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China-Linked Hackers Deploy New StormEncryptor Ransomware, Likely via N-central Flaw 2026-08-10 at 19:38 By Microsoft has disclosed that Storm-1175, a financially motivated threat actor linked to China, has deployed a previously undocumented ransomware strain called StormEncryptor. The use of StormEncryptor marks a shift from the adversary’s previous use of Medusa ransomware, the Microsoft Threat Intelligence […]

⚡ Weekly Recap: AI Goes Rogue, Metabase 0-Day, MCP Supply-Chain Attacks, and Router Backdoors 2026-08-10 at 18:00 By A lot of security problems still begin with someone doing a completely normal thing. Cloning a repo. Answering a call. Leaving a box exposed. Trusting the default. That pretty much covers the mood this week. Old bugs […]

Sen. Bernie Sanders demands CEOs pause AI development ‘in the interest of humanity’ 2026-08-10 at 16:47 By Ryan King Sen. Bernie Sanders gave an ultimatum to the CEOs of Anthropic, Meta, and OpenAI, warning them to pause the development of artificial intelligence now or else have lawmakers do it for them. This article is an […]

Kimsuky Builds Offline AI Stack to Boost Phishing and Automate Malware Development 2026-08-10 at 16:19 By North Korea’s state hackers are no longer content to type prompts into public chatbots. One of the country’s main espionage groups has begun running artificial intelligence (AI) offline on its own servers, connecting document-search tools to files in its […]

New Passkey Attacks Can Recover Synced Private Keys or Bypass Phishing-Resistant MFA 2026-08-10 at 15:25 By Three separate research efforts last week demonstrated ways to defeat passkey protections without breaking the cryptography they rest on. Passkeys are designed to replace reusable passwords and resist phishing. The attacks instead reused signed authentication material that Windows had […]

Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg pushes positive AI message, calls for open-source approach to beat China 2026-08-10 at 13:59 By Ariel Zilber Amid AI doomerism, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg is continuing his attempt at positive messaging about the tech in a new manifesto while calling on Washington to lower barriers for US open-source developers to help them […]

OpenAI risks White House relationship with hiring of ‘nuisance’ AI policy executive: sources 2026-08-10 at 13:00 By Thomas Barrabi Ball infuriated Trump AI officials last month after claiming that the White House should create “regulatory risk” — or new rules imposing consequences on US firms — to discourage use of Chinese AI models. This article […]

The Crime Began Well Before the Breach 2026-08-10 at 12:00 By The image most security professionals still carry of perimeter crime is the opportunist: the actor who spots an open gate, grabs what is within reach, and flees. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

Solidity Pro VS Code Extensions Steal Crypto Wallets, API Keys, and Credentials 2026-08-10 at 10:38 By Cybersecurity researchers have flagged a malicious Microsoft Visual Studio Code (VS Code) extension named Solidity Pro (“solidity-pro”) that has been observed delivering a browser wallet and credential stealer. The names of the extensions are below – helper-beeps.solidity-pro web3devtoolsx.solidity-pro Although […]

Modern Wireless-First Security Solutions Deliver Multiple Benefits for Mixed-Use Properties 2026-08-10 at 10:00 By The most common longstanding security and safety challenges of mixed-use properties generally fall into 4 categories.  This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

OpenAI’s Next AI Model Astra Shows Cyber Performance Strong Enough to Trigger Pause 2026-08-10 at 08:50 By OpenAI has announced that it’s pausing some “internal activities” involving its upcoming artificial intelligence (AI) model Astra after an internal evaluation found it had made significant advancements in agentic coding and cybersecurity. In response to the discovery, the […]

Scott Wiener forced into screeching U-turn after Nancy Pelosi raged at Connie Chan ads 2026-08-10 at 00:22 By Zain Khan The California senator is pulling the ConnieChan.ai chatbot and related ads after the campaign stunt overshadowed his attacks on his congressional rival’s record on housing and transit. This article is an excerpt from Latest Technology […]

Three in five Americans favor stronger oversight of social media companies: poll 2026-08-09 at 21:44 By Reuters The poll, which was conducted over the six days ended Aug. 3, comes as companies like Meta Platforms and Google’s YouTube face mounting legal pressure over their treatment of young users. This article is an excerpt from Latest Technology News | […]

Apple testing China’s CXMT memory chips for iPhones and MacBooks: report 2026-08-09 at 21:01 By Reuters Apple held early talks with CXMT, which is China’s largest chipmaker by market value, about supplying components with the goal of using them in some devices sold in China, the report said, citing people familiar with the matter. This article is […]

Nancy Pelosi rages at ‘sexist and racist’ AI chatbot mocking her would-be successor 2026-08-08 at 20:06 By Titus Wu A parody artificial intelligence chatbot launched by a candidate trying to replace Nancy Pelosi in Congress was taken down Friday after the former House speaker attacked the bot for being “sexist.” This article is an excerpt from […]

Atlassian Rovo Can Be Tricked Into Sending Jira and Confluence Data to Attackers 2026-08-08 at 11:54 By Attacker-controlled instructions can make Atlassian’s Rovo assistant collect Jira or Confluence data that a signed-in user can access, then send it to an outside server. Two security firms found that behavior independently, by different routes. Only one of […]

New CSS Attacks Can Break Webmail Defenses to Steal Passwords and Tokens 2026-08-08 at 11:03 By New research shows content inside an email can escape its message boundary and interfere with the webmail interface. Across attack chains spanning Outlook, Gmail, Fastmail, Proton Mail, Yahoo Mail, and AOL Mail, the techniques can capture passwords, take over […]

Metabase Zero-Day Exploited in Wild Allows Admin Access Without Authentication 2026-08-08 at 09:58 By Metabase has warned that a maximum-severity security flaw impacting its business intelligence and data visualization software package has been exploited in the wild as a zero-day. The vulnerability (CVSS score: 10.0), which does not carry a CVE identifier, allows an unauthenticated […]

N-able Issues N-central Hotfix 2 as Attackers Reach Managed Systems and Persist 2026-08-08 at 09:57 By N-able has released a fresh round of hotfixes for N‑central as part of its investigation into ongoing exploitation of a recently disclosed security flaw in the Remote Monitoring and Management (RMM) product. “We are proactively expanding protections in response […]

Progress Kemp LoadMaster Flaw Hits CISA KEV After 792 Reported Exploit Attempts 2026-08-08 at 09:52 By The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Friday added a critical-severity security flaw impacting Progress Kemp LoadMaster to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, following reports of active exploitation in the wild. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-8037 (CVSS […]