August 2026

Photos: Black Hat USA 2026

Photos: Black Hat USA 2026 2026-08-06 at 16:30 By Help Net Security Photo gallery from the Business Hall at Black Hat USA 2026. Interesting booths, demo stages, crowded aisles, and the moments in between. The second gallery is here. Featured vendors: Stellar Cyber, Tines, Filigran, Delinea, Prophet AI, Air Security, Legion Security. Featured people: Kunal

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Zero-Click AI Browser Hacking: Claude and ChatGPT Atlas Hijacked via Emails, X Posts

Zero-Click AI Browser Hacking: Claude and ChatGPT Atlas Hijacked via Emails, X Posts 2026-08-06 at 15:54 By Eduard Kovacs Zenity researchers reported the findings to Anthropic and OpenAI in late 2025 and early 2026, but they remain unpatched. The post Zero-Click AI Browser Hacking: Claude and ChatGPT Atlas Hijacked via Emails, X Posts appeared first

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Three in four AI-generated vulnerability patches leave something broken

Three in four AI-generated vulnerability patches leave something broken 2026-08-06 at 15:45 By Mirko Zorz Ask a frontier model to patch a real vulnerability and it will hand you something that looks like a fix. It reads like the patch a maintainer would write. When there is a test, it often passes. Roughly one time

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Snowflake hacker pleads guilty, faces up to 32 years in prison

Snowflake hacker pleads guilty, faces up to 32 years in prison 2026-08-06 at 15:30 By Sinisa Markovic A Canadian man is facing decades in prison for hacking customer accounts at cloud storage provider Snowflake and stealing data from more than 165 organizations. Connor Riley Moucka, also known as “Waifu” and “Judische,” 26, of Kitchener, Ontario,

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Over 4,400 Rockwell PLCs Exposed Online, 22 Found in Water Attack Cities

Over 4,400 Rockwell PLCs Exposed Online, 22 Found in Water Attack Cities 2026-08-06 at 15:16 By Forescout found 22 internet-facing Rockwell Automation programmable logic controllers (PLCs) in cities hit by recent cyberattacks on US water utilities. Nineteen used the same mobile carrier network. Its August 3 scan counted 4,407 exposed Rockwell controllers worldwide, including 2,844

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Podcast: Compliance Won’t Save You: The Future of Cyber Risk with Edna Conway

Podcast: Compliance Won’t Save You: The Future of Cyber Risk with Edna Conway 2026-08-06 at 15:00 By SecurityWeek News (Video) In this podcast, we share insights from Edna Conway, a recognized leader in cybersecurity and supply chain resilience with over 40 years of experience in the field. The post Podcast: Compliance Won’t Save You: The

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CryptoJS Weak RNG Behind $5.7 Million in Drains Affects Five Crypto Wallet Apps

CryptoJS Weak RNG Behind $5.7 Million in Drains Affects Five Crypto Wallet Apps 2026-08-06 at 14:49 By Coinspect has identified CryptoJS.lib.WordArray.random() as the weak random number generator behind the Ill Bloom wallet drains. Introduced in the JavaScript cryptography library 12 years ago, the function supplied weak entropy that affected wallet apps used to generate recovery

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Apple iCloud Private Relay Can Expose Real IPs Through WebKit Proxy Bypasses

Apple iCloud Private Relay Can Expose Real IPs Through WebKit Proxy Bypasses 2026-08-06 at 14:33 By Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed a security issue with Apple’s iCloud Private Relay tool that can expose a user’s real IP address. Introduced with iOS 15, iCloud Private Relay employs a dual-hop architecture to ensure users’ privacy by routing their

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AI Recommendation Poisoning: How “Ask AI” Buttons Silently Alter LLM Memory

AI Recommendation Poisoning: How “Ask AI” Buttons Silently Alter LLM Memory 2026-08-06 at 14:30 By A new class of prompt injection is spreading across commercial websites. It requires no malware, no stolen credentials, and no zero-day exploit. It abuses a standard feature built into almost every major AI assistant: pre-filled deep links. We observed production

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Critical Paperclip Flaw Allowed Admin Access, Code Execution

Critical Paperclip Flaw Allowed Admin Access, Code Execution 2026-08-06 at 14:09 By Ionut Arghire An attacker could self-register, sign in for board-level API access, and import a new company for code execution. The post Critical Paperclip Flaw Allowed Admin Access, Code Execution appeared first on SecurityWeek. This article is an excerpt from SecurityWeek View Original

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Belarusian Ransom Cartel Mastermind Gets 16 Years in Prison

Belarusian Ransom Cartel Mastermind Gets 16 Years in Prison 2026-08-06 at 12:30 By Ionut Arghire Maksim Silnikau was the creator and administrator of the ransomware group and involved in Angler EK’s distribution. The post Belarusian Ransom Cartel Mastermind Gets 16 Years in Prison appeared first on SecurityWeek. This article is an excerpt from SecurityWeek View

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Attackers Compile khunt Inside Oracle to Turn SQL Injection Into Windows SYSTEM Access

Attackers Compile khunt Inside Oracle to Turn SQL Injection Into Windows SYSTEM Access 2026-08-06 at 12:19 By Attackers broke into an organization’s Oracle database through a SQL injection flaw in a public-facing web application, then installed a post-exploitation toolkit without writing an executable to disk. They fed Java source code to the database, let Oracle

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Block raises 2026 outlook on strong quarter, says AI touches nearly all code

Block raises 2026 outlook on strong quarter, says AI touches nearly all code 2026-08-06 at 04:33 By Cointelegraph by Felix Ng Cash App and Square drove better-than-expected results, while the company said it expanded its use of AI across software engineering. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source

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Bitcoin Red Team reports 5K findings in sweeping security audit

Bitcoin Red Team reports 5K findings in sweeping security audit 2026-08-06 at 04:09 By Cointelegraph by Felix Ng “There’s a lot of chaos right now in the ecosystem. We absolutely understand that many people are being bombarded with security issues right now,” said Bitcoin developer Calle. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View

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Google’s Jeff Dean — chief scientist for 27 years — leaving during AI leadership overhaul for startup

Google’s Jeff Dean — chief scientist for 27 years — leaving during AI leadership overhaul for startup 2026-08-06 at 03:07 By Taylor Herzlich Google’s current chief scientist is leaving to start his own AI startup, Discovery Loop, with three other company veterans, according to a company blog post. This article is an excerpt from Latest

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Bloodbath at Visa as top execs making mega bucks get canned from California offices

Bloodbath at Visa as top execs making mega bucks get canned from California offices 2026-08-06 at 00:27 By Titus Wu Payment processing giant brutally cut 2,600 jobs, sparing no one — not even top executives. This article is an excerpt from Latest Technology News | New York Post View Original Source

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Senator Warren questions US AI chip policy after Trump crypto investment: Report

Senator Warren questions US AI chip policy after Trump crypto investment: Report 2026-08-06 at 00:15 By Cointelegraph by Turner Wright The lawmaker reportedly sent a letter to the Commerce Secretary demanding answers about the administration’s treatment of the UAE following investments in the Trump family’s crypto company. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News

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