Massive ChainDrop npm supply-chain attack infects hundreds of packages
Self-propagating malware named 'ChainDrop' has compromised more than 1,300 packages with a combined 2 billion monthly downloads on the Node Package Manager (npm) registry. [...]
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Oligo Raises $60 Million for Runtime Security
The company will use the investment to accelerate product innovation and expand go-to-market operations. The post Oligo Raises $60 Million for Runtime Security appeared first on SecurityWeek.
CISO Conversations: Russ Kirby – Passion Is the Antidote to Burnout
Russ Kirby, CISO at Ping Identity, shares how passion, courage, and “good enough” thinking shaped his path from HP to the C-suite—and what keeps him up at night. The post CISO Conversations: Russ Kirby – Passion Is the Antidote to Burnout appeared first on Sec…
WhatsApp Scam Hijacks Accounts via Linked Devices Feature
WhatsApp scam abused the Linked devices feature to hijack accounts without stealing any passwords
Varonis Agent IBAC keeps AI agents within their intended boundaries
AI agents need broad access to be useful, but traditional access controls cannot determine whether an action aligns with a user's intent. Varonis explains how Agent IBAC detects intent drift and enforces real-time guardrails to keep agents within their intende…
Weaponized Email AI Assistants Could Help Attackers Hijack Accounts
Researchers demonstrate how attackers could abuse built-in email chatbots to evade detection, impersonate trusted employees, compromise executive accounts, and facilitate financial fraud. The post Weaponized Email AI Assistants Could Help Attackers Hijack Acco…
Zenity Raises $125 Million in Series C Funding
The AI security company will invest in product innovation, global expansion, and customer experience. The post Zenity Raises $125 Million in Series C Funding appeared first on SecurityWeek.
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 4, 2026. SafeDep verified 353 poisoned versions across 79 package names in the np…
Cybercriminals Bypass AI Safety Controls by Splitting Malicious Tasks Across Multiple Sessions
Talos read attacker prompt logs and found guardrails fell to task splitting and ownership claims
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 document reviews, and system maintenance utilities to stealthily deploy Remote Moni…
AI Agent Carried Out A Ransomware Attack Without Any Human Oversight
This week in cybersecurity from the editors at Cybercrime Magazine Sausalito, Calif. – Aug. 4, 2026 – Listen to the podcast “This wasn’t someone behind the keyboard using AI as a tool to write malware,” says Heather Engel, guest expert on the Cybercrime Magazi…
TP-Link Omada ZTP Vulnerabilities Chain Into Full Network Takeover
Forescout researchers have found 15 new vulnerabilities in the TP-Link Omada networking ecosystem. The post TP-Link Omada ZTP Vulnerabilities Chain Into Full Network Takeover appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Obsidian Security Raises $85 Million at $1.1 Billion Valuation
Obsidian Security has developed a platform for governing AI agents across third-party applications. The post Obsidian Security Raises $85 Million at $1.1 Billion Valuation appeared first on SecurityWeek.
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 estimated risk by ranking attacker sophistication. Nation-state actors sat at one en…
Cloud and SaaS Environments Now Top Targets for Attackers
Cloud and SaaS are now the preferred operating environments for threat actors, amid a continued shift to identity attacks
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 into triggering a privileged code-fixing agent. The researchers said the public ag…
Gemini Agent-to-Agent Attack Method Exposed Secrets, Enabled Pull Request Tampering
A crafted prompt to a low-privilege Google ADK agent could be used to pass a malicious hand-off comment to a privileged agent. The post Gemini Agent-to-Agent Attack Method Exposed Secrets, Enabled Pull Request Tampering appeared first on SecurityWeek.
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 server's administrative database identity. It shipped in a targeted security relea…
AI Accounts for Over Half of Cybercrime in Africa, Says Interpol
Interpol claims AI is driving a surge in cybercrime in Africa, with related losses doubling
Decades-Old BMC Vulnerability Exposes Thousands of Data Centers to Attacks
Over 24,000 internet-accessible server-management interfaces disclose authentication hashes before login. The post Decades-Old BMC Vulnerability Exposes Thousands of Data Centers to Attacks appeared first on SecurityWeek.
