Google says artificial intelligence is dramatically increasing the number of security vulnerabilities it can find and fix in Chrome, with more than 1,000 security bugs patched across the browser's two most recent releases as it expands its use of AI. [...]
Security experts have been sounding the alarm for years about the risks of using generic TV boxes that promise unlimited content streaming for a one-time fee, warning that they secretly rent the user's Internet connection out to strangers. But a groundbreaking new analysis fin...
Residential security company Brinks Home has disclosed that hackers breached some of its systems and are threatening to leak allegedly stolen data. [...]
He’s being prosecuted for giving border officials a code that wiped his phone: The case centers on a feature included in GrapheneOS, a custom Android operating system that runs in place of the software on most modern Google Pixel devices. Tunick’s attorneys confirmed GrapheneO...
This month’s updates help security and IT teams secure their AI environments, use AI to defend, and strengthen the foundations that AI-powered operations depend on. The post What’s new in Microsoft Security: July 2026 appeared first on Microsoft Security Blog.
Threat actors are impersonating IT support staff in Microsoft Teams calls to gain remote access to corporate devices and deploy Chaos ransomware in attacks targeting North American organizations. [...]
The best compliance programs aren't the biggest ones. They're the ones built on a short list of questions that can actually be answered, and that still hold true when the models change. The post Timeless Compliance: Why Better Questions Beat Bigger Frameworks appeared first on...
In this edition of Reporters' Notebook, our journalists discuss the ins and outs of Anthropic's Claude Mythos rollout. How seriously should we take its risks? How big of a deal is it?
A lot of security still comes down to trusting the wrong screen. This week, that screen might be a login page, an install guide, a recruiter call, or a familiar service behaving slightly wrong. Behind it: reused credentials, exposed systems, quiet loaders, abused trust, and ex...
Novee announced the expansion of its AI penetration testing platform to mobile applications. With this addition, Novee becomes the industry’s first complete AI pentesting platform across the modern application attack surface, providing continuous, autonomous coverage. The plat...
Derrick Van Yeboah impersonated fake romantic partners and directly interacted with victims for more than nine years. The post Ghanaian national sentenced to 7 years in prison for stealing $10M from romance scam victims appeared first on CyberScoop.
Russia-affiliated cyber espionage group Laundry Bear (aka Void Blizzard, aka TA488) is exploiting CVE-2026-42897, a cross-site scripting vulnerability in Microsoft Exchange, to target US and European government entities and a variety of private sector organizations via email. ...
Attackers rarely stop after gaining initial access. Huntress analyzes a real-world intrusion to show how threat actors establish persistence, disable defenses, and reshape compromised systems, and why defenders must investigate the original entry point rather than simply remov...
The company will accelerate investments in R&D and product innovation to expand its agentic data control plane. The post DataBahn Raises $40 Million for Agentic Data Pipeline Management appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Cyberattack tools and infrastructure used by North Korea’s Lazarus Group appear to have been shared with ransomware criminals targeting South Korean organizations — further evidence of deepening entanglement between Pyongyang-backed hackers and the ransomware ecosystem.
A now-patched vulnerability in Azure Cosmos DB could have let an attacker escape the service's Gremlin query sandbox and obtain full read and write access to databases across customer tenants, according to Wiz. Wiz, which codenamed the chain CosmosEscape, said the exploit chai...
The startup’s community-powered agentic security platform helps proactively identify, prioritize, and remediate vulnerabilities. The post Cantina Emerges From Stealth With $8 Million in Funding appeared first on SecurityWeek.
A North Korea-linked hacker group was behind several high-profile compromises of open-source software libraries used by developers worldwide, researchers have found.
The company will invest in accelerating the development and adoption of its agentic platform. The post Discern Security Raises $13 Million in Series A Funding appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Chipmaker Analog Devices disclosed a data breach after detecting unauthorized access to systems on June 23. The investigation is ongoing. Semiconductor giant Analog Devices (ADI) disclosed a data breach following a cyberattack that resulted in unauthorized access to some of it...
