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Gavin Newsom dragged to court in self-driving truck battle that could change state forever 2026-08-06 at 22:26 By Titus Wu Gov. Gavin Newsom’s administration improperly rolled out regulations that pave the way for self-driving trucks on state roads, the union claimed. This article is an excerpt from Latest Technology News | New York Post View…

New Zapscape KVM Flaw Could Let Privileged L1 Guest Code Escape to Linux Hosts 2026-08-06 at 20:58 By Zapscape, a new Linux kernel vulnerability, could allow an attacker with kernel privileges inside an L1 guest virtual machine (VM) to escape KVM isolation and execute code on the host. The risk applies when nested virtualization is…

Cisco Patches 12 SD-WAN and IOS XE Flaws, Including Three 9.8 CVSS Score Bugs 2026-08-06 at 20:13 By Cisco has rolled out updates to address multiple critical security vulnerabilities impacting Catalyst SD-WAN and IOS XE Software as part of a comprehensive internal security review. The security issues affect Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Software, regardless of device…

‘Nostradamus of AI’ Leopold Aschenbrenner makes new $400M bet after Situational Awareness fund’s near-collapse 2026-08-06 at 19:56 By Thomas Barrabi Leopold Aschenbrenner, has made a new $400 million bet on a private company – just days after the near-implosion of his hedge fund, according to a report. This article is an excerpt from Latest Technology…

New Interrupt Injection Attack Can Bypass Spectre v2 Defenses on Intel and AMD CPUs 2026-08-06 at 19:17 By An unprivileged Linux program can time a hardware interrupt to land in the gap between a processor sanitizing its branch predictor and the kernel using it, re-poisoning the predictor after the defense has run. MIT CSAIL researchers…

ThreatsDay: Odysseus RCE, Samsung One-Click Takeover, iCloud Backdoor Fight + 27 More Stories 2026-08-06 at 18:24 By Apparently, opening the thing is now enough. A repo can run before the first prompt, a package can hide among hundreds, and a harmless-looking PDF can finish the job. This week runs on cheap leverage: exposed servers, recycled…

Building Trust in AI Starts with Trustworthy Data 2026-08-06 at 18:00 By Enterprise AI is transitioning from the “does it work” phase to the “how can we adopt it safely” phase, creating an unprecedented and complex mix of opportunities and challenges for business leaders. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS…

The Detection Gap: MITRE ATT&CK T1053.005 2026-08-06 at 17:00 By Kirk Hasty MITRE ATT&CK Walkthrough: T1053.005 (Scheduled Task/Job: Scheduled Task) This article is an excerpt from SECURITY.COM View Original Source

Over 4,400 Rockwell PLCs Exposed Online, 22 Found in Water Attack Cities 2026-08-06 at 15:16 By Forescout found 22 internet-facing Rockwell Automation programmable logic controllers (PLCs) in cities hit by recent cyberattacks on US water utilities. Nineteen used the same mobile carrier network. Its August 3 scan counted 4,407 exposed Rockwell controllers worldwide, including 2,844…

CryptoJS Weak RNG Behind $5.7 Million in Drains Affects Five Crypto Wallet Apps 2026-08-06 at 14:49 By Coinspect has identified CryptoJS.lib.WordArray.random() as the weak random number generator behind the Ill Bloom wallet drains. Introduced in the JavaScript cryptography library 12 years ago, the function supplied weak entropy that affected wallet apps used to generate recovery…

Apple iCloud Private Relay Can Expose Real IPs Through WebKit Proxy Bypasses 2026-08-06 at 14:33 By Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed a security issue with Apple’s iCloud Private Relay tool that can expose a user’s real IP address. Introduced with iOS 15, iCloud Private Relay employs a dual-hop architecture to ensure users’ privacy by routing their…

AI Recommendation Poisoning: How “Ask AI” Buttons Silently Alter LLM Memory 2026-08-06 at 14:30 By A new class of prompt injection is spreading across commercial websites. It requires no malware, no stolen credentials, and no zero-day exploit. It abuses a standard feature built into almost every major AI assistant: pre-filled deep links. We observed production…

Attackers Compile khunt Inside Oracle to Turn SQL Injection Into Windows SYSTEM Access 2026-08-06 at 12:19 By Attackers broke into an organization’s Oracle database through a SQL injection flaw in a public-facing web application, then installed a post-exploitation toolkit without writing an executable to disk. They fed Java source code to the database, let Oracle…

The State of National Security 2026-08-06 at 12:00 By Former FBI Deputy Director Paul Abbate discusses the state of National Security today. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

Google’s Jeff Dean — chief scientist for 27 years — leaving during AI leadership overhaul for startup 2026-08-06 at 03:07 By Taylor Herzlich Google’s current chief scientist is leaving to start his own AI startup, Discovery Loop, with three other company veterans, according to a company blog post. This article is an excerpt from Latest…

Bloodbath at Visa as top execs making mega bucks get canned from California offices 2026-08-06 at 00:27 By Titus Wu Payment processing giant brutally cut 2,600 jobs, sparing no one — not even top executives. This article is an excerpt from Latest Technology News | New York Post View Original Source

Poison Claude Sells Discounted Claude Access While Its Operator Sees Every Customer Prompt 2026-08-05 at 23:27 By Cybersecurity researchers have discovered more than half-a-dozen services advertisements for illegal access to artificial intelligence (AI) models on underground cybercrime forums and messaging platforms. One such service, Poison Claude, claims to offer access to Anthropic’s large language models…

Paperclip AI Flaws Let Attackers Run Host Commands via Malicious Agent Imports 2026-08-05 at 23:27 By 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 artificial intelligence (AI) agents, and both paths rely on importing a malicious…

Over 250 ClickFix Domains Use Browser Fingerprinting to Hide macOS Malware Lures 2026-08-05 at 21:44 By 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 Intelligence tracked on infrastructure it had been watching for weeks. The server-side gate…

OpenAI Disrupts Poipet Scam Network Using ChatGPT Across Multiple Fraud Schemes 2026-08-05 at 21:33 By 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, gambling, and law enforcement impersonation schemes. To that end, it banned a coordinated network of…

Trojanized npm Packages Decode C2 IP From Ethereum Recipient Addresses 2026-08-05 at 18:55 By 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 destination address of a completely empty Ethereum transfer. The new dead drop resolver approach, observed in two trojanized…

Veeam, Terraform MCP, Django Patch Critical Flaws, Led by CVSS 10.0 Cross-Tenant Bug 2026-08-05 at 17:27 By HashiCorp, Veeam, and the Django Software Foundation have patched 11 vulnerabilities across Terraform MCP Server, Veeam Service Provider Console, and Django. The three most serious: An unauthenticated flaw in Veeam’s console that hands over a managed agent’s credentials,…