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In late September, 2026, CrowdStrike's Counter Adversary Operations team collaborated with the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) to disrupt several laptop farms operating across the U.S. maintained by DPRK-nexus adversary FAMOUS CHOLLIMA to fraudulently employ operatives at American companies while concealing their true location and identity.

Critical infrastructure is where cyber risk becomes real-world risk. The environments powering energy, water, manufacturing, and transportation are among the most complex to defend as they often combine decades-old operational technology (OT) with modern IT. Downtime is not an option, and patching isn’t always possible. Now, AI is raising the stakes. Adversaries are using AI to move faster and operate at greater scale, compressing the time defenders have to respond to attacks.

Zero Trust continues to present an often-overlooked challenge: keeping access decisions accurate as the real-world conditions behind them change. Over the past decade, AI, cloud transformation, mobile access, and remote work have challenged existing security paradigms at a fundamental level.

CrowdStrike Intelligence identified infrastructure associated with a targeted campaign against South Korean financial organizations that resulted in exfiltrated data. The campaign was active from late September to early October 2026. Analysis of threat actor-controlled open directories uncovered Claude Code session histories, ARTEX configuration files, and Claude memory files, providing direct insight into the threat actor's operational methodology and tooling.

CrowdStrike has been named a Leader in the 2026 IDC MarketScape for Worldwide Modern Endpoint Security for Enterprises Vendor Assessment. We believe this recognition reflects the strength of the CrowdStrike Falcon platform and the proven endpoint capabilities CrowdStrike brings into the AI era: industry-leading protection at scale, consistent analyst recognition, measurable business value, and the trust of customers globally.

Modern frontier AI models deploy safety classifiers. These are second AI models that sit between the user and the frontier model, evaluating every request in real time. If a request is flagged as harmful, the classifier blocks it before the model can respond. Significant investment and safety model expertise have made these classifiers effective. Anticipating how adversaries circumvent these systems is a security problem that requires different expertise.

For many organizations, Microsoft 365 environments are essential to data security strategy. Their strategic plans live in SharePoint; their employee records and customer data are stored in OneDrive. Teams use these tools to collaborate on projects every day, and increasingly, AI tools like Microsoft Copilot can access the information they rely on.

Two forces are reshaping modern cloud posture management: context and AI. Context gives security teams the business insight to understand risk. AI helps them turn that insight into faster, more informed action. CrowdStrike Falcon Cloud Security is advancing both. New third-party application insights map the external services cloud-native applications depend on, helping customers assess the risk those dependencies introduce.

CISA has called SIEM-as-a-service (SIEMaaS) “the Rosetta Stone” for visibility for good reason. Federal defenders need to see what is happening across increasingly complex environments, understand what matters, and turn that context into action before an adversary achieves its objective.

Consider this hypothetical scenario: An employee tries to join what looks like a routine video meeting. The page loads, but instead of the meeting, they see an error message along with a helpful fix: Copy the provided command, open the Windows Run dialog, paste it, and press Enter. The meeting never starts. The command does something else entirely. This is ClickFix, a social engineering technique that turns the victim into the mechanism for executing an attack.