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 deliver CountLoader and a previously undocumented remote access trojan called DeviceM…
UK’s Police National Legal Database Reveals Data Breach
The UK’s Police National Legal Database and Ask the Police service have been breached
150,000 Impacted by Madera Community Hospital Data Breach
An extortion group stole personal, financial, and medical information from the hospital’s network. The post 150,000 Impacted by Madera Community Hospital Data Breach appeared first on SecurityWeek.
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 (KEV) catalog following reports of active exploitation in the wild. The vulnerabili…
Microsoft Bug Bounty Program: $20 Million Paid to 500 Researchers
The biggest single reward paid out by Microsoft between July 1, 2025, and June 30, 2026, was $200,000. The post Microsoft Bug Bounty Program: $20 Million Paid to 500 Researchers appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Hotel Wi-Fi attacks use custom malware to breach Microsoft 365 accounts
Microsoft has linked a global campaign targeting hospitality Wi-Fi networks to the Russian threat actor Midnight Blizzard, also known as APT29. [...]
New Pass-ta-key attacks let malware hijack Google-synced passkeys
Security researchers have discovered three attacks that allow malware on already-compromised Windows devices to abuse Google Password Manager's synced passkeys to take over accounts, bypass user verification, and extract passkey private keys. [...]
New DOUBLECUP ClickFix service hides malware in browser cache images
A new Russian loader-as-a-service named DOUBLECUP uses ClickFix attacks to hide malicious code in PNG images cached by victims' browsers, ultimately delivering CountLoader to Windows and macOS devices and a new remote access trojan named DeviceManager to Windo…
Fake Roblox Xeno script launcher pushes infostealer, RAT malware
Fake Xeno Executor installers are infecting unsuspecting Roblox players with malware that provides remote access and steals sensitive information. [...]
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 of a sophisticated, targeted software supply chain attack targeting Chinese-spea…
N-able warns of N-central auth bypass flaw exploited in attacks
N-able is warning customers that hackers are exploiting an authentication bypass vulnerability (CVE-2026-18577) affecting both hosted and on-premises N-central servers. [...]
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 victim's screen. Unit 42 detailed three attack paths against Chrome's Google Password…
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 appliances. In a report published over the weekend, Resecurity said it observed the…
ExfilSquad hackers leak info of over 100,000 UK police officers, staff
A cyberattack on the U.K.'s Police National Legal Database (PNLD) has compromised contact data of more than 100,000 police officers and other criminal justice professionals. [...]
China-Linked Threat Actors Weaponize New Vulnerabilities in Under a Day
Chinese actors exploited the critical React2Shell exploit inside a day, while 88% of exploited vulnerabilities in H1 2026 were compromised within 48 hours of disclosure
Inside the Underground Business of the Android BTMOB RAT malware
Flare researchers analyzed thousands of underground posts to examine how the BTMOB Android malware operation evolved into a fragmented ecosystem of resellers, source-code vendors, custom versions, and competing sales channels. [...]
Midnight Blizzard Targets Travelers via Captive Portals
Russian actor Storm-2945 hijacked hotel captive portals to push fake updates and steal tokens
⚡ 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 networks, and login flows all gave away more than intended. Some of it was clever. Most…
Top Cybercrime And Cybersecurity Podcasts For CISOs In 2026
This week in cybersecurity from the editors at Cybercrime Magazine Sausalito, Calif. – Aug. 3, 2026 – Read the full story in Reddit The Cybercrime Magazine Podcast stands out as a leading resource for CISOs looking to stay updated on cybersecurity trends in 20…
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 detections, investigate alerts, summarize incidents, and automate repetitive work. T…
HollowFrame Loader Uses Fake Python DLL to Evade Defender
New HollowFrame loader hid Go code in a fake Python DLL after pre-staging Defender exclusions
Chinese Threat Actor Uses Leaked DarkSword Kit to Deploy GHOSTBLADE on iOS
An unknown Chinese-speaking threat actor has been observed running a campaign targeting Apple iOS devices by leveraging a publicly leaked version of the DarkSword exploit kit. Attack surface management platform Censys said it identified the threat actor runnin…
Korea’s Largest Telco KT Fined $38m After Femtocell Campaign
Korean telco KT has been fined $39m for a year-long breach linked to femtocell compromise
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 names, organisations and work email addresses belonging to police officers, police…
Coldcard Users Lose $89m After Bitcoin Wallet Is Hacked
A hacker has drained nearly $89m from Coldcard Bitcoin wallets after exploiting a legacy bug
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 them. The vendor's July 31 security bulletin says nearly undetectable changes to .fs…
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 fix was incomplete. CVE-2026-18577 affects N-central builds prior to 2026.3.1.7.…
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 machines that load it, opening the artificial intelligence (AI) supply chain to secur…
OpenAI teases Astra, its next major AI model, after it solves 10 long-standing math problems
OpenAI has revealed Astra, an unreleased model designed to tackle complex, long-running tasks, after an internal version produced ten significant advances in mathematics and theoretical computer science. [...]
