Breaking News – Cyber Threats – 2026-03-04 21:00 PST

Breaking News – Cyber Threats (last 6h)

Generated: 2026-03-04 21:00 PST

• Differentiating Between a Targeted Intrusion and an Automated Opportunistic Scanning [Guest Diary], (Wed, Mar 4th)
  SANS ISC Diary (full) • 2026-03-04 18:19 • isc.sans.edu

  [This is a Guest Diary by Joseph Gruen, an ISC intern as part of the SANS.edu BACS program]

  
  https://isc.sans.edu/diary/rss/32768

• Smashing Security podcast #457: How a cybersecurity boss framed his own employee
  Graham Cluley • 2026-03-04 16:33 • grahamcluley.com
  When a top cybersecurity firm discovered it had a leak, you would expect the FBI to be called. Instead, the person put in charge of the investigation was the actual leaker… who promptly sent an innocent colleague into a career-ending ambush.

  In this episode, we unravel the jaw-dropping tale of a defence contractor caught selling zero-day exploits to a Russia-linked broker.

  Plus: are nation states quietly poisoning AI models to bend reality itself? We explore how “foreign information manipulation interference” could target not just social media users, but the large language models we inc…
  https://grahamcluley.com/smashing-security-podcast-457/

Sources: BleepingComputer, The Hacker News, KrebsOnSecurity, SANS ISC, CISA.