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Over 4,400 Rockwell PLCs Exposed Online, 22 Found in Water Attack Cities 2026-08-06 at 15:16 By Forescout found 22 internet-facing Rockwell Automation programmable logic controllers (PLCs) in cities hit by recent cyberattacks on US water utilities. Nineteen used the same mobile carrier network. Its August 3 scan counted 4,407 exposed Rockwell controllers worldwide, including 2,844…

CryptoJS Weak RNG Behind $5.7 Million in Drains Affects Five Crypto Wallet Apps 2026-08-06 at 14:49 By Coinspect has identified CryptoJS.lib.WordArray.random() as the weak random number generator behind the Ill Bloom wallet drains. Introduced in the JavaScript cryptography library 12 years ago, the function supplied weak entropy that affected wallet apps used to generate recovery…

Apple iCloud Private Relay Can Expose Real IPs Through WebKit Proxy Bypasses 2026-08-06 at 14:33 By Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed a security issue with Apple’s iCloud Private Relay tool that can expose a user’s real IP address. Introduced with iOS 15, iCloud Private Relay employs a dual-hop architecture to ensure users’ privacy by routing their…

AI Recommendation Poisoning: How “Ask AI” Buttons Silently Alter LLM Memory 2026-08-06 at 14:30 By A new class of prompt injection is spreading across commercial websites. It requires no malware, no stolen credentials, and no zero-day exploit. It abuses a standard feature built into almost every major AI assistant: pre-filled deep links. We observed production…

Attackers Compile khunt Inside Oracle to Turn SQL Injection Into Windows SYSTEM Access 2026-08-06 at 12:19 By Attackers broke into an organization’s Oracle database through a SQL injection flaw in a public-facing web application, then installed a post-exploitation toolkit without writing an executable to disk. They fed Java source code to the database, let Oracle…

Google’s Jeff Dean — chief scientist for 27 years — leaving during AI leadership overhaul for startup 2026-08-06 at 03:07 By Taylor Herzlich Google’s current chief scientist is leaving to start his own AI startup, Discovery Loop, with three other company veterans, according to a company blog post. This article is an excerpt from Latest…

Bloodbath at Visa as top execs making mega bucks get canned from California offices 2026-08-06 at 00:27 By Titus Wu Payment processing giant brutally cut 2,600 jobs, sparing no one — not even top executives. This article is an excerpt from Latest Technology News | New York Post View Original Source

Poison Claude Sells Discounted Claude Access While Its Operator Sees Every Customer Prompt 2026-08-05 at 23:27 By Cybersecurity researchers have discovered more than half-a-dozen services advertisements for illegal access to artificial intelligence (AI) models on underground cybercrime forums and messaging platforms. One such service, Poison Claude, claims to offer access to Anthropic’s large language models…

Paperclip AI Flaws Let Attackers Run Host Commands via Malicious Agent Imports 2026-08-05 at 23:27 By Two security flaws in Paperclip could let attackers execute commands on a network server or a developer’s computer. Paperclip is an open-source control plane for teams of artificial intelligence (AI) agents, and both paths rely on importing a malicious…

Over 250 ClickFix Domains Use Browser Fingerprinting to Hide macOS Malware Lures 2026-08-05 at 21:44 By A macOS ClickFix operation spanning more than 250 front-end domains now fingerprints visitors before deciding whether to show them a malware lure, a change Microsoft Threat Intelligence tracked on infrastructure it had been watching for weeks. The server-side gate…

OpenAI Disrupts Poipet Scam Network Using ChatGPT Across Multiple Fraud Schemes 2026-08-05 at 21:33 By OpenAI said it disrupted a Cambodia-based scam operation that used its generative artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot ChatGPT to facilitate a wide range of investment, romance, gambling, and law enforcement impersonation schemes. To that end, it banned a coordinated network of…

Trojanized npm Packages Decode C2 IP From Ethereum Recipient Addresses 2026-08-05 at 18:55 By Cybersecurity researchers have flagged an evolution of the EtherHiding blockchain-based command-and-control (C2) technique that conceals the C2 server IP address inside a made-up destination address of a completely empty Ethereum transfer. The new dead drop resolver approach, observed in two trojanized…

Veeam, Terraform MCP, Django Patch Critical Flaws, Led by CVSS 10.0 Cross-Tenant Bug 2026-08-05 at 17:27 By HashiCorp, Veeam, and the Django Software Foundation have patched 11 vulnerabilities across Terraform MCP Server, Veeam Service Provider Console, and Django. The three most serious: An unauthenticated flaw in Veeam’s console that hands over a managed agent’s credentials,…

New OVSwrap Linux Kernel Flaw Lets Local Users Gain Root via Open vSwitch 2026-08-05 at 15:47 By A memory corruption flaw in the Linux kernel’s Open vSwitch datapath gives ordinary local users a path to root on a broad set of default-configured distributions, and a public exploit ships with pre-built records for roughly 800 kernel…

Kali365 Weaponizes Microsoft Authentication Against US Companies: New Enterprise Risk 2026-08-05 at 15:47 By Kali365 is turning a legitimate Microsoft login into a gateway to corporate data. The phishing kit targets US organizations with attacker-controlled device codes that victims approve on Microsoft’s real authentication page. Once access and refresh tokens are issued, attackers may retain…

Open VSX Removes 77 Malicious Evil Twin Extensions Exfiltrating Developer Data 2026-08-05 at 14:52 By A cluster of 77 extensions on the Open VSX marketplace has been found to impersonate legitimate developer tools while transmitting information about the systems and development environments on which they were installed. The “evil twin” extensions were uploaded to the…

Critical Gitea Flaw Let Unauthenticated Attackers Read Server Files via Org-Mode Markup 2026-08-05 at 14:04 By An unauthenticated attacker can read any file the service account can access on Gitea, the self-hosted Git platform, in versions 1.22.1 through 1.27.0. No login, no repository write access. A public repository and crafted Org-mode markup are enough. The…