COLDCARD wallet RNG flaw likely linked to $88 million Bitcoin theft
A vulnerability in COLDCARD hardware wallet firmware allowed attackers to steal an estimated $88.6 million in Bitcoin from thousands of wallets whose seeds were generated using a flawed random number generator. [...]
Google Chrome may soon block New Tab hijacker extensions by default
Google is preparing a new Chrome security feature that would block policy-installed extensions from hijacking the New Tab page or changing the default search engine. [...]
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 firmware flaw in Coldcard, the Bitcoin-only hardware wallet made by Canadian firm…
Rails patches critical Active Storage flaw with RCE potential
A critical vulnerability in the Active Storage framework can allow an unauthenticated attacker to read arbitrary files from a Rails application, and potentially escalate to remote code execution (RCE). [...]
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 detected the incident on July 27, 2026, removed the malicious code, notified affecte…
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 in arbitrary code execution. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-48449, carrie…
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 keystrokes, Microsoft said in its latest report. Researchers track the operation as Ca…
Amgen says cloud data breach exposed patient health, proprietary info
Pharmaceutical company Amgen says it suffered a data breach after threat actors stole corporate data and patient information stored in multiple cloud systems operated by third-party service providers. [...]
Arch Linux disables AUR package adoption to stop malware flood
The Arch Linux project has temporarily disabled adoption of Arch User Repository (AUR) packages after a surge in malicious takeovers of existing packages. [...]
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, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, and the Syrian Arab Republic, sinc…
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. According to Blackpoint Cyber, the intrusion sequence begins with a spear-phishing messag…
Chinese Hacker Uses DeepSeek AI to Orchestrate Vulnerability Exploits
A Chinese-speaking threat actor has been using DeepSeek’s AI models to orchestrate cyber-attacks targeting Asian organizations
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 run by the same operators. Researchers named the operation Fuyao and attributed i…
Digging Into Anthropic’s Cyber Verification Program
This week in cybersecurity from the editors at Cybercrime Magazine Sausalito, Calif. – Jul. 31, 2026 – Listen to the podcast “The exploit lands before the fix even ships,” says John Vecchi, CMO at Mitiga, a leader in zero-impact breach prevention for cloud, Sa…
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 23 milestones combined. Both versions were released last month. In its latest patc…
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 (DoS) attacks and even session hijacking, allowing an attacker to seize control…
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 under six months. Designed for input-constrained devices like smart TVs, printers…
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 Telegram instruction, the agent found internet-facing systems and selected public exp…
AWS Blames North Korean Group for Axios and Other npm Supply Chain Attacks
AWS has linked North Korea to the axios campaign to other attacks on npm libraries
Anthropic Reveals Claude Escaped Testing, Breaching Three Companies
Anthropic has revealed that Claude AI models compromised third-party organizations
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, had breached three unnamed organizations during cybersecurity testing without i…
DPRK-Linked macOS Malvertising Uses Fake Updates to Deliver Crypto-Stealing Malware
Threat actors with ties to North Korea have been attributed to a sophisticated macOS malvertising campaign that involves redirecting users to fake web pages displaying a full-screen non-existent update sequence to deliver malware as part of a new iteration of…
Read This Before You Buy That TV Streaming Stick
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…
ThreatsDay: AI-Powered Hacking, 370 Chrome Flaws, SonicWall Attacks, DNS Hijacking + 22 More Stories
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, abu…
Cryptominer Abuses Linux PAM to Hide From SOC Analysts
Cryptomining crew abandoned root to impersonate low-privileged Linux users and evade SOC alerts
AiTM Phishing Becomes Top Initial Access Threat to Law Firms
AiTM phishing is now the top entry point into law firms, with identity behind 56% of threats
Azure Cosmos DB Flaw Exposed Platform-Wide Key That Could Access Any Database
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…
AI and Automation Fall Short of Sysadmin Expectations
Action1 report finds sysadmins overestimated their use of AI in predictions made two years ago
