August 2026

Threat Actor Hacks 14,000 IP Cameras in Ukraine and Russia

Threat Actor Hacks 14,000 IP Cameras in Ukraine and Russia 2026-08-20 at 16:16 By Ionut Arghire Operation CameraSwarm targeted Dahua cameras across multiple countries, focusing on Russian and CIS telecom netblocks. The post Threat Actor Hacks 14,000 IP Cameras in Ukraine and Russia appeared first on SecurityWeek. This article is an excerpt from SecurityWeek View […]

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Atlassian, Splunk Patch Dozens of Critical, High-Severity Vulnerabilities

Atlassian, Splunk Patch Dozens of Critical, High-Severity Vulnerabilities 2026-08-20 at 15:24 By Ionut Arghire The flaws could be exploited to execute arbitrary code, access sensitive information, and elevate privileges. The post Atlassian, Splunk Patch Dozens of Critical, High-Severity Vulnerabilities appeared first on SecurityWeek. This article is an excerpt from SecurityWeek View Original Source

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MLflow Vulnerability Exploited for Cloud Credential Theft

MLflow Vulnerability Exploited for Cloud Credential Theft 2026-08-20 at 15:05 By Ionut Arghire The critical-severity flaw allows attackers to send HTTP requests to internal endpoints and extract sensitive information. The post MLflow Vulnerability Exploited for Cloud Credential Theft appeared first on SecurityWeek. This article is an excerpt from SecurityWeek View Original Source

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Zombie Card Attack Can Revive Expired Visa Cards for Contactless Payments

Zombie Card Attack Can Revive Expired Visa Cards for Contactless Payments 2026-08-20 at 15:01 By Researchers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst have demonstrated an attack that revives expired Visa contactless credit cards for real in-store purchases by rewriting the expiration date a point-of-sale (POS) terminal reads over near-field communication (NFC), without breaking any of

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Why “Shady AI” is Security’s Next Big Governance Problem

Why “Shady AI” is Security’s Next Big Governance Problem 2026-08-20 at 14:45 By In March 2026, an internal AI agent at Meta triggered a “Sev 1” incident after sensitive company and user data was exposed to employees who weren’t authorized to access it.  The incident began when a Meta employee posted a technical question on

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Corero brings cloud-based AI threat analysis to SmartWall ONE

Corero brings cloud-based AI threat analysis to SmartWall ONE 2026-08-20 at 14:22 By Industry News Corero Network Security has announced AI-Augmented Cloud-Assist for SmartWall ONE, extending its automated DDoS protection with cloud-delivered AI analysis, threat intelligence, and policy optimization. As cybercriminals increasingly leverage AI to develop and evolve attack campaigns, defenders must respond with equal

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AWS limits AI agents’ data access, even when manipulated

AWS limits AI agents’ data access, even when manipulated 2026-08-20 at 14:17 By Anamarija Pogorelec AWS has detailed an approach for propagating user authorization context through AI agents, allowing access controls to be enforced by infrastructure and downstream services rather than relying on the agent itself. Customers using Amazon Bedrock AgentCore can build AI agents

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Fake Gemini installer delivers Vidar infostealer via Google Colab lure

Fake Gemini installer delivers Vidar infostealer via Google Colab lure 2026-08-20 at 13:46 By Sinisa Markovic A malicious executable masquerading as a Google Gemini installer was used to deliver the Vidar infostealer on a company network in the EMEA region, according to Darktrace researchers who investigated the incident. “During the initial analysis, it was noted

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Apple News, Google promote outlets that endorse Dem presidential candidates — while shutting out Republicans: study

Apple News, Google promote outlets that endorse Dem presidential candidates — while shutting out Republicans: study 2026-08-20 at 13:00 By Thomas Barrabi The most-promoted news outlets on Apple News and Google News haven’t endorsed a Republican in the last 10 presidential elections — the latest sign of alleged anti-conservative bias, according to a new analysis.

