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China-Linked Fire Ant Hijacks Cisco Routers to Steal Credentials and Blind Security Logs 2026-08-31 at 13:44 By A China-nexus cyber espionage actor tracked as Fire Ant has expanded a long-running campaign beyond VMware hypervisors to compromise Cisco IOS XR routers, Terminal Access Controller Access-Control System (TACACS) servers, and Linux management hosts used to route, authenticate, […]

6 Use Cases Security Practitioners Can Tackle With XDR 2026-08-31 at 13:24 By Shawn Tiemann How Symantec® CBX manages everything from accelerating investigations to tackling insider threats This article is an excerpt from SECURITY.COM View Original Source

DoJ Corrects China Hacking Claim, Says U.S. Agencies Were Targets, Not Victims 2026-08-31 at 10:56 By The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) on Friday corrected a previously issued press statement that several of its agencies were victims of attacks carried out by Chinese threat actors, instead now pointing out that they were among those targeted.

New smartphone innovation lets users design their own device — boasting longer life and lower cost than Apple products 2026-08-30 at 20:30 By Allison Lax Look out, iPhone fans — some new tech is in town that costs less and has a longer life. This article is an excerpt from Latest Technology News | New

Google swaps Lake Ontario maps to ‘Lake America’ following Trump’s renaming order 2026-08-30 at 19:13 By Reuters The company made the same change to the Gulf of Mexico last year. This article is an excerpt from Latest Technology News | New York Post View Original Source

TerminalFix Uses Fake Cloudflare CAPTCHAs to Deploy Reverse-Tunnel Backdoor 2026-08-30 at 11:41 By Microsoft has disclosed details of a new ClickFix variant, dubbed TerminalFix, that aims to trick users into running a malicious command in Windows Terminal or PowerShell. “While traditional ClickFix campaigns direct victims to the Windows Run dialog, TerminalFix campaigns apply the same

Five Critical WordPress Plugin and Theme Flaws Enable Site Takeover or RCE 2026-08-29 at 21:43 By Multiple critical security flaws have been disclosed in WordPress plugins and themes, including WPMU DEV Dashboard, Avada, TranslatePress, Pods, and GiveWP, that could lead to authentication bypass, account takeover, and arbitrary code execution. The vulnerabilities, according to Wordfence and

Robot topples down stairs after getting distracted by machine cheerleaders at World Humanoid Games 2026-08-29 at 16:44 By Ben Cost Is it the fall of the machines? This article is an excerpt from Latest Technology News | New York Post View Original Source

Berlin Refuses to Pay Hackers Who Stole Data From the City’s State Network 2026-08-29 at 01:17 By Berlin’s state government has confirmed that it is the target of an extortion attempt following the August compromise of the city’s state administrative network, and said it will not meet the extortionists’ demands. The same statement disclosed that

Cosmos EVM Flaw Exploited After Cosmos Labs Knew Every Blockchain Running It Was Vulnerable 2026-08-28 at 23:38 By Cosmos Labs has warned that a critical balance-handling flaw in the shared Cosmos EVM module was exploited to drain funds from six blockchains between August 20 and August 25, 2026. The vulnerability, designated GHSA-7g4w-cg88-2cq2, is rated Critical

Android 17 Adds OS-Wide ECH to Hide Website Visits From Network Providers 2026-08-28 at 22:07 By Google on Thursday announced new network security protections in Android 17 to bolster connection privacy, address cellular vulnerabilities, and safeguard the privacy of users’ home networks. Topping the list is support for Encrypted Client Hello (ECH), a privacy standard

Attackers Chain Two PaperCut Flaws to Execute Code Without Authentication 2026-08-28 at 22:07 By Malicious actors are exploiting a newly patched security flaw in PaperCut NG and MF to execute arbitrary code on susceptible instances, as the company released a fresh emergency fix with additional hardening. “This vulnerability gives an unauthenticated attacker remote control over

ownCloud Flaw Exploited to Steal Nuclear Records From Philippine Research Body 2026-08-28 at 22:07 By The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Thursday added a critical security flaw impacting ownCloud to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog following reports that a Chinese-speaking threat actor weaponized the vulnerability to target a nuclear research body

Mark Zuckerberg hatched secret jobs bloodbath plan to ax 60% of staff — and then it blew up in his face 2026-08-28 at 21:32 By Titus Wu Under a plan, AI would take over much of the daily work performed by thousands of human employees. This article is an excerpt from Latest Technology News |

Buzzy NYC nightclub plans to permanently ban partiers entering with smart glasses: ‘Keep the dance floor private’ 2026-08-28 at 20:01 By Ben Cost They didn’t want this creepy mainstream trend going underground. This article is an excerpt from Latest Technology News | New York Post View Original Source

Meta Pays $18B Settlement, Plans Platform Changes 2026-08-28 at 20:00 By Meta will be making adjustments to its platforms following an $18 billion settlement.  This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

Security Leaders Discuss OpenAI’s Call for Collaboration on Cyber Defense 2026-08-28 at 19:00 By 100 technology firms released an open letter calling for “collective action” for cyber defense. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

19 Chrome and Edge Extensions Found With Wallet-Stealing and Crypto-Draining Code 2026-08-28 at 18:57 By Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a cluster of 18 Google Chrome and one Microsoft Edge extensions that were published over the last six months and harbored wallet secret stealing and cryptocurrency draining capabilities. The extensions, per Socket security researcher Karlo Zanki,

Key Reasons Why Identity Fabric Matters in 2026 2026-08-28 at 16:30 By An Identity Fabric knits fragmented identity systems into a coherent layer that observes how identities behave across applications, APIs, and infrastructure. As enterprise access spans more cloud services and automated workloads, identity security depends less on static configuration and more on runtime visibility.

Two Unitree G1 EDU Humanoid Robot Flaws Enable Root RCE, One Starts Over Bluetooth 2026-08-28 at 16:30 By Security researcher Olivier Laflamme has disclosed two independent root remote code execution (RCE) chains affecting the Unitree G1 EDU, including a Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) path that can reach root on the robot’s Locomotion PC. The flaws