Trump Signs Memorandum Allowing Private Firms to Launch Offensive Cyber Operations Against Foreign Threat Actors
President Trump has signed a national security presidential memorandum allowing federal law enforcement agencies to partner with private technology companies to execute offensive cyber operations against foreign criminal groups and international adversaries. Under the directive, vetted private sector tech firms will be permitted to work under direct federal supervision to propose, coordinate, and execute targeted […]
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Data analyst sent to prison for stealing data, extorting employer
Meet Huntress at International Cyber Expo 2026
Huntress will be heading to International Cyber Expo 2026, where visitors can meet the team on Stand K94 and discover how the company is helping organisations tackle increasingly complex cyber threats with fewer resources. One of the biggest challenges Huntress is seeing is the growing attack surface. Security teams are expected to protect endpoints, identities, […]
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Apple sends new ‘Threat Notification’ alerts over mercenary spyware attacks
Ukraine shuts down 94 fraudulent call centers, seize millions in cash
Akira hackers disable EDR with Safe Mode, steal data but fail to encrypt
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Hackers breach govt webmail while running parallel crypto fraud
Microsoft patches LegacyHive Windows zero-day vulnerability
AI 'watermark removers' flood the web. Almost none can prove they work.
Critical VMware vCenter RCE flaw exploited for reverse SSH access
Trezor discloses data breach affecting nearly 14,000 customers
Who Vets AI’s Code? The Scale Challenge Facing Open Source Ingestion
White House taps security firms for offensive hack-back operations
Scammers Exploit Shopify’s Own Notification System in New ‘Fake Refund’ Scam
Security researchers have identified a phishing campaign that abuses Shopify’s own Shop app to deliver fake order and refund notifications directly to victims’ phones, marking a notable evolution of the classic “fake refund” scam. According to research from cybersecurity firm Huntress, attackers are creating fraudulent Shopify seller accounts, or hijacking legitimate ones, to generate bogus...
Akira Ransomware Affiliate Rebooted Into Safe Mode to Dodge EDR and Broke Its Own Attack
An affiliate of the Akira ransomware operation attempted a novel technique to blind endpoint defences during a recent intrusion, rebooting a compromised server into Windows Safe Mode to knock out both an EDR agent and Microsoft Defender in one move, only for the same stripped-down environment to cause the ransomware payload itself to crash before […]
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Is AI entering the SOC at the right stage?
By Simon Phillips, CTO, CybaVerse Alert fatigue is an issue that has plagued Security Operations Centres for years. As organisations’ digital estates grow, there is more architecture to secure and more architecture for threat actors to attack, which has ultimately led to more alerts. Today, on average a SOC will face thousands of alerts every […]
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WhatsApp rolls out new feature that flags potential scam messages
Separating AI’s Technological Problems from Its Capitalism Problems
Forescout Launches Rapid Insight Assessment to Uncover Hidden Cyber Risks
Forescout has launched a new Rapid Insight Assessment designed to help organisations uncover hidden assets, network blind spots, and security exposures as artificial intelligence accelerates vulnerability discovery. The new assessment combines external analysis with passive network monitoring to give security teams a clearer picture of their attack surface. Forescout says the service can deliver actionable […]
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UK Cyber Attacks Jump 26% Year-on-Year as Ransomware Activity Doubles Globally
UK organisations were hit by an average of 1,597 cyber attacks per week each in July 2026, a 26% increase year-on-year, according to new data from Check Point Research, the threat intelligence arm of Check Point Software Technologies. The growth rate outpaced the 16% year-on-year rise recorded globally, even though UK attack volumes remained below […]
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Imperva API Security Token & Authentication Risk Report: Nearly 40% of APIs Face Multiple Authentication Risks
Every year, the security industry publishes benchmark reports built more or less the same way: pick a handful of common vulnerabilities, measure how often they show up, publish the percentages, and move on. We just finished our second year running one of those reports — and the most important thing we found wasn’t a percentage. […]
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Ongoing phishing, targeting financial institutions and using Telegram as their C2
Platforms failed to stop death threats against activists, report says
Attackers Exploit SharePoint Authentication Bypass After Public PoC Release
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"City-Forum" data-theft attacks target Salesforce, ServiceNow portals
Android malware combo takes out loans and relays victims' credit cards
Hackers exploit critical Adobe Commerce flaw to hijack customer accounts
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Lazarus Exploits Windows Zero-Day to Gain SYSTEM Access and Deploy Backdoor
Multiple Vulnerabilities in SonicWall GMS Could Allow for Remote Code Execution
Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in SonicWall Global Management System (GMS), the most severe of which could allow for remote code execution. The SonicWall Global Management System (GMS) is a centralized management interface used to deploy and centrally manage SonicWall firewall, wireless, email security, secure remote access and Dell X-Series solutions...
