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International Cyber Digest

International Cyber Digest

International Cyber Digest

OFAC Sanctions Possibly Took Down Telegram's t.me

The July 13 designation of First VPN Service lists a Telegram page among the sanctioned service's websites. The same evening, the .me registry placed t.me on serverHold, breaking Telegram web links worldwide, and no one involved has explained why.

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Scanners Are Hunting MCP Servers and AI Assistant Credentials

Fourteen days of logs from one unremarkable web host show distributed, protocol-aware scanning for Model Context Protocol servers, AI coding assistant credential files, and open LLM endpoints, according to the SANS Internet Storm Center.

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xAI's Grok Build CLI Uploads Entire Git repositories to a Google Cloud Bucket

A wire-level analysis showed xAI's coding agent uploading full Git repositories, private code and unredacted secrets included, to a company cloud bucket. A day later the uploads silently stopped. xAI has said nothing about scope, retention, or deletion.

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SpaceX and Starlink X Accounts Appear Compromised in Scam Coin Rug Pull

The official SpaceX and Starlink accounts on X reposted a scam coin promoted by an affiliate-badged account named "Sam Catman," according to multiple reports online. Buyers were rug-pulled, and SpaceX has not yet commented.

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EU Moves to Stop Addictive Design in Games and Apps Aimed at Children

Justice commissioner Michael McGrath says year-end digital fairness rules will target addictive interfaces, subscription traps and dark patterns, backed by new powers to fine game makers and online traders directly, the Financial Times reports.

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China and Russia Planning to Defeat Starlink and Jointly Counter US Hypersonics

Secret forum presentations and a signed 2023 protocol, obtained by The Insider, Der Spiegel and Le Monde, describe Moscow-Beijing military cooperation far deeper than either government admits, including a three-stage plan against Elon Musk's satellite network.

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Anthropic Tried to Phantom Charge $16.6M

A phantom invoice from Anthropic's Stripe billing grew roughly tenfold in a single day, the user reports zero usage, and the company will only say it cannot discuss individual accounts.

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Adult Content Now Drives Most of Grok's Traffic

xAI is reportedly doubling down on explicit image and video generation as Grok loses ground to rival chatbots and faces legal scrutiny on multiple continents over sexualized deepfakes.

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Dutch Police Point to Suspects in Odido Hack and May Release Caller's Voice

Dutch investigators say they have strong indications that Dutch criminals were involved in the breach that exposed data of more than 6 million Odido customers, including a phone call in which a Dutch-speaking man posed as the telecom's own IT support.

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npm Infostealer Campaign Traced to Israeli Cybersecurity Startup

Typosquatted packages impersonating Anthropic, Vercel, LangChain, Ollama, OpenAI and Aspect Security quietly profiled developer machines on install. According to OpenSourceMalware.com, the npm account behind them belongs to the founder of a stealth-mode cybersecurity startup.

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Two Frontier AI Models Ship on the Same Day: Grok 4.5 and GPT-5.6

xAI and OpenAI both went public with new flagship models on July 9, 2026. The pitch from both labs is the same, and it isn't a leaderboard win.

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The EU's Battery Law Just Claimed Its First Console

Nintendo will stop selling the original Switch family in Europe by mid-February 2027 instead of rebuilding it around the EU's new replaceable-battery rules. The bigger question is which glued-battery devices follow it out the door.

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Proton Calls Windows GDID Spyware

A US federal complaint revealed how the FBI used Microsoft's barely documented Global Device ID to trace an alleged Scattered Spider member through his VPN. Proton says the identifier raises hard questions about consent and who really controls the hardware you pay for.

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A US Government Body Paid Cybercriminals $1 Million

Leaked negotiation logs and payment tracing published by Ransom-ISAC show a public-sector victim paid a seven-figure ransom over data-leak threats alone. Circumstantial evidence points to Union County, Ohio.

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UK Wants to Use Autonomous AI to Protect Critical Infra

The National Cyber Security Centre and DSIT want federated AI agents defending government and critical systems at machine speed, and they are asking frontier labs, industry and academia to help build it.