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Sherlock Holmes was the “OG” Social Engineer
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The Record
Poland uncovers second heat plant cyberattack that went hidden for months
The incident occurred on the same day as coordinated cyberattacks struck more than 30 other renewable energy installations and a larger heat plant, as Poland publicly disclosed in January.
The Record
Senate Democrats introduce bill to distribute $300 million annually to shore up water system cybersecurity
Two Democratic senators introduced legislation that would allocate $300 million each year to fund cybersecurity improvements for the water and wastewater sector.
The Record
Russian military hackers pose as recruiters to target Ukrainian IT workers
Ukraine’s computer emergency response team, CERT-UA, said Saturday that the campaign has been running since at least May and is linked to Sandworm, the notorious hacking unit associated with Russia’s GRU military intelligence agency.
CyberScoop
UK man tied to The Com sentenced for abusing 117 victims
Justin Swaddle, who was a minor when he committed the crimes, coerced children across multiple countries into self-harm and sexual abuse using threats tied to their personal information, authorities said. The post UK man tied to The Com sentenced for abusing 117 victims appear...
The Hacker News
⚡ Weekly Recap: AI Goes Rogue, Metabase 0-Day, MCP Supply-Chain Attacks, and Router Backdoors
A lot of security problems still begin with someone doing a completely normal thing. Cloning a repo. Answering a call. Leaving a box exposed. Trusting the default. That pretty much covers the mood this week. Old bugs are back, supply chains are getting stranger, and some explo...
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Microsoft Security
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 ...
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Help Net Security
Cyberattack on Steam hardware shipper leaks names, addresses, and order data
Video game publisher Valve is alerting customers in Europe to a data breach at CEVA Logistics, its Steam hardware shipping partner. Reports from affected customers began surfacing on social media earlier today, after Valve started sending out data breach notification emails. “...
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BleepingComputer
CISA: SonicWall SMA1000 flaws now exploited by ransomware gangs
CISA has confirmed that ransomware gangs have begun exploiting two recently patched SonicWall SMA1000 vulnerabilities, including a maximum-severity server-side request forgery (SSRF) flaw. [...]
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SecurityWeek
OpenAI’s Upcoming Astra Model Raises Autonomous Cyberattack Concerns
The current GPT-5.6-Sol has been assigned a ‘high’ cybersecurity threshold, but Astra could reach the maximum ‘critical’ threshold. The post OpenAI’s Upcoming Astra Model Raises Autonomous Cyberattack Concerns appeared first on SecurityWeek.
CyberScoop
Why transparent AI agents matter more than you think
The difference between a prompt injection attack you'll catch and one you won't might just be whether your AI agent can explain itself. The post Why transparent AI agents matter more than you think appeared first on CyberScoop.
SecurityWeek
Stealthium Targets Security Blind Spots in AI Accelerators and Neo-Clouds
The startup analyzes subtle telemetry signals to detect attacks that traditional security tools cannot see inside accelerator-powered AI infrastructure. The post Stealthium Targets Security Blind Spots in AI Accelerators and Neo-Clouds appeared first on SecurityWeek.
SecurityWeek
Cisco Warns of High-Severity ClamAV Vulnerabilities With Public PoC
Remote, unauthenticated attackers could exploit the bugs to cause a denial-of-service (DoS) condition. The post Cisco Warns of High-Severity ClamAV Vulnerabilities With Public PoC appeared first on SecurityWeek.
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BleepingComputer
When Credentials Are No Longer Enough: Device Trust in the AI Era
AI is making phishing, credential theft, and social engineering faster and more efficient, while traditional trust signals such as passwords, MFA, IP reputation, and geolocation become easier to bypass. Specops explains why organizations are increasingly adding device trust to...
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The Record
British ‘Com’ member who abused more than 100 girls worldwide jailed for two years
Justin Swaddle, of Leeds in northern England, targeted 117 female victims aged 13 to 17, according to the National Crime Agency.
Help Net Security
Metabase zero-day exploited to access Framework customer data
Framework, the San Francisco-based company that designs repairable and upgradeable laptops, has suffered a data breach after attackers managed to exploit a zero-day vulnerability in the Metabase business intelligence service. According to the notification sent to affected Fram...
