Russian hackers abuse hotel Wi-Fi networks to steal Microsoft 365 credentials and deploy malware 2026-08-04 at 13:45 By Sinisa Markovic Midnight Blizzard, the Russian threat actor tied to the country’s foreign intelligence service, has spent months targeting users of public Wi-Fi networks at places like hotels and conference centers, according to new findings from Microsoft […]
Tanium expands autonomous security across AI, exposure management and SecOps 2026-08-04 at 12:17 By Industry News Tanium has announced a series of new autonomous security capabilities across the Tanium Autonomous IT Platform. Spanning agentic AI, exposure management and security operations, the capabilities empower IT and security operators to stay ahead of an AI-accelerated threat landscape, […]
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Microsoft shortens NuGet API key lifetime to improve supply chain security 2026-08-04 at 11:30 By Anamarija Pogorelec Microsoft is reducing the lifetime of new NuGet.org API keys from 365 days to 30 days starting August 17, 2026, to improve the security of NuGet, its package repository for .NET developers. API keys created before August 17 […]
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EU begins enforcing AI Act, putting AI models under the microscope 2026-08-04 at 09:49 By Sinisa Markovic Europe’s fight to regulate AI models moved from paper to practice on 2 August 2026, when the European Commission’s AI Office and national authorities began enforcing the AI Act. On the same date, new transparency rules took effect, […]
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Digital executive protection is a strategic imperative for CEOs 2026-08-04 at 09:00 By Mirko Zorz In this interview with Help Net Security, Brian Hill, Field CISO, Client Advisory for BlackCloak, explains how attackers reach companies through the personal lives of executives. He describes a case where a draft report sat in an executive’s personal email […]
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OWASP’s subtractive security project measures the attack paths you erased 2026-08-04 at 08:30 By Mirko Zorz An attacker who talks a user into opening an attachment gets whatever that machine still permits: a service account with rights across the domain, an outbound route to anywhere, a scripting engine sitting there for the taking. Christopher Frenz […]
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Analysts got 19 minutes back every hour in Stellar Cyber’s agentic auto triage trials 2026-08-04 at 08:00 By Mirko Zorz An analyst opening a queue on Monday morning will spend most of it on tickets that amount to nothing. Stellar Cyber’s Agentic Auto Triage closed 8,047 of those tickets on its own during customer trials, […]
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Fake IRS letters direct crypto holders to bogus compliance portal 2026-08-04 at 07:30 By Sinisa Markovic Scammers are sending physical letters to cryptocurrency holders that copy the look of official IRS notices. The letters tell recipients they must enroll in something called a Digital Asset Compliance Portal before a deadline, or risk penalties. “If you […]
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Cybersecurity jobs available right now: August 4, 2026 2026-08-04 at 07:00 By Anamarija Pogorelec Application Security Engineer Arcadia | USA | Remote – View job details As an Application Security Engineer, you will lead the application vulnerability management process by prioritizing and driving remediation of security findings. You will integrate and automate security tools within […]
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Attackers exploit N-able N-central flaw to reach managed endpoints (CVE-2026-18577) 2026-08-03 at 17:33 By Zeljka Zorz Attackers are exploiting an authentication bypass vulnerability (CVE-2026-18577) in N-able N-central, a remote monitoring and management (RMM) solution widely used by managed service providers, to gain access to managed endpoints. How the flaw was discovered “On July 31, 2026, […]
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Chinese hacker used DeepSeek to launch autonomous cyberattacks on vulnerable servers 2026-08-03 at 16:51 By Sinisa Markovic A Chinese threat actor operating under the aliases “knaithe” and “KnYuan” used multiple LLMs to automate cyberattacks against internet-facing systems with limited human intervention. Researchers at Palo Alto Networks’ Unit 42 uncovered the operation after the threat actor’s […]
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CISA lays out new guidance for using open-source software 2026-08-03 at 14:53 By Anamarija Pogorelec The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has published the Open Source Software: Security Principles and Practices guide, which provides federal agencies with recommendations for managing the security of open source software, contributing to OSS projects, and evaluating open […]
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KindaRails2Shell threatens Ruby on Rails apps (CVE-2026-66066) 2026-08-03 at 14:42 By Zeljka Zorz A critical security vulnerability (CVE-2026-66066) in Ruby on Rails (aka Rails), one of the most widely used frameworks for building websites and web apps, may allow attackers to read sensitive files off a server and, in some cases, take full control of […]
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Qodana 2026.2 adds post-quantum crypto checks for JVM code 2026-08-03 at 14:21 By Anamarija Pogorelec Qodana 2026.2 shipped with new security inspections, published benchmark results, post-quantum cryptography checks, and coverage reporting that no longer has to be pointed at the reports. The security work sits in the .NET linter and runs by default. Qodana tracks […]
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OpenAI reveals how criminals used ChatGPT to run scams 2026-08-03 at 11:40 By Anamarija Pogorelec OpenAI banned a coordinated network of ChatGPT accounts that likely originated in Cambodia’s Preah Sihanouk province, a region reports have linked to online scam compounds and human trafficking operations. The network used the company’s models to create and manage fake […]
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Elastic Defend now covers 800+ vulnerable drivers, with automated troubleshooting and ARM support 2026-08-03 at 11:31 By Mirko Zorz Attackers reaching for kernel access on a Windows machine bring a driver Microsoft already trusts. It is signed, it loads, and it carries a known flaw. That flaw gives them enough room to tamper with memory […]
Mapping the malware blast radius a single alert won’t show you 2026-08-03 at 09:00 By Mirko Zorz In this interview with Help Net Security, Mike Wiacek, founder and CTO of Stairwell, explains Backstory, an AI agent that takes a single alert and works outward to map how far a malware campaign spread. He walks through […]
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SkillSpector: NVIDIA’s open-source security scanner for AI agent skills 2026-08-03 at 08:30 By Anamarija Pogorelec SkillSpector is an open-source scanner from NVIDIA that reads an agent skill and tells you whether to install it. Point it at a directory, a zip file, a single SKILL.md, or a Git URL, and it returns a list of […]
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AI cut phishing from hours to seconds, which is where DMARC and BIMI come in 2026-08-03 at 08:00 By Help Net Security In this Help Net Security video, Mike Boyle, VP of Business Units at GMO GlobalSign, and Rahul Powar, CEO and founder of Red Sift, unpack the evolution of email security and why it […]
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Product showcase: Guardio Mobile Security turns breach alerts into a recovery plan 2026-08-03 at 07:30 By Anamarija Pogorelec Guardio Mobile Security brings several protection features to iPhone and Android, allowing users to monitor exposed personal information, identify phishing attempts, and receive alerts about emerging threats from a single application. It is available on smartphones and […]
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