August 2026

RightCrowd Pass unifies mobile, physical, and biometric credentials

RightCrowd Pass unifies mobile, physical, and biometric credentials 2026-08-26 at 13:31 By Industry News RightCrowd announced RightCrowd Pass, a credentialing solution that issues and manages mobile, physical and biometric access credentials from a single platform. Many large enterprises and universities rely on badge programs-built years ago. As organizations add mobile and biometric credentials, what began […]

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Claude Opus 4.6 Bypasses Gym Booking Limit, Cancels Other Users’ Reservations in Tests

Claude Opus 4.6 Bypasses Gym Booking Limit, Cancels Other Users’ Reservations in Tests 2026-08-26 at 13:27 By Aikido Security has published research that recreates the Australian gym-booking incident in a synthetic environment, finding that Claude Opus 4.6, running on the OpenClaw agent harness, exploited a client-side-only booking restriction in 9 of 10 runs. The original […]

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Kalshi’s $1.5B equity offering is three-quarters sold at $1.12B

Kalshi’s $1.5B equity offering is three-quarters sold at $1.12B 2026-08-26 at 13:15 By Cointelegraph by Helen Partz The Form D lists 71 investors and says Kalshi is relying on an exemption that allows certain private offerings without SEC registration. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source

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Bogus recruiters go after high-value corporate credentials on mobile

Bogus recruiters go after high-value corporate credentials on mobile 2026-08-26 at 13:05 By Sinisa Markovic Scammers posing as HR staff at well-known companies are running interview scheduling scams that end with a stolen corporate password, according to Zimperium. Attackers are using a technique called browser-in-the-browser, or BitB, which CTM360 documented in earlier research on recruitment […]

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Chrome 152 Patches Over 300 Vulnerabilities

Chrome 152 Patches Over 300 Vulnerabilities 2026-08-26 at 12:50 By Eduard Kovacs Most of the flaws were discovered by Google using AI, but researchers are still discovering high-value Chrome vulnerabilities. The post Chrome 152 Patches Over 300 Vulnerabilities appeared first on SecurityWeek. This article is an excerpt from SecurityWeek View Original Source

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OpenAI Bans Russian ChatGPT Accounts Used to Run Influence Operation

OpenAI Bans Russian ChatGPT Accounts Used to Run Influence Operation 2026-08-26 at 12:38 By OpenAI on Tuesday said it banned a cluster of Russian ChatGPT accounts that used VPNs to bypass access restrictions and run an influence operation, which relied on its artificial intelligence (AI) tool to generate social media posts and comments that were […]

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Meta adds three new features to keep WhatsApp accounts secure

Meta adds three new features to keep WhatsApp accounts secure 2026-08-26 at 10:52 By Sinisa Markovic Meta has added new security enhancements to WhatsApp, this time in the form of stronger two-step verification, additional information about calls from unknown numbers, and the ability to add multiple passkeys to the same account. New account security features […]

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Tornado Cash developer Roman Storm’s retrial delayed to April 2027

Tornado Cash developer Roman Storm’s retrial delayed to April 2027 2026-08-26 at 10:44 By Cointelegraph by Ezra Reguerra Judge Katherine Polk Failla adjourned the retrial in light of Storm’s pending motion for acquittal and related request for a continuance. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source

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Sensitive Information Exposed in Nutex Health Data Breach

Sensitive Information Exposed in Nutex Health Data Breach 2026-08-26 at 10:41 By Eduard Kovacs Nutex Health has informed the SEC that it recently detected unauthorized access and data exfiltration. The post Sensitive Information Exposed in Nutex Health Data Breach appeared first on SecurityWeek. This article is an excerpt from SecurityWeek View Original Source

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Critical Gitea RCE Actively Exploited as Reported Attack Drops Miner-Like Payload

Critical Gitea RCE Actively Exploited as Reported Attack Drops Miner-Like Payload 2026-08-26 at 09:27 By The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Tuesday warned of active exploitation efforts targeting a recently patched critical security flaw impacting Gitea. The vulnerability in question is CVE-2026-60004 (CVSS score: 9.8), a case of remote code execution that […]

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Linux Foundation takes on TRACE, a hardware-backed runtime evidence specification for AI agents

Linux Foundation takes on TRACE, a hardware-backed runtime evidence specification for AI agents 2026-08-26 at 08:54 By Industry News The Linux Foundation announced the contribution of TRACE (Trust, Runtime Attestation and Compliance Evidence), from OPAQUE. Collaboratively developed by AMD, Intel, Microsoft, OPAQUE and the Technology Innovation Institute (TII), TRACE creates a standard, open evidence layer […]

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Fake Apple Support AI Calls Target Stolen-Device Owners for Passcodes and 2FA Codes

Fake Apple Support AI Calls Target Stolen-Device Owners for Passcodes and 2FA Codes 2026-08-26 at 08:47 By Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a phishing-as-a-service (PhaaS) platform built to strip Apple’s Activation Lock from stolen devices, using rented AI voice agents that call theft victims posing as Apple Support and ask for their device passcode. […]

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Production data in testing is still common, and Tricentis’ CISO wants it gone

Production data in testing is still common, and Tricentis’ CISO wants it gone 2026-08-26 at 08:30 By Mirko Zorz In this Help Net Security interview, Erika Dean, CISO at Tricentis, talks about keeping production data out of test environments and why she thinks the alternatives are good enough now. She explains how her team caught […]

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CISA Warns of Exploited Gitea Vulnerability

CISA Warns of Exploited Gitea Vulnerability 2026-08-26 at 08:17 By Eduard Kovacs CVE-2026-60004 is a remote code execution vulnerability patched by Gitea developers in late July with the release of version 1.27.1. The post CISA Warns of Exploited Gitea Vulnerability appeared first on SecurityWeek. This article is an excerpt from SecurityWeek View Original Source

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AI vulnerability discovery scores the highest impact of 20 emerging risks

AI vulnerability discovery scores the highest impact of 20 emerging risks 2026-08-26 at 08:00 By Anamarija Pogorelec Risk managers, auditors and senior executives at 316 companies spent April and May ranking 20 threats they have not yet felt. AI discovery of cyber vulnerabilities came back first, according to Gartner. Three months earlier the same quarterly […]

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Hottest cybersecurity open-source tools of the month: August 2026

Hottest cybersecurity open-source tools of the month: August 2026 2026-08-26 at 07:30 By Anamarija Pogorelec Presented here is a curated selection of noteworthy open-source cybersecurity solutions that have drawn recognition for their ability to enhance security postures across diverse settings. SkillSpector: NVIDIA’s open-source security scanner for AI agent skills SkillSpector is an open-source scanner from […]

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U.S. Sanctions Iran-Linked Hackers Behind Critical Infrastructure Breaches

U.S. Sanctions Iran-Linked Hackers Behind Critical Infrastructure Breaches 2026-08-26 at 04:02 By The U.S. Department of the Treasury has announced fresh sanctions on Iranian cyber actors as part of what it called an “unprecedented, whole-of-government, economic campaign” against the nation and its enablers. “We are launching an economic onslaught against Iran’s financial connections around the […]

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