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New infosec products of the week: August 21, 2026

New infosec products of the week: August 21, 2026 2026-08-21 at 07:00 By Anamarija Pogorelec Here’s a look at the most interesting products from the past week, featuring releases from F5 Networks, Intezer, Netscout, and Tufin. NETSCOUT expands Adaptive DDoS Protection with outbound attack mitigation NETSCOUT has announced an extension of its Adaptive DDoS Protection […]

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Army unit offering 4 bonus off days upon release of Grand Theft Auto VI to soldiers who reenlist

Army unit offering 4 bonus off days upon release of Grand Theft Auto VI to soldiers who reenlist 2026-08-21 at 01:06 By Associated Press Commanders of the 9th Brigade Engineer Battalion based at Fort Stewart, Georgia, believe free time to indulge in the latest entry in the Grand Theft Auto series. This article is an

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Bitcoin breaks above 200-day moving average for first time since November

Bitcoin breaks above 200-day moving average for first time since November 2026-08-21 at 00:03 By Cointelegraph by Sam Bourgi The BTC price reclaimed its 200-day moving average for the first time in nine months as its rally gained momentum after the US Treasury expanded its bond buybacks. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News

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CFTC chair says agency will move forward on crypto regulation if CLARITY fails

CFTC chair says agency will move forward on crypto regulation if CLARITY fails 2026-08-20 at 23:56 By Cointelegraph by Turner Wright Michael Selig said at a meeting of the Innovation Advisory Committee that he had directed CFTC staff to explore developer protections and other crypto-related policies. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View

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Binance opens crypto trading to AI agents with user-set controls

Binance opens crypto trading to AI agents with user-set controls 2026-08-20 at 23:26 By Cointelegraph by Nate Kostar Binance’s Agent OS lets AI agents access market data, execute trades and make payments while giving users control over permissions and account access. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source

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Rust Supply Chain Attack Puts Build-Time Malware in Crates with 245 Million Downloads

Rust Supply Chain Attack Puts Build-Time Malware in Crates with 245 Million Downloads 2026-08-20 at 23:22 By The Rust Project has deleted malicious versions of three widely used Rust crates from crates.io after a compromised maintainer account published releases that added a typosquatted dependency whose build script downloaded and executed a remote payload during compilation.

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Suspected Russian Hackers Abuse Google OAuth and WhatsApp Linking to Hijack Accounts

Suspected Russian Hackers Abuse Google OAuth and WhatsApp Linking to Hijack Accounts 2026-08-20 at 22:59 By Three distinct suspected Russian cyber espionage threat clusters have been observed leveraging legitimate authentication flows to single out individuals working in academia, aerospace and defense, governments, and think tanks across Europe, as well as academia and think tanks within

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ThreatsDay: Gogs 10.0 RCE, n8n Workflow-to-RCE, $10M Reward, GLM-5.3 AI Exploit and More

ThreatsDay: Gogs 10.0 RCE, n8n Workflow-to-RCE, $10M Reward, GLM-5.3 AI Exploit and More 2026-08-20 at 22:12 By A lot of this week’s trouble starts with something trusted doing exactly what it was allowed to do. Signed drivers get turned against defenses. Legitimate apps help malware blend in. A weak header check opens a path to

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New Cryptographic Context Injection Attack Could Let Web Pages Steal Grok Chat Data

New Cryptographic Context Injection Attack Could Let Web Pages Steal Grok Chat Data 2026-08-20 at 21:12 By Adversa AI has disclosed an attack technique that it says can cause xAI’s Grok chatbot to send a user’s name, approximate location, subscription tier, and the prompts from the ongoing conversation to an attacker-controlled server after the user

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US debt tops $40T stoking debate on what it means for Bitcoin

US debt tops $40T stoking debate on what it means for Bitcoin 2026-08-20 at 20:43 By Cointelegraph by Nate Kostar Analysts say the $40 trillion debt milestone could bolster Bitcoin’s long-term case, even as Treasury yields, dollar strength and liquidity remain key near-term drivers. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source

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AI-Generated Exploit Scripts Target Siemens S7 PLCs in U.S. Critical Infrastructure

AI-Generated Exploit Scripts Target Siemens S7 PLCs in U.S. Critical Infrastructure 2026-08-20 at 19:59 By The U.S. government on Wednesday warned of an “active threat” targeting critical infrastructure organizations in the country using artificial intelligence (AI)-generated exploit scripts. The activity is targeting Siemens S7 SeriesProgrammable Logic Controllers (PLCs) to conduct reconnaissance and capability development using

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UC Berkeley professor who criticized student math abilities admits to using AI to help write viral op-ed

UC Berkeley professor who criticized student math abilities admits to using AI to help write viral op-ed 2026-08-20 at 19:31 By Titus Wu She said huge portions of her students are failing to keep up with college calculus and she’s forced to teach middle-school algebra and fractions to students. This article is an excerpt from

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Bitcoin miners pour billions into AI as capex outpaces revenue 15-to-1

Bitcoin miners pour billions into AI as capex outpaces revenue 15-to-1 2026-08-20 at 19:12 By Cointelegraph by Sam Bourgi Nine public miners generated $341 million from AI and HPC operations in the first half of 2026 after spending more than $5 billion on capital assets. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original

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Most Americans say the Trump family’s crypto investments are not ‘appropriate’: Poll

Most Americans say the Trump family’s crypto investments are not ‘appropriate’: Poll 2026-08-20 at 18:53 By Cointelegraph by Turner Wright A new poll showed 63% of 1,166 Americans varied sharply along partisan lines, with a majority of Republicans saying it was appropriate for Trump and his family to invest in crypto. This article is an

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Hackers Target Zimbra Servers in Active Exploitation Campaign

Hackers Target Zimbra Servers in Active Exploitation Campaign 2026-08-20 at 17:50 By Eduard Kovacs Exploitation of the Zimbra Collaboration vulnerability CVE-2026-73570 has been observed by Poland’s CERT Polska. The post Hackers Target Zimbra Servers in Active Exploitation Campaign appeared first on SecurityWeek. This article is an excerpt from SecurityWeek View Original Source

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Surveillance – Everything You Wanted to Know, But Were Afraid to Ask

Surveillance – Everything You Wanted to Know, But Were Afraid to Ask 2026-08-20 at 17:30 By Kevin Townsend We all know they’re watching us. But we don’t know who they are, nor why nor how they are doing it. The post Surveillance – Everything You Wanted to Know, But Were Afraid to Ask appeared first

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