAQ: ALAR]. The action comes roughly two weeks after KrebsOnSecurity published findings from multiple security firms connecting NetNut to the Popa…

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Flipper Devices says development of the Flipper Zero firmware will continue, albeit with a smaller internal team and greater reliance on community contributions. The announcement comes as the gadget maker decided to focus on building new devices, like the Flipper One open Linux platform, for which the company turned to the community’s help to complete…