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Michigan, South Dakota, and Georgia are reportedly on the list of states whose water systems have been targeted by Iran-linked hackers. The post US Water Cyberattacks Extend Beyond Minnesota to at Least 6 Other States appeared first on SecurityWeek.
OpenAI banned a coordinated network of ChatGPT accounts that likely originated in Cambodia’s Preah Sihanouk province, a region reports have linked to online scam compounds and human trafficking operations. The network used the company’s models to create and manage fake online ...
Attackers reaching for kernel access on a Windows machine bring a driver Microsoft already trusts. It is signed, it loads, and it carries a known flaw. That flaw gives them enough room to tamper with memory or disable the security software watching the host. Once an attacker h...
CVE Exploit Sale, Pakistan Telecom Data Claim, WineStyle Leak, RDWeb Access, and Moscow Health Database Sale SOCRadar Dark Web Team identified several new underground posts involving alleged exploit sales, large-scale da
Thermo Fisher Scientific has patched a flaw in select Applied Biosystems human identification software that could allow data files to be altered before analysis software loads them. The vendor's July 31 security bulletin says nearly undetectable changes to .fsa and .hid output...
AI generates 2.5 signals for every human-triggered signal CrowdStrike has to assess. Meanwhile, attackers are using AI to weaponize vulnerabilities faster than companies can patch them. The post CrowdStrike: AI is now both the weapon and the target in cyberattacks appeared fir...
N-able said attackers exploited an authentication bypass in N-central to gain remote administrative access and reach the customer systems managed through those servers. Its first fix was incomplete. CVE-2026-18577 affects N-central builds prior to 2026.3.1.7. N-able shipped bu...
Three high-severity security flaws have been disclosed in Hugging Face's Diffusers library that could allow crafted model repositories to stealthily execute arbitrary code on machines that load it, opening the artificial intelligence (AI) supply chain to security risk. "These ...
Ruby on Rails fixed a critical vulnerability that could let unauthenticated attackers read files and achieve remote code execution. Ruby on Rails has patched CVE-2026-66066, a critical vulnerability (CVSS score of 9.5) that could allow unauthenticated attackers to read arbitra...
In this interview with Help Net Security, Mike Wiacek, founder and CTO of Stairwell, explains Backstory, an AI agent that takes a single alert and works outward to map how far a malware campaign spread. He walks through the research behind the claim that each published sample ...
SkillSpector is an open-source scanner from NVIDIA that reads an agent skill and tells you whether to install it. Point it at a directory, a zip file, a single SKILL.md, or a Git URL, and it returns a list of findings, a risk score, and recommendations. The folder it reads run...
In this Help Net Security video, Mike Boyle, VP of Business Units at GMO GlobalSign, and Rahul Powar, CEO and founder of Red Sift, unpack the evolution of email security and why it matters for business trust. With a combined 45+ years worth of experience in tech, they dissect ...
Guardio Mobile Security brings several protection features to iPhone and Android, allowing users to monitor exposed personal information, identify phishing attempts, and receive alerts about emerging threats from a single application. It is available on smartphones and tablets...
Buying TikTok followers, likes, or views could do more than inflate engagement metrics. According to Malwarebytes, many services selling social media growth operate through deceptive practices that can expose customers to scams, stolen accounts, and financial loss. The market ...
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OpenAI has revealed Astra, an unreleased model designed to tackle complex, long-running tasks, after an internal version produced ten significant advances in mathematics and theoretical computer science. [...]
A vulnerability in COLDCARD hardware wallet firmware allowed attackers to steal an estimated $88.6 million in Bitcoin from thousands of wallets whose seeds were generated using a flawed random number generator. [...]
CareCloud disclosed a breach affecting 345,000 people after hackers stole medical and financial data from its AWS-hosted systems. TechCrunch reports that CareCloud, the New Jersey-based health tech company that stores patient records for more than 45,000 providers across the U...
Security Affairs Malware newsletter includes a collection of the best articles and research on malware in the international landscape Malware Newsletter TAG-195 Upgrades MaaS Ecosystem with Modular Tools Inside a DPRK BlueNoroff ClickFix Kit SourTrade: Browser-Assembled Malwar...
