Preparing governments for an era of interconnected cyber risk

According to this year’s Microsoft Digital Defense Report, government agencies and services were the sector most impacted by cyber threats in 2026, accounting for 27% of observed activity, up from 17% in 2025. Governments are also the most frequently targeted sectors for nation-state activity. Th...

PT-2026-84458

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions GeoNetwork versions prior to 4.4.12 GeoNetwork versions prior to 4.2.17 Description The Saxon XSLT processor used to render formatters is configured without secure processing FEATURE SECURE PROCESSING and without disabling Java extension...

PT-2026-84456

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions GeoNetwork versions prior to 4.2.17 GeoNetwork versions prior to 4.4.12 Description An unauthenticated server-side request forgery SSRF exists where the server performs a server-side HTTP GET request without destination validation. This occurs...

PT-2026-84457

🚨 CVE-2026-57582 - high 🚨 GeoNetwork - Reflected Cross-Site Scripting GeoNetwork versions 4.4.5 through 4.4.11 are vulnerable to reflected cross-site scrip... 👾 https://t.co/d5ACzb8SNg @pdnuclei NucleiTemplates cve...

PT-2026-84459

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions GeoNetwork versions prior to 4.4.12 GeoNetwork versions prior to 4.2.17 Description An unprotected API endpoint used for creating new formatters via file upload allows unauthenticated attackers to upload arbitrary .xsl or .zip files. This...

FBI Disrupts Chinese Proxy Tools Used in Mass Hacking of US Agencies and Infrastructure

China’s hacking campaign targeted NASA, the Federal Reserve, the US Senate, the Justice Department, and more, according to the DOJ...

GoSerpent: a persistent threat evolves with sophisticated data collection and exfiltration

Introduction In February 2026, we discovered a set of malicious activities that had been ongoing since late 2025. These activities involved a RAT module written in Go with proxy capabilities, which served as the main stage of the attack. The attack targeted government and diplomatic entities in...

Armored Likho Targets Government Agencies, Power Sector with BusySnake Stealer

A previously undocumented threat actor known as Armored Likho has been attributed to cyber attacks targeting government agencies and the electric power sector across Russia, Brazil, and Kazakhstan. "Armored Likho blends financially motivated campaigns targeting private individuals with targeted...

Supporting the National Cyber Strategy: How TrendAI™ Helps

A deeper look at the first three pillars and outlining how our capabilities directly support government agencies working to bring this strategy to life...

Anti-ICE Site GTFO ICE Accused of Exposing Data of 17,000+ Activists

An anti-ICE website, GTFO ICE, linked to Miles Taylor, is accused of exposing the personal details of 17,662 activists, sparking concerns that the data may have reached government agencies...

NASA Employees Duped in Chinese Phishing Scheme Targeting U.S. Defense Software

The Office of Inspector General OIG of the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration NASA has revealed how a Chinese national posed as a U.S. researcher as part of a spear-phishing campaign to obtain sensitive information from the space agency, as well as from government entities,...

Hacker Used Claude Code, GPT-4.1 to Exfiltrate Hundreds of Millions of Mexican Records

A lone hacker used Claude Code and GPT-4.1 to exfiltrate hundreds of millions of Mexican citizen records from 9 government agencies...

U.S. Public Sector Under Siege: Threat Intelligence for Q1 2026

The first quarter of 2026 has reinforced a hard truth: U.S. government agencies and educational institutions are operating in the most hostile cyber threat environment ever recorded...

900+ Certificates Used by Fortune 500, Governments Exposed by Key Leaks

A joint study by Google and GitGuardian reveals that over 2,600 valid TLS certificates, protecting Fortune 500 companies and government agencies, were compromised due to private key leaks on GitHub and DockerHub...

Accelerate Digital Service Delivery in Government Agencies

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Google Ties Suspected Russian Actor to CANFAIL Malware Attacks on Ukrainian Orgs

A previously undocumented threat actor has been attributed to attacks targeting Ukrainian organizations with malware known as CANFAIL. Google Threat Intelligence Group GTIG described the hacking group as possibly affiliated with Russian intelligence services. The threat actor is assessed to have...

AI as Cyberattacker

From Anthropic: In mid-September 2025, we detected suspicious activity that later investigation determined to be a highly sophisticated espionage campaign. The attackers used AI’s “agentic” capabilities to an unprecedented degree­--using AI not just as an advisor, but to execute the cyberattacks...

Microsoft SharePoint Zero-Day Exploitation: What Public Sector Leaders Should Know

The Rapid7 September 2025 Threat Report highlights active exploitation of a critical Microsoft SharePoint vulnerability, CVE-2025-53770. This zero-day attack is being used by threat actors to gain initial access to victim networks, with exploitation observed in government as well as multiple othe...

Cisco ASA Firewall Zero-Day Exploits Deploy RayInitiator and LINE VIPER Malware

The U.K. National Cyber Security Centre NCSC has revealed that threat actors have exploited the recently disclosed security flaws impacting Cisco firewalls as part of zero-day attacks to deliver previously undocumented malware families like RayInitiator and LINE VIPER. "The RayInitiator and LINE...

Airline data broker selling 5 billion passenger records to US government

We already knew that the US airline industry gave the government access to passenger records. However, this week it emerged that at least five billion passenger records are being sold to government agencies via a searchable database—far more than was initially believed. A few weeks ago,...