09/11/2026
🚨 This week, the DOJ disrupted the Xinbi scam marketplace and seized $52 million in laundered crypto in one day, multiple APT groups chained three patch-gap zero-days in Windows and Chrome through a new exploit kit called “BlueMoon”, and the NSA, CISA, and FBI accused at least six China-based AI firms of extracting billions of tokens from U.S. frontier AI models at industrial scale.
🚦 The Good: The DOJ's Scam Center Strike Force seized Xinbi Guarantee, a Telegram-based marketplace selling custom scam websites, money laundering services, and trafficking victims to Southeast Asian fraud compounds restraining $52 million in crypto in a single day and bringing its total to $938 million, while a deployed team in Madagascar assisted in the takedown of 13 Chinese-run scam compounds and the processing of 3,200+ seized electronic devices.
The Bad: Researchers disclosed BlueMoon, a shared modular exploit kit used by at least four threat actor clusters, including APT31 that chains three zero-days in Chrome's V8 engine and Windows ALPC to achieve browser-to-kernel code ex*****on and deliver credential stealers, the ShadowPad backdoor, and in-memory implants against NGOs, aerospace, defense, and manufacturing targets.
The Ugly: The NSA, CISA, and FBI jointly accused at least six Chinese AI firms including DeepSeek, Moonshot AI, Alibaba, MiniMax, StepFun, and Z.AI of extracting billions of tokens from U.S. frontier models including Claude, GPT, Gemini, and Grok at industrial scale, using chain-of-thought extraction, VPN obfuscation, and automated failover to replicate restricted capabilities and compress AI development timelines without the legal and regulatory constraints binding U.S. companies.
This was the week in cyber. https://s1.ai/GBU9-Wk37