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Apple asks judge to slam breaks on OpenAI’s hardware ambitions, latest twist in high-stakes suit 2026-08-05 at 00:16 By James Franey OpenAI said Apple now admits its outside lawyers emailed the wrong man after mixing up two Asian surnames and the company only came clean once OpenAI pointed out the blunder. This article is an […]

Author who lost $2M book deal over AI concerns claims allegations are racially motivated: ‘Definitely innocent!!!’ 2026-08-05 at 00:14 By Alexandra Steigrad Jerry Falade spoke out on Tuesday after his own reps pulled the plug on the sale of his first crime novel, “Call Me, I’ll Hide the Body.” This article is an excerpt from

Parent believe children should be taught digital literacy at an early age, new survey shows 2026-08-04 at 22:16 By SWNS As screens become a bigger part of childhood, the average parent says digital literacy education should start before kindergarten, according to new research. This article is an excerpt from Latest Technology News | New York

TikTok settles trio of social media addiction lawsuits in Los Angeles 2026-08-04 at 20:42 By Thomas Barrabi The terms of the TikTok settlements are confidential and subject to the finalization of written settlement agreements, plaintiffs’ attorneys Joseph VanZandt of Beasley Allen and Emily Jeffcott of Morgan & Morgan said in a joint statement. This article

Greatness PhaaS Adds Device Code Phishing to Bypass MFA and Steal Tokens 2026-08-04 at 20:27 By The commercial phishing-as-a-service (PhaaS) toolkit known as Greatness has become the latest crimeware solution to add support for device code phishing, a rapidly growing cyber threat that abuses the legitimate OAuth 2.0 Device Authorization Grant to bypass Multi-Factor Authentication

Things You Won’t Want to Miss at Black Hat USA 2026 2026-08-04 at 19:24 By Paul Miller If you thought AI was a focus last year, buckle up This article is an excerpt from SECURITY.COM View Original Source

Keyv-Linked npm Worm Poisons Hundreds of Packages, Plants Claude Code and VS Code Hooks 2026-08-04 at 16:30 By A credential-stealing npm worm that first appeared in [email protected] spread beyond the Keyv and Cacheable namespaces into hundreds of packages across multiple organizations on August 4, 2026. SafeDep verified 353 poisoned versions across 79 package names in

Fake Adobe and Zoom Updates Install ScreenConnect for Persistent Remote Access 2026-08-04 at 16:11 By Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of an active, multi-wave campaign that employs social engineering lures themed around Adobe and Zoom software updates, business document reviews, and system maintenance utilities to stealthily deploy Remote Monitoring and Management (RMM) programs like ConnectWise

Google Deletes 3 ADK AI Workflows After Malicious GitHub Issue Could Trigger Privileged Agent 2026-08-04 at 15:33 By Google deleted three AI agent workflows from its Agent Development Kit (ADK) Python repository. Pillar Security showed that a public GitHub issue could manipulate a triage agent into triggering a privileged code-fixing agent. The researchers said the

When Vibe Hacking Turns AI into the Junior Hacker Every Adversary Always Wanted 2026-08-04 at 15:33 By The cybersecurity industry has spent decades assuming that offensive capability scales with technical expertise. That assumption is starting to break. Security teams have long estimated risk by ranking attacker sophistication. Nation-state actors sat at one end. Organized criminal

DOUBLECUP Uses ClickFix and Cached PNGs to Deliver CountLoader and DeviceManager RAT 2026-08-04 at 14:14 By A new Russian loader-as-a-service (LaaS) codenamed DOUBLECUP has been using ClickFix lures as a way to stage malware-laced PNG images in victims’ browser cache and ultimately deliver CountLoader and a previously undocumented remote access trojan called DeviceManager. “The first

New cPanel Critical Flaw Could Let Hosting Customers Run SQL as Database Root 2026-08-04 at 13:36 By cPanel has patched a flaw that let an authenticated hosting customer execute SQL in the database’s root context, crossing the privilege boundary between a cPanel account and the server’s administrative database identity. It shipped in a targeted security

CISA Adds Exploited N-able N-central Flaw to KEV After Customer Compromises 2026-08-04 at 12:25 By The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Monday added a high-severity security flaw impacting N-able N-central to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog following reports of active exploitation in the wild. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-18577 (CVSS score:

Browser Security in the Age of Mythos: How AI Is Driving a Surge in Browser Risk Exposure 2026-08-04 at 10:00 By The patch tsunami is here, and browsers are absorbing the worst of it. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

18 Malicious npm Packages Deliver Cross-Platform RAT to Alibaba Tool Users 2026-08-03 at 22:28 By Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a new set of malicious npm packages that target users of Alibaba developer tools with a cross-platform remote access trojan (RAT) as part of a sophisticated, targeted software supply chain attack targeting Chinese-speaking environments. One of

New California law will change the internet forever as ‘digital fingerprints’ added 2026-08-03 at 21:28 By Marissa Matozzo The goal is to make the internet a little less of a Wild West. This article is an excerpt from Latest Technology News | New York Post View Original Source

NASA opens first major new wind tunnel in over 40 years in Virginia 2026-08-03 at 20:00 By Fox News NASA opened its first major new wind tunnel in more than 40 years Friday, marking a milestone for future aviation and space-exploration research. This article is an excerpt from Latest Technology News | New York Post View

Elon Musk’s SpaceX aims to shake off AI spending fears, stock slump in first-ever earnings report 2026-08-03 at 19:56 By Thomas Barrabi SpaceX, which has lost more than $500 billion in market value since its debut in June, will announce its second-quarter results after the bell alongside chipmaker AMD. Tech stocks have been under pressure

Google Password Manager Attacks Could Let Malware Hijack Passkey-Protected Accounts 2026-08-03 at 19:24 By Malware running as an ordinary user on a Windows machine can sign into a victim’s passkey-protected accounts without a fingerprint, a PIN, or anything at all appearing on the victim’s screen. Unit 42 detailed three attack paths against Chrome’s Google Password

INC Ransomware Emerges as Dominant Actor Exploiting SonicWall SMA 1000 Flaws 2026-08-03 at 19:15 By The INC Ransomware operation has emerged as the “dominant threat actor” exploiting the recently disclosed security flaws in SonicWall Secure Mobile Access (SMA) 1000 series VPN appliances. In a report published over the weekend, Resecurity said it observed the INC