Hunt.io uncovered a Chinese-speaking campaign using AI agents to automate cyberattacks against Asian government, education and industrial targets. Threat intelligence firm Hunt.io just documented a second, separate China-linked campaign wiring commercial AI models directly int...
We cannot forget that AI coding agents are not yet trustworthy: Researchers at a stealth startup in Israel scanned 6,214 live domains belonging to defense contractors, Fortune 500, and Big Tech companies. Of the 8,265 llms.txt and llms-full.txt files they found (many sites hos...
AI is getting better at much of what security teams have long spent time on: analyzing information, identifying patterns, and providing technically sound recommendations quickly. As those capabilities become more routine, they are changing what security practitioners spend the...
The deal highlights Nvidia’s push to champion increasingly popular open-source AI models. The post Nvidia Is Buying AI Platform Hugging Face for $13 Billion appeared first on SecurityWeek.
PEEP: A Browser RAT Posing as a Chrome Extension The Threat Research Unit (STRU) at SOCRadar's Extended Threat Intelligence (XTI) platform identified and analyzed PEEP , a Chromium-based emerging post-exploitation toolki
Threat actors are exploiting two critical security flaws in WordPress plugins Super Forms and Elementor Pro, according to findings from Wordfence. The vulnerabilities in question are - CVE-2026-14894 (CVSS score: 9.8) - A missing file type validation vulnerability in Super For...
Microsoft is preparing a new feature for Teams users that will help them stay safe from QR code phishing. Teams will automatically hide QR codes sent by people outside the organization. Users will need to reveal the image first before they can view or scan it. It’s currently i...
Google patched 12 Chrome flaws, including an actively exploited V8 zero-day that could enable remote code execution through a crafted webpage. Google released a Chrome security update fixing 12 vulnerabilities, including CVE-2026-85046 (CVSS score of 8.8), an actively exploite...
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Plex is urging users to update their instances to the latest version following the release of an update that patches multiple security flaws. The fixes are available in Plex Media Server 1.43.3 and Plex Desktop 1.115.0. The streaming media service did not elaborate on what tho...
Google on Thursday released security updates to patch 12 vulnerabilities, including one that has come under active exploitation in the wild. The high-severity vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-85046 (CVSS score: 8.8), has been described as a type confusion bug in V8, Chrome's...
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FBI probes suspected breach at IDScan.net after dark web service Nexus offered 153M+ US and Canadian driver’s license scans. A dark web identity theft service called Nexus appeared on September 1, 2026, offering searchable access to more than 153 million scanned driver’s licen...
OpenAI on Thursday officially unveiled GPT‑6 Astra, which it described as the "world's most intelligent and aligned model." The development comes days after the artificial intelligence (AI) company said the model had reached the "Critical" cybersecurity capability threshold un...
The Patch Apocalypse is continuing unabated. We are seeing record numbers of patches being released and reported CVEs continue to grow as well. August 2026 Patch Tuesday was the second biggest in history with 398 resolved CVEs: 42 rated Critical, 355 rated Important, and 1 rat...
In this Help Net Security video, Roy Katmor, co-founder and CEO of Orchid, explains why AI agents hold credentials that nobody reviews. Organizations build agents in AI studios, connect them to enterprise tools, and give them accounts to do useful work. The agent is approved, ...
The suspicious calls, texts, and DMs you got recently aren’t a coincidence, according to Malwarebytes. Scammers have worked out which platform gets them the best results for each type of con, and they stick to that formula. (Source: Malwarebytes) The company looked at its own ...
OpenAI committed $1 billion to subsidize access to its Daybreak cyber models, along with training and technical support, for organizations defending water and wastewater systems, the electric grid, state and local government, community and regional banks, nonprofits, and open-...
Anthropic pointed Claude Mythos Preview at 281 open-source projects and collected 23,019 candidate vulnerabilities. External security firms reviewed 1,900 of them. Maintainers received 1,596 reports and acknowledged 1,451; 97 fixes landed upstream, and 88 findings became publi...
