Ransom demands are down, email is the top way attackers get in 2026-07-16 at 08:00 By Mirko Zorz An employee opens an email that looks like any other, clicks a link, and gives up a password without noticing. A stolen login opens a door deeper in the network. Files stop opening a few days later. […]
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Companies keep getting breached by vulnerabilities they already knew about 2026-07-16 at 07:30 By Mirko Zorz Scanning tools have gotten good at their work. Organizations now find more weaknesses across more of their systems than at any earlier point in the industry’s history. A survey from the security firm Vicarius points to a gap that
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Trump to meet with senators over CLARITY Act on Thursday: Politico 2026-07-16 at 07:18 By Cointelegraph by Felix Ng US President Donald Trump is set to meet with several senators on Thursday as negotiators race to get the CLARITY Act across the line before the Senate’s August recess. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com
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Finance phishing works because it sounds boringly normal 2026-07-16 at 06:53 By Anamarija Pogorelec Finance departments process a constant stream of invoices, contracts, payment notices, and procurement emails, making email one of the most common initial access vectors for threat actors. According to Cofense, attackers exploit those workflows with phishing emails that resemble legitimate business
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GPT-Red beat human red teamers on a prompt injection test 2026-07-16 at 06:49 By Mirko Zorz GPT-Red is an automated red-teaming model that OpenAI trains to find prompt injection weaknesses. It works the way a human red-teamer does. It sends a prompt, watches how a GPT model responds, and iterates toward a goal such as
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TuxBot v3 Evolution Shows Signs of LLM-Assisted IoT Botnet Development 2026-07-16 at 05:06 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
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OkoBot Malware Framework Injects Seed Phrase Phishing Into Ledger and Trezor Apps 2026-07-16 at 05:06 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
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Firefox, Chrome, Adobe, and VMware Updates Fix Multiple Critical Security Flaws 2026-07-16 at 05:06 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
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SASE Has An AI Blind Spot. Inspecting Packets Is No Longer Enough. 2026-07-16 at 05:06 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
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Researcher Drops New Windows Zero-Day PoC Hours After Microsoft Patch Tuesday 2026-07-16 at 05:06 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
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Base’s social bet left it trailing in prediction markets and perps: Pollak 2026-07-16 at 04:14 By Cointelegraph by Felix Ng Base creator Jesse Pollak is stepping back from leadership of the Base App after admitting he was “definitively wrong” to bet on social experiences driving crypto adoption. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News
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Revolut receives in-principle approval from UAE authorities for crypto services 2026-07-15 at 23:03 By Cointelegraph by Turner Wright Dubai’s Virtual Assets Regulatory Authority approved the London-headquartered fintech company for broker-dealer, management and investment, and exchange services in the UAE. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source
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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
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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
US Senator blasts AG pick for ‘dismantling’ crypto unit, Trump’s CZ pardon 2026-07-15 at 20:56 By Cointelegraph by Turner Wright President Donald Trump’s pick for US Attorney General faced criticism from members of the Senate Judiciary Committee on his approach to crypto enforcement and the pardon of former Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao. This article is
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Ostium pauses trading as security firms report multimillion-dollar oracle exploit 2026-07-15 at 20:14 By Cointelegraph by Nate Kostar Ostium halted trading and advised revoking contract approvals after blockchain security firms reported an apparent oracle-related exploit of its OLP liquidity vault, with estimated losses ranging from $18 million to $22 million. This article is an excerpt
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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
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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
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Aave launches V4 on Avalanche, laying groundwork for tokenized credit markets 2026-07-15 at 19:29 By Cointelegraph by Nate Kostar The deployment marks Aave V4’s first expansion beyond Ethereum and introduces lending infrastructure designed to support future markets for tokenized real-world assets. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source
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