Russian Spies Are Aggressively Seeking Western Technology as Sanctions Bite, Officials Say

2026-05-30T19:24:04Z4b62c8e0729d8913ac5a9b7fdf679f829451a8a71769e9a35ce9e4cf9ab706bd
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What happened

This SecurityWeek roundup covers multiple high-impact developments: Russian intelligence operations aggressively seeking Western technology using front companies, middlemen and cyber espionage; exploit code published for a critical Flowise remote code execution vulnerability that allows one-click arbitrary code execution on self-hosted instances via malicious chatflow imports; a Gogs zero-day (CVSS 9.4) enabling authenticated RCE via malicious branch names in pull requests; a large Charter Communications data leak attributed to the ShinyHunters extortion group (over 42M records leaked, nearly

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