RomCom Uses SocGholish Fake Update Attacks to Deliver Mythic Agent Malware

Nov 26, 2025Ravie LakshmananMalware / Cyber Espionage The threat actors behind a malware family known as RomCom targeted a U.S.-based civil engineering company via a JavaScript loader dubbed SocGholish to deliver the Mythic Agent. “This is the first time that a RomCom payload has been observed being distributed by SocGholish,” Arctic Wolf Labs researcher Jacob…

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    Google’s SIMA 2 agent uses Gemini to reason and act in virtual worlds

    Google DeepMind shared on Thursday a research preview of SIMA 2, the next generation of its generalist AI agent that integrates the language and reasoning powers of Gemini, Google’s large language model, to move beyond simply following instructions to understanding and interacting with its environment.  Like many of DeepMind’s projects, including AlphaFold, the first version…

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    RavenDB launches database-native AI agent creator to simplify enterprise AI integration

    Open-source document database platform RavenDB has launched what it calls “the first fully integrated database-native AI Agent Creator,” a tool that makes it easier for enterprises to build and deploy AI agents. The platform tackles a common problem in enterprise AI – the difficulty of connecting models to a company’s own data systems and workflows…

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    Google aims to put an AI agent on every desk

    Google Cloud has launched Gemini Enterprise, a new platform it calls “the new front door for AI in the workplace”. Announced during a virtual press conference, the platform brings together Google’s Gemini models, first and third-party agents, and the core technology of what was formerly known as Google Agentspace to create a singular agentic platform….

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    Google’s new AI agent rewrites code to automate vulnerability fixes

    Google DeepMind has deployed a new AI agent designed to autonomously find and fix critical security vulnerabilities in software code. The system, aptly-named CodeMender, has already contributed 72 security fixes to established open-source projects in the last six months. Identifying and patching vulnerabilities is a notoriously difficult and time-consuming process, even with the aid of…

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