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Wayfinder Frontier AI Services Found It. We Fix It.

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Wayfinder Frontier AI Services Found It. We Fix It. 2026-08-18 at 18:28 By Adam Bixby For years, security teams and developers alike have struggled with understanding and identifying all security issues affecting their deployed applications. Today,SentinelOne’s Wayfinder Frontier AI Services can identify exploitable weaknesses across source code, Software Bill of Materials (SBOM) dependencies, and embedded secrets […]

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Bitcoin tags $65K as S&P 500 rebounds from 2-week lows on US-Iran rhetoric

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Bitcoin tags $65K as S&P 500 rebounds from 2-week lows on US-Iran rhetoric 2026-08-18 at 18:27 By Cointelegraph by William Suberg Bitcoin returned to $65,000 for the first time in a week as fresh BTC price volatility accompanied US claims that the Strait of Hormuz was “open and operating.” This article is an excerpt from

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Webinar Today: Rethinking Cyber Defense for AI-Speed Attacks

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Webinar Today: Rethinking Cyber Defense for AI-Speed Attacks 2026-08-18 at 18:03 By SecurityWeek News Join the live webinar as we explore if detection-first security operations can keep pace with AI, or if it’s time to rethink prevention as the strongest default. The post Webinar Today: Rethinking Cyber Defense for AI-Speed Attacks appeared first on SecurityWeek.

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CISO Conversations: Nico Waisman – From Self-Taught Hacker to AI-Driven Offensive Security at XBOW

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CISO Conversations: Nico Waisman – From Self-Taught Hacker to AI-Driven Offensive Security at XBOW 2026-08-18 at 17:30 By Kevin Townsend With no formal training and no career plan, Waisman built a path from Argentina’s early hacking scene to leading security at an AI-powered offensive security firm. The post CISO Conversations: Nico Waisman – From Self-Taught

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Toyota Finance opens tokenized bonds to retail investors via mobile payment app

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Toyota Finance opens tokenized bonds to retail investors via mobile payment app 2026-08-18 at 16:41 By Cointelegraph by Yohan Yun Retail investors can apply to buy the 1 billion yen bond without a securities account and receive perks through Toyota’s payment app. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source

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NETSCOUT expands Adaptive DDoS Protection with outbound attack mitigation

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NETSCOUT expands Adaptive DDoS Protection with outbound attack mitigation 2026-08-18 at 16:39 By Industry News NETSCOUT has announced an extension of its Adaptive DDoS Protection (ADP) solution enabling service providers to automatically detect and mitigate outbound DDoS attack traffic. By extending protection from the attack target towards its source, NETSCOUT helps operators prevent compromised subscriber

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‘Superman’ robot allegedly outruns Usain Bolt in uncanny video: ‘Breaking the limits of humanity’

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‘Superman’ robot allegedly outruns Usain Bolt in uncanny video: ‘Breaking the limits of humanity’ 2026-08-18 at 16:36 By Ben Cost Chinese robot firm Unitree has unveiled a super-humanoid that they claim could dust Usain Bolt, the world’s fastest sprinter ever, in a foot race, among other incredible feats of athleticism. This article is an excerpt

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AI-Driven Vulnerability Surge Breaks the Traditional Patching Model

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AI-Driven Vulnerability Surge Breaks the Traditional Patching Model 2026-08-18 at 16:00 By Kevin Townsend Rapid7 warns that traditional patch cycles cannot keep pace with soaring vulnerability disclosures and faster exploitation, forcing defenders to prioritize exposure over severity scores. The post AI-Driven Vulnerability Surge Breaks the Traditional Patching Model appeared first on SecurityWeek. This article is

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AI “Mind Viruses” Can Spread Between Agents Through Persistent Prompt Files

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AI “Mind Viruses” Can Spread Between Agents Through Persistent Prompt Files 2026-08-18 at 15:38 By Security researchers at Anthropic and Switzerland’s EPFL have demonstrated that self-propagating payloads can spread from one artificial intelligence (AI) agent to the next through the editable system prompt files that autonomous agent harnesses use to carry state between sessions. The

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TWINLOOT Abuses SharePoint and Teams to Steal Credentials and Move Across Networks

