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TuxBot v3 Evolution Shows Signs of LLM-Assisted IoT Botnet Development 2026-07-15 at 21:43 By Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a previously unreported Internet-of-Things (IoT) botnet framework dubbed TuxBot v3 Evolution that shows signs of being developed with assistance from a large language model (LLM), albeit with not so successful results. “While the AI complied…

Elon Musk’s xAI sues Grok user for allegedly creating sexually explicit deepfakes of adults, minors 2026-07-15 at 21:24 By Reuters The case is one of the first brought by an AI company against one of its users for allegedly using an AI system to generate explicit material. This article is an excerpt from Latest Technology…

Google’s AI search engine poses ‘unacceptable risks for kids,’ bombshell report finds 2026-07-15 at 20:04 By Thomas Barrabi Features of Google’s AI-powered search engine “create unacceptable risks for kids” – including failing to detect when they are showing signs of eating disorders or suicide, according to a bombshell investigation. This article is an excerpt from…

SpaceX shares drop below $135 IPO price as rally that made Elon Musk a trillionaire fizzles 2026-07-15 at 19:58 By Reuters The decline leaves investors who bought into the company at the IPO price sitting on paper losses for the first time, potentially testing confidence in the stock. This article is an excerpt from Latest…

OkoBot Malware Framework Injects Seed Phrase Phishing Into Ledger and Trezor Apps 2026-07-15 at 19:53 By A malware framework called OkoBot has been running on Windows machines since April 2025, and one of its modules is built to con hardware wallet owners out of their recovery phrase. On an infected PC, the request comes from…

PayPal shares soar 17% after Stripe, private-equity firm Advent make blockbuster $53B offer 2026-07-15 at 19:09 By Reuters Stripe and private equity firm Advent International have made a joint offer to acquire PayPal Holdings for $60.50 per share, in a deal that would value the payments company at more than $53 billion, two people familiar with the…

Firefox, Chrome, Adobe, and VMware Updates Fix Multiple Critical Security Flaws 2026-07-15 at 17:02 By Mozilla has released updates to address two critical flaws in Firefox for which it warned that exploit code has been published. The vulnerabilities are listed below – CVE-2026-15718, an invalid pointer in the JavaScript: WebAssembly component CVE-2026-15719, a site isolation…

SASE Has An AI Blind Spot. Inspecting Packets Is No Longer Enough. 2026-07-15 at 14:50 By For years, routing traffic through cloud proxies was good enough. Then work moved to the browser, AI entered the workflow, and the inspection model stopped keeping up. Enterprise workflows now live across SaaS applications, browsers, and an expanding ecosystem…

Researcher Drops New Windows Zero-Day PoC Hours After Microsoft Patch Tuesday 2026-07-15 at 14:07 By Security researcher Chaotic Eclipse (aka Nightmare-Eclipse) has released a new proof-of-concept (PoC) exploit called LegacyHive. It has been described as a Windows User Profile Service arbitrary hive load elevation of privileges vulnerability. The Windows User Profile Service, also referred to…

New Webinar: Closing the Approval Gap in AI-Era Ad Tech 2026-07-15 at 14:06 By A single approved marketing tag can quietly load fourth-party code your security team has never seen, granting full access to your forms, customer data, and checkout pages. This on-demand webinar reveals how this Approval Gap forms, and gives your team the…

Cursor Flaw Lets Malicious Cloned Repositories Trigger Windows Code Execution 2026-07-15 at 13:55 By Open a repository in Cursor on Windows and, if a file named git.exe is sitting in the project root, Cursor runs it. No click, no approval dialog, no warning that anything in the folder is about to execute. Whatever that binary does, it does…

Why are male World Cup players wearing… sports bras? 2026-07-15 at 13:29 By Patrice Peck We don’t know Victoria’s secret, but we might’ve figured out Vini Jr.’s. This article is an excerpt from Latest Technology News | New York Post View Original Source

LI man reveals these World Cup teams used his jet-lag app to perk up — and offers his personal tips for travelers 2026-07-15 at 13:00 By Alex Mitchell “Food, special diets, exercise, hydration — much of the advice that we hear out there simply does not work.” This article is an excerpt from Latest Technology…

Daxin Returns: Stealthy Malware Resurfaces in Taiwan Alongside a New Backdoor 2026-07-15 at 13:00 By Threat Hunter Team Four years after Symantec first uncovered Daxin, the most advanced malware we had seen from a China-linked actor, it has been found running inside a Taiwan manufacturing firm, deployed with a novel new backdoor. This article is…

Compromised AsyncAPI npm Packages Deliver Multi-Stage Botnet Malware 2026-07-15 at 12:16 By Four compromised npm packages in the @asyncapi namespace have been observed distributing a multi-stage botnet loader, according to findings from OX Security, SafeDep, Socket, and StepSecurity. The affected packages are listed below – @asyncapi/[email protected] @asyncapi/[email protected] @asyncapi/[email protected] @asyncapi/specs(v6.11.2, v6.11.2-alpha.1) “The This article is an…

74% of Organizations Remediate Vulnerabilities Within a Week 2026-07-15 at 12:00 By The majority of organizations remediate vulnerabilities within a week; Supply chain threats surge throughout 2025. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

AI Agents Expected to Handle a Third of Marketing Decisions Within 2 Years 2026-07-15 at 11:27 By A recent report by Kana analyzed the adoption of AI systems. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source