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‘Firewall’ breach? Germany is heading for potential upheaval in Saxony-Anhalt – here’s what you nee… Two more newsrooms join the case against OpenAI and Microsoft GitHub Introduces Project HydraFusion: Runtime Multi-Model Orchestration That Builds a Workflow Per… Hikers rescued after using Google Gemini for planning Le Fee penalty saves point for Sunderland at Brentford Lapid unveils Yesh Atid lineup for B’Yachad electoral slate Chinese banks and carriers have turned AI tokens into rewards, monthly plans and collateral Chilwell scores on Palace return in victory at Fulham ‘Firewall’ breach? Germany is heading for potential upheaval in Saxony-Anhalt – here’s what you nee… Two more newsrooms join the case against OpenAI and Microsoft GitHub Introduces Project HydraFusion: Runtime Multi-Model Orchestration That Builds a Workflow Per… Hikers rescued after using Google Gemini for planning Le Fee penalty saves point for Sunderland at Brentford Lapid unveils Yesh Atid lineup for B’Yachad electoral slate Chinese banks and carriers have turned AI tokens into rewards, monthly plans and collateral Chilwell scores on Palace return in victory at Fulham

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Technology · Cybersecurity

Chinese-Made Zbtlink Routers Ship With Backdoor That Opens Unauthenticated Root Shells

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a "factory-shipped backdoor" implanted in at least 20 Chinese router models from Zbtlink. According to a new report from VulnCh…

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Ransom Cartel Creator Gets 16 Years in Prison for Operating Ransomware-as-a-Service

A federal judge in Alexandria, Virginia, sentenced Maksim Silnikau to 16 years in prison on August 5 for creating and running Ransom Cartel, the ransomware-as-a-service operation …

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CISA Flags TeamCity CVE-2026-63077 RCE Flaw Under Active Exploitation in the Wild

A newly patched security flaw impacting on-premise versions of JetBrains TeamCity has come under active exploitation in the wild, according to the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastru…

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Snowflake Hacker Pleads Guilty Over Breaches Affecting at Least 100 Million People

Connor Riley Moucka pleaded guilty in Seattle federal court on Wednesday to computer fraud, wire fraud, aggravated identity theft and a related conspiracy over the 2024 breaches o…

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Over 250 ClickFix Domains Use Browser Fingerprinting to Hide macOS Malware Lures

A macOS ClickFix operation spanning more than 250 front-end domains now fingerprints visitors before deciding whether to show them a malware lure, a change Microsoft Threat Intell…

Technology · Cybersecurity

OpenAI Disrupts Poipet Scam Network Using ChatGPT Across Multiple Fraud Schemes

OpenAI said it disrupted a Cambodia-based scam operation that used its generative artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot ChatGPT to facilitate a wide range of investment, romance, g…

Technology · Cybersecurity

Poison Claude Sells Discounted Claude Access While Its Operator Sees Every Customer Prompt

Cybersecurity researchers have discovered more than half-a-dozen services advertisements for illegal access to artificial intelligence (AI) models on underground cybercrime forums…

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Paperclip AI Flaws Let Attackers Run Host Commands via Malicious Agent Imports

Two security flaws in Paperclip could let attackers execute commands on a network server or a developer's computer. Paperclip is an open-source control plane for teams of artifici…

Technology · Cybersecurity

Veeam, Terraform MCP, Django Patch Critical Flaws, Led by CVSS 10.0 Cross-Tenant Bug

HashiCorp, Veeam, and the Django Software Foundation have patched 11 vulnerabilities across Terraform MCP Server, Veeam Service Provider Console, and Django. The three most seriou…

Technology · Cybersecurity

Trojanized npm Packages Decode C2 IP From Ethereum Recipient Addresses

Cybersecurity researchers have flagged an evolution of the EtherHiding blockchain-based command-and-control (C2) technique that conceals the C2 server IP address inside a made-up …

Technology · Cybersecurity

New OVSwrap Linux Kernel Flaw Lets Local Users Gain Root via Open vSwitch

A memory corruption flaw in the Linux kernel's Open vSwitch datapath gives ordinary local users a path to root on a broad set of default-configured distributions, and a public exp…

Technology · Cybersecurity

Kali365 Weaponizes Microsoft Authentication Against US Companies: New Enterprise Risk

Kali365 is turning a legitimate Microsoft login into a gateway to corporate data. The phishing kit targets US organizations with attacker-controlled device codes that victims appr…

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Critical Gitea Flaw Let Unauthenticated Attackers Read Server Files via Org-Mode Markup

An unauthenticated attacker can read any file the service account can access on Gitea, the self-hosted Git platform, in versions 1.22.1 through 1.27.0. No login, no repository wri…

Technology · Cybersecurity

Leaked n8n API Tokens Exposed Live Instances to Credential Theft

GitGuardian researchers found 321 n8n instances accepting API tokens exposed in public GitHub commits and demonstrated four ways attackers could use them to access sensitive data …

Technology · Cybersecurity

Open VSX Removes 77 Malicious Evil Twin Extensions Exfiltrating Developer Data

A cluster of 77 extensions on the Open VSX marketplace has been found to impersonate legitimate developer tools while transmitting information about the systems and development en…

Technology · Cybersecurity

Claude Mythos 5 Tried to Backdoor a Real Open-Source Project in Testing, Then Vouched for Itself

An agent running Anthropic's Claude Mythos 5 spent 34 hours trying to get a malware dropper merged into a real open-source project during a cyber evaluation by the UK's AI Securit…

Technology · Cybersecurity

CISA Flags Langflow RCE, Tomcat, and N-central Flaws as Actively Exploited

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), on August 5, 2026, added three flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, citing evidence of act…

Technology · Cybersecurity

QuickFox Supply Chain Attack Delivers FDMTP Backdoor via Trojanized Windows Installer

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed what has been described as a "long-standing supply chain attack" on QuickFox, a virtual private network (VPN) and network acceleration too…

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Greatness PhaaS Adds Device Code Phishing to Bypass MFA and Steal Tokens

The commercial phishing-as-a-service (PhaaS) toolkit known as Greatness has become the latest crimeware solution to add support for device code phishing, a rapidly growing cyber t…

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Keyv-Linked npm Worm Poisons Hundreds of Packages, Plants Claude Code and VS Code Hooks

A credential-stealing npm worm that first appeared in keyv@6.0.0 spread beyond the Keyv and Cacheable namespaces into hundreds of packages across multiple organizations on August …

Technology · Cybersecurity

Fake Adobe and Zoom Updates Install ScreenConnect for Persistent Remote Access

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of an active, multi-wave campaign that employs social engineering lures themed around Adobe and Zoom software updates, business do…

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When Vibe Hacking Turns AI into the Junior Hacker Every Adversary Always Wanted

The cybersecurity industry has spent decades assuming that offensive capability scales with technical expertise. That assumption is starting to break. Security teams have long est…

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Google Deletes 3 ADK AI Workflows After Malicious GitHub Issue Could Trigger Privileged Agent

Google deleted three AI agent workflows from its Agent Development Kit (ADK) Python repository. Pillar Security showed that a public GitHub issue could manipulate a triage agent i…

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New cPanel Critical Flaw Could Let Hosting Customers Run SQL as Database Root

cPanel has patched a flaw that let an authenticated hosting customer execute SQL in the database's root context, crossing the privilege boundary between a cPanel account and the s…