The possibility of a cyber-attack on any NATO member country escalating into a real war is a pressing concern.
This question is particularly relevant as the US-led North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) has started establishing ‘cyber labs’ in countries bordering Russia, signalling an increased focus on cyber defence. At the recent Shangri-La Dialogue (31 May-2 June) in Singapore, NATO commander Lieutenant Admiral Bob Ruber highlighted the potential for cyber-attacks to trigger conventional warfare.
Read more…
Source: Financial Express
Related:
- ‘Proactive SIM’ cards can hijack smartphones, IoT devices and even EV chargers
August 18, 2026
A malicious SIM card can instruct the device it sits in to run commands of an attacker’s choosing, and on the cellular modules embedded in electric vehicle chargers, industrial routers, and car telematics units, essentially allowing it to take the entire device over. Researchers from the University of Birmingham and the German security firm Fuzzware demonstrated ...
- Mitigating large-scale credential attacks
August 18, 2026
Identity has effectively become the new perimeter, where cybercriminals are increasingly choosing to log in rather than break in. To accomplish this, attackers frequently gather previously leaked username and password pairs. Gathering these credentials can then allow them to pivot to password spraying against services exposed to the internet, gaining credentials for other products and ...
- Hunting MacSync Stealer infrastructure through behavioral pivots
August 18, 2026
MacSync Stealer is a macOS-focused information stealer that relies on changing infrastructure to deliver payloads, communicate with compromised devices, and exfiltrate data. Earlier reporting by RST Cloud identified the threat through a limited set of domains and documented rapid command-and-control (C2) replacement after public disclosure. Microsoft Defender Experts expanded that view by correlating recurring endpoints and network behaviors ...
- ‘Unprecedented’ number of Apple users received recent spyware alert, say investigators
August 17, 2026
An unprecedented number of Apple customers have reported receiving a recent threat notification alerting them to suspected spyware attacks targeting their devices, according to experts who investigate these types of incidents. Several people publicly and privately reported receiving Apple’s spyware alerts over the weekend, after Apple sent out a new wave of notifications on Friday alerting customers in ...
- ChainDrop worm crawls into npm supply chain, evades standard defenses
August 15, 2026
A new variant of the Shai-Hulud npm worm has poisoned hundreds of packages while adding propagation techniques that can leave little trace in the corresponding source repositories. In Frank Herbert’s Dune, Shai-Hulud was the name of the giant self-sustaining desert sandworms that moved silently beneath the surface of the planet Arrakis. So it made sense that when ...
- APT group HoneyMyte upgrades CoolClient
August 14, 2026
CoolClient is a backdoor family attributed to the HoneyMyte APT group (also known as Mustang Panda) that has been used in their cyber-espionage campaigns targeting organizations across Asia and Russia. It supports such capabilities as keylogging, clipboard theft, credential harvesting, file management, system reconnaissance, and plugin-based extensions. Since its first public disclosure by Sophos in 2022 and subsequent ...