Teams-Themed Phishing Campaign Abused Legitimate Microsoft Login Pages
Check Point researchers detail phishing attack as an example of attackers dropping fake Microsoft login pages in favor of abusing Microsoft’s legitimate authentication infrastructure
Microsoft Copilot for Word Can Copy Hidden Prompts Into New Documents
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…
The Network Has Become the Control Plane for AI Security
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 mod…
Hackers Exploit AnySign4PC via Hacked Korean Sites to Install Backdoors Without Prompts
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 SIG…
SilverFox Targets Japanese Manufacturer with 3-Driver BYOVD Chain and ValleyRAT
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…
Google Releases Patches for 370 Vulnerabilities in Chrome 151
The new version of Chrome, 151, comes with 370 vulnerability patches, including for seven critical flaws
NCSC Calls on Vendors to Embed ‘Forensic Observability’ in Network Devices
The UK’s National Cyber Security Centre wants network device makers to improve forensic observability
Russian Hackers Exploit Microsoft OWA Flaw to Keep Mailbox Access After Credential Rotation
The Russian threat actors recently linked to the exploitation of a now-patched vulnerability in Zimbra have been observed exploiting another vulnerability, this time in Microsoft Outlook Web Access (OWA), to target U.S. and European government entities, as wel…
FCC Blocks New Foreign-Produced Robots and Power Inverters Over Cyber Risks
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) added foreign-produced mobile robots and networked power inverters to its Covered List on July 28. The move generally prevents new models from receiving the equipment authorization required for import, marketing, or…
Amazon Links Debug and Chalk npm Hijack to North Korea’s Sapphire Sleet
Amazon has tied the September 2025 hijack of the npm packages debug and chalk to North Korea. For ten months, the incident sat in the public record as crypto theft: a maintainer phished through a lookalike npm domain and a wallet-draining script pushed into at…
Cisco FMC Zero-Day Actively Exploited, Static Credentials Could Expose Sensitive Data
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Wednesday added a newly disclosed security flaw impacting Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center (FMC) Software to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, following reports of zero…
Critical Rails Flaw Could Let Unauthenticated Attackers Read Server Files via Image Uploads
Ruby on Rails has released fixes for a critical Active Storage vulnerability that could let unauthenticated attackers read arbitrary files from application servers through crafted image uploads. Tracked as CVE-2026-66066 (CVSS score: 9.5), the flaw can expose…
LogoKit Phishing Kit Screenshots Victim Sites in Real Time
LogoKit now builds per-victim phishing pages using live screenshots of the target's real website
Ruflo MCP Flaw Lets Unauthenticated Attackers Run Commands and Poison AI Memory
Cybersecurity researchers have flagged a maximum-severity security flaw in Ruflo, an open-source agent meta-harness for Anthropic Claude Code and OpenAI Codex, that could result in unauthenticated remote code execution. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-5…
Three Critical VMware Flaws Allow Auth Bypass, Code Execution, and VM Escape
Broadcom has released security updates to address multiple security flaws impacting VMware ESX, vCenter, Workstation, and Fusion, three of which have been designated as critical in severity. The first of the three critical-rated flaws is CVE-2026-59309 (CVSS s…
Russian-Alligned TA488 Returns With Persistent Outlook Web Access Attack
TA488 returned with OWA half-click exploit deploying OWAReaper implant that survived re-imaging
Coordinated Cyberattack Targets 30+ Minnesota Water Systems as One Plant Goes Offline
A coordinated cyberattack targeted operational technology at more than 30 Minnesota community water systems on July 26 and 27, triggering a statewide cybersecurity response. Braham, Plymouth, South St. Paul and Maple Plain have publicly described a plant outag…
Nine-Year Fraud Campaign Clones Russian Company Sites to Steal Advance Payments
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a large-scale fraud campaign that involves creating lookalike websites of major Russian companies with an aim to siphon funds from international firms for more than nine years. According to Russian cybersecur…
Bent: How A Homeless Teen Became One Of The Cybercrime Industry’s Most Prolific Counterfeiters
This week in cybersecurity from the editors at Cybercrime Magazine Sausalito, Calif. – Jul. 29, 2026 – Listen to the podcast Bent is the story of John J. Boseak’s phenomenal life of crime. Inked from head to toe, with an addiction to strippers and fast Cadilla…
Mythos Asks the Right Question. It Doesn't Answer It.
