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Mandiant

Mandiant is a cybersecurity firm within Google Cloud specializing in incident response and threat intelligence, publisher of the annual M-Trends report.

Known aliases

  • Google Cloud Mandiant
  • Google Cloud / Mandiant
  • Google Mandiant
  • Google's Mandiant
  • Mandiant Consulting
  • Mandiant Inc.
  • Mandiant Managed Threat Defense
  • Mandiant, part of Google Cloud
  • mandiant.security
  • M-Trends
  • Мандіант

Current stories

securityConfirmed2 publishers

Attackers pushed a backdoor through AOMEI Backupper's update servers in windows of 5 to 10 minutes

Attackers altered files on AOMEI's update servers in windows of five to ten minutes between May and July 2026 to push a backdoor to Backupper installs. AOMEI has reported fixing its servers, but the researchers say that does not remove the backdoor from machines already hit.

Reality

Evidence70
Adoption
Not scored
Hype gap+5
Incentives
Not scored
Confidence68
securityConfirmed8 publishers

Suspected China-nexus actor exploited BeyondTrust Remote Support zero-day from late August

BeyondTrust says a suspected China-nexus actor has exploited Remote Support flaw CVE-2026-102764 since late August. SaaS customers were patched on October 8, but self-hosted installs without automatic updates must be updated by hand.

Perspective Coverage

8 publishers
Builder
Builder 16%
Operator
Operator 67%
Investor
Investor 17%

Reality

Evidence78
Adoption
Not scored
Hype gap+5
Incentives40
Confidence76
securityConfirmed2 publishers

Contractor's missed PeopleSoft patch let attackers into FBI employee data

The FBI confirmed a contractor's failure to apply a critical Oracle PeopleSoft patch, CVE-2026-35273, led to a breach affecting thousands of employees. Any organisation that outsources PeopleSoft operations is exposed in the same way wherever its operator has not installed the fix.

Publishers:govexec.com scworld.com

Reality

Evidence68
Adoption
Not scored
Hype gap+12
Incentives
Not scored
Confidence70
securityOne report1 publisher

In an unverified leak, Luna Moth's callers keep victims talking while a partner runs the remote session

Luna Moth's leaked vishing playbook, which has not been verified, coaches callers to keep victims calm while a second operator works their machine, Check Point reported. The method needs no new malware, only a phone call and a legitimate remote-support tool, so the defense sits at the help desk.

Reality

Evidence40
Adoption
Not scored
Hype gap+10
Incentives60
Confidence45
securityConfirmed3 publishers

Storm-3121 callers demand an urgent passkey update to harvest Microsoft 365 session tokens

Microsoft has tracked passkey- and SSO-themed help desk impersonation since May 2026, with the calls steering employees into adversary-in-the-middle proxies and device-code grants that hand over live Microsoft 365 sessions.

Perspective Coverage

3 publishers
Builder
Builder 25%
Operator
Operator 63%
Investor
Investor 12%

Reality

Evidence72
Adoption
Not scored
Hype gap+10
Incentives35
Confidence70
securityConfirmed21 publishers

NetScaler attackers tunnel into internal networks with a new Python proxy

Mandiant and Google traced a September 2026 campaign exploiting NetScaler bug CVE-2026-88772, CVSS 9.5, to root on appliances with no login. From there the intruders drop web shells and a Python tunneler that reaches into victims' internal networks to steal credentials.

Perspective Coverage

21 publishers
Builder
Builder 30%
Operator
Operator 62%
Investor
Investor 8%

Reality

Evidence88
Adoption82
Hype gap−8
Incentives58
Confidence85
securityConfirmed7 publishers

FBI traces ShinyHunters breach of employee data to a patch a contractor failed to apply

FBI said a contractor's failure to apply a security patch on a third-party platform let ShinyHunters steal personal details of thousands of bureau employees. The patch had already been issued, so the breach came down to one missed update on a platform the Bureau did not manage itself.

Perspective Coverage

11 publishers
Builder
Builder 24%
Operator
Operator 60%
Investor
Investor 16%

Reality

Evidence68
Adoption
Not scored
Hype gap+20
Incentives65
Confidence66
securityConfirmed3 publishers

Dell patches unauthenticated root flaw CVE-2026-86360 in its PowerEdge update tool

Dell has fixed CVE-2026-86360, a critical path traversal in Dell System Update that lets an unauthenticated remote attacker run code as root. Any server on a DSU build older than 2.3.0.0 stays exposed until it is updated.

Perspective Coverage

3 publishers
Builder
Builder 18%
Operator
Operator 80%
Investor
Investor 2%

Reality

Evidence76
Adoption
Not scored
Hype gap+12
Incentives
Not scored
Confidence74
investConfirmed3 publishers

Issuers and protocols have frozen about 0.2% of the $387 million taken from Bitget

Chainalysis tied the $387 million Bitget hack to North Korea-linked hackers, saying it pushed their 2026 crypto theft past $1 billion. Its AI cut more than 20 hours of tracing to minutes, while the bill falls on a Bitget user fund the exchange puts above $464 million.

