In Other News: ICS-Sniper Attack, Hacking XWorm Malware Operators, $250k Chrome Exploit

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Noteworthy stories that might have slipped under the radar: BofA adds 1,000 patching contractors, KGB RAT pairs data theft with jump scares, and Langflow flaw under attack. Artificial Intelligence In Other News: ICS-Sniper Attack, Hacking XWorm Malware Operators, $250k Chrome Exploit Noteworthy stories that might have slipped under the radar: BofA adds 1,000 patching contractors, KGB RAT pairs data theft with jump scares, and Langflow flaw under attack.

This curated summary highlights key stories across vulnerability disclosures, emerging attack methods, policy updates, industry reports, and other noteworthy events to help readers stay well-informed about the evolving cybersecurity environment. Here are this week’s highlights: ICS-Sniper attack picks off critical OT traffic University of British Columbia researchers have detailed ICS-Sniper , a proof-of-concept attack aimed at industrial facilities that rely on cloud-hosted SCADA systems. An attacker who controls a router on the network path could study the size, direction and timing of VPN (a service that routes a connection through another network)-encrypted packets to predict when critical commands or data will be exchanged, then drop payload-carrying packets during those windows.