DOJ’s ‘sweetheart’ $400M settlement with TikTok puzzles DC insiders: ‘How did you get to that number?’ 2026-08-31 at 14:34 By Thomas Barrabi The Justice Department’s $400 million deal to settle TikTok child privacy allegations has puzzled Beltway insiders over its easy terms and an unusual lack of transparency around the resolution to the blockbuster case, […]
Anthropic locks out Claude users after infostealers hijack login sessions 2026-08-31 at 14:30 By Zeljka Zorz Anthropic has started locking users out of their Claude accounts due to their login sessions having been compromised through infostealer malware. “The malware identified in this campaign so far include Vidar, Lumma (LummaC2), StealC, RedLine and Acreed on Windows, […]
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Critical Ruby on Rails Vulnerability in Attackers’ Crosshairs 2026-08-31 at 14:24 By Ionut Arghire Named KindaRails2Shell, the arbitrary file read flaw allows attackers to extract secrets and execute arbitrary code remotely. The post Critical Ruby on Rails Vulnerability in Attackers’ Crosshairs appeared first on SecurityWeek. This article is an excerpt from SecurityWeek View Original Source
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Hyperliquid, Pump.fun account for nearly 90% of record $638M crypto buybacks: FT 2026-08-31 at 14:21 By Cointelegraph by Zoltan Vardai Crypto projects spent a record $638 million on token buybacks so far in 2026, as more protocols are turning their revenue into buybacks to return more value to token holders. This article is an excerpt […]
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Markets pivot to September Fed rate hike: Five things to know in Bitcoin this week 2026-08-31 at 13:51 By Cointelegraph by William Suberg Bitcoin approached the August monthly close below key resistance with markets once again pricing in a Federal Reserve interest-rate hike in September. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original […]
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Boston Scientific Still Recovering From Cyberattack 2026-08-31 at 13:50 By Eduard Kovacs The company has called in CrowdStrike and others to investigate the attack that caused global network disruption. The post Boston Scientific Still Recovering From Cyberattack appeared first on SecurityWeek. This article is an excerpt from SecurityWeek View Original Source
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China-Linked Fire Ant Hijacks Cisco Routers to Steal Credentials and Blind Security Logs 2026-08-31 at 13:44 By A China-nexus cyber espionage actor tracked as Fire Ant has expanded a long-running campaign beyond VMware hypervisors to compromise Cisco IOS XR routers, Terminal Access Controller Access-Control System (TACACS) servers, and Linux management hosts used to route, authenticate, […]
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Extortion Group Claims Manchester Airports Group Data Breach 2026-08-31 at 13:29 By Ionut Arghire FulcrumSec says it stole over 80 GB of data from Manchester Airports Group and plans to leak it online. The post Extortion Group Claims Manchester Airports Group Data Breach appeared first on SecurityWeek. This article is an excerpt from SecurityWeek View […]
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6 Use Cases Security Practitioners Can Tackle With XDR 2026-08-31 at 13:24 By Shawn Tiemann How Symantec® CBX manages everything from accelerating investigations to tackling insider threats This article is an excerpt from SECURITY.COM View Original Source
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Russian hackers plant nuclear weapon prompt in malware to trip AI safety guardrails 2026-08-31 at 12:45 By Sinisa Markovic Russian state hackers are trying to interfere with AI-assisted malware analysis in Ukraine by deliberately setting off AI safety mechanisms, ESET has found. The technique, named GuardBreaker by ESET, appeared in a malicious VBS script tied […]
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Judge Says Pentagon’s Measures Against Anthropic Were ‘Illegal and Baseless’ 2026-08-31 at 12:07 By Associated Press The ruling is part of Anthropic’s legal battle against the Pentagon after the government labeled the company as a supply chain risk earlier this year. The post Judge Says Pentagon’s Measures Against Anthropic Were ‘Illegal and Baseless’ appeared first […]
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More Markets lending reserve drained for $9.3M: Blockaid 2026-08-31 at 11:57 By Cointelegraph by Zoltan Vardai Blockaid said an attacker used an Ankr liquid staking token and E-mode to overborrow from More Markets and drain about $9.3 million in WFLOW from a lending reserve. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source
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Berlin Won’t Pay Extortion Group Claiming Data Theft 2026-08-31 at 11:49 By Ionut Arghire The Rhysida ransomware group has claimed the exfiltration of over 5TB of data, including personal information and credentials. The post Berlin Won’t Pay Extortion Group Claiming Data Theft appeared first on SecurityWeek. This article is an excerpt from SecurityWeek View Original […]
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Debian developers rejected an LLM ban and left disclosure voluntary 2026-08-31 at 11:08 By Anamarija Pogorelec A maintainer reading a merge request can’t tell whether a person or a model wrote the diff, and nobody has to say. Debian developers voted on that through August 28, and Kurt Roeckx, the project secretary, announced the result: […]
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DoJ Corrects China Hacking Claim, Says U.S. Agencies Were Targets, Not Victims 2026-08-31 at 10:56 By The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) on Friday corrected a previously issued press statement that several of its agencies were victims of attacks carried out by Chinese threat actors, instead now pointing out that they were among those targeted. […]
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The OpenClaw 2.0 release moves your sessions into SQLite 2026-08-31 at 10:24 By Anamarija Pogorelec OpenClaw is open source software that hands an AI model small standing jobs across your accounts, the kind of chore where it watches a mailbox for vendor advisories and pings you on Telegram when one names a product you run. […]
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More Details Emerge on Exploited PaperCut Vulnerabilities 2026-08-31 at 09:51 By Eduard Kovacs PaperCut has released a second emergency patch for the exploited vulnerabilities, which are now tracked as CVE-2026-82078 and CVE-2026-81578. The post More Details Emerge on Exploited PaperCut Vulnerabilities appeared first on SecurityWeek. This article is an excerpt from SecurityWeek View Original Source
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What vulnerability prioritization looks like when KEV, EPSS, and CVSS disagree 2026-08-31 at 09:00 By Mirko Zorz In this Help Net Security interview, Dr. Joye Purser, Global Field CISO at Cohesity, explains how to rank vulnerabilities when KEV, EPSS, and CVSS point in different directions. Active exploitation comes first, then exploit likelihood, then technical severity, […]
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Halo-record: Open-source audit trails for AI agents 2026-08-31 at 08:30 By Mirko Zorz Brian Kuan wrote halo-record, a small Python package that sits inside an AI agent and writes down the moves it makes: tool calls, model calls, data access, approvals. Each action becomes one line in a file that only ever gets appended to, […]
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AI AppSec tools agree on just 5% of security findings 2026-08-31 at 08:23 By Sinisa Markovic Software vulnerabilities are turning into exploits within hours, and application security teams carry patch backlogs that go back years. Top types of viable application attacks (Source: Contrast Security) Contrast Security’s AppSec Overflow 2026 report draws on telemetry collected from […]
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