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Security Affairs
9.2 Million Israeli Records Sold as a New Breach Are 20 Years Old
A seller claims to offer Israel’s 2026 population registry, but checks show the 9.2 million records are authentic data dating back to 2005. A vendor on a well-known leak forum claims to have breached Israel’s Population and Immigration Authority and is selling the entire natio...
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SOCRadar
Critical Metabase Zero-Day Exploited
Critical Metabase Zero-Day Exploited Metabase has disclosed a critical zero-day SQL injection (SQLi) vulnerability that can allow unauthenticated attackers to gain administrator access to vulnerable instances. The flaw i
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The Hacker News
Kimsuky Builds Offline AI Stack to Boost Phishing and Automate Malware Development
North Korea's state hackers are no longer content to type prompts into public chatbots. One of the country's main espionage groups has begun running artificial intelligence (AI) offline on its own servers, connecting document-search tools to files in its possession, and collec...
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Help Net Security
Microsoft Entra ID is removing an extra MFA hurdle for Windows Hello and macOS PSSO users
Microsoft is changing how Entra ID handles MFA for people who sign in with Windows Hello for Business (WHfB) or macOS Platform Single Sign-On (PSSO). The rollout reaches worldwide and GCC tenants starting early October 2026, with completion expected by late November. Microsoft...
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The Record
China-linked hackers turning popular cybersecurity tool into ransomware launchpad, Microsoft warns
A China-linked threat actor is believed to be exploiting a critical vulnerability affecting cybersecurity software from the company N-able.
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SOCRadar
Steam Customer Data Exposed in CEVA Logistics Cyberattack
Steam Customer Data Exposed in CEVA Logistics Cyberattack A cyberattack on CEVA Logistics, the company that distributes Steam hardware in Europe, may have exposed delivery and order information belonging to some Steam cu
SecurityWeek
‘Ghostjacking’ Attack Uses Poisoned Logs to Turn AI Agents Bad
An AI agent executes instructions that an attacker has planted in the log or alert that records a blocked request word for word. The post ‘Ghostjacking’ Attack Uses Poisoned Logs to Turn AI Agents Bad appeared first on SecurityWeek.
BleepingComputer
Member of The Com sent to prison for blackmail, sextortion
A member of "The Com," a loose-knit online cybercrime collective that targets children and teenagers, has been sentenced to two years in prison for blackmail and sextortion offenses against nearly 120 victims worldwide. [...]
The Record
New Zealand sanctions Russian hackers, propaganda groups over Ukraine war
New Zealand announced new sanctions on Russian hackers, technology companies and Kremlin-linked organizations over their roles in supporting Moscow’s war against Ukraine.
The Hacker News
New Passkey Attacks Can Recover Synced Private Keys or Bypass Phishing-Resistant MFA
Three separate research efforts last week demonstrated ways to defeat passkey protections without breaking the cryptography they rest on. Passkeys are designed to replace reusable passwords and resist phishing. The attacks instead reused signed authentication material that Win...
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BleepingComputer
LexisNexis shuts down services after suspicious activity on servers
LexisNexis took its Diligence, Metabase API, and Newsdesk services offline as part of its response to unusual activity on servers hosted and managed by an unnamed third-party vendor. [...]
CISA Alerts
#StopRansomware: Gunra Ransomware
Advisory at a Glance Title #StopRansomware: Gunra Ransomware Original Publication August 10, 2026 Executive Summary Gunra is a ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) used by affiliates to target government, critical infrastructure, and other organizations. The Gunra ransomware variant...
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The Hacker News
Shipping 10–50× More Code? Watch This Webinar on Securing AI-Speed Development
AI is helping development teams produce far more code, far faster. But security teams still have to review vulnerabilities, manage dependencies, prioritize fixes, and control risk at human speed. When software output jumps 10 to 50 times, the problem is no longer just finding ...
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BleepingComputer
Valve notifies Steam hardware customers of a data breach
Video game publisher and digital distribution giant Valve is notifying Steam hardware customers in Europe that hackers stole their data after hacking its shipping partner, CEVA Logistics. [...]
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SecurityWeek
New Jersey, Alabama Join States Targeted in Water Cyberattacks
Hackers linked to Iran targeted industrial control systems (ICS) at water facilities in at least a dozen US states. The post New Jersey, Alabama Join States Targeted in Water Cyberattacks appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Help Net Security
N-able ships second N-central hotfix as attackers keep exploiting CVE-2026-18577
To help customers fend off ongoing attacks, N-able released a second security hotfix for N‑central, its monitoring and management (RMM) solution popular with managed service providers (MSPs). “Hotfix 2 is required, even if you already applied the earlier hotfix. Hotfix 2 super...