Multiple Vulnerabilities in Google Chrome Could Allow for Arbitrary Code Execution
Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Google Chrome, the most severe of which could allow for arbitrary code execution. Successful exploitation of the most severe of these vulnerabilities could allow for arbitrary code execution in the context of the logged on user. Depending on the privileges associated with the user an attacker could then install programs; view, change, or delete data; or create...
A Vulnerability in Zoom Clients Could Allow for Remote Code Execution
A vulnerability has been discovered in Zoom Clients that could allow for remote code execution. Zoom is a cloud-based communications platform that allows users to connect via video, audio, chat, and content sharing. Successful exploitation could allow an attacker to target meeting participants, execute code without user interaction, steal data, activate cameras or microphones, and install malware.
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This Coin-Sized Device Can Hack a Boeing 737
Vega Introduces Detection Skills, The New Open Standard for AI Reasoning in Agentic Cyber Defense
Vega, the pioneer of Agentic Cyber Defense, today launched Detection Skills: an open standard that redefines security operations for the AI era. The standard captures a team’s expert judgment as a self-improving agentic loop across detection, triage, and investigation. Available to the community as an open standard, or natively within the best-in-class Vega platform, they […]
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737 Chrome VPN Extensions Caught Routing Traffic Through Proxies. Check If You Have One
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Largest AI Supply Chain Breach of 2026: LiteLLM Hack Impacts Thousands of Global Enterprises - Data from the breach is now available
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OpenAI, Anthropic, Google API Flaw Let Weaker AI Models Decode Stronger Models' Reasoning
Enterprise Defenses Recovered at the Edge and Collapsed Inside
Adobe Patches Three CVSS 10.0 ColdFusion and Campaign Classic Flaws
Prompt Injections for Defense
Attackers Exploit VMware vCenter Vulnerability to Gain Persistent Remote Access
Weekly Update 516: Live From Vietnam
A little wind noise, a little connectivity flakiness, and a little lip-sync issues from YouTube, but look at that view! 🤩 Back to business, it's the Brinks Home FAQ I found most interesting this week. I mean, how do you write your own FAQ then fail to
Malicious LiteLLM Releases Tied to Trivy Hack May Have Exposed 2,100+ Organizations
SAP Commerce Cloud Flaw Could Let Unauthenticated Attackers Execute Arbitrary Code
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ShieldBreak Zero-Day PoC Claims Microsoft Defender Patch Bypass With SYSTEM Access
Cisco ASA and FTD Flaw Exploited in the Wild Can Trigger Remote DoS
Microsoft Plugs Nearly 400 Security Holes
Microsoft Patches 398 Flaws Including a Windows Driver Zero-Day Under Active Attack
Kimwolf v7 Android Botnet Makes HTTP/2 DDoS Traffic Look Like Legitimate Browsing
Zoom Annotation Flaws Could Let a Meeting Participant Hijack Another Attendee's Client
Sandworm-Linked UAC-0145 Uses Fake Job Interviews to Push VPN That Can Run Commands
Critical Patches Issued for Microsoft Products, August 11, 2026
Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Microsoft products, the most severe of which could allow for remote code execution. Successful exploitation of the most severe of these vulnerabilities could result in an attacker gaining the same privileges as the logged-on user. Depending on the privileges associated with the user, an attacker could then install programs; view, change, or delete data; or create...
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How Trail of Bits helps verify the integrity of your Signal chats
Every Signal chat starts the same way: the client asks the Signal server for the public key associated with your contact’s phone number. But how do you know the server gave you the right key? A compromised server could provide a false public key, allowing the client to encrypt messages to an attacker rather than the intended recipient.
Until now, the only way to detect such malfeasance was to verify safety...
Multiple Vulnerabilities in Adobe Products Could Allow for Arbitrary Code Execution
Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Adobe products, the most severe of which could allow for arbitrary code execution.
- Adobe ColdFusion is a commercial rapid web application development platform and application server.
- Adobe Commerce is an enterprise-level e-commerce platform built on the proven technology of Magento.
- Adobe Lightroom is a popular cloud-based image...
Researchers Disclose AI-Assisted SharePoint Exploit Chain Reaching Unauthenticated RCE
DeadLock Ransomware Uses Polygon Smart Contracts to Make Extortion Infra Harder to Disrupt
Q&A: Ransomware is now a ‘fully fledged industry’, says cybercrime journalist Geoff White
Cybercrime no longer divides neatly between lone hackers, organised gangs and state-backed operations. These groups exchange tactics and tools, while stolen data gives them an asset that can be sold, used for fraud, held to ransom or weaponised for political damage. Geoff White is an award-winning investigative journalist whose reporting has taken him inside global […]
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How to know virtual disk size using VMware Workstation Pro CLI?