The Series B funding round brings the total raised by Onyx Security to $153 million. The post Onyx Security Raises $113 Million to Control AI Agents in the Enterprise appeared first on SecurityWeek.
The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), together with its co-authoring partners, has released the 2026 Minimum Elements for a Software Bill of Materials (SBOM), replacing the 2021 guidance published by the National Telecommunications and Information Adm...
Researchers warn that AI could turn dangling DNS takeovers into a nation-state weapon capable of disrupting governments, banks and global supply chains. The post ‘DangleGeddon’: AI Could Weaponize Forgotten DNS Records at Global Scale appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Cybercriminals are attempting to extort Britain’s Department for Education (DfE) after compromising what the hackers said was more than 600,000 pieces of data allegedly including names, email addresses and phone numbers.
Open source software (OSS) is embedded in nearly every modern system, from business applications to critical infrastructure. Our new Open Source Software: Security Principles and Practices guidance helps agencies securely use, evaluate, and publish open source software. It cov...
View CSAF Summary Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could allow an attacker to cause a denial-of-service condition. The following versions of NASA Core Flight System (cFS) Health & Safety (HS) Application are affected: Core Flight System (cFS) Health & Safety (HS) ...
View CSAF Summary Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could allow an attacker with access to the same network segment to tamper with communication data in the affected product by sending specially crafted packets under specific timing conditions. This could allow the...
View CSAF Summary Schneider Electric is aware of a vulnerability in its IGSS Definition module for the IGSS (Interactive Graphical SCADA System) product. The [IGSS](https://igss.schneider-electric.com/) product is a state-of-the-art SCADA system used for monitoring and control...
View CSAF Summary Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could allow an attacker to extract the router's WireGuard private key in plaintext using only low‑privilege API access, enabling full VPN impersonation and decryption of all associated traffic. The following versi...
View CSAF Summary Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could allow an attacker to gain full system control and misuse it to access or manipulate connected networks and resources. The following versions of Toptech Systems RCU II+ and Multiload II+ are affected: RCU II+...
View CSAF Summary Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could allow a malicious user the ability to deliver malicious firmware that can update and gain full control of the controller. The following versions of Watchfire Controller Software are affected: BC550 12.30 (CV...
View CSAF Summary Successful exploitation of these vulnerabilities could allow an attacker to upload malicious files, execute stored cross-site scripting attacks, or inject arbitrary HTML content. The following versions of Johnson Controls OpenBlue Employee are affected: OpenB...
View CSAF Summary Successful exploitation of these vulnerabilities could allow an attacker to cause a denial-of-service condition on the device. The following versions of MZ Automation GmbH libiec61850 are affected: libiec61850 <1.6.2 (CVE-2026-66720, CVE-2026-66369, CVE-2026-...
View CSAF Summary Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could allow an attacker to cause a denial-of-service condition. The following versions of Rockwell Automation CompactLogix 5380 ControlLogix 5580 / 1756-EN4TR Communications Module are affected: ControlLogix 5580 ...
View CSAF Summary Successful exploitation of these vulnerabilities could allow an attacker to disclose sensitive information, cause a denial of service, or potentially execute arbitrary code. The following versions of o6 Automation open62541 are affected: open62541 on Windows ...
CISA is currently observing a significant increase in cyber threat actors targeting programmable logic controllers (PLCs) in the Water and Wastewater Systems (WWS) Sector. CISA urges critical infrastructure owners, operators, and integrators to remove publicly exposed PLCs and...
View CSAF Summary Successful exploitation of these vulnerabilities could crash the device being accessed. The following versions of MZ Automation lib60870 are affected: lib60870 2.4.0 (CVE-2026-61893, CVE-2026-63033) CVSS Vendor Equipment Vulnerabilities v3 6.5 MZ Automation G...
Hidden instructions in a Word document can make Microsoft 365 Copilot rewrite figures in a report, then copy the same instructions into the finished file. Håkon Måløy disclosed the technique on July 28, 144 days after reporting it to Microsoft. In his proof of concept, the int...
