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Can Bitcoin hold $62K ahead of Friday’s $1.4 billion options expiry? 2026-07-09 at 19:31 By Cointelegraph by Marcel Pechman US 10-year Treasury yields nears dangerous level while major Deribit Bitcoin options expiry approaches. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source

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MARA shares surge after 2 GW Texas infrastructure deal expands AI ambitions

Meta patents ‘creepy’ AI device that tracks wearer’s sighs and laughter, medication intake

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Meta patents ‘creepy’ AI device that tracks wearer’s sighs and laughter, medication intake 2026-07-09 at 19:08 By Thomas Barrabi The patent filing, which was filed on July 2, describes an “apparatus” for “emotional state analysis and real-time fitness coaching.” Meta wrote in part that the device would use insights such as whether the user is

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QIZ Security Raises $17 Million for Cryptographic Governance Platform

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QIZ Security Raises $17 Million for Cryptographic Governance Platform 2026-07-09 at 18:03 By SecurityWeek News The Israeli company has developed a cryptographic posture and post-quantum cryptography management platform. The post QIZ Security Raises $17 Million for Cryptographic Governance Platform appeared first on SecurityWeek. This article is an excerpt from SecurityWeek View Original Source

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Extortion crew hijacks Microsoft 365 accounts via fake passkey setup

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Extortion crew hijacks Microsoft 365 accounts via fake passkey setup 2026-07-09 at 17:22 By Zeljka Zorz The Pink cyber extortion crew is tricking employees into giving them access to their Microsoft 365 accounts by faking Entra passkey enrollment requests. The attack The attack starts with a vishing call to an employee. The caller poses as

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UK Government Rolls Out Agentic AI Defense Plan Alongside Industry Pledge

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UK Government Rolls Out Agentic AI Defense Plan Alongside Industry Pledge 2026-07-09 at 17:19 By Kevin Townsend Two announcements on July 7, 2026, demonstrate the government’s determination to improve the level of cybersecurity within the UK. The post UK Government Rolls Out Agentic AI Defense Plan Alongside Industry Pledge appeared first on SecurityWeek. This article

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Hiding in the Chain: Multi-Stage LNK Attack Leveraging TON Blockchain to Deliver Node.JS Backdoor

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Hiding in the Chain: Multi-Stage LNK Attack Leveraging TON Blockchain to Deliver Node.JS Backdoor 2026-07-09 at 16:52 By Nathaniel Morales The LevelBlue Managed Threat Research team investigated a security alert in a customer environment involving a malicious ZIP file containing a Windows shortcut (.lnk) used for initial execution. When triggered, the LNK file executes a

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Citrix launches MCP Gateway to secure enterprise AI agents

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Citrix launches MCP Gateway to secure enterprise AI agents 2026-07-09 at 16:49 By Industry News Citrix has announced updates to its high-performance application delivery and security platform NetScaler, introducing MCP Gateway functionality to allow enterprises to securely route, govern and observe agent traffic to backend Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers. In addition, the company unveiled

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Palo Alto Networks Patches 13 Vulnerabilities

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Palo Alto Networks Patches 13 Vulnerabilities 2026-07-09 at 16:49 By Eduard Kovacs Buffer overflow, DoS, command injection, SSRF, authentication bypass, and other types of vulnerabilities have been found in PAN-OS software. The post Palo Alto Networks Patches 13 Vulnerabilities appeared first on SecurityWeek. This article is an excerpt from SecurityWeek View Original Source

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Vectogate debuts platform to secure and govern autonomous AI agents

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Vectogate debuts platform to secure and govern autonomous AI agents 2026-07-09 at 16:38 By Industry News Vectogate has launched an AI governance platform designed to give organizations centralized control over AI agents as they increasingly take on autonomous tasks with access to sensitive data and internal business systems. The company aims to address one of

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Bitcoin’s quantum dilemma: Bigger blocks or STARK proofs?

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Bitcoin’s quantum dilemma: Bigger blocks or STARK proofs? 2026-07-09 at 16:30 By Cointelegraph by Andrew Fenton Dealing with large post quantum signatures slowing down Bitcoin can be solved with bigger blocks, or aggregating signatures using STARK proofs. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source

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Hong Kong regulator orders new anti-phishing measures for crypto platforms

Summer of Clearinghouses

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Summer of Clearinghouses 2026-07-09 at 15:46 By Everyone seems to have announced a clearinghouse over the past few weeks. We did too. Ours is called Athena, and the main thing that sets it apart is that it was already real and running when we announced it — built quietly months earlier, heads down, taking findings

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GodDamn Ransomware Uses PoisonX Driver to Disable Endpoint Defenses

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GodDamn Ransomware Uses PoisonX Driver to Disable Endpoint Defenses 2026-07-09 at 15:46 By Cybersecurity researchers have flagged a new ransomware family called GodDamn that employs the PoisonX kernel driver to neutralize security software as part of its defense evasion strategy. According to a new report published by the Threat Hunter Team from Symantec, the ransomware

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AI Attacks Move in Minutes. Join This Webinar on Building a Defense That Keeps Up

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AI Attacks Move in Minutes. Join This Webinar on Building a Defense That Keeps Up 2026-07-09 at 15:26 By AI has changed how fast attacks move. Work that once took an attacker days now takes minutes. Using models like Mythos, attackers write tailored bait, pick targets, test what lands, and jump to the next host

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12 Million Impacted by Data Breach at Japanese Telco KDDI

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12 Million Impacted by Data Breach at Japanese Telco KDDI 2026-07-09 at 15:18 By Ionut Arghire Hackers exploited a zero-day vulnerability in a third-party system to access a KDDI email system for ISPs. The post 12 Million Impacted by Data Breach at Japanese Telco KDDI appeared first on SecurityWeek. This article is an excerpt from

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Microsoft releases fix for RoguePlanet Defender flaw (CVE-2026-50656)

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Microsoft releases fix for RoguePlanet Defender flaw (CVE-2026-50656) 2026-07-09 at 15:14 By Zeljka Zorz Microsoft has finally released a security update for its Microsoft Malware Protection Engine, which fixes CVE-2026-50656, the Windows Defender local privilege escalation vulnerability triggered by the RoguePlanet exploit. The vulnerability and the fix CVE-2026-50656 is due to improper link resolution before

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15-Year-Old Linux Vulnerability ‘GhostLock’ Earns Researchers $92k From Google

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15-Year-Old Linux Vulnerability ‘GhostLock’ Earns Researchers $92k From Google 2026-07-09 at 14:52 By Ionut Arghire Affecting every major distribution since 2011, the Linux kernel vulnerability allows attackers to gain root access. The post 15-Year-Old Linux Vulnerability ‘GhostLock’ Earns Researchers $92k From Google appeared first on SecurityWeek. This article is an excerpt from SecurityWeek View Original

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Microsoft Patches RoguePlanet Defender Flaw That Can Grant SYSTEM Privileges

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Microsoft Patches RoguePlanet Defender Flaw That Can Grant SYSTEM Privileges 2026-07-09 at 14:30 By Microsoft has released security updates for a Defender vulnerability known as RoguePlanet, nearly a month after details of the flaw became public. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-50656 (CVSS score: 7.8), is a privilege escalation issue in the Microsoft Malware Protection Engine

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