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OpenAI previews privacy-focused system for detecting AI misuse

OpenAI previews privacy-focused system for detecting AI misuse 2026-08-20 at 12:09 By Anamarija Pogorelec OpenAI is previewing Private Safety Processing with early customers seeking greater certainty about how their data will be protected as AI systems become more capable. The system identifies patterns across related interactions while restricting OpenAI personnel from accessing the underlying content.

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US agencies warn of AI-powered attacks on Siemens industrial controllers

US agencies warn of AI-powered attacks on Siemens industrial controllers 2026-08-20 at 12:07 By Sinisa Markovic Threat actors are using AI to write exploit scripts targeting internet-exposed Siemens S7 Series programmable logic controllers (PLCs) used across water, energy, manufacturing, and other critical infrastructure sectors, according to US federal agencies. PLCs are the small industrial computers

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Abdul El-Sayed reveals he would take socialist plan a ‘step further’ than Bernie Sanders for key US industry

Abdul El-Sayed reveals he would take socialist plan a ‘step further’ than Bernie Sanders for key US industry 2026-08-20 at 04:38 By Fox News El-Sayed said he wanted to “take it a step further” than Bernie Sanders’ public ownership model for a major US industry. This article is an excerpt from Latest Technology News |

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Mission to save NASA’s aging Swift space telescope called off after rescue spacecraft loses control

Mission to save NASA’s aging Swift space telescope called off after rescue spacecraft loses control 2026-08-20 at 00:30 By Associated Press The mission to save NASA’s sinking Swift Observatory was called off Wednesday, dooming the telescope to a fiery reentry later this year. This article is an excerpt from Latest Technology News | New York

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Amazon expanding lightweight drone delivery to 500 US cities with potential 30-minute wait times for packages

Amazon expanding lightweight drone delivery to 500 US cities with potential 30-minute wait times for packages 2026-08-20 at 00:18 By Associated Press Customers could receive the drone deliveries in as fast as 30 minutes, Amazon said in a news release. This article is an excerpt from Latest Technology News | New York Post View Original

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Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta had ‘don’t ask, don’t tell’ policy on child safety, ex-employee testifies in historic trial

Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta had ‘don’t ask, don’t tell’ policy on child safety, ex-employee testifies in historic trial 2026-08-19 at 23:43 By Thomas Barrabi Arturo Béjar, a former Meta safety researcher who has become one of its biggest critics, told jurors in California federal court that Zuckerberg did little to address the harmful effects of Facebook

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Bitcoin.com integrates UAE-registered US dollar stablecoin into self-custodial wallet

Bitcoin.com integrates UAE-registered US dollar stablecoin into self-custodial wallet 2026-08-19 at 23:33 By Cointelegraph by Nate Kostar The integration expands access to USDU, the UAE’s first central bank-registered US dollar stablecoin, as it builds distribution beyond institutional channels. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source

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Trump pushes for CLARITY Act passage alongside crypto leaders

Trump pushes for CLARITY Act passage alongside crypto leaders 2026-08-19 at 22:54 By Cointelegraph by Turner Wright Donald Trump spoke from the White House on Wednesday, urging the Senate to pass a crypto market structure bill to keep the country “ahead of China.” This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source

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Anthropic’s earnings overtake OpenAI’s for the first time: ‘revenue engine’

Anthropic’s earnings overtake OpenAI’s for the first time: ‘revenue engine’ 2026-08-19 at 22:53 By Ariel Zilber Anthropic has reportedly overtaken OpenAI in quarterly sales for the first time — a stunning reversal for the ChatGPT maker in its bitter rivalry with the startup founded by a group of its former employees. This article is an

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Cloudflare Workers Spectre Attack Leaks JWT From Co-Located Worker at 12 Bits/Second

Cloudflare Workers Spectre Attack Leaks JWT From Co-Located Worker at 12 Bits/Second 2026-08-19 at 22:02 By Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a remote Spectre attack against Cloudflare Workers that leaked a JSON Web Token (JWT) from a co-located Worker in the production environment at up to 12 bits per second, 360 times the rate of an

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