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The Hacker News
TrueConf Server Flaws Exploited to Replace Client Installers with PhantomCore
The threat actor known as Head Mare has been observed weaponizing security flaws in unpatched TrueConf servers once again in attacks targeting Russian companies spanning instrumentation, electronics, transport, energy, IT, and software development sectors. Russian cybersecurit...
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Security Affairs
OpenAI Pauses Astra Model Over Critical Cybersecurity Risk Concerns
OpenAI paused work involving Astra after tests showed cybersecurity abilities that could approach its Critical risk threshold under the company’s framework. OpenAI disclosed that internal evaluations of Astra, one of its upcoming models, have found cybersecurity capabilities s...
SecurityWeek
Metabase Patches Vulnerability Exploited as Zero-Day
The security defect allows unauthenticated, remote attackers to gain administrative access to Metabase instances. The post Metabase Patches Vulnerability Exploited as Zero-Day appeared first on SecurityWeek.
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Schneier on Security
Python Now Has a Post-Quantum Encryption Library
This is good: Post-quantum cryptography is now one pip-install away for the entire Python ecosystem. With funding from the Sovereign Tech Agency, we implemented support for ML-KEM, the NIST-standard key-establishment primitive, and ML-DSA, the NIST-standard digital-signature p...
SecurityWeek
Novel Private APN Pivot Let Hackers Sabotage Second Polish Energy Facility
CERT.PL said this appears to be the first instance of a private APN being used as an attack vector. The post Novel Private APN Pivot Let Hackers Sabotage Second Polish Energy Facility appeared first on SecurityWeek.
BleepingComputer
Critical Progress LoadMaster flaw now actively exploited in attacks
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) warned that hackers are exploiting a critical-severity Progress Kemp LoadMaster command injection vulnerability. [...]
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SecurityWeek
CISA Urges Immediate Patching of Exploited Progress LoadMaster Vulnerability
The critical-severity flaw allows unauthenticated, remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands. The post CISA Urges Immediate Patching of Exploited Progress LoadMaster Vulnerability appeared first on SecurityWeek.
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Help Net Security
Anthropic to put AI in charge of reviewing Claude Code actions by default
Anthropic will make auto mode in Claude Code the default for new sessions on Pro, Max, and Team plans starting August 14. Users who previously selected a different default may receive a one-time prompt asking whether they want to switch to auto mode. In a controlled experiment...
WeLiveSecurity
Are AI tutors safe for your kids?
AI tutors can offer useful support, but their quality and safeguards vary widely. Here’s what parents should check before handing one to a child.
SecurityWeek
Corporate Data Stolen in Levi Strauss Cyberattack
Using social engineering, a threat actor accessed the computers of three employees and exfiltrated data from them. The post Corporate Data Stolen in Levi Strauss Cyberattack appeared first on SecurityWeek.
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Security Affairs
A GitHub Misconfiguration Let Kimi K3 Cheat a Cybersecurity Benchmark
Kimi K3 bypassed a UK cybersecurity test by accessing GitHub, cloning the benchmark and reading its solutions instead of solving the challenge Sometimes the smartest move isn’t solving the puzzle, it’s noticing nobody locked the door to the answer key. That’s essentially what ...
The Hacker News
Solidity Pro VS Code Extensions Steal Crypto Wallets, API Keys, and Credentials
Cybersecurity researchers have flagged a malicious Microsoft Visual Studio Code (VS Code) extension named Solidity Pro ("solidity-pro") that has been observed delivering a browser wallet and credential stealer. The names of the extensions are below - helper-beeps.solidity-pro ...
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Help Net Security
OpenAI locks down Astra over potential critical cyber capabilities
OpenAI’s internal evaluation of its upcoming model, Astra, found significant advances in agentic coding and cybersecurity, leading the company to conclude that it cannot rule out the model reaching the critical capability level for cybersecurity under its Preparedness Framewor...
Help Net Security
GitHub Dependabot malware alerts now cover eight ecosystems
GitHub has flagged npm malware since March 2026. Anyone pulling in a bad PyPI, Maven, RubyGems, NuGet, Go, crates.io, or PHP Composer package has had no such warning, because GitHub’s malware detection only ever watched one ecosystem. That changed this month. GitHub’s Advisory...
