What's happening in security
Breaches, credential dumps, actively exploited bugs and AI incidents — pulled from 3,038 items across public feeds, Have I Been Pwned and CISA KEV.
Biggest this week
- Cisco alerts customers to second actively exploited zero-day in as many days — CyberScoop, 2d ago
- Unauthenticated attackers are bypassing Cisco ISE’s management interface (CVE-2026-76460) — Help Net Security, 2d ago
- Google fixes actively exploited Android zero-day on Pixel devices — BleepingComputer, 3d ago
- Cisco warns customers of actively exploited zero-day in email gateways — CyberScoop, 4d ago
- Cisco patches actively exploited email gateway zero-day (CVE-2026-76461) — Help Net Security, 4d ago
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Hackers grow more willing to destroy, not just disrupt, OT systems
Experts said the alarming trend has further stressed infrastructure providers that are already struggling with strong passwords, comprehensive logging and other basics.
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Cisco Patches 12 SD-WAN and IOS XE Flaws, Including Three 9.9 CVSS Score Bugs
Cisco has rolled out updates to address multiple critical security vulnerabilities impacting Catalyst SD-WAN and IOS XE Software as part of a comprehensive internal security review. The security issues affect Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN…
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Canadian Man Pleads Guilty in Snowflake Extortions
A 26-year-old Canadian man once described as one of the most consequential cybercrime threat actors of 2024 has pleaded guilty to computer fraud and conspiracy to hack and extort more than 165 organizations that used the cloud dat…
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New Interrupt Injection Attack Can Bypass Spectre v2 Defenses on Intel and AMD CPUs
An unprivileged Linux program can time a hardware interrupt to land in the gap between a processor sanitizing its branch predictor and the kernel using it, re-poisoning the predictor after the defense has run. MIT CSAIL researcher…
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Meta AI model hacked a company during misconfigured cyber test
Meta has become the latest AI company to confirm that one of its models hacked a real organization during cybersecurity testing, as similar incidents continue to emerge following OpenAI'sOpenAI's initial disclosure that its agents…
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Announcing the inaugural report from @ 1password ’s Off-By-1 Labs: an analysis of how well two AI models patch…
Announcing the inaugural report from @ 1password ’s Off-By-1 Labs: an analysis of how well two AI models patch vulnerabilities. The answer will probably not shock you, especially if you read @ davidgerard , @ ludicity , or @ emily…
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ThreatsDay: Odysseus RCE, Samsung One-Click Takeover, iCloud Backdoor Fight + 27 More Stories
Apparently, opening the thing is now enough. A repo can run before the first prompt, a package can hide among hundreds, and a harmless-looking PDF can finish the job. This week runs on cheap leverage: exposed servers, recycled bug…
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Snowflake Hacker Pleads Guilty in US Court
Connor Riley Moucka was extradited to the United States in July 2025 after he was arrested in Canada. The post Snowflake Hacker Pleads Guilty in US Court appeared first on SecurityWeek .
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How AI Exposed a Browser Security Gap that Enterprises Cannot Ignore
AI did not create a new browser security problem. It exposed one that enterprises have long been able to ignore. Skyhigh Security explains why browsers have become a critical control point for governing data movement, AI interacti…
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Mac Malware Drains Crypto Wallets Via Fake CAPTCHA Scam
A ClickFix scam tricked a Mac user into running a Terminal command that installed Go-based malware able to steal Keychain passwords and drain crypto wallets.