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TWINLOOT Abuses SharePoint and Teams to Steal Credentials and Move Across Networks 2026-08-18 at 15:38 By Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a previously undocumented Python implant framework dubbed TWINLOOT. “TWINLOOT is a modular, PyArmor-hardened Python implant designed to operate its entire command-and-control infrastructure inside trusted Microsoft services,” Ontinue said in a technical report shared

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Xpander Raises $7.5 Million for AI Management and Governance

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Xpander Raises $7.5 Million for AI Management and Governance 2026-08-18 at 15:29 By Ionut Arghire Xpander’s platform uses a universal agent harness that executes AI agents as portable workloads and securely renders interfaces on demand. The post Xpander Raises $7.5 Million for AI Management and Governance appeared first on SecurityWeek. This article is an excerpt

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Fortinet Acquires AI Security Company Virtue AI

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Fortinet Acquires AI Security Company Virtue AI 2026-08-18 at 15:06 By Eduard Kovacs Fortinet will use Virtue AI technology to enhance its AI security portfolio, including for AI models, applications, and agentic systems. The post Fortinet Acquires AI Security Company Virtue AI appeared first on SecurityWeek. This article is an excerpt from SecurityWeek View Original

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Download: 2026 Credential Risk Report

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Download: 2026 Credential Risk Report 2026-08-18 at 15:03 By Help Net Security 85% of cybersecurity professionals consider compromised credentials a primary attack path, yet only 19% continuously monitor active credentials and automatically remediate exposure. The 2026 Credential Risk Report examines where credential security programs fall short and what it takes to move toward Continuous Credential

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Google’s $10,000 refund test shows why AI agents need zero trust

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Google’s $10,000 refund test shows why AI agents need zero trust 2026-08-18 at 14:49 By Anamarija Pogorelec Google’s open-source autonomous Customer Support & Returns Agent, built using the Agent Development Kit (ADK) and Gemini, demonstrates how developers can apply zero-trust security principles to AI agents that interact with sensitive systems and take real-world actions. The

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Critical GitLab flaw allows attackers to modify or delete public projects (CVE-2026-19478)

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Critical GitLab flaw allows attackers to modify or delete public projects (CVE-2026-19478) 2026-08-18 at 14:38 By Sinisa Markovic GitLab has released patches for two vulnerabilities, including a critical-severity code injection flaw that can be exploited without authentication. The vulnerabilities affect GitLab Community Edition (CE) and Enterprise Edition (EE) versions from 18.2 before 18.11.11, 19.0 before

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One Attacker Has Scraped Both Salesforce and ServiceNow Portals Since 2025

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One Attacker Has Scraped Both Salesforce and ServiceNow Portals Since 2025 2026-08-18 at 14:30 By A single piece of infrastructure has been pulling records out of Salesforce and ServiceNow customer portals across multiple industries for more than a year, according to research published this week by agent security platform Reco. The activity, which Reco has

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16 Typosquatted RubyGems Packages Steal Browser Credentials and Crypto Wallets

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16 Typosquatted RubyGems Packages Steal Browser Credentials and Crypto Wallets 2026-08-18 at 14:20 By Cybersecurity researchers have flagged a new typosquatting campaign targeting RubyGems users with a Windows-based information stealer. OpenSourceMalware, which discovered the activity on August 15, 2026, is tracking the threat under the moniker StubMaker. The complete list of packages published as part

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OpenAI tightens defenses after AI agents breach research environment

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OpenAI tightens defenses after AI agents breach research environment 2026-08-18 at 12:41 By Anamarija Pogorelec Following the OpenAI-Hugging Face incident, in which an agentic collective autonomously penetrated OpenAI’s research infrastructure and another company’s production infrastructure by chaining together multiple weaknesses, OpenAI began strengthening its safety requirements. The weaknesses included previously unknown vulnerabilities and credentials leaked

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SafePal Hardware Wallet Maker Says Flaw Exposed Data of Nearly 40,000 Customers

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SafePal Hardware Wallet Maker Says Flaw Exposed Data of Nearly 40,000 Customers 2026-08-18 at 12:10 By SafePal has disclosed that an authorization flaw in an order-tracking plug-in exposed the names, email addresses, shipping addresses, phone numbers, and purchase details of approximately 39,798 customers. The hardware wallet maker said all affected customers were notified individually by

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