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  • Ravencoin hits record low as network exploit puts transactions at risk

    Ravencoin hits record low as network exploit puts transactions at risk 2026-08-12 at 04:11 By Cointelegraph by Ezra Reguerra Mining pools controlling most of Ravencoin’s hash rate are building a competing chain that could trigger a three-day reorganization. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source

  • SEC, CFTC sue Goliath Ventures over $400M crypto Ponzi scheme

    SEC, CFTC sue Goliath Ventures over $400M crypto Ponzi scheme 2026-08-12 at 03:07 By Cointelegraph by Ezra Reguerra Regulators allege Goliath promised crypto liquidity-pool returns but instead paid earlier investors and funded its founder’s luxury spending. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source

  • You Can’t Patch Your Way Out of AI

    You Can’t Patch Your Way Out of AI 2026-08-12 at 00:27 By Dominic Djannesari, Eric Chien The goal isn’t patching faster. It’s making vulnerabilities irrelevant. This article is an excerpt from SECURITY.COM View Original Source

  • Wisconsin store owner, Nintendo superfan discovers dozens of ultra rare vintage Mario Bros. game cartridges: ‘Holy Grail’

    Wisconsin store owner, Nintendo superfan discovers dozens of ultra rare vintage Mario Bros. game cartridges: ‘Holy Grail’ 2026-08-12 at 00:00 By Associated Press Most of the cartridges will go up for sale Friday in an online auction that will run until Sept. 9. This article is an excerpt from Latest Technology News | New York…

  • SEC to address crypto regulations in absence of CLARITY passage

    SEC to address crypto regulations in absence of CLARITY passage 2026-08-11 at 23:59 By Cointelegraph by Turner Wright The US securities regulator scheduled a meeting this week with the potential to step up on digital asset policies without congressional action. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source

  • Itaú joins Brazil tokenization pilot with OpenAssets

    Itaú joins Brazil tokenization pilot with OpenAssets 2026-08-11 at 23:55 By Cointelegraph by Nate Kostar The bank will test tokenized fixed-income securities and investment funds as part of an ANBIMA-led industry pilot. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source

  • Microsoft Patches 398 Flaws Including a Windows Driver Zero-Day Under Active Attack

    Microsoft Patches 398 Flaws Including a Windows Driver Zero-Day Under Active Attack 2026-08-11 at 23:10 By Microsoft released its monthly security updates on Tuesday, and one of the flaws it closed is already being used in attacks. The bug sits in a core Windows kernel driver that handles network socket operations. An attacker with code…

  • California data center war takes vile turn as racist slurs fly at powerful union

    California data center war takes vile turn as racist slurs fly at powerful union 2026-08-11 at 22:59 By Titus Wu The North Coast States Carpenters Union accused anti-data-center protesters of hurling racist and homophobic slurs. This article is an excerpt from Latest Technology News | New York Post View Original Source

  • MoneyGram expands crypto cash ramps to Solana

    MoneyGram expands crypto cash ramps to Solana 2026-08-11 at 22:53 By Cointelegraph by Nate Kostar MoneyGram’s Ramps service now connects Solana wallets and applications to its global cash network, with Rift becoming the first wallet to integrate the service. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source

  • Kimwolf v7 Android Botnet Makes HTTP/2 DDoS Traffic Look Like Legitimate Browsing

    Kimwolf v7 Android Botnet Makes HTTP/2 DDoS Traffic Look Like Legitimate Browsing 2026-08-11 at 22:36 By Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a new version of the Kimwolf/AISURU Android and Internet of Things (IoT) botnet that comes with significant improvements to improve its operational resilience and conduct distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks. The new version, tracked as Kimwolf…

  • Zoom Annotation Flaws Could Let a Meeting Participant Hijack Another Attendee’s Client

    Zoom Annotation Flaws Could Let a Meeting Participant Hijack Another Attendee’s Client 2026-08-11 at 22:08 By Anyone sharing their screen on a Zoom call could have taken over the computers of everyone watching, and anyone watching could have taken over the presenter’s. The flaw sat in the annotation tool, the feature that lets participants draw…

