August 2026

Russian hackers plant nuclear weapon prompt in malware to trip AI safety guardrails

Russian hackers plant nuclear weapon prompt in malware to trip AI safety guardrails 2026-08-31 at 12:45 By Sinisa Markovic Russian state hackers are trying to interfere with AI-assisted malware analysis in Ukraine by deliberately setting off AI safety mechanisms, ESET has found. The technique, named GuardBreaker by ESET, appeared in a malicious VBS script tied […]

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Judge Says Pentagon’s Measures Against Anthropic Were ‘Illegal and Baseless’

Judge Says Pentagon’s Measures Against Anthropic Were ‘Illegal and Baseless’ 2026-08-31 at 12:07 By Associated Press The ruling is part of Anthropic’s legal battle against the Pentagon after the government labeled the company as a supply chain risk earlier this year. The post Judge Says Pentagon’s Measures Against Anthropic Were ‘Illegal and Baseless’ appeared first […]

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More Markets lending reserve drained for $9.3M: Blockaid

More Markets lending reserve drained for $9.3M: Blockaid 2026-08-31 at 11:57 By Cointelegraph by Zoltan Vardai Blockaid said an attacker used an Ankr liquid staking token and E-mode to overborrow from More Markets and drain about $9.3 million in WFLOW from a lending reserve. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source

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Berlin Won’t Pay Extortion Group Claiming Data Theft

Berlin Won’t Pay Extortion Group Claiming Data Theft 2026-08-31 at 11:49 By Ionut Arghire The Rhysida ransomware group has claimed the exfiltration of over 5TB of data, including personal information and credentials. The post Berlin Won’t Pay Extortion Group Claiming Data Theft appeared first on SecurityWeek. This article is an excerpt from SecurityWeek View Original […]

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Debian developers rejected an LLM ban and left disclosure voluntary

Debian developers rejected an LLM ban and left disclosure voluntary 2026-08-31 at 11:08 By Anamarija Pogorelec A maintainer reading a merge request can’t tell whether a person or a model wrote the diff, and nobody has to say. Debian developers voted on that through August 28, and Kurt Roeckx, the project secretary, announced the result: […]

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DoJ Corrects China Hacking Claim, Says U.S. Agencies Were Targets, Not Victims

DoJ Corrects China Hacking Claim, Says U.S. Agencies Were Targets, Not Victims 2026-08-31 at 10:56 By The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) on Friday corrected a previously issued press statement that several of its agencies were victims of attacks carried out by Chinese threat actors, instead now pointing out that they were among those targeted. […]

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The OpenClaw 2.0 release moves your sessions into SQLite

The OpenClaw 2.0 release moves your sessions into SQLite 2026-08-31 at 10:24 By Anamarija Pogorelec OpenClaw is open source software that hands an AI model small standing jobs across your accounts, the kind of chore where it watches a mailbox for vendor advisories and pings you on Telegram when one names a product you run. […]

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More Details Emerge on Exploited PaperCut Vulnerabilities

More Details Emerge on Exploited PaperCut Vulnerabilities 2026-08-31 at 09:51 By Eduard Kovacs PaperCut has released a second emergency patch for the exploited vulnerabilities, which are now tracked as CVE-2026-82078 and CVE-2026-81578. The post More Details Emerge on Exploited PaperCut Vulnerabilities appeared first on SecurityWeek. This article is an excerpt from SecurityWeek View Original Source

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What vulnerability prioritization looks like when KEV, EPSS, and CVSS disagree

What vulnerability prioritization looks like when KEV, EPSS, and CVSS disagree 2026-08-31 at 09:00 By Mirko Zorz In this Help Net Security interview, Dr. Joye Purser, Global Field CISO at Cohesity, explains how to rank vulnerabilities when KEV, EPSS, and CVSS point in different directions. Active exploitation comes first, then exploit likelihood, then technical severity, […]

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Halo-record: Open-source audit trails for AI agents

Halo-record: Open-source audit trails for AI agents 2026-08-31 at 08:30 By Mirko Zorz Brian Kuan wrote halo-record, a small Python package that sits inside an AI agent and writes down the moves it makes: tool calls, model calls, data access, approvals. Each action becomes one line in a file that only ever gets appended to, […]

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AI AppSec tools agree on just 5% of security findings

AI AppSec tools agree on just 5% of security findings 2026-08-31 at 08:23 By Sinisa Markovic Software vulnerabilities are turning into exploits within hours, and application security teams carry patch backlogs that go back years. Top types of viable application attacks (Source: Contrast Security) Contrast Security’s AppSec Overflow 2026 report draws on telemetry collected from […]

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Free ChatGPT users get ads picked from whatever they just asked about

Free ChatGPT users get ads picked from whatever they just asked about 2026-08-31 at 07:30 By Anamarija Pogorelec Say you’re on the free plan and you ask ChatGPT to help you pick a mattress. An ad may turn up next to the answer, and it got there because of what you just asked about, plus […]

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Cronos halts network after Tectonic exploit involving estimated $75M

Cronos halts network after Tectonic exploit involving estimated $75M 2026-08-31 at 07:11 By Cointelegraph by Ezra Reguerra Crypto.com CEO Kris Marszalek said the company’s app and exchange were unaffected by the Tectonic breach and continued operating normally. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source

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Bitcoin’s new quantum defenses, 18.9M SOL cancelled: Hodler’s Digest

Bitcoin’s new quantum defenses, 18.9M SOL cancelled: Hodler’s Digest 2026-08-31 at 02:36 By Cointelegraph by Andrew Fenton Bitcoin moves toward a post quantum future, Solana validators agree to curb rampant inflation and the bull case from Bernstein is for Bitcoin to peak at $500K this cycle. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View […]

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New smartphone innovation lets users design their own device — boasting longer life and lower cost than Apple products

New smartphone innovation lets users design their own device — boasting longer life and lower cost than Apple products 2026-08-30 at 20:30 By Allison Lax Look out, iPhone fans — some new tech is in town that costs less and has a longer life. This article is an excerpt from Latest Technology News | New […]

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Russia’s Sber eyes USDT loans, questions digital ruble demand

Russia’s Sber eyes USDT loans, questions digital ruble demand 2026-08-30 at 12:45 By Cointelegraph by Helen Partz Russia’s largest bank, Sber, plans to accept USDT and Ether alongside Bitcoin as loan collateral as the country introduces regulated crypto trading under a new law. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source

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Week in review: Compromised Zimbra servers, previously patched Citrix NetScaler flaw exploited

Week in review: Compromised Zimbra servers, previously patched Citrix NetScaler flaw exploited 2026-08-30 at 11:41 By Anamarija Pogorelec Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news, articles, interviews and videos: Unpatched Zimbra servers are falling to CVE-2026-73570 attacks At least 274 internet-facing Zimbra instances have been compromised by unknown attackers via CVE-2026-73570, […]

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