AI is compressing exploit timelines. The real question isn't whether your vulnerability management playbook needs to change, it's which part of it you've been getting wrong all along. The conversation happening in security circles right now goes something like…
Researchers Show a Single Malicious Webpage Visit Can Compromise Tor Browser
Nebula Security says a patched Firefox JIT flaw could be triggered by simply visiting a malicious webpage and was also used to compromise Tor Browser. Tracked as CVE-2026-10702, the bug provides arbitrary code execution inside the browser's renderer process. M…
73% of Organizations Say They Are Not Fully Ready for a Major Cyberattack
Most organizations have incident response plans, security tools, and technical teams in place. Yet new research suggests that many still lack the coordination, visibility, and executive alignment needed to withstand a serious cyberattack. According to The Stat…
Russia Charges Telegram Founder Pavel Durov With Aiding Terrorist Activity
The Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation (FSB) on Wednesday said it charged Telegram founder Pavel Durov for allegedly facilitating terrorist activities and for failing to remove prohibited information in violation of Russian law. The principal s…
The Average Cost of a Data Breach Rises to $5 Million
IBM Cost of a Data Breach Report warns that the global average cost of a data breach has reached a record high of $4.99m – and AI-backed attacks have played a role
Just 1% of AI-Discovered Vulnerabilities Exploited in the Wild, Research Shows
For now, the use of AI benefits vulnerability research more than vulnerability exploitation, a VulnCheck researcher said
Researchers Warn of AI-Enhanced Phone Fraud Ecosystem
AI is dramatically reducing the barriers to entry for scam phone farm operators, Human Security warns
Public PoC Released for Exploited Check Point SmartConsole Authentication Bypass
Cybersecurity researchers have shared additional technical details about a recently patched critical security flaw impacting Check Point Security Management Server and Multi-Domain Security Management Server (MDS) that has come under active exploitation in the…
NCSC Publishes Guidance to Aid Incident Response and Recovery
The National Cyber Security Centre has released a detailed framework to assist with incident response and recovery
Bugs in Hugging Face Diffusers Bypass Custom Code Safeguard
Three CVEs in Hugging Face diffusers let a malicious model repo run code on any machine that loads it
AI-Assisted Bug Hunt Uncovers Linux Kernel 0-Day in net/sched
AI-assisted research uncovered Linux kernel use-after-free allowing root escalation
Phishing Dominates as Initial Entry Method for Cyber-Attacks, as Hackers Hone Evasion Techniques
Analysis of real-life incident response cases by Cisco Talos warns that phishing remains a powerful method of initial compromise
Meta Is Facing $1.4T In State Lawsuits Over Social Media Addiction
This week in cybersecurity from the editors at Cybercrime Magazine Sausalito, Calif. – Jul. 28, 2026 – Listen to the podcast Meta is facing penalties of up to a massive $1.4 trillion from four U.S. states that sued the company over the addictive designs of The…
Microsoft Launches Flurry of AI Security Initiatives to Combat AI-Enabled Threats
Microsoft has launched a new agentic security system for cyber defenders as well as its first cyber-focused AI model
Coca-Cola Reveals Subsidiary Fairlife Suffered Data Breach
Coca Cola claims data was stolen from its Fairlife business after a recent ransomware attack
NVIDIA’s Open Secure AI Alliance Is Missing Some Big Names
NVIDIA has launched a new Open Secure AI Alliance to build an “open defense stack for agents”
New CREST AI Standards to Deliver AI-Enabled Pentesting Accreditation
CREST’s new AI standards are optional add-on requirements for cybersecurity service providers wishing to demonstrate responsible AI usage
How a 67-Year-Old Woman Went From Romance Scam Victim To Podcast Rebel
This week in cybersecurity from the editors at Cybercrime Magazine Sausalito, Calif. – Jul. 27, 2026 – Listen to the podcast By the end of the nearly yearlong romance scam that began on LinkedIn, Anola Johnson, 67, a Utah-based travel specialist, was out aroun…