  • August 2026 Patch Tuesday: Microsoft Fixes 421 CVEs, One Exploited Zero-Day

    August 2026 Patch Tuesday: Microsoft Fixes 421 CVEs, One Exploited Zero-Day 2026-08-11 at 21:46 By Ionut Arghire A use-after-free in the afd.sys Windows kernel-mode driver has been exploited to gain SYSTEM privileges. The post August 2026 Patch Tuesday: Microsoft Fixes 421 CVEs, One Exploited Zero-Day appeared first on SecurityWeek. This article is an excerpt from…

  • Sandworm-Linked UAC-0145 Uses Fake Job Interviews to Push VPN That Can Run Commands

    Sandworm-Linked UAC-0145 Uses Fake Job Interviews to Push VPN That Can Run Commands 2026-08-11 at 21:36 By The Computer Emergency Response Team of Ukraine (CERT-UA) has disclosed details of a new social engineering campaign orchestrated by Russian nation-state threat actors targeting IT workers in the country by masquerading as recruiters to trick them into installing…

  • AI assistant goes rogue, hacks Australian gym website in stunning breach: report

    AI assistant goes rogue, hacks Australian gym website in stunning breach: report 2026-08-11 at 20:30 By Thomas Barrabi An Australian man asked his OpenClaw AI assistant – an open-source software whose AI agents can perform real-world tasks — to book him a spot in a morning class, Australian outlet ABC reported. Instead of just following…

  • FlightAware sues Kalshi over flight cancellation data

    FlightAware sues Kalshi over flight cancellation data 2026-08-11 at 19:55 By Cointelegraph by Turner Wright The legal action against Kalshi focused on trademark infringement and injury to its reputation in addition to citing state authorities comparing the company’s contracts to gambling. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source

  • Adobe Urges Immediate Patching of Critical ColdFusion, Campaign Classic Flaws

    Adobe Urges Immediate Patching of Critical ColdFusion, Campaign Classic Flaws 2026-08-11 at 19:50 By Ionut Arghire The security defects could be exploited for arbitrary code execution and denial-of-service. The post Adobe Urges Immediate Patching of Critical ColdFusion, Campaign Classic Flaws appeared first on SecurityWeek. This article is an excerpt from SecurityWeek View Original Source

  • Researchers Disclose AI-Assisted SharePoint Exploit Chain Reaching Unauthenticated RCE

    Researchers Disclose AI-Assisted SharePoint Exploit Chain Reaching Unauthenticated RCE 2026-08-11 at 19:47 By Security researchers found a way to enter Microsoft SharePoint servers as any user, including an administrator, with no valid account. A significant part of the work that found it was done through an AI agent. The flaw, tracked as CVE-2026-55040 (CVSS 9.1), affects SharePoint…

  • Coinbase-backed Flowdesk secures full broker-dealer license in Dubai

    Coinbase-backed Flowdesk secures full broker-dealer license in Dubai 2026-08-11 at 19:39 By Cointelegraph by Sam Bourgi Flowdesk’s VARA approval follows its MiCA authorization in France as crypto firms build regulated operations across major global markets. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source

  • DeadLock Ransomware Uses Polygon Smart Contracts to Make Extortion Infra Harder to Disrupt

    DeadLock Ransomware Uses Polygon Smart Contracts to Make Extortion Infra Harder to Disrupt 2026-08-11 at 19:35 By The ransomware group known as DeadLock has been observed using decentralized infrastructure to facilitate victim communications and data leak operations in a bid to improve operational resilience. “Its recovery ecosystem combines the Session messaging network with blockchain-backed services…

  • Nasdaq to acquire LeveL Markets in push toward ‘always-on’ markets

    Nasdaq to acquire LeveL Markets in push toward ‘always-on’ markets 2026-08-11 at 19:34 By Cointelegraph by Nate Kostar Nasdaq’s acquisition of the third-largest US alternative trading system comes as the exchange operator expands into tokenized securities and longer trading hours. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source

  • Film Festival Data Leak Exposes A-List Directors, Actors, Celebrities

    Film Festival Data Leak Exposes A-List Directors, Actors, Celebrities 2026-08-11 at 19:00 By Records associated with Tribeca Film Festival were exposed.  This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

