July 2026

Grok Build Uploads Entire Git Repositories to xAI Storage, Not Just Files It Reads 2026-07-14 at 12:02 By xAI’s Grok Build coding CLI was uploading entire Git repositories, full commit history and all, to a Google Cloud Storage bucket run by xAI, not just the files a coding task needed. A researcher publishing as cereblab,

Denise Platon — Women in Security 2026 2026-07-14 at 12:00 By Security leader Denise Platon takes a look back at her career and role as Corporate Security Manager at Nestle. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

Julia Stuyt — Women in Security 2026 2026-07-14 at 12:00 By Julia Stuyt got her first exposure to the security industry at the Toronto Pearson International Airport, where she worked in call-taking, monitoring and dispatching for security-related incidents. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

U.S. Sanctions First VPN Service and Malware Cryptor Seller Over Ransomware Support 2026-07-14 at 11:02 By The U.S. Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) has designated two individuals and a VPN service provider for enabling ransomware actors’ and other cybercriminals’ malicious activities, including ransomware attacks against Americans. The VPN, named First VPN Service

How Post-Quantum Cryptography is Gaining Adoption 2026-07-14 at 11:00 By IT leaders need to act now to procure the next wave of secure and standard compliant systems they need for the year ahead. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

148 npm Packages Disguised as Student Proxies Turned Browsers Into a DDoS Botnet 2026-07-14 at 10:08 By A campaign of 148 npm packages disguised as student web proxies turned visitors’ browsers into a distributed denial-of-service botnet for roughly two weeks in May, according to new research from JFrog. The packages did not go after the developers

Microsoft Maps Three Salesforce Attack Paths Tied to a Year of ShinyHunters Activity 2026-07-14 at 09:19 By Attackers whose methods line up with the data-extortion group ShinyHunters have spent the past year walking into corporate Salesforce environments without exploiting a single flaw in the platform. The way in has been the trust the organization had already extended,