SourTrade Malvertising Campaign Secretly Builds Malware in the Browser
Impersonating well-known cryptocurrency and trading sites, SourTrade has developed a novel technique to drop infostealers to victims
Ransomware Groups Increasingly Deploy EDR Kill Techniques
Halcyon’s latest quarterly ransomware report showed that while ransomware attacks are declining, obfuscation techniques are getting harder to fight against
Black Hat USA 2026 In Las Vegas: Late Registration Ends July 31
This week in cybersecurity from the editors at Cybercrime Magazine Sausalito, Calif. – Jul. 24, 2026 – Watch the YouTube video Black Hat USA 2026, the premier cybersecurity event of the year, returns to Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas with a re-engineered, six-day p…
Hotel Wi-Fi Routers Compromised to Steal Corporate Login Credentials From Visitors
Researchers at ReliaQuest warned of widespread DNS poisoning attacks targeting the hospitality sector as part of a cyber espionage campaign
ChatGPT Among Top 10 Most Impersonated Brands in Phishing Attacks, Says Check Point
OpenAI’s chatbot tool ChatGPT ranked among the top 10 most impersonated brands in phishing attacks for the first time
Ransomware Attacks Targeting Universities on the Rise
Comparitech’s analysis of incidents in the first half of 2026 finds that the emergence of The Gentlemen ransomware has resulted in surge in attacks against higher education
Russian Hackers Exploit New ‘Zero-Click’ Attack Against Western Organizations
International agencies issue joint alert over state-backed campaign exploiting a critical vulnerability in the Zimbra Collaboration Suite
Microsoft Copilot Deployments Delayed Over Security Concerns
CoreView research finds that security leadership is concerned about AI Assistant exposing confidential data
Iranian Hackers Target Siemens and Schneider Industrial Systems, CISA Warns
US government agencies have warned that Iranian cyber actors are targeting US-based Siemens and Schneider industrial equipment
The Inside Scoop On The Insider Threat
This week in cybersecurity from the editors at Cybercrime Magazine Sausalito, Calif. – Jul. 23, 2026 – Listen to the podcast Jim Rutt, CISO at The Dana Foundation, a private philanthropic organization in New York City that is dedicated to advancing neuroscienc…
AI Agents Now the Enterprises Fastest Growing Exposed Attack Surface
Sophos report warns that the rapid adoption of AI by businesses is leaving them vulnerable to a new source of cyber threats
New Dolphin X Stealer Employs AI Profiling to Prioritize Targets
Dolphin X is a new infostealer that uses AI to sort and rank victims, giving cybercriminals a faster way to identify lucrative targets
Two-Thirds of Ransomware Victims Say AI Boosted Attack Effectiveness
A new study of organizations which have fallen victim to ransomware suggests the rise of AI-tools being used by hackers is making life harder for defenders
TrickBot Ditches HTTP for DNS Tunneling in Latest Variant
New TrickBot variant hides C2 communication inside DNS queries, replacing decade-old HTTP pattern
Hot Cybersecurity Playlists on the Cybercrime Magazine YouTube Channel
This week in cybersecurity from the editors at Cybercrime Magazine Sausalito, Calif. – Jul. 22, 2026 – Watch our Videos at Cybercrime.TV CISOs and security leaders have spoken up on our hottest content and the award-winning Cybercrime Magazine YouTube Channel…
Open AI Claims Its AI Models Went Rogue and Hacked Another Company
Hugging Face recently disclosed a security breach. OpenAI has now said that it was its AI models which broke containment and hacked Hugging Face themselves
Ubuntu snap-confine Vulnerability Enables Local Root Access
New Ubuntu snap-confine race condition lets local users escalate to root on default installs
Google Makes CodeMender Available as Managed AI Security Agent
CodeMender actively builds and runs exploits in customer-managed sandboxes to verify if vulnerabilities are truly exploitable
LG to Ban Residential Proxies from Smart TV Apps
The home appliance giant LG Electronics USA said this week it plans to suspend any apps built for its smart TVs that turn one's television into an always-on residential proxy node. The move comes less than a month after researchers found that more than 42 perc…
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