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Microsoft Defender’s Own Driver Can Be Weaponized to Delete Security Software at Boot 2026-08-21 at 18:52 By Check Point Research has disclosed a technique that uses Microsoft Defender’s own legitimately signed boot-time remediation driver to perform arbitrary kernel-level file and registry operations on Windows systems ranging from Windows 7 through Windows 11 25H2, with no […]

Android Car Malware Spreads Through Built-In Updaters for Ad Fraud, Proxy Botnet 2026-08-21 at 18:41 By Cybersecurity researchers have flagged a new malware family that’s specifically designed to infect Android-based vehicle head unit firmware developed by DoFun. Kaspersky, which discovered the threat in June 2026, said the end goal of the malware is to serve […]

Wazuh and AI For Enhanced SOC Workflows 2026-08-21 at 14:21 By Artificial Intelligence (AI) has become one of this decade’s defining technologies. From healthcare and finance to manufacturing and education, organizations increasingly rely on AI to automate repetitive tasks, uncover patterns hidden within large datasets, and support faster decision-making. Cybersecurity has experienced a similar transformation. […]

Mamdani, the DSA and the Teamsters are lining up against Amazon in NYC — here’s how it could backfire spectacularly 2026-08-21 at 14:00 By Charles Gasparino A local ordinance would ban the online retailer and similar businesses from using subcontractors for its deliveries.  This article is an excerpt from Latest Technology News | New York […]

Brides are refusing to give up their fitness trackers at their weddings — and some are getting creative 2026-08-21 at 13:29 By McKenzie Beard Something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue — and a wearable tucked in your garter to track the stress, too. This article is an excerpt from Latest Technology News | […]

Cisco Patches Nine Crosswork and Secure Workload Flaws, Five Scoring CVSS 10.0 2026-08-21 at 13:03 By Cisco has published another round of security updates for Crosswork platforms and Secure Workload Software as part of a continued comprehensive internal security review. Four of the security vulnerabilities affect Crosswork Data Gateway, Crosswork Network Controller, and Crosswork Planning, […]

5 AI Attack Patterns Organizations Can’t Ignore 2026-08-21 at 12:00 By AI is rapidly changing the modern threat landscape. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

GitLab CVE-2026-19478 Comes Under Active Exploitation Within Days of Disclosure 2026-08-21 at 10:04 By A newly disclosed security flaw in GitLab has come under active exploitation within days of public disclosure, according to watchTowr. The vulnerability in question is CVE-2026-19478 (CVSS score: 9.4), a case of code injection that allows an unauthenticated attacker to modify […]

Microsoft Entra ID Flaw (CVSS 10.0) Exploited in Wild, Allows Remote Code Execution 2026-08-21 at 09:06 By Microsoft on Thursday warned of a maximum-severity security flaw in Entra ID that it said has been exploited in the wild, but noted that no customer action is required. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-69836 (CVSS score: 10.0), is […]

Army unit offering 4 bonus off days upon release of Grand Theft Auto VI to soldiers who reenlist 2026-08-21 at 01:06 By Associated Press Commanders of the 9th Brigade Engineer Battalion based at Fort Stewart, Georgia, believe free time to indulge in the latest entry in the Grand Theft Auto series. This article is an […]

Rust Supply Chain Attack Puts Build-Time Malware in Crates with 245 Million Downloads 2026-08-20 at 23:22 By The Rust Project has deleted malicious versions of three widely used Rust crates from crates.io after a compromised maintainer account published releases that added a typosquatted dependency whose build script downloaded and executed a remote payload during compilation. […]

Suspected Russian Hackers Abuse Google OAuth and WhatsApp Linking to Hijack Accounts 2026-08-20 at 22:59 By Three distinct suspected Russian cyber espionage threat clusters have been observed leveraging legitimate authentication flows to single out individuals working in academia, aerospace and defense, governments, and think tanks across Europe, as well as academia and think tanks within […]

ThreatsDay: Gogs 10.0 RCE, n8n Workflow-to-RCE, $10M Reward, GLM-5.3 AI Exploit and More 2026-08-20 at 22:12 By A lot of this week’s trouble starts with something trusted doing exactly what it was allowed to do. Signed drivers get turned against defenses. Legitimate apps help malware blend in. A weak header check opens a path to […]

New Cryptographic Context Injection Attack Could Let Web Pages Steal Grok Chat Data 2026-08-20 at 21:12 By Adversa AI has disclosed an attack technique that it says can cause xAI’s Grok chatbot to send a user’s name, approximate location, subscription tier, and the prompts from the ongoing conversation to an attacker-controlled server after the user […]

How Retailers Are Approaching Modernization 2026-08-20 at 20:00 By Modern difficulties are shaping how retail organizations approach modernization. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

AI-Generated Exploit Scripts Target Siemens S7 PLCs in U.S. Critical Infrastructure 2026-08-20 at 19:59 By The U.S. government on Wednesday warned of an “active threat” targeting critical infrastructure organizations in the country using artificial intelligence (AI)-generated exploit scripts. The activity is targeting Siemens S7 SeriesProgrammable Logic Controllers (PLCs) to conduct reconnaissance and capability development using […]

UC Berkeley professor who criticized student math abilities admits to using AI to help write viral op-ed 2026-08-20 at 19:31 By Titus Wu She said huge portions of her students are failing to keep up with college calculus and she’s forced to teach middle-school algebra and fractions to students. This article is an excerpt from […]

OpenAI confirms ChatGPT Outage 2026-08-20 at 18:55 By On August 19, OpenAI confirmed a ChatGPT outage affecting users worldwide.  This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

9M Images Exposed by Facial Recognition Platform 2026-08-20 at 18:00 By 450.2 gigabytes of data were exposed in a public database with no password protection or encryption. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

Isolated-vm Flaw Lets Sandboxed JavaScript Escape to Host for Potential RCE 2026-08-20 at 16:48 By Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed a critical security flaw in isolated-vm, a popular open-source sandbox with more than 2,900 stars and 190 forks on GitHub, that could allow attackers to escape the confines of the isolated environment. The vulnerability (“GHSA-864f-rcv7-6rh4”), which […]