Cyber Espionage
NEWS ROUNDUP – 6th February 2026
CISA ordered U.S. agencies to remove unsupported edge devices as active exploitation of a GitLab flaw continues. Romania’s Conpet reported a cyberattack disrupting systems, while Flickr warned of member data exposure via a third-party email provider. The UK ICO opened investigations into X and xAI over Grok, as the European Commission advanced a cybersecurity package and NIST sought draft comments.
When AI Becomes the Hacker
The first fully autonomous AI-driven cyber-espionage campaign marks a turning point in national-level cyber operations. Anthropic’s investigation into the state-aligned GTG-1002 group reveals how AI executed up to 90% of the intrusion lifecycle—reconnaissance, exploitation, lateral movement, and data theft—at machine speed. DFIR teams now face a new era of AI-orchestrated, high-velocity attacks.