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Extreme Heat Warning: Summer 2026 Cybersecurity Venture Capital Investments
This week in cybersecurity from the editors at Cybercrime Magazine Sausalito, Calif. – Aug. 6, 2026 – Cybersecurity VC Deal Flow Tracker During Black Hat USA 2026 at the Mandalay Bay Convention Center in Las Vegas this week, outdo…
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Zero-Click AI Browser Hacking: Claude and ChatGPT Atlas Hijacked via Emails, X Posts
Zenity researchers reported the findings to Anthropic and OpenAI in late 2025 and early 2026, but they remain unpatched. The post Zero-Click AI Browser Hacking: Claude and ChatGPT Atlas Hijacked via Emails, X Posts appeared first …
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Over 4,400 Rockwell PLCs Exposed Online, 22 Found in Water Attack Cities
Forescout found 22 internet-facing Rockwell Automation programmable logic controllers (PLCs) in cities hit by recent cyberattacks on US water utilities. Nineteen used the same mobile carrier network. Its August 3 scan counted 4,40…
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CryptoJS Weak RNG Behind $5.7 Million in Drains Affects Five Crypto Wallet Apps
Coinspect has identified CryptoJS.lib.WordArray.random() as the weak random number generator behind the Ill Bloom wallet drains. Introduced in the JavaScript cryptography library 12 years ago, the function supplied weak entropy th…
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Apple iCloud Private Relay Can Expose Real IPs Through WebKit Proxy Bypasses
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed a security issue with Apple's iCloud Private Relay tool that can expose a user's real IP address. Introduced with iOS 15, iCloud Private Relay employs a dual-hop architecture to ensure user…
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AI Recommendation Poisoning: How "Ask AI" Buttons Silently Alter LLM Memory
A new class of prompt injection is spreading across commercial websites. It requires no malware, no stolen credentials, and no zero-day exploit. It abuses a standard feature built into almost every major AI assistant: pre-filled d…
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Adversarial Clothing Designed to Fool Facial Recognition Systems
There are many companies manufacturing adversarial clothing designed to confuse facial recognition systems. It s a cool idea, but I worry that it s mostly security theater: Our patterns play with that chaos, confuse algorithms and…
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Apple’s bug bounty program is drowning in so much AI slop, it is in danger of missing serious exploits
Apple has imposed strict new submission limits on its bug bounty portal after finding itself overwhelmed by low-quality, AI generated vulnerability reports - many of which were found to be describing security flaws that simply did…
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Token Jacking: Cybercriminals Could Be Stealing Your AI Resources
Discover how attackers hijack AI tokens to fuel gray market transfer stations by stealing developer API keys. The post Token Jacking: Cybercriminals Could Be Stealing Your AI Resources appeared first on Unit 42 .
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The water sector just got it’s wake-up call. Again.
The attack on water systems across seven states was preventable. Utilities had the playbook. They didn't use it. The post The water sector just got it s wake-up call. Again. appeared first on CyberScoop .
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Attackers Compile khunt Inside Oracle to Turn SQL Injection Into Windows SYSTEM Access
Attackers broke into an organization's Oracle database through a SQL injection flaw in a public-facing web application, then installed a post-exploitation toolkit without writing an executable to disk. They fed Java source code to…
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AWS, Google, and Vercel Agent Flaws Let Attackers Trigger Tools Without Running the Model
Security flaws in agent infrastructure from Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google, and Vercel let untrusted or forged instructions reach an agent's tools with no check that a model turn had authorized them. In several of the attack pa…
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Chinese-Made Zbtlink Routers Ship With Backdoor That Opens Unauthenticated Root Shells
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a "factory-shipped backdoor" implanted in at least 20 Chinese router models from Zbtlink. According to a new report from VulnCheck, the implant appears in all 21 firmware images …
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Ransom Cartel Creator Gets 16 Years in Prison for Operating Ransomware-as-a-Service
A federal judge in Alexandria, Virginia, sentenced Maksim Silnikau to 16 years in prison on August 5 for creating and running Ransom Cartel, the ransomware-as-a-service operation he stood up in 2021. Between 2021 and 2023, Ransom …
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CISA Flags TeamCity CVE-2026-63077 RCE Flaw Under Active Exploitation in the Wild
A newly patched security flaw impacting on-premise versions of JetBrains TeamCity has come under active exploitation in the wild, according to the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA). The vulnerability in …
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Snowflake Hacker Pleads Guilty Over Breaches Affecting at Least 100 Million People
Connor Riley Moucka pleaded guilty in Seattle federal court on Wednesday to computer fraud, wire fraud, aggravated identity theft and a related conspiracy over the 2024 breaches of Snowflake customer accounts. The intrusions reach…
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Fresh form factor presents plentiful opportunities for HP partners
HP’s latest bid to reinvent the desktop presents opportunities for partners to start fresh conversation with customers about the future of PCs in their business. This is according to HP’s head of personal systems for Australia and…
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Arctic Wolf expands channel focus with AI cyber readiness programme
As organisations continue to operate in an AI-driven environment, Arctic Wolf sees partners playing a critical role in helping customers better understand cyber risk and strengthen resilience. To support that effort, the vendor la…
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Tech Data scores Zoom distribution deal for A/NZ
Tech Data, a TD Synnex Company, has added Zoom to its distribution portfolio for Australia and New Zealand (A/NZ), with the agreement comprising its full product suite. Solutions covered as part of the arrangement include Zoom Wor…
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An AI model from Meta also hacked another company during testing
An AI model from Meta also hacked another company during testing Stop me if you've heard this one before : An AI model from the parent company of Facebook and Instagram hacked into another company’s systems during cybersecurity te…
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An AI model from Meta also hacked another company during testing
An AI model from Meta also hacked another company during testing Stop me if you've heard this one before : An AI model from the parent company of Facebook and Instagram hacked into another company’s systems during cybersecurity te…
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OpenAI Didn’t Notice Its AI Agents Using a Message Board to Plan Their Hacking Spree
At the Black Hat security conference, the AI giant revealed new details about how its agents went rogue, hacked several other companies—and did it all right under the company’s nose.