A new round of the weekly Security Affairs newsletter has arrived! Every week, the best security articles from Security Affairs are free in your email box. Enjoy a new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter, including international press. Russian Hackers Hijack Hotel W...
Google is preparing a new Chrome security feature that would block policy-installed extensions from hijacking the New Tab page or changing the default search engine. [...]
Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news, articles, interviews and videos: Nono: Open-source sandbox for AI agents AI coding agents run with the same permissions as their users, meaning they can access sensitive files, credentials, and production systems...
After attacks hit 30+ Minnesota water systems, CISA urged utilities to remove internet-exposed PLCs and strengthen OT security. Between Sunday and Monday, July 26 and 27, a coordinated cyberattack hit operational technology (OT) systems at more than 30 community water utilitie...
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An attacker drained 1,196 Bitcoin addresses in 41 minutes on July 30, taking 1,082.65 BTC worth about $70.2 million at the time. Galaxy Research mapped the sweep and tied it to a firmware flaw in Coldcard, the Bitcoin-only hardware wallet made by Canadian firm Coinkite. A Marc...
A critical vulnerability in the Active Storage framework can allow an unauthenticated attacker to read arbitrary files from a Rails application, and potentially escalate to remote code execution (RCE). [...]
Microsoft says Russian hackers hijacked hotel Wi-Fi portals to spread malware and steal Microsoft 365 tokens from travelers. Microsoft Threat Intelligence disclosed CaptiveCrunch, a campaign it attributes to Storm-2945, an operational sub-cluster of Midnight Blizzard, the Russ...
Adobe fixed a maximum severity vulnerability in Campaign Classic that could let attackers run code remotely without user interaction. Adobe has addressed a critical vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-48449 (CVSS score of 10.0), in Adobe Campaign Classic, the company’s enterpri...
The funding round was led by SYN Ventures, with participation from existing investors DataTribe and TEDCO. The post Balance Theory Raises $19 Million to Help Enterprises Manage Cybersecurity Investments appeared first on SecurityWeek.
The flaw can be exploited by unauthenticated attackers to read arbitrary files and potentially achieve remote code execution (RCE). The post Ruby on Rails Patches Critical Vulnerability appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Attackers modified a JavaScript file served by advertising technology company Adform, turning it into a browser-side tool that rewrites cryptocurrency wallet addresses. Adform detected the incident on July 27, 2026, removed the malicious code, notified affected clients, and re...
Most phishing campaigns rely on the fact that the victim is afraid to loose "something": money, access to information, ... Many brands have been impersonated by campaigns but I spotted some phishing emails that focus on AI services like ChatGPT.
Adobe has released security updates to address a maximum-severity security flaw in Campaign Classic (ACC), its enterprise-focused marketing automation platform, that could result in arbitrary code execution. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-48449, carries a severity scor...
A fake browser update served over hijacked hotel Wi-Fi has been used to deliver CornFlake, a remote access trojan (RAT) that can capture webcam images, microphone audio, and keystrokes, Microsoft said in its latest report. Researchers track the operation as CaptiveCrunch and a...
Pharmaceutical company Amgen says it suffered a data breach after threat actors stole corporate data and patient information stored in multiple cloud systems operated by third-party service providers. [...]
The Arch Linux project has temporarily disabled adoption of Arch User Repository (AUR) packages after a surge in malicious takeovers of existing packages. [...]
South Korea warned that nation-state actors are using phishing and compromised websites to silently infect citizens and businesses. South Korea agencies (The National Intelligence Service, the National Police Agency, the Korea Internet & Security Agency, and the Financial Secu...
Online advertising firm Adform suffered a supply-chain attack that delivered cryptocurrency-stealing scripts to websites using its ad platform, replacing wallet addresses copied to visitors' clipboards with ones controlled by an attacker. [...]
The Squid is a new scientific machine: One of the technological breakthroughs was the onboard use of a spinning wheel confocal microscope, nicknamed the Squid, which uses lasers to scan microscopic details of how organisms are put together. “That opens up a whole new world of ...
