August 2026

TWINLOOT Abuses SharePoint and Teams to Steal Credentials and Move Across Networks 2026-08-18 at 15:38 By Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a previously undocumented Python implant framework dubbed TWINLOOT. “TWINLOOT is a modular, PyArmor-hardened Python implant designed to operate its entire command-and-control infrastructure inside trusted Microsoft services,” Ontinue said in a technical report shared […]

One Attacker Has Scraped Both Salesforce and ServiceNow Portals Since 2025 2026-08-18 at 14:30 By A single piece of infrastructure has been pulling records out of Salesforce and ServiceNow customer portals across multiple industries for more than a year, according to research published this week by agent security platform Reco. The activity, which Reco has

16 Typosquatted RubyGems Packages Steal Browser Credentials and Crypto Wallets 2026-08-18 at 14:20 By Cybersecurity researchers have flagged a new typosquatting campaign targeting RubyGems users with a Windows-based information stealer. OpenSourceMalware, which discovered the activity on August 15, 2026, is tracking the threat under the moniker StubMaker. The complete list of packages published as part

SafePal Hardware Wallet Maker Says Flaw Exposed Data of Nearly 40,000 Customers 2026-08-18 at 12:10 By SafePal has disclosed that an authorization flaw in an order-tracking plug-in exposed the names, email addresses, shipping addresses, phone numbers, and purchase details of approximately 39,798 customers. The hardware wallet maker said all affected customers were notified individually by

Critical GitLab GraphQL Flaw Could Let Unauthenticated Attackers Delete Public Projects 2026-08-18 at 00:03 By GitLab has released security updates to address a critical vulnerability impacting its Community Edition (CE) and Enterprise Edition (EE) software that, under certain conditions, could allow an unauthenticated attacker to remotely modify or delete public projects and user data. The

Nvidia provides $105B in financing toward OpenAI’s massive Ohio data center — will be one of biggest in world 2026-08-17 at 22:05 By Thomas Barrabi OpenAI has inked a 20-year deal for the site, which will ultimately provide about eight gigawatts of computing capacity that will help support products like ChatGPT. In energy terms, a

Snowflake GitHub Actions Flaw Lets Crafted Issues Trigger Command Injection 2026-08-17 at 21:44 By Cybersecurity researchers at Wiz have disclosed a new GitHub Actions workflow injection vulnerability in Snowflake’s public snowflakedb/snowflake-connector-net repository that it said could be exploited through a crafted GitHub issue to execute commands in a workflow containing internal Jira credentials. The issue was present

Forminator WordPress Flaw Can Enable Unauthenticated RCE via Malicious PHP Uploads 2026-08-17 at 21:22 By A critical security flaw has been disclosed in Forminator Forms, a WordPress plugin with more than 600,000 active installations, that could be exploited to achieve arbitrary code execution on susceptible sites. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-15748, is rated 9.8 out

US Government Hired a North Korean IT Worker, FBI Investigating 2026-08-17 at 21:00 By A North Korean remote IT worker was hired by an unidentified U.S. federal agency.  This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

Cavern C2 Uses DNS and Google Apps Script to Blend Into Legitimate Traffic 2026-08-17 at 20:41 By Cybersecurity researchers have traced the continued evolution of the Cavern (aka Cav3rn) command-and-control (C2) framework used by Iranian nation-state hackers in attacks targeting entities in Israel. Russian cybersecurity company Kaspersky said its ongoing monitoring of the threat activity