Perspective Coverage

3 publishers
Builder
Builder 32%
Operator
Operator 41%
Investor
Investor 27%

Reality

Evidence70
Adoption25
Hype gap+35
Incentives60
Confidence65
securityConfirmed3 publishers

Unauthenticated Dell CSM flaw leaks admin credentials for every registered storage array

Dell patched six critical flaws in its Kubernetes storage modules, one letting unauthenticated attackers pull admin credentials for every registered array. The Authorization module holds those keys for each array it fronts, so one reachable deployment exposes all the storage registered behind it.

Perspective Coverage

3 publishers
Builder
Builder 27%
Operator
Operator 65%
Investor
Investor 8%

Reality

Evidence70
Adoption
Not scored
Hype gap+10
Incentives
Not scored
Confidence72
securityConfirmed6 publishers

Mandia's Armadin raises $255.5 million to point AI attack agents at customers' networks

Kevin Mandia's Armadin raised $255.5 million at a valuation above $2.5 billion, bringing its total to $445 million seven months after launch. Its case against periodic pen tests rests on performance data from an exercise Armadin ran with a partner.

Perspective Coverage

6 publishers
Builder
Builder 24%
Operator
Operator 38%
Investor
Investor 38%

Reality

Evidence55
Adoption30
Hype gap+40
Incentives75
Confidence60
investConfirmed3 publishers

Bitget's CEO doubts the $387.5 million lost through a vendor-linked backend will come back

Bitget CEO Gracy Chen doubts much of the $387.5 million stolen via a backend tied to a third-party security vendor will come back. So far about 0.2% of the loss has been frozen, so the exchange itself is paying for an outsourced security flaw.

Perspective Coverage

4 publishers
Builder
Builder 25%
Operator
Operator 41%
Investor
Investor 34%

Reality

Evidence68
Adoption
Not scored
Hype gap+5
Incentives55
Confidence70
buildConfirmed3 publishers

Kevin Mandia's Armadin raises $255.5 million to run red-team work as continuous AI software

Kevin Mandia's AI cybersecurity startup Armadin raised a $255.5 million Series B at a valuation above $2.5 billion. Security teams comparing its AI agents with periodic human pentests have only Armadin's own platform figures to go on.

Perspective Coverage

3 publishers
Builder
Builder 23%
Operator
Operator 37%
Investor
Investor 40%

Reality

Evidence55
Adoption25
Hype gap+35
Incentives65
Confidence60
investConfirmed2 publishers

Bitget traces its $388 million loss to a flaw in a third-party security product

Bitget says attackers may have used a flaw in a third-party security product to get internal credentials and forge $388 million of withdrawals. The account puts vendor software that can reach a withdrawal system inside an exchange's counterparty risk, alongside its own wallet controls.

Publishers:bitget.com cointelegraph.com

Reality

Evidence50
Adoption
Not scored
Hype gap+15
Incentives60
Confidence50
investConfirmed6 publishers

Investors price Kevin Mandia's seven-month-old Armadin above $2.5 billion

Armadin, the AI attack-testing startup run by Mandiant founder Kevin Mandia, raised $255.5 million at a valuation above $2.5 billion. Investors are betting that always-on AI agents will take over the budget companies now spend on periodic penetration tests.

Perspective Coverage

6 publishers
Builder
Builder 31%
Operator
Operator 32%
Investor
Investor 37%

Reality

Evidence55
Adoption20
Hype gap+40
Incentives80
Confidence60
securityConfirmed9 publishers

FBI presses ShinyHunters members to surrender after Dutch police hold an alleged leader

FBI's Brett Leatherman urged ShinyHunters members to surrender after the Dutch arrest of an alleged leader of a group tied to $70 million in extortion. Dutch police have not ruled out more arrests, though the public record so far shows one suspect in custody.