OpenAI Launches GPT-5.6-Cyber with Reduced Safeguards for Exploit Development
A Malicious SIM Card Can Run Attacker Code Inside the Modems Behind Cellular IoT Devices
Mozilla Revokes Firefox and Thunderbird Linux Signing Key After Key Lands in Private Repo
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Researchers Built a Fake Crypto Startup and Hired Three Suspected North Korean IT Workers
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Researchers Turn USB Auto-Install Into a Full SYSTEM Takeover on Windows 11
Malicious MCP Servers Can Split Instructions to Make AI Coding Agents Exfiltrate Secrets
Gunra Ransomware Exploits Fortinet FortiOS, FortiProxy Flaws to Breach Networks
Hackers Breach Polish Power Plant Controls via Private Cellular Network and Shut Turbine
BdThemes Supply Chain Attack Poisons JSON to Create Rogue WordPress Admins
CopyEscape: Taking Over Docker Hosts with docker cp
Imperva Red Team uncovered CVE-2026-17106, a container-to-host arbitrary file-write vulnerability in Docker’s docker cp command. Docker later confirmed that the same CVE also affected sbx cp when copying files out of Docker Sandboxes. A malicious container or sandbox could exploit the copy process to create or overwrite files outside the destination selected by the user, […]
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Embedded Broadcast Storm Protection on Linux?
Imperva Customers Protected Against XSS2Shell (CVE-2026-64638) in WordPress Core
TL;DR: CVE-2026-64638, dubbed XSS2Shell, is a high-severity WordPress Core vulnerability that begins as a pre-authentication reflected XSS on the login screen and can be chained to PHP code execution when a logged-in administrator is successfully targeted. WordPress fixed the issue in 7.0.3 and backported the fix through maintained branches. Imperva Cloud WAF and On-Prem WAF […]
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Shipping 10–50× More Code? Watch This Webinar on Securing AI-Speed Development
China-Linked Hackers Deploy New StormEncryptor Ransomware, Likely via N-central Flaw
Microsoft named a Leader in the 2026 IDC MarketScape for MDR/MXDR for the Enterprise
Microsoft is named a Leader in the 2026 IDC MarketScape for MDR services. Discover how Microsoft Defender Experts MDR combines AI, threat intelligence, and human expertise.
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⚡ Weekly Recap: AI Goes Rogue, Metabase 0-Day, MCP Supply-Chain Attacks, and Router Backdoors
DeadLock ransomware: Breaking down a Rust-based encryptor with decentralized recovery infrastructure
Microsoft Threat Intelligence examines DeadLock ransomware, an emerging financially motivated operation distinguished by its use of decentralized infrastructure to support victim communications, negotiations, and data leak operations alongside double extortion tactics used to pressure victims.
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Margarita Howard has spent two decades running a company in a government contracting market where the rules rarely hold still. HX5, the defense and aerospace services firm she founded in 2004 and still leads, supports Department of Defense and NASA missions and has employed over 1,000 people across 34 states and 90 government locations over […] The post In an increasingly digital world, understanding personal online presence has become essential. Many individuals overlook the importance of assessing their digital footprint, which can affect privacy, reputation, and security. Auditing one’s digital footprint involves evaluating online accounts, social media activities, and search results to gain insights into what information is publicly accessible. By taking the […] The post You cannot verify a vendor’s security claims from their own datasheet, including ours. That is why independent validation matters. In our recent guide to the best WAAP solutions (Best WAAP Solutions 2026: Enterprise Buyer Guide), we argued that every serious shortlist should include independent third-party testing across both web and API threats. SecureIQ Lab’s Cloud […] The post Margarita Howard’s HX5 Operationalizes CMMC Compliance Before AI Rules Arrive
Kimsuky Builds Offline AI Stack to Boost Phishing and Automate Malware Development
New Passkey Attacks Can Recover Synced Private Keys or Bypass Phishing-Resistant MFA
TrueConf Server Flaws Exploited to Replace Client Installers with PhantomCore
Python Now Has a Post-Quantum Encryption Library
Solidity Pro VS Code Extensions Steal Crypto Wallets, API Keys, and Credentials
OpenAI's Next AI Model Astra Shows Cyber Performance Strong Enough to Trigger Pause
How to Audit Your Own Digital Footprint: A Step-by-Step Guide to Evaluate Your Online Presence
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What SecureIQLab Cloud WAAP 5.0 means for your application security
