Record / incident · Unknown · 2026-01-01

Reported cyber incident at an organization

incidentactor: Star Blizzardconfidence 80anonymized

Russian state hackers known as Star Blizzard targeted over 100 organizations using fake event invitations to deliver a Windows backdoor, according to Microsoft. The campaigns, aimed at people and organizations tied to Ukraine, occurred since January 2026, mostly affecting organizations in the U.S. and U.K.

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Not named. A primary source is on file; a reviewer decides whether to name it.
Country · sector
Unknown
Dates
occurred 2026-01-01 · disclosed 2026-09-29 · published 2026-10-06
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An incident sits in these classes of the AI-security landscape. The companies below work on that class of problem. This is a taxonomy, not a claim that any of them would have changed this incident.

HeimWall Operator
Observability & governance
United States · est. 2025
AI identityObservability & governanceAI posture (CSPM)Network
Israel · est. 2022 · raised $24M
AI identityNetworkObservability & governance
United States · est. 2017 · raised $89.7M
AI identity
United States · est. 2019 · raised $100M
AI identityObservability & governance
Israel · est. 2025 · raised $10.8M

Vendor data: AI Security Startups Map by Prompt Security (CC BY 4.0), synced daily. startups.prompt.security. Paid placements are labelled Sponsored; HeimWall, which runs this site, is labelled Operator. 452 companies in the directory.

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