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Old UEFI Shims Expose Systems to Secure Boot Bypass

Old UEFI Shims Expose Systems to Secure Boot Bypass 2026-07-16 at 10:59 By Ionut Arghire Signed by Microsoft, the vulnerable UEFI shim bootloaders could be abused on any system, regardless of the OS. The post Old UEFI Shims Expose Systems to Secure Boot Bypass appeared first on SecurityWeek. This article is an excerpt from SecurityWeek […]

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VS Code agent host runs Copilot, Claude, and Codex in a dedicated process

VS Code agent host runs Copilot, Claude, and Codex in a dedicated process 2026-07-16 at 10:45 By Anamarija Pogorelec Developers who lean on AI coding agents often keep several editor windows open at once, each tied to its own session. The 1.129 release of Visual Studio Code reworks that setup with a dedicated agent host.

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Robinhood Chain memecoin launchpad Vlad.fun halts after ‘internal integrity’ issue

Robinhood Chain memecoin launchpad Vlad.fun halts after ‘internal integrity’ issue 2026-07-16 at 10:43 By Cointelegraph Vlad.fun suspended its platform after discovering a “serious internal integrity issue” involving members of its team, without disclosing the nature of the alleged misconduct. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source

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Nightmare Eclipse Drops ‘LegacyHive’ Windows Zero-Day 

Nightmare Eclipse Drops ‘LegacyHive’ Windows Zero-Day  2026-07-16 at 09:48 By Ionut Arghire The researcher stripped the proof-of-concept (PoC) exploit to prevent immediate exploitation of the vulnerability. The post Nightmare Eclipse Drops ‘LegacyHive’ Windows Zero-Day  appeared first on SecurityWeek. This article is an excerpt from SecurityWeek View Original Source

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Hyperion DeFi to deploy 500K HYPE for Hyperliquid HIP-3 markets

Hyperion DeFi to deploy 500K HYPE for Hyperliquid HIP-3 markets 2026-07-16 at 09:41 By Cointelegraph by Yohan Yun The deal gives Hyperion an equity stake in Skew and a share of listing-service revenue as it expands the utility of its HYPE treasury assets. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source

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Trend Micro, Tanium, ESET and Tenable Patch Severe Product Vulnerabilities

Trend Micro, Tanium, ESET and Tenable Patch Severe Product Vulnerabilities 2026-07-16 at 09:08 By Eduard Kovacs The cybersecurity companies patched critical and high-severity vulnerabilities in some of their products. The post Trend Micro, Tanium, ESET and Tenable Patch Severe Product Vulnerabilities appeared first on SecurityWeek. This article is an excerpt from SecurityWeek View Original Source

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Reading between the lines of a cyber insurance policy

Reading between the lines of a cyber insurance policy 2026-07-16 at 09:00 By Mirko Zorz Enterprises in regulated industries often carry cyber insurance policies because contracts require it or boards ask for documented risk transfer. The global market for these policies reached about $16 billion in premiums in 2024. Coverage has become widespread. Payouts have

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What public money does to open-source projects

What public money does to open-source projects 2026-07-16 at 08:30 By Mirko Zorz Most of the software running inside a typical company was written by volunteers the company never paid. Open-source code sits under web apps, build pipelines, and the machine learning stacks getting so much attention right now. Roughly 96 percent of codebases carry

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Ransom demands are down, email is the top way attackers get in

Ransom demands are down, email is the top way attackers get in 2026-07-16 at 08:00 By Mirko Zorz An employee opens an email that looks like any other, clicks a link, and gives up a password without noticing. A stolen login opens a door deeper in the network. Files stop opening a few days later.

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Companies keep getting breached by vulnerabilities they already knew about

Companies keep getting breached by vulnerabilities they already knew about 2026-07-16 at 07:30 By Mirko Zorz Scanning tools have gotten good at their work. Organizations now find more weaknesses across more of their systems than at any earlier point in the industry’s history. A survey from the security firm Vicarius points to a gap that

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Trump to meet with senators over CLARITY Act on Thursday: Politico

Trump to meet with senators over CLARITY Act on Thursday: Politico 2026-07-16 at 07:18 By Cointelegraph by Felix Ng US President Donald Trump is set to meet with several senators on Thursday as negotiators race to get the CLARITY Act across the line before the Senate’s August recess. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com

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Finance phishing works because it sounds boringly normal

Finance phishing works because it sounds boringly normal 2026-07-16 at 06:53 By Anamarija Pogorelec Finance departments process a constant stream of invoices, contracts, payment notices, and procurement emails, making email one of the most common initial access vectors for threat actors. According to Cofense, attackers exploit those workflows with phishing emails that resemble legitimate business

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GPT-Red beat human red teamers on a prompt injection test

GPT-Red beat human red teamers on a prompt injection test 2026-07-16 at 06:49 By Mirko Zorz GPT-Red is an automated red-teaming model that OpenAI trains to find prompt injection weaknesses. It works the way a human red-teamer does. It sends a prompt, watches how a GPT model responds, and iterates toward a goal such as

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OkoBot Malware Framework Injects Seed Phrase Phishing Into Ledger and Trezor Apps

OkoBot Malware Framework Injects Seed Phrase Phishing Into Ledger and Trezor Apps 2026-07-16 at 05:06 By A malware framework called OkoBot has been running on Windows machines since April 2025, and one of its modules is built to con hardware wallet owners out of their recovery phrase. On an infected PC, the request comes from

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TuxBot v3 Evolution Shows Signs of LLM-Assisted IoT Botnet Development

TuxBot v3 Evolution Shows Signs of LLM-Assisted IoT Botnet Development 2026-07-16 at 05:06 By Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a previously unreported Internet-of-Things (IoT) botnet framework dubbed TuxBot v3 Evolution that shows signs of being developed with assistance from a large language model (LLM), albeit with not so successful results. “While the AI complied

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SASE Has An AI Blind Spot. Inspecting Packets Is No Longer Enough.

SASE Has An AI Blind Spot. Inspecting Packets Is No Longer Enough. 2026-07-16 at 05:06 By For years, routing traffic through cloud proxies was good enough. Then work moved to the browser, AI entered the workflow, and the inspection model stopped keeping up. Enterprise workflows now live across SaaS applications, browsers, and an expanding ecosystem

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Firefox, Chrome, Adobe, and VMware Updates Fix Multiple Critical Security Flaws

Firefox, Chrome, Adobe, and VMware Updates Fix Multiple Critical Security Flaws 2026-07-16 at 05:06 By Mozilla has released updates to address two critical flaws in Firefox for which it warned that exploit code has been published. The vulnerabilities are listed below – CVE-2026-15718, an invalid pointer in the JavaScript: WebAssembly component CVE-2026-15719, a site isolation

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Researcher Drops New Windows Zero-Day PoC Hours After Microsoft Patch Tuesday

Researcher Drops New Windows Zero-Day PoC Hours After Microsoft Patch Tuesday 2026-07-16 at 05:06 By Security researcher Chaotic Eclipse (aka Nightmare-Eclipse) has released a new proof-of-concept (PoC) exploit called LegacyHive. It has been described as a Windows User Profile Service arbitrary hive load elevation of privileges vulnerability. The Windows User Profile Service, also referred to

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Base’s social bet left it trailing in prediction markets and perps: Pollak

Base’s social bet left it trailing in prediction markets and perps: Pollak 2026-07-16 at 04:14 By Cointelegraph by Felix Ng Base creator Jesse Pollak is stepping back from leadership of the Base App after admitting he was “definitively wrong” to bet on social experiences driving crypto adoption. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News

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