Perspective Coverage

9 publishers
Builder
Builder 17%
Operator
Operator 68%
Investor
Investor 15%

Reality

Evidence68
Adoption
Not scored
Hype gap+30
Incentives60
Confidence64

Earlier coverage

  1. Google traces most of 2026's exploitation growth to fast n-day weaponization

    Security · September 30, 2026 · Confirmed4 publishers

  2. Pre-auth NetScaler exploit plants a superuser account and hidden web shells

    Security · September 30, 2026 · One report1 publisher

  3. Microsoft says China-linked operators hand-install NeedyMantis to keep hold of breached networks

    Security · September 29, 2026 · Confirmed3 publishers

  4. Kiteworks clears customers to restart file-transfer servers after a weekend shutdown on a federal tip

    Security · September 29, 2026 · Confirmed5 publishers

  5. Bitget customers withdrew $463 million in 24 hours, more than the $388 million hack took

    Invest · September 29, 2026 · Confirmed2 publishers

  6. Kelp DAO sues LayerZero in British Columbia over the $292M rsETH bridge exploit

    Build · September 29, 2026 · One report1 publisher

  7. ShinyHunters slips past PeopleSoft firewall rules by encoding one character

    Security · September 26, 2026 · Confirmed8 publishers

  8. Falsified wallet-backend data pushed $387.5M out of Bitget through its own approvals

    Build · September 28, 2026 · Confirmed2 publishers

  9. ShinyHunters breaks into PeopleSoft systems that chose firewall rules over Oracle's patch

    Leadership · September 28, 2026 · Confirmed2 publishers

  10. One URL-encoded letter gets ShinyHunters past PeopleSoft WAF rules on unpatched servers

    Security · September 28, 2026 · One report1 publisher

  11. Bitget traces its $388 million wallet theft to a flaw in a third-party security product

    Security · September 28, 2026 · One report1 publisher

  12. Bitget traces $387.5 million breach to stolen internal credentials via third-party product flaw

    Invest · September 28, 2026 · Confirmed2 publishers

  13. Suspected North Korean attackers used Bitget's own signing process to move $351.6M

    Security · September 25, 2026 · Confirmed9 publishers

  14. Kiteworks' shutdown all-clear sends self-hosted Advanced Forms customers to support

    Security · September 28, 2026 · One report1 publisher

  15. Bitget presses THORChain to cut off the wallets holding its stolen $387.5 million

    Invest · September 26, 2026 · Confirmed3 publishers

  16. Most of Bitget's $387.5 million hack loss sits untouched in attacker wallets

    Invest · September 27, 2026 · Confirmed15 publishers

  17. Bitget's own approval process moved out $388 million on spoofed transaction data

    Product · September 25, 2026 · Confirmed3 publishers

  18. ShinyHunters says its FBI haul of up to three terabytes includes staff psychiatric records

    Invest · September 26, 2026 · One report1 publisher

  19. ShinyHunters percent-encode one letter to slip PeopleSoft's 9.8 RCE past the WAF

    Build · September 26, 2026 · One report1 publisher

  20. BlackFile wears four extortion brands, so your threat feed is counting one actor as several

    Security · August 17, 2026 · One report1 publisher

  21. ShinyHunters routes around PeopleSoft firewall rules to hit systems still missing Oracle's patch

    Invest · September 26, 2026 · One report1 publisher

  22. ShinyHunters phished the firm that had just profiled it, and device trust was the only thing that mattered

    Security · August 25, 2026 · Confirmed5 publishers

  23. Fire Ant taught a Cisco IOS XR router to forward only log lines containing the word Health

    Security · August 31, 2026 · Confirmed6 publishers

  24. Breeze Comet talks its way into Brazilian payment systems with a help-desk call and AnyDesk

    Security · September 1, 2026 · Confirmed2 publishers

  25. Attackers rode the Trivy compromise into Checkmarx's GitHub and out through its VS Code extensions

    Build · September 3, 2026 · One report1 publisher

  26. PREY-0058 phones executives to harvest Microsoft 365 session tokens

    Security · September 7, 2026 · Confirmed3 publishers

  27. Bitget's own authorization process approved $351.6M in transfers built on spoofed data

    Build · September 25, 2026 · One report1 publisher

  28. Google's undercover analyst watched TeamPCP poison packages from inside its core chat

    Product · September 18, 2026 · One report1 publisher

  29. ShinyHunters pins its claimed FBI breach on an unpatched PeopleSoft RCE

    Security · September 23, 2026 · Confirmed14 publishers

  30. An agent now picks the packages the person prompting it will never see

    Build · September 23, 2026 · One report1 publisher

  31. A $10 limit stored as text on a Kinde token cut the agent off after four calls

    Build · September 22, 2026 · One report1 publisher

  32. A record 1,449-patch Oracle update turns AI-assisted finding into a change-window problem

    Build · September 19, 2026 · One report1 publisher

  33. Unauthenticated SAP attackers hit memory corruption before any login check

    Security · September 18, 2026 · One report1 publisher

  34. Verizon's 43-day median patch time, against a five-day weaponization clock

    Security · September 17, 2026 · One report1 publisher

  35. Attackers went from stolen cloud credentials to mass credential harvest in under six hours

    Leadership · September 16, 2026 · Confirmed2 publishers

  36. Mandiant's testers talked an internal AI assistant into pushing private repos to their own GitHub

    Security · September 16, 2026 · One report1 publisher

  37. Clearing Mythos Preview's 6,105 open findings at 97 fixes per two months takes a decade

    Build · September 12, 2026 · One report1 publisher

  38. An attacker's Markdown playbooks drove a six-hour credential harvest from inside the victim's cloud

    Build · September 12, 2026 · One report1 publisher

  39. Amazon puts Mandiant's founder on both its Audit and Security committees

    Product · September 11, 2026 · One report1 publisher

  40. Anthropic's most capable model built working exploits from 16 of 39 published patches

    Leadership · September 11, 2026 · One report1 publisher