  • Zoom Patches Zero-Click Code Execution Vulnerability

    Zoom Patches Zero-Click Code Execution Vulnerability 2026-08-11 at 18:49 By Ionut Arghire Impacting Zoom annotation, the bug could be exploited by a meeting participant to execute code on another participant’s machine. The post Zoom Patches Zero-Click Code Execution Vulnerability appeared first on SecurityWeek. This article is an excerpt from SecurityWeek View Original Source

  • The AI Governance Gap Is a Leadership Problem: Waiting Won’t Close It

    The AI Governance Gap Is a Leadership Problem: Waiting Won’t Close It 2026-08-11 at 18:00 By Steve Durbin Organizations are rushing to implement AI without fully grasping where its legal protections begin and end. The post The AI Governance Gap Is a Leadership Problem: Waiting Won’t Close It appeared first on SecurityWeek. This article is…

  • SAP Patches Critical Code Injection, Memory Corruption Vulnerabilities

    SAP Patches Critical Code Injection, Memory Corruption Vulnerabilities 2026-08-11 at 17:14 By Ionut Arghire SAP released 28 new and two updated security notes, including four notes dealing with critical-severity bugs. The post SAP Patches Critical Code Injection, Memory Corruption Vulnerabilities appeared first on SecurityWeek. This article is an excerpt from SecurityWeek View Original Source

  • US Water Systems Get Cyber Boost From New Senate Bill and ‘Water Watch Center’

    US Water Systems Get Cyber Boost From New Senate Bill and ‘Water Watch Center’ 2026-08-11 at 17:03 By Eduard Kovacs The Water Watch Center launched at DEF CON aims to help under-resourced utilities protect their systems against hackers. The post US Water Systems Get Cyber Boost From New Senate Bill and ‘Water Watch Center’ appeared…

  • Practical Cybersecurity for Small Water Utilities: 5 Steps to Reduce Operational Risk

    Practical Cybersecurity for Small Water Utilities: 5 Steps to Reduce Operational Risk 2026-08-11 at 17:00 By Nolen Johnson Recent cyberattacks against U.S. water and wastewater systems delivered an important reminder: disrupting operational technology (OT) does not always require sophisticated malware or a previously unknown vulnerability. In the July 2026 activity, internet-facing programmable logic controllers (PLCs),…

  • ADI Chain, Shipfinex partner to tokenize $500M vessel pipeline

    ADI Chain, Shipfinex partner to tokenize $500M vessel pipeline 2026-08-11 at 16:59 By Cointelegraph by Nate Kostar Shipfinex plans to bring 35 vessels onchain through ADI Chain as tokenization expands into the multitrillion-dollar maritime industry. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source

  • SharpLink reports $394M in Q2 net loss fueled by ETH decline

    SharpLink reports $394M in Q2 net loss fueled by ETH decline 2026-08-11 at 16:17 By Cointelegraph by Zoltan Vardai SharpLink reported a net loss of $394 million in the second quarter of 2026, largely driven by Ether’s 23% decline during the quarter. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source

  • OpenAI Launches GPT-5.6-Cyber with Reduced Safeguards for Exploit Development

    OpenAI Launches GPT-5.6-Cyber with Reduced Safeguards for Exploit Development 2026-08-11 at 16:11 By OpenAI on Monday unveiled a new cybersecurity-focused model called GPT‑5.6‑Cyber that it said is focused on vulnerability research, penetration testing, and incident response. “Built on GPT‑5.6 Sol, it is trained to improve capabilities on several specialized cybersecurity tasks (e.g., finding zero-day vulnerabilities…

  • Arctera enhances Unified Platform for evidence-driven compliance workflows

    Arctera enhances Unified Platform for evidence-driven compliance workflows 2026-08-11 at 16:09 By Industry News Arctera has announced new capabilities to the Arctera Unified Platform enabling organizations to manage complex governance requirements by connecting signals, controls and response workflows across the compliance lifecycle. These capabilities help organizations create a more complete and defensible record of compliance…

