Daily Digital Awareness Brief
Opening Notes
Today’s brief highlights ongoing nation-state intrusion activity, AI-driven exploitation trends, and a focused micro-habit to reinforce disciplined digital behavior. The objective is to strengthen operational awareness across the workforce and advance everyday cyber readiness.
Situational Awareness Scan
China-Linked APT31 Targets Russian IT Sector
Source: The Hacker NewsA China-linked advanced persistent threat group, APT31, has been attributed to a series of intrusions affecting the Russian information technology sector between 2024 and 2025. The campaign focused on contractors and integrators supporting government agencies and maintained long periods of undetected access. The activity demonstrates the group’s capacity to blend into legitimate traffic flows and operate persistently within high-value networks.
Training Byte
Before opening any link, attachment, or message, pause for three seconds and ask:
- Do I recognize the sender?
- Is the request typical for them?
- Could this have been sent another way?
Three seconds can prevent three days of downtime.
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Modernization and AI Insight
ShadowRay 2.0 Leverages Unpatched Ray Flaw for Self-Spreading GPU Botnet
Source: The Hacker NewsOligo Security reports that threat actors continue exploiting a two-year-old vulnerability in the Ray AI framework to compromise clusters equipped with NVIDIA GPUs. The new campaign, designated ShadowRay 2.0, extends earlier activity observed between 2023 and 2024. Infected nodes become part of a self-propagating cryptocurrency mining botnet, indicating continued risk in environments that have not applied critical updates to AI-related infrastructure.