Here’s a look at the most interesting products from the past week, featuring releases from BugBase, F5 Networks, Ping Identity, and Superna. F5 speeds up virtual patching to counter AI-driven threats With new features such as anomaly detection and agentic threat intelligence, ...
Amir Yaryab is the leader of the IRGC's cyber unit and oversees hacker groups such as the CyberAv3ngers, the State Department said in posting a reward for information about him.
SonicWall customers have confronted a barrage of attacks for years, including five actively exploited vulnerabilities in SMA 1000 appliances since late 2025. The post Attackers exploit zero-days in consistently besieged SonicWall product appeared first on CyberScoop.
France's data protection authority (CNIL) has fined Hôpital privé de la Loire €500,000 ($580,000) for failing to adequately protect patients' and their relatives' data. [...]
Threat actors behind the "Phantom Deal" campaign are studying companies in extreme detail, aiming to dupe midlevel employees into initiating large financial transfers.
Serbian activists were targeted with zero-click Pegasus and NoviSpy spyware, exposing a major surveillance campaign ahead of elections. A member of Serbia’s student protest movement had their iPhone infected with NSO Group‘s Pegasus spyware without ever clicking a link or open...
Cisco patched a critical Nexus 9000 vulnerability, CVE-2026-20212, allowing unauthenticated remote root code execution. Cisco has released patches for a critical flaw, tracked as tracked as CVE-2026-20212 (CVSS score of 9.8) in 10 Silicon One-based Nexus 9000 switches. The vul...
In this video conversation, Dark Reading editors discuss some of the news they didn't get a chance to cover, from the latest antics of ShinyHunters to new research about the prevalence (or lack thereof) of AI-generated malware.
At least 14 Serbians have been targeted with advanced spyware since December, with victims including a member of Parliament, a local opposition politician and student protesters, according to digital forensic researchers.
The nations warn that governments and industry can no longer treat quantum codebreaking as a distant or theoretical possibility. The post The G7 tells industry to hurry up and prep for post-quantum encryption appeared first on CyberScoop.
Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) has patched a critical vulnerability in the ArubaOS-CX network operating system that could lead to remote code execution. [...]
The worst part is how normal these attacks look. A call from IT. A shared file. A trusted app. A simple request to click “Allow.” Why break in when someone might open the door? That idea runs through this edition. Attackers use real tools, fake login pages, old account links, ...
From engaging with cybercriminals to surviving a live Flamin’ Hot Cheetos taste test, Hazel reflects on the latest Beers with Talos with Azim, where they cover the full spectrum of what it takes to gather threat intel.
Invisible Unicode characters popularized for hiding instructions from AI models are now being used to obfuscate words before email filters parse them. The post ASCII smuggling crosses over from AI prompt injection to phishing evasion appeared first on Microsoft Security Blog.
Cisco has released patches to address a critical security flaw affecting 10 Silicon One-based Nexus 9000 switches that could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to execute code as root, alongside an IOS XR hardening release bundling 7 umbrella CVEs, 2 of which are rated ...
Hacker group published roughly 550GB of data after MAG reportedly refused to pay a ransom demand; the group says it gained access via exposed admin keys. The post Manchester Airports Group Data on 8.8 Million People Leaked After Ransom Refusal appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a sophisticated Python-based Windows malware framework called BraZetsu that fuels an underground marketplace commercializing access to compromised hosts. "Unlike the standard infostealer model, BraZetsu is a comprehensive mas...
Microsoft says a known issue that reverts mouse settings after installing the KB5120998 August 2026 preview update affects only non-English Windows 11 systems. [...]
New models, trained using NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Ultra, aim to catch rogue agent behavior before it executes, without the latency of large-model review. The post Capsule Security Launches ‘AI Circuit Breaker’ to Stop Rogue Agents appeared first on SecurityWeek.
