Threat Beat

By • Sep 10, 2026 Iranian hackers pushed back after Wednesday’s denial of their claim that they hit AT&T service in major Texas cities on Labor Day, declaring that those rebuffing their claim “don’t even know what we tampered with” or “have access to.” APT IRAN, which threatened at the end of August that “critical events” will hit three U.S. critical infrastructure sectors including telecommunications following the water hacks in Minnesota and elsewhere, claimed in a Tuesday evening post on...

Cameron Stanley, chief digital and artificial intelligence officer at the Department of Defense (DVIDS video screenshot) By Joseph Gedeon • Sep 09, 2026 The Pentagon’s top artificial intelligence official said on Tuesday that America’s closest allies lack the resources to keep pace with the US military’s adoption of AI, and that Washington is working to steer them away from mistakes it made along the way.

By IC3 • Sep 09, 2026 The FBI released a new cyber strategy today that sets the course for FBI Cyber Division to defend the American people and the nation’s critical infrastructure in cyberspace, the bureau said. It defines priorities, objectives and framework for countering malicious cyber activity directed at the United States.

(Image by Gerd Altmann from Pixabay) By Amrith Ramkumar • Sep 09, 2026 An Anthropic researcher is quitting the artificial-intelligence industry over fears that the lab and its competitors are racing to build systems they won’t be able to control, a sign of mounting safety concerns within top AI companies.

(Rubidium Beach / Unsplash) By Michael Shepard • Sep 09, 2026 U.S. security agencies accused China’s top AI companies including DeepSeek and Kimi maker Moonshot AI of systematically extracting proprietary knowledge from American firms and warned Silicon Valley developers to protect their work.

IBI's self-description from its website By Jessica Brandt • Sep 09, 2026 The International Burke Institute (IBI) presents itself as an Israel-based expert community. Its website features research papers, a proprietary sovereignty index, and a roster of affiliates that includes at least three current and former Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) experts. (None of them had ever heard of IBI.) Much of the academic work on the site appears to be copied and misattributed.

(Mohamed Nohassi / Unsplash) By Miranda Nazzaro • Sep 09, 2026 Artificial intelligence chatbots are becoming a source for voters to ask questions about upcoming elections, but a new study determined nearly a third of AI-generated replies could be inaccurate or outdated. In a report released Thursday, researchers with the Institute for Strategic Dialogue (ISD) tested 15 different generic prompts across six AI chatbots and found 29 percent of responses were incomplete, inaccurate or outdated.

(Cash Macanaya / Unsplash) By Doloresz Katanich • Sep 09, 2026 Volker Türk has called for urgent global safeguards, independent checks and agreed limits on advanced artificial intelligence. The United Nations human rights chief has warned that advanced artificial intelligence could pose an “existential risk to humanity”, calling for immediate action to make the technology safer.

Skip to content SPECIAL THREATS TO CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE IN IRAN CONFLICT | READ MORE → Downtown Dallas (Pixabay) By • Sep 09, 2026 Iranian hackers who recently took credit for an array of attacks on U.S. water systems claimed that they were behind an AT&T outage across major Texas cities on Monday and vowed to “intensify” critical infrastructure attacks in the run-up to Friday’s 25th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks.

U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) forces struck three Iranian crude oil carriers, Sept. 5, after the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) launched ballistic missiles toward two U.S. Navy warships patrolling regional waters.