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GameStop CEO Ryan Cohen mulls dropping $56B eBay takeover bid: report 2026-08-10 at 21:01 By Thomas Barrabi Cohen – who became a favorite of retail investors as GameStop rose to “meme stock” prominence – is instead considering proposing a partnership that would allow eBay access to GameStop’s base of approximately 1,600 US stores, Bloomberg reported, […]

Shipping 10–50× More Code? Watch This Webinar on Securing AI-Speed Development 2026-08-10 at 20:29 By AI is helping development teams produce far more code, far faster. But security teams still have to review vulnerabilities, manage dependencies, prioritize fixes, and control risk at human speed. When software output jumps 10 to 50 times, the problem is […]

AI-Ready PAM: When Your Identity Security Solution Talks Back 2026-08-10 at 19:45 By Adam Roll How MCP turns PAM into an AI-ready source for faster reporting and compliance visibility This article is an excerpt from SECURITY.COM View Original Source

China-Linked Hackers Deploy New StormEncryptor Ransomware, Likely via N-central Flaw 2026-08-10 at 19:38 By Microsoft has disclosed that Storm-1175, a financially motivated threat actor linked to China, has deployed a previously undocumented ransomware strain called StormEncryptor. The use of StormEncryptor marks a shift from the adversary’s previous use of Medusa ransomware, the Microsoft Threat Intelligence […]

⚡ Weekly Recap: AI Goes Rogue, Metabase 0-Day, MCP Supply-Chain Attacks, and Router Backdoors 2026-08-10 at 18:00 By A lot of security problems still begin with someone doing a completely normal thing. Cloning a repo. Answering a call. Leaving a box exposed. Trusting the default. That pretty much covers the mood this week. Old bugs […]

Sen. Bernie Sanders demands CEOs pause AI development ‘in the interest of humanity’ 2026-08-10 at 16:47 By Ryan King Sen. Bernie Sanders gave an ultimatum to the CEOs of Anthropic, Meta, and OpenAI, warning them to pause the development of artificial intelligence now or else have lawmakers do it for them. This article is an […]

Kimsuky Builds Offline AI Stack to Boost Phishing and Automate Malware Development 2026-08-10 at 16:19 By North Korea’s state hackers are no longer content to type prompts into public chatbots. One of the country’s main espionage groups has begun running artificial intelligence (AI) offline on its own servers, connecting document-search tools to files in its […]

New Passkey Attacks Can Recover Synced Private Keys or Bypass Phishing-Resistant MFA 2026-08-10 at 15:25 By Three separate research efforts last week demonstrated ways to defeat passkey protections without breaking the cryptography they rest on. Passkeys are designed to replace reusable passwords and resist phishing. The attacks instead reused signed authentication material that Windows had […]

Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg pushes positive AI message, calls for open-source approach to beat China 2026-08-10 at 13:59 By Ariel Zilber Amid AI doomerism, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg is continuing his attempt at positive messaging about the tech in a new manifesto while calling on Washington to lower barriers for US open-source developers to help them […]