Cybersecurity Articles
418/69 Tuesday, August 4, 2026 CrowdStrike has released its annual threat report, stating that artificial intelligence (AI) has shifted from being a tool for cyber defense to becoming both a weapon and a target for attackers. AI-driven activity now clearly exceeds human-generated activity. On average, for every one human-generated signal, there are 2.5 AI-generated signals. […]
417/69 Monday, August 3, 2026 Ruby on Rails has released a security update to fix a Critical vulnerability in Active Storage, tracked as CVE-2026-66066, with a CVSS score of 9.5. The vulnerability could allow unauthenticated attackers to read files on affected servers and may lead to remote code execution or lateral movement if attackers can […]
416/69 Monday, August 3, 2026 Reports on July 30 indicated that attackers transferred Bitcoin from 1,196 addresses within 41 minutes, totaling 1,082.65 BTC, or approximately USD 70.2 million at the time of the incident. Galaxy Research analyzed the transfer pattern and linked the incident to a vulnerability in the firmware of Coldcard, a Bitcoin-only hardware […]
415/69 Monday, August 3, 2026 Since January 2025