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Two Scattered Spider Hackers Get 5.5 Years Each for £29 Million TfL Hack 2026-07-16 at 20:09 By Owen Flowers, 18, and Thalha Jubair, 20, were each sentenced to five and a half years at Woolwich Crown Court on Thursday, 16 July 2026, for the 2024 hack of Transport for London. The attack left 148 TfL…

ThreatsDay: Game Cheat Spyware, 24-Hour Ransomware, Chrome Sync Stalking + 12 More Stories 2026-07-16 at 18:41 By A lot of this week’s trouble starts with something that looks close enough. A familiar repo. A useful installer. A harmless sync setting. Then the handoff goes bad, the box starts talking to someone else, and the damage…

n8n Token Exchange Flaw Could Let Attackers Log In as Users From Another Issuer 2026-07-16 at 18:27 By n8n, the workflow automation platform, handed out the wrong accounts at login. On Enterprise instances configured to trust more than one external token issuer, it matched an incoming JWT to a local user on the sub claim alone and…

New TELEPUZ Malware Spreads via ClickFix to Steal Data and Run Commands 2026-07-16 at 18:27 By Cybersecurity researchers have called attention to a new modular malware called TELEPUZ that’s been spreading via websites infected with ClickFix lures since late April 2026. “The malware is full-featured, lightweight, and modular,” Elastic Security Labs researcher Cyril François said…

New ClickLock macOS Stealer Kills Apps Every 210ms Until Victims Type Their Password 2026-07-16 at 18:27 By ClickLock Stealer, a new macOS infostealer, answers a victim’s refusal by killing their apps on a loop until they hand over the login password. It arrives as a command pasted into Terminal, asks for the password behind a…

20+ Hijacked Government Websites Became
an Attack Channel 2026-07-16 at 18:27 By More than 20 Brazilian government websites were hijacked and turned into malware delivery channels in an active PhantomEnigma campaign uncovered by ANY.RUN, a leading provider of interactive malware analysis and threat intelligence solutions. The investigation revealed previously undocumented backdoor behavior, hidden infrastructure relationships, and…

New Agent Data Injection Attack Can Make AI Agents Misclick or Run Attacker Commands 2026-07-16 at 18:27 By Ask an AI agent to summarize the reviews on a product page, and a single planted review can make it click “Buy Now” instead. Ask a coding assistant to apply a maintainer’s fix from a GitHub thread,…

20+ Hijacked Government Websites Became
an Attack Channel 2026-07-16 at 16:41 By More than 20 Brazilian government websites were hijacked and turned into malware delivery channels in an active PhantomEnigma campaign uncovered by ANY.RUN, a leading provider of interactive malware analysis and threat intelligence solutions. The investigation revealed previously undocumented backdoor behavior, hidden infrastructure relationships, and…

New Agent Data Injection Attack Can Make AI Agents Misclick or Run Attacker Commands 2026-07-16 at 16:41 By Ask an AI agent to summarize the reviews on a product page, and a single planted review can make it click “Buy Now” instead. Ask a coding assistant to apply a maintainer’s fix from a GitHub thread,…

Daxin Resurfaces in Taiwan Alongside Stupig Pre-Login SYSTEM Backdoor 2026-07-16 at 16:41 By An advanced malware previously attributed to a China-linked threat actor has resurfaced after more than four years within a Taiwan manufacturing firm, along with a previously unreported backdoor dubbed Stupig. Daxin (“srt64.sys”), as the kernel-mode rootkit is referred to, was first documented…

New TELEPUZ Malware Spreads via ClickFix to Steal Data and Run Commands 2026-07-16 at 15:50 By Cybersecurity researchers have called attention to a new modular malware called TELEPUZ that’s been spreading via websites infected with ClickFix lures since late April 2026. “The malware is full-featured, lightweight, and modular,” Elastic Security Labs researcher Cyril François said…

New ClickLock macOS Stealer Kills Apps Every 210ms Until Victims Type Their Password 2026-07-16 at 15:33 By ClickLock Stealer, a new macOS infostealer, answers a victim’s refusal by killing their apps on a loop until they hand over the login password. It arrives as a command pasted into Terminal, asks for the password behind a…

Unpatched Shark Vacuum Flaw Could Let Attackers Control Other Vacuums Region-Wide 2026-07-16 at 14:05 By Pull the certificate off the flash of a Shark RV2320EDUS robot vacuum, and you can run root commands on other people’s Shark vacuums across the same AWS region: watch the camera, drive the robot, read the map of the house,…

AI Can Find Bugs, But Human Knowledge Still Proves Them 2026-07-16 at 13:10 By Artificial intelligence (AI) is changing offensive security, but it has not changed the standard that matters most: a finding has to be proven before it becomes useful. AI-assisted tools can read code quickly, generate payloads, summarize attack surfaces, explain unfamiliar APIs,…

Spirals: New Stealthy Ransomware Deployed Against Asian IT Company 2026-07-16 at 13:00 By Threat Hunter Team Attack using previously unseen ransomware payload occurred in June 2026. The skill of its operators suggests wider campaigns may follow. This article is an excerpt from SECURITY.COM View Original Source

OpenAI’s GPT-Red Automates Prompt Injection Testing to Harden GPT-5.6 Sol 2026-07-16 at 12:29 By OpenAI has disclosed details of GPT-Red, an internal automated red-teaming model that scales prompt injection vulnerability discovery with an aim to fix issues before the tools are deployed widely. “GPT‑Red is a strong red-teamer, and our previous models are highly vulnerable…

Hazel Cerra — Women in Security 2026 2026-07-16 at 12:00 By Hazel Cerra shares the valuable lessons learned from her decades-long career with the U.S. Secret Service. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

Zoom Patches Critical Windows Flaw That Could Enable Account Takeover 2026-07-16 at 11:36 By Zoom has released security updates for a critical security flaw impacting Zoom Workplace for Windows that could facilitate account takeover. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-53412 (CVSS score: 9.8), affects Zoom Desktop Client for Windows, Zoom VDI Client for Windows, and Zoom…