Cybersecurity Articles
437/69 Thursday, August 13, 2026 Resecurity has published a report tracking the activities of ExfilSquad, a cybercrime group that emerged in mid-2026. The group uses a data theft and extortion model, threatening to publish stolen information on a dark web leak site if victims refuse to pay ransom, rather than deploying ransomware to encrypt systems. […]
436/69 Thursday, August 13, 2026 Google disclosed in a report for the first quarter of 2026 that Chrome’s abuse protection system blocks more than 7 billion unwanted notifications per day on Android. This development is important for cybersecurity because threat actors increasingly abuse browser notifications as a channel to distribute malware, conduct phishing scams, and […]
435/69 Tuesday, August 11, 2026 The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has added CVE-2026-8037, a vulnerability affecting Progress Kemp LoadMaster, to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) Catalog after confirming evidence of active exploitation. The flaw is a command injection vulnerability that could allow an unauthenticated attacker to execute commands on affected systems. According […]
434/69 Tuesday, August 11, 2026 IEH Corporation, a U.S. defense and aerospace manufacturer based in Brooklyn, New York, disclosed a cybersecurity incident in an 8-K filing submitted to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) after discovering that a threat actor had gained unauthorized access to an employee’s Microsoft 365 mailbox. IEH manufactures high-reliability electrical […]
433/69 Tuesday, August 11, 2026 Cybersecurity researchers have discovered nearly 800 malicious packages published on the npm package registry as part of a new campaign designed to distribute cross-platform malware targeting Windows, macOS, and Linux systems. The campaign poses a direct risk to software developers and organizations that may unknowingly incorporate these packages into their […]
432/69 Monday, August 10, 2026 Metabase has issued a security advisory for a critical vulnerability affecting its Business Intelligence and Data Visualization platform after discovering that the flaw had been actively exploited as a zero-day. The vulnerability carries a CVSS score of 10.0 and had not yet been assigned a CVE identifier at the time […]
431/69 Monday, August 10, 2026 Unlimited Technology Systems, a U.S.-based healthcare technology company, has disclosed a data breach affecting more than 3.8 million individuals after attackers gained access to the company’s commercial data center between October 5 and October 10, 2025. The company, headquartered in Montgomery, Ohio, provides financial technology, billing, and revenue cycle management […]
430/69 Monday, August 10, 2026 OpenAI has announced stricter security measures for its new AI model, Astra, following preliminary assessments indicating that the model may possess advanced cyber capabilities capable of introducing new forms of risk. Meanwhile, Anthropic, another major AI developer, appears to be moving in the opposite direction by easing certain restrictions on […]
429/69 Friday, August 7, 2026 Cisco has released security updates to address vulnerabilities in enterprise networking and security management products, including Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN, Cisco IOS XE, and Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center (FMC). The updates include Critical vulnerabilities that could be exploited to escalate privileges, execute commands, or access affected systems if attackers meet […]
428/69 Friday, August 7, 2026 The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) disclosed that Maksim Silnikau, a 40-year-old Belarusian national who created and operated the Ransom Cartel ransomware operation, has been sentenced to 16 years in prison for ransomware attacks against at least 18 companies worldwide. Silnikau was convicted of conspiracy to commit an offense against […]