  • Citrix expands Platform Flex with observability and secure developer services

    Citrix expands Platform Flex with observability and secure developer services 2026-08-11 at 15:39 By Industry News Citrix has announced new services for Citrix Platform Flex, extending its flexible credit model with additional options for delivering, monitoring and securing digital work environments. The new offerings include Citrix Experience Insights Flex, a Citrix-managed observability service powered by…

  • EToro to buy TradeZero as Q2 crypto revenue falls 30%

    EToro to buy TradeZero as Q2 crypto revenue falls 30% 2026-08-11 at 15:35 By Cointelegraph by Zoltan Vardai Trading platform eToro will acquire TradeZero as part of its US expansion as it reported crypto-related revenue fell by about 30% compared to the second quarter of 2025. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View…

  • Malicious SIMs can hijack smartphones, steal files, and lock them onto 2G

    Malicious SIMs can hijack smartphones, steal files, and lock them onto 2G 2026-08-11 at 15:10 By Sinisa Markovic Researchers have found that compromised or malicious SIM cards can issue commands to some smartphones and cellular-connected devices, allowing attackers to steal information, disrupt communications, downgrade connections to 2G, and in some cases execute code. Tomasz Piotr…

  • A Malicious SIM Card Can Run Attacker Code Inside the Modems Behind Cellular IoT Devices

    A Malicious SIM Card Can Run Attacker Code Inside the Modems Behind Cellular IoT Devices 2026-08-11 at 15:05 By A malicious SIM card can order the device it sits in to run commands of the attacker’s choosing. On the cellular modules built into electric-vehicle chargers, industrial routers, and car telematics units, that is enough to…

  • Mozilla Revokes Firefox and Thunderbird Linux Signing Key After Key Lands in Private Repo

    Mozilla Revokes Firefox and Thunderbird Linux Signing Key After Key Lands in Private Repo 2026-08-11 at 15:04 By Mozilla has scrapped the cryptographic key behind Firefox and Thunderbird downloads for Linux after an unencrypted copy of it was committed by mistake to one of the company’s own private code repositories. That key is how a…

  • Corma Raises $60 Million for Defensive Cybersecurity AI Model

    Corma Raises $60 Million for Defensive Cybersecurity AI Model 2026-08-11 at 15:01 By SecurityWeek News Corma emerged from stealth with seed funding from Sequoia Capital, Khosla Ventures, and Coatue. The post Corma Raises $60 Million for Defensive Cybersecurity AI Model appeared first on SecurityWeek. This article is an excerpt from SecurityWeek View Original Source

  • Frontier AI Just Made the Race to Patch Vulns That Much Harder

    Frontier AI Just Made the Race to Patch Vulns That Much Harder 2026-08-11 at 14:45 By Dominic Djannesari For the 99.9% of organizations bracing for an era of endless Zero Days, it’s time to act—and fast This article is an excerpt from SECURITY.COM View Original Source

  • Researchers Built a Fake Crypto Startup and Hired Three Suspected North Korean IT Workers

    Researchers Built a Fake Crypto Startup and Hired Three Suspected North Korean IT Workers 2026-08-11 at 14:35 By Security researchers invented a cryptocurrency startup, advertised developer jobs, and hired three people they believe were North Korean operatives. Every virtual machine the company issued was recording. The onboarding paperwork is the part hiring teams can use.…

  • Extension Banned for Stealing AI Chats Returns to Chrome Store, Resumes Malicious Activities

    Extension Banned for Stealing AI Chats Returns to Chrome Store, Resumes Malicious Activities 2026-08-11 at 14:15 By Eduard Kovacs The extension amassed over 300,000 installs and a 4.6 rating before Google removed it for stealing data. The post Extension Banned for Stealing AI Chats Returns to Chrome Store, Resumes Malicious Activities appeared first on SecurityWeek.…

  • Researchers Turn USB Auto-Install Into a Full SYSTEM Takeover on Windows 11

    Researchers Turn USB Auto-Install Into a Full SYSTEM Takeover on Windows 11 2026-08-11 at 13:48 By Windows Plug and Play can be abused to fetch signed vendor software for an emulated USB device and execute privileged installation components that researchers chained to SYSTEM access on a fully updated Windows 11 machine. The same PnP path…