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Introducing Muse Code and Muse Spark 1.2
Introducing Muse Code and Muse Spark 1.2 Yet more evidence that the most important characteristic of any model these days is long-sequence agentic tool calling. Meta shipped their own coding agent as part of getting that to work! …
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Introducing Muse Code and Muse Spark 1.2
Introducing Muse Code and Muse Spark 1.2 Yet more evidence that the most important characteristic of any model these days is long-sequence agentic tool calling. Meta shipped their own coding agent as part of getting that to work! …
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Third-party cyber evaluations involving OpenAI models
Third-party cyber evaluations involving OpenAI models And another one . I had to create a accidental-cyberattacks tag to keep track of them all! This post from OpenAI covers both the UK AI Safety Institute attack (see my previous …
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Third-party cyber evaluations involving OpenAI models
Third-party cyber evaluations involving OpenAI models And another one . I had to create a accidental-cyberattacks tag to keep track of them all! This post from OpenAI covers both the UK AI Safety Institute attack (see my previous …
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Inter-Con Security: 276,114 accounts breached
Data exposed: Email addresses, Employers, Job titles, Names, Phone numbers, Physical addresses. In June 2026, Inter-Con Security was targeted in a ShinyHunters “pay or leak” extortion campaign . The group subsequently published da…
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AI Sends Global Crime Syndicates Into Fraud Nirvana
Organized crime is convincingly scamming at scale, making billions thanks to AI-enabled voice cloning, deepfake real-time video overlays, LLM-driven persona management, and automated translation.
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Incident Report: unsanctioned agent behaviour during cyber testing
Incident Report: unsanctioned agent behaviour during cyber testing It happened again . This time it was the UK government's AI Security Institute who accidentally attacked other companies while running an evaluation with models wi…
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Incident Report: unsanctioned agent behaviour during cyber testing
Incident Report: unsanctioned agent behaviour during cyber testing It happened again . This time it was the UK government's AI Security Institute who accidentally attacked other companies while running an evaluation with models wi…
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AI Browsers Vulnerable to 'PleaseFix' Zero-Click Agent Hijacking
Attackers can take control of agents through malicious instructions hidden in content supplied to AI browsers, and there's no simple fix for the threat.
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A Security Pro Hacked North Korean Hackers. He Found They’d Breached Hundreds of Networks Worldwide
For nearly two years, researcher Vangelis Stykas has maintained access to North Korean hackers’ servers. His work shows they pulled off intrusions in a shocking number of systems across the globe.
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OpenAI’s Browser Could Be Hijacked to Spam Your WhatsApp Contacts
Researchers at security firm Zenity found more than a dozen flaws in AI browsers—and managed to get OpenAI’s Atlas to make an unauthorized Amazon purchase.
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Smashing Security podcast #479: How a fake police officer nearly stole Graham’s cryptocurrency
Graham gets a phone call from the police. Well, someone who sounds convincingly like the police. There's just one small problem: what they really want is the 24-word seed key to Graham's cryptocurrency wallet. Meanwhile, if you've…
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Ransom Cartel ransomware creator sentenced to 16 years in prison
Maksim Silnikau, the creator and administrator of the Ransom Cartel ransomware operation, was sentenced to 16 years in prison for his role in ransomware attacks against at least 18 companies worldwide. [...]
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Thousands of servers can be backdoored by exploiting buggy motherboard controllers
Baseboard management controllers from the world's biggest manufacturers are a security mess.
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No Perfect Fix for AI Browser Prompt Injection Flaws
AI browsers from top vendors remain vulnerable to prompt injection attacks despite multiple security guardrails, according to new research.
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Canadian pleads guilty to Snowflake cloud data-theft attacks
A Canadian man pleaded guilty today to his role in accessing company accounts at cloud storage provider Snowflake and stealing data from at least 165 organizations in a scheme to extort millions of dollars from victims. [...]
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Snowflake hacker pleads guilty, faces up to 32 years in prison
Connor Moucka obtained almost $500,000 for playing a key role in one of the most widespread and damaging cyberattack sprees on record. The post Snowflake hacker pleads guilty, faces up to 32 years in prison appeared first on Cyber…
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Anthropic’s AI used fake identities, malware in rogue attack on GitHub project
Anthropic and OpenAI models’ unprompted actions forced halt to UK cyber tests.
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