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The Good Hackers Security Leaders Can’t Afford to Ignore 2026-07-09 at 10:00 By Not all hackers are adversaries. Some are among our most valuable allies. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

Top AI Agents Built to Catch Malicious Code Can Be Tricked Into Running It 2026-07-09 at 08:15 By Ask an AI coding agent to scan open-source code for security holes, and it might run the attacker’s code on your own machine instead. That is the finding in a proof-of-concept published Wednesday by the AI Now Institute, an attack

GhostApproval Symlink Flaws Could Let Malicious Repos Run Code in AI Coding Agents 2026-07-09 at 07:27 By Researchers at Wiz found that a flaw in six popular AI coding assistants lets a booby-trapped code project quietly take control of a developer’s computer. The assistant asks permission to edit one harmless-looking file, but the write lands on a

Fake 7-Zip Installers Turn Devices Into Residential Proxy Nodes 2026-07-09 at 07:01 By Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a new threat actor dubbed Lurking Lizard that has been operating an end-to-end malicious residential proxy business using an infrastructure comprising more than 230 lookalike domains. The activity dates back to at least August 2022, according

Biden-appointed judge reluctantly approves Elon Musk’s settlement with SEC over Twitter disclosures 2026-07-09 at 02:12 By Reuters US District Judge Sparkle Sooknanan questioned whether the Trump administration let the world’s richest person off too easily. This article is an excerpt from Latest Technology News | New York Post View Original Source

Sun Valley’s ‘summer camp for billionaires’ is offering knitting classes this year — here’s why we shouldn’t be surprised 2026-07-09 at 00:28 By Charles Gasparino It was as if the bankers at Allen & Co. had set out to prove that big media as we know it is on its last legs. This article is

Fiat launching tiny European EV in the US with low price tag — but there’s a catch 2026-07-08 at 23:51 By Fox Business The EV is about 8 feet long, weighs 1,073 pounds and gets up to 46 miles of range from a 5.4-kilowatt-hour lithium-ion battery. This article is an excerpt from Latest Technology News

AI Coding Agents Found Triggering Endpoint Security Rules Built to Catch Attackers 2026-07-08 at 20:02 By Sophos looked at a week of its own endpoint data and found that AI coding agents such as Claude Code, Cursor, and OpenAI Codex are setting off detection rules written to catch human intruders. The agents are not malicious.

Anthropic leases new NYC office building, set to double local workforce by end of year 2026-07-08 at 19:38 By Thomas Barrabi Anthropic will begin moving into the office later this summer and has space in the facility for about 1,700 desks, according to the company. New York already ranked as Anthropic’s second-largest office hub aside

6 Data Breaches to Know About (June 2026) 2026-07-08 at 19:18 By Security magazine dives into 6 data breach stories from the last month.  This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

New HalluSquatting Attack Could Trick AI Coding Assistants Into Installing Botnet Malware 2026-07-08 at 19:18 By AI coding assistants have a habit of making things up. Ask one to fetch a popular tool, and it will sometimes hand back a real-sounding name for a project that does not exist. New research, which its authors call HalluSquatting,

Accenture Confirms Breach After Hackers Claim Source Code Theft 2026-07-08 at 19:02 By IT services organization Accenture has confirmed it experienced a data breach.  This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

China Claims “Backdoor” Security Risk in Claude Code, Anthropic Responds 2026-07-08 at 18:30 By A Chinese cybersecurity platform has claimed to discover a “backdoor” security concern in Anthropic’s Claude Code.  This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

Ubiquiti Patches Critical UniFi Flaws Across Connect, Talk, Access, Protect, and OS 2026-07-08 at 17:38 By Ubiquiti has shipped updates to address multiple critical security flaws impacting UniFi Connect, UniFi Talk, UniFi Access, UniFi Protect, and UniFi OS that could result in privilege escalation and arbitrary command execution. The list of vulnerabilities is as follows

SCMBANKER Malware Uses ClickFix Lures to Target Mexican Banking Users 2026-07-08 at 17:21 By A new banking fraudulent operation is targeting customers of Mexican banks, fintech, payment processors, and cryptocurrency exchanges using ClickFix lures. The activity cluster, tracked by Elastic Security Labs under the moniker REF6045, involves infecting victims through fake CAPTCHA verification pages that

New Ghost Phishing Wave Is Breaking Traditional Email Security 2026-07-08 at 17:21 By A recent EvilTokens campaign targeting businesses across the US and Europe is exposing a new email security blind spot. This “ghost phishing” technique keeps the malicious page hidden until it decrypts and comes to life inside the victim’s browser. For security leaders,

GitHub ‘Verified’ Commits Can Be Rewritten Into New Hashes Without Breaking Signatures 2026-07-08 at 14:51 By New research shows that a signed Git commit’s hash is not the one-of-a-kind name that much of the software world assumes it to be. Given any signed commit, someone without the signing key can mint a second commit with

The Verification Step Is the New ATO Battleground in 2026 2026-07-08 at 14:30 By For years, account takeover (ATO) followed a predictable script. Attackers bought stolen credentials in bulk, ran them through automated tools, and waited for matches. Credential stuffing was cheap, scalable, and for defenders, relatively well understood. That era is ending. Not because

GitHub Copilot Refuses Harmful Requests in Chat, Then Writes Them in Code 2026-07-08 at 14:21 By An AI coding assistant that refuses to answer a dangerous request in its chat box can answer it anyway if the same request is broken into small, ordinary-looking steps inside a code editor. That is the finding of a new

Meet the pet owners spending thousands of dollars on doggy wellness — from $800 red light therapy to $750 PEMF beds 2026-07-08 at 13:35 By McKenzie Beard These pampered pups get fancy supplements, curated diets and high-tech devices. After all, one owner said, “Anything we can do to extend valuable time with them, even if