Storm-2945, a sub-cluster of the Russian threat actor Midnight Blizzard, has been observed compromising the sign-in portals of hospitality-related organizations such as hotels since May 2026 in order to deliver malware to travelers and steal credentials in an operation we call...
The president went against his intelligence agencies’ conclusions about Iran being the likely suspect in the campaign. The post Trump blames Minnesota for cyberattacks on water sector, drawing pushback from cyber world appeared first on CyberScoop.
OpenAI says it has reduced the price of two GPT-5.6 models, cutting Luna's API price by 80% and Terra's by 20% as it works to make its models more efficient. [...]
A Chinese-speaking threat actor is suspected to be behind a fresh wave of cyber attacks targeting government organizations mainly located in Central Asia, including Afghanistan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, and the Syrian Arab Republic, since January 2025. T...
A couple-dozen changes to SBOM fields will make them more comprehensive, but some argue that the framework lacks real risk-management improvements.
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency said in a public alert on Thursday that facilities should “remove publicly exposed PLCs and other operational technology (OT) from the internet as soon as possible."
A Chinese-speaking threat actor is using the DeepSeek AI model and the open-source Hermes Agent to conduct autonomous cyberattacks on exposed servers with limited human involvement. [...]
The outpost will have its own director, though no one has yet been named for the post, and support the command’s nascent Cyber Warfare Innovation Center (CIWC).
The chart is interesting. On the IPI benchmark, Opus 5 improved over Opus 4.8, reducing the probability of an attacker succeeding within 15 attempts from 5.5% to 2.0%, and from 0.5% to 0.2% on 1 attempt. It also improved on Sonnet 5 (5.9% at k=15) and Mythos 5 (2.6%), making i...
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) is warning of a significant increase in attacks targeting internet-exposed programmable logic controllers (PLCs) in the water and wastewater systems sector. [...]
Cybersecurity researchers have shed light on a previously undocumented Go-based loader framework called HollowFrame and a Rust-based malware family tracked as Matryoshka. According to Blackpoint Cyber, the intrusion sequence begins with a spear-phishing message containing a li...
Noteworthy stories that might have slipped under the radar: parcel delivery company OnTrac hacked, Adobe patches, UK Department for Education loses 607,000 records. The post In Other News: OpenAI Open Source Tool, AWS Links Hacks to North Korea, Mythos Crypto Research appeared...
Iran has the “geopolitical motivations” and a recent history of targeting water systems, experts pointed out. The post Cyberattacks on Minnesota Water Systems Investigated as Officials Warn About Iranian Hackers appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Bitsight says some cheap Android TV boxes have shipped with apps that rewrite their hardware identity to mimic Samsung, Huawei, Xiaomi, or Vivo phones, then click ads on websites run by the same operators. Researchers named the operation Fuyao and attributed it to Zhejiang Fen...
OpenAI models going rogue, the first documented agentic ransomware operation, and an emergent AI-driven supply chain threat made for a packed July roundup
Attackers are adapting established techniques to AI platforms, emerging technologies, and changing user behavior. ESET's new threat report examines the rise of malicious AI skills, AI-assisted malware, ClickFix attacks, record quishing activity, and ransomware tools designed t...
The most valuable move any security team can make is building a certificate and key inventory.
Google says AI found and helped fix 1,072 Chrome security bugs in two releases, dramatically accelerating vulnerability detection and patching Google’s Chrome Security team published a detailed account of how AI models have transformed their vulnerability management pipeline, ...
When a fraudulent transaction occurs, law enforcement agencies must work quickly to halt payments before cybercriminals cash out.
The Delete Request and Opt-out Platform (DROP) launches Aug. 1 and hundreds of thousands of California residents already registered. Other states could follow if the process goes smoothly.
Cybercrime has become a commercialized ecosystem where criminals can buy or rent nearly every capability needed to launch sophisticated attacks. These services provide anonymity, plausible deniability, and access to short-lived infrastructure that is difficult to detect, attri...