FalconFlank: CrowdStrike Falcon 0-Day PoC FalconFlank is an alleged privilege escalation zero-day vulnerability in CrowdS t rike Falcon Sensor for Windows , published with working Proof-of-Concept (PoC) code by researche
A recently patched critical vulnerability (CVE-2026-32475) in the Elementor Pro plugin for WordPress is being exploited in attacks that deliver a webshell payload and execute arbitrary commands on the server. [...]
Thomson Reuters disclosed on Wednesday that an unauthorized party obtained files from C-Track, the court case management platform sold by its West Publishing Corporation unit, in March 2026, affecting courts in 11 U.S. states, the U.S. Virgin Islands, and Ontario, Canada. West...
The incident demonstrates how frontier AI agents can dramatically compress an attack timeline and coordinate a large-scale breach, according to researchers.
Infostealers can expose far more than passwords, including authenticated sessions that may let attackers bypass MFA. Flare explains how defenders can prioritize compromised identities, determine whether stolen access is still usable, and respond before it leads to account take...
Thomson Reuters has disclosed a data breach affecting C-Track, a court case management platform operated by its subsidiaries, exposing court records and sensitive personal information across courts in at least 12 US states, the US Virgin Islands, and Canada. The company publis...
Google has introduced Gemini 3.8 Flash, available to developers today, and a gated sibling, Gemini 3.8 Flash Cyber, reserved for vetted security teams. “Our 3rd Flash release in just 6 wks,” Google CEO Sundar Pichai said on X, adding that it makes sizable gains over 3.7 Flash ...
412,000 The Town 2025 festival buyer records are being sold for $10,000, with Brazil’s data openly marketed for bank fraud, loans and SIM registration. A seller on a Russian-language data-trading forum listed what they’re calling a Ticketmaster database on September 2, claimin...
JFrog Artifactory CVE-2026-82329 Exploited A critical authentication bypass vulnerability in JFrog Artifactory, tracked as CVE-2026-82329, is under active exploitation, posing an immediate threat to self-managed software
The Austin-based company will invest in agentic runtime security capabilities to secure AI coding agents. The post HiddenLayer Raises $100 Million for AI Runtime Security appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Microsoft has confirmed that desktop settings are lost or reset on some Windows devices after installing the KB5120998 August 2026 preview update. [...]
The startup’s firewall evaluates AI skills, plugins and MCP servers for malicious instructions, excessive permissions and software supply chain risks. The post AI Agent Firewall Startup AIR Security Emerges From Stealth With $50 Million appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Sealed court information and sensitive personal data were exposed in a breach of a Thomson Reuters records platform affecting courts in at least 12 U.S. states, the U.S. Virgin Islands and Canada.
CISA and the Group of Seven (G7) Cyber Security Working Group released Preparing for the Post-Quantum Era: A Call to Action highlighting the urgent need for organizations and governments to begin transitioning to post-quantum cryptography (PQC) to protect sensitive data, authe...
View CSAF Summary Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could crash the module. The device requires a restart to recover. The following versions of Rockwell Automation 1756-ENBT Module are affected: 1756-ENBT module vers:all/* (CVE-2025-10478) CVSS Vendor Equipment Vul...
View CSAF Summary Successful exploitation of these vulnerabilities could result in an attacker accessing sensitive credentials, disrupting connected infrastructure, or manipulating physical equipment, which could present a physical safety risk. The following versions of Tycon ...
View CSAF Summary Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could allow any authenticated user to create projects. The following versions of Inductive Automation Ignition are affected: Ignition <=8.1.53 (CVE-2026-77393) CVSS Vendor Equipment Vulnerabilities v3 8.8 Inductiv...
View CSAF Summary Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could allow an attacker to take control of a high-privilege terminal during installation and run arbitrary commands. The following versions of OPCFoundation OPC UA LocalDiscoveryServer (LDS) are affected: UA-LDS-I...