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SOCRadar
Brazil Fiscal Leak, US Fullz, Telecom Access, Endesa IBANs, and Mexico Fortinet Access
Brazil Fiscal Leak, US Fullz, Telecom Access, Endesa IBANs, and Mexico Fortinet Access SOCRadar Dark Web Team identified several new underground posts involving alleged large-scale data exposure and initial access sales.
The Hacker News
OpenAI's Next AI Model Astra Shows Cyber Performance Strong Enough to Trigger Pause
OpenAI has announced that it's pausing some "internal activities" involving its upcoming artificial intelligence (AI) model Astra after an internal evaluation found it had made significant advancements in agentic coding and cybersecurity. In response to the discovery, the AI u...
Help Net Security
Chainloop: Open-source evidence store and policy engine for the software supply chain
Chainloop is an open source evidence store for the software supply chain. A command line tool runs inside a GitHub Actions, GitLab, Jenkins, or Dagger pipeline, picks up what the build produced, uploads those files to content-addressable storage, and references each one in a s...
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Help Net Security
Product showcase: Enpass Password Manager breaks away from the proprietary cloud model
Enpass is a password manager that stores passwords, passkeys, payment cards, identities, secure notes, software licenses, and other sensitive information in encrypted vaults. Vaults remain on the device or in a cloud storage service selected by the user. Users who work across ...
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SecurityWeek
Critical Flaws Discovered in Belgian eID Software Used by 2 Million People
The vulnerabilities affected software used by eight of Belgium’s ten largest banks and over 60 government agencies. The post Critical Flaws Discovered in Belgian eID Software Used by 2 Million People appeared first on SecurityWeek.
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Help Net Security
71% of CISOs spend 10+ hours on board reports
Boards want evidence that security controls and architecture reduce business risk, expressed in terms of resilience, consequence, and decision relevance. Translating technical findings into business language remains a major time burden for CISOs, who are calling for simpler da...
Help Net Security
How to report an AI Act violation in the EU
The EU’s fight to regulate AI models entered a new chapter on 2 August 2026, when the European Commission’s AI Office and national authorities began enforcing the AI Act. The AI Act is the EU’s law regulating AI, the first broad legal framework of its kind. It creates a common...
SANS Internet Storm Center
ISC Stormcast For Monday, August 10th, 2026 https://isc.sans.edu/podcastdetail/10044, (Mon, Aug 10th)
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Security Affairs
U.S. Defense Manufacturer IEH Hit by Phishing Attack, Exposing Potentially Export-Controlled Data
IEH was breached by a phishing attack that exposed its Microsoft 365 inbox, including emails and potentially export-controlled military data. IEH Corporation is a U.S. defense and aerospace manufacturer based in Brooklyn, New York. The company specializes in high-reliability e...
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Security Affairs
SECURITY AFFAIRS MALWARE NEWSLETTER ROUND 109
Security Affairs Malware newsletter includes a collection of the best articles and research on malware in the international landscape Malware Newsletter Fake Xeno Roblox Cheats Deliver Powerful Java Stealer Through Discord and Forums DarkSword’s Panel Sprawl: How One Body Hash...
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Security Affairs
Security Affairs newsletter Round 589 by Pierluigi Paganini – INTERNATIONAL EDITION
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. Palo Alto Networks Faces China...
Security Affairs
Webmail CSS Attacks Expose a New Risk for AI-Powered Email Tools
CSS attacks on major webmail services can steal credentials, hijack sessions and manipulate AI tools connected to users’ inboxes. PortSwigger researcher Gareth Heyes demonstrated something that should make every webmail team a little nervous: plain CSS, the styling language th...
Help Net Security
Week in review: Cisco fixes IMC bug, Patch Tuesday forecast, Black Hat USA 2026
Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news, articles, interviews and videos: Mapping the malware blast radius a single alert won’t show you In this interview with Help Net Security, Mike Wiacek, founder and CTO of Stairwell, explains Backstory, an AI agent...
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BleepingComputer
Hackers breach TrueConf to trojanize client installers with backdoors
The Head Mare hacktivist group has been exploiting vulnerabilities in unpatched TrueConf video conferencing servers to replace client installers with malicious versions that deliver backdoors. [...]
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