  • Hacker Conversations: Marcus Hutchins and the Journey From the Gray Zone to Redemption

    Hacker Conversations: Marcus Hutchins and the Journey From the Gray Zone to Redemption 2026-08-11 at 13:00 By Kevin Townsend Marcus Hutchins doesn’t personally consider himself a hacker – but he accepts the epithet because it’s a widely used term for what he once did. The post Hacker Conversations: Marcus Hutchins and the Journey From the…

  • Ransomware gangs don’t need control system access to disrupt industrial production

    Ransomware gangs don’t need control system access to disrupt industrial production 2026-08-11 at 12:32 By Sinisa Markovic Disrupting IT systems that support industrial environments can be enough to interrupt production, even when ransomware operators do not gain direct access to industrial control systems (ICS), according to Dragos. The company identified 1,140 ransomware incidents involving industrial…

  • Locking your ssh-agent exposed local-only keys until OpenSSH 10.5

    Locking your ssh-agent exposed local-only keys until OpenSSH 10.5 2026-08-11 at 12:15 By Anamarija Pogorelec Lock your ssh-agent and it should sit there refusing to sign anything until you unlock it. In OpenSSH 10.4, locking it also switched off the check that tells the agent whether a request came from your own machine or arrived…

  • Anthropic strikes $9B compute deal with Bitcoin miner Riot: Report

    Anthropic strikes $9B compute deal with Bitcoin miner Riot: Report 2026-08-11 at 11:00 By Cointelegraph by Zoltan Vardai Anthropic reportedly struck a $9 billion deal with Riot for 191 megawatts of capacity from the Bitcoin miner’s Rockdale campus in Texas. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source

  • Hackers Breach Polish Power Plant Controls via Private Cellular Network and Shut Turbine

    Hackers Breach Polish Power Plant Controls via Private Cellular Network and Shut Turbine 2026-08-11 at 09:55 By Attackers shut down a steam turbine and the process-water treatment system at a Polish combined heat and power plant by coming in over the private cellular network the local grid operator uses to reach remote equipment. The plant…

  • GPT-5.6-Cyber refuses security researchers’ requests far less often

    GPT-5.6-Cyber refuses security researchers’ requests far less often 2026-08-11 at 09:32 By Sinisa Markovic GPT-5.6-Cyber is a new OpenAI model built on GPT-5.6 Sol, trained to find zero-day vulnerabilities and build exploit chains, with fewer refusals on higher-risk, dual-use work. Model is available only through Daybreak Red, the higher tier of OpenAI’s vetted access program…

  • South Korea drops Travel Rule threshold for crypto transfers

    South Korea drops Travel Rule threshold for crypto transfers 2026-08-11 at 09:28 By Cointelegraph by Yohan Yun South Korea will remove its 1 million won Travel Rule threshold and apply information-sharing requirements to all transfers between registered crypto service providers. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source

  • Mozilla Issues New Firefox GPG Key Following Exposure

    Mozilla Issues New Firefox GPG Key Following Exposure 2026-08-11 at 09:16 By Eduard Kovacs The previous GPG signing subkey was inadvertently added to a GitHub repository and Mozilla decided to revoke it. The post Mozilla Issues New Firefox GPG Key Following Exposure appeared first on SecurityWeek. This article is an excerpt from SecurityWeek View Original…

  • Who will be the Stanislav Petrov in your organization?

    Who will be the Stanislav Petrov in your organization? 2026-08-11 at 09:00 By Help Net Security The recent news coverage of “rogue AI” systems hacking innocent companies reminded me of one of the world’s most unsung heroes and genuinely someone who may well have saved the world. In 1983, the USSR’s early warning systems reported…

  • Payments platform Decta explores stablecoin-enabled treasury settlement

    Payments platform Decta explores stablecoin-enabled treasury settlement 2026-08-11 at 09:00 By Cointelegraph by Helen Partz Decta will use USDC through OpenPayd’s infrastructure for international treasury settlement, seeking faster transfers and more efficient liquidity management. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source

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