Orca Security has announced two new AI-powered capabilities: Orca AI AppGen Security, which discovers and secures AI applications built outside the development pipeline on AI-powered platforms like Claude, Supabase, and Lovable, and AI Code Security Auditor, which delivers dee...
Network firewalls are the workhorses of modern cybersecurity. They are trusted to protect the network, blocking malicious traffic and preventing intrusions and breaches. And for decades, network security teams have built controls around a relatively stable model: users connect...
Attackers are moving away from fake Microsoft login pages in favor of abusing Microsoft’s own authentication system, letting phishing campaigns slip past the warning signs employees are trained to spot, according to Check Point. Between June 25 and the second week of July, res...
Hackers were detected on Analog Devices systems in June, and an investigation found that they stole files. The post Semiconductor Firm Analog Devices Discloses Data Breach appeared first on SecurityWeek.
This essay originally appeared in The Guardian. I teach public policy at the Harvard Kennedy School and the Munk School at the University of Toronto. And it will come as no surprise to you that my students regularly use AI to complete their writing assignments. Doing so is a w...
A static credentials vulnerability (CVE-2026-20316) in Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center (FMC), a platform for centrally managing multiple Cisco Secure Firewall devices across a network, is being leveraged by attackers, CISA warned. Two FMC flaws, one indicator of compro...
Dropzone AI has announced the general availability of AI Threat Hunter, its proactive threat hunting agent. The tool enables security teams to run structured hunt packs across their environments to identify hidden threats, emerging risks, and security coverage gaps that tradit...
PortSwigger has announced the public beta of Burp AT, a new addition to Burp Suite that brings agentic AI to professional penetration testing. Burp AT enables penetration testers to delegate defined investigative tasks to AI agents that use Burp Suite’s tools, project context,...
South Korean authorities and four security firms have disclosed a state-sponsored campaign that compromised trusted domestic websites. The attackers used those sites to exploit locally installed financial-security software and infect targeted visitors with SIGNBT or COPPERHEDG...
The Chinese cybercrime group known as Silver Fox has been observed using new drivers as part of bring your own vulnerable driver (BYOVD) attacks targeting a Japanese organization in the industrial manufacturing sector to ultimately deliver ValleyRAT (aka Winos 4.0) for persist...
The FCC added foreign robots and power inverters to its Covered List, while allowing security updates for existing authorized devices until 2029. The FCC just widened its Covered List again, this time adding foreign-produced advanced robotic devices and power inverters. In pla...
Unit 42 details a Chinese speaking threat actor combining autonomous AI scanning across seven vulnerabilities with manual exploitation. Read more. The post Chinese-Speaking Threat Actor Harnesses AI Models for Autonomous Cyberattacks appeared first on Unit 42.
Unauthenticated attackers could send HTTP requests to an exposed endpoint to execute commands inside the MCP bridge container. The post Critical Ruflo Flaw Lets Attackers Spawn Rogue AI Swarms appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Claroty has analyzed 750,000 cyber-physical systems across some of the world’s largest data center facilities. The post 1 in 5 Data Center Assets Are Within Easy Reach of Attackers appeared first on SecurityWeek.
For years, North Korea's state-trained hackers have been one of the world's most prolific robbers of banks - stealing huge sums of money from foreign financial instituions, draining cryptocurrency exchanges of billions, and funnelling the proceeds into the country's weapons pr...
U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) adds a Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center (FMC) flaw to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) added a Cisco Secure Firewall Management Cent...
A coordinated cyberattack on July 26 and 27 hit operational technology (OT) systems at more than 30 community water utilities across Minnesota, prompting an immediate response from Minnesota IT Services (MNIT) to contain the threat. MNIT confirmed the attack in a statement pub...
Five years after the initial release, the refresh introduces new elements, removes others, and updates terminology. The post US and Allies Update SBOM Guidance appeared first on SecurityWeek.