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Attempts by European states to fuel Ukraine conflict will backfire — former US congressman ‘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 Trump-aligned super PAC to spend $10 million in Texas Senate race Lapid unveils Yesh Atid lineup for B’Yachad electoral slate Attempts by European states to fuel Ukraine conflict will backfire — former US congressman ‘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 Trump-aligned super PAC to spend $10 million in Texas Senate race Lapid unveils Yesh Atid lineup for B’Yachad electoral slate

Cybersecurity

Technology · Cybersecurity

DOUBLECUP Uses ClickFix and Cached PNGs to Deliver CountLoader and DeviceManager RAT

A new Russian loader-as-a-service (LaaS) codenamed DOUBLECUP has been using ClickFix lures as a way to stage malware-laced PNG images in victims' browser cache and ultimately deli…

Technology · Cybersecurity

CISA Adds Exploited N-able N-central Flaw to KEV After Customer Compromises

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Monday added a high-severity security flaw impacting N-able N-central to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (K…

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18 Malicious npm Packages Deliver Cross-Platform RAT to Alibaba Tool Users

Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a new set of malicious npm packages that target users of Alibaba developer tools with a cross-platform remote access trojan (RAT) as part…

Technology · Cybersecurity

Google Password Manager Attacks Could Let Malware Hijack Passkey-Protected Accounts

Malware running as an ordinary user on a Windows machine can sign into a victim's passkey-protected accounts without a fingerprint, a PIN, or anything at all appearing on the vict…

Technology · Cybersecurity

INC Ransomware Emerges as Dominant Actor Exploiting SonicWall SMA 1000 Flaws

The INC Ransomware operation has emerged as the "dominant threat actor" exploiting the recently disclosed security flaws in SonicWall Secure Mobile Access (SMA) 1000 series VPN ap…

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⚡ Weekly Recap: Rogue AI Models, $88M Bitcoin Theft, Water-System Attacks and Dangling DNS Hijacks

This week kept coming back to permission. A model crossed a boundary. A wallet trusted bad randomness. Webmail kept an intruder around. Public systems, package feeds, hotel networ…

Technology · Cybersecurity

FOMO in the SOC: Where AI Platforms like Claude Actually Fit

AI is moving incredibly fast, and every security leader is feeling the pressure to keep up. AI platforms like Claude, Codex and Cursor are already helping security teams write det…

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Chinese Threat Actor Uses Leaked DarkSword Kit to Deploy GHOSTBLADE on iOS

An unknown Chinese-threat actor has been observed running a campaign targeting Apple iOS devices by leveraging a publicly leaked version of the DarkSword exploit kit. Attack surfa…

Technology · Cybersecurity

PNLD Breach Exposes U.K. Police and Government Contact Details on Dark Web

The Police National Legal Database (PNLD) has confirmed that police, government and customer contact information was compromised and published on the dark web. The data included n…

Technology · Cybersecurity

Thermo Fisher Patches Flaw That Could Make DNA File Tampering Nearly Undetectable

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 the…

Technology · Cybersecurity

N-able Says Attackers Take Over N-central Servers After Initial Fix Proves Incomplete

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 …

Technology · Cybersecurity

Hugging Face Diffusers Flaws Could Let Model Repositories Execute Arbitrary Code

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 mach…

Technology · Cybersecurity

Coldcard Hardware Wallet Flaw Linked to $70 Million Bitcoin Theft in 41 Minutes

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 …

Technology · Cybersecurity

Hackers Poison Adform Script to Swap Crypto Wallet Addresses Across Customer Sites

Attackers modified a JavaScript file served by advertising technology company Adform, turning it into a browser-side tool that rewrites cryptocurrency wallet addresses. Adform det…

Technology · Cybersecurity

Adobe Campaign Classic CVSS 10.0 Flaw Could Run Code Without User Interaction

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 …

Technology · Cybersecurity

Hijacked Hotel Wi-Fi Pushes Fake Updates to Deliver Surveillance Malware

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 keyst…

Technology · Cybersecurity

Suspected Chinese-Speaking Hackers Target Central Asian Governments With OctLurk and SilkLurk

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, K…

Technology · Cybersecurity

HollowFrame Loader Deploys Matryoshka Backdoor in Spear-Phishing Attack on Law Firm

Cybersecurity researchers have shed light on a previously undocumented Go-based loader framework called HollowFrame and a Rust-based malware family tracked as Matryoshka. Accordin…

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Cheap Android TV Boxes Pose as Phones and Turn Owners’ Broadband Into Proxies

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 …

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Three Recent Chrome Releases Fix 1,442 Flaws, More Than Prior 23 Updates Combined

Google on Thursday announced that it fixed a whopping 1,072 security bugs in Chrome versions 149 and 150, surpassing the total number of flaws the company fixed across the prior 2…

Technology · Cybersecurity

Researchers Report 84 Flaws in 4G and 5G Cores, Including a Session Hijacking Flaw

An academic study has disclosed a "widespread class" of security vulnerabilities impacting 4G and 5G core networks that, if successfully exploited, could trigger denial-of-service…

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6 Reasons Why Device Code Phishing is the Fastest-Growing Threat of 2026

Device code phishing - the abuse of the OAuth 2.0 device authorization grant to steal access tokens - has evolved from a niche red-team technique to an industrial-scale threat in …

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Chinese Hacker Commands DeepSeek via Telegram to Launch Autonomous Attacks

Palo Alto Networks' Unit 42 says a Chinese-speaking threat actor used DeepSeek through the open-source Hermes Agent framework to launch attacks autonomously. After an initial Tele…

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Anthropic Says Claude Mistook the Open Internet for a CTF and Breached Three Organizations

Anthropic on Thursday became the latest artificial intelligence (AI) company to reveal that three of its models, including Claude Opus 4.7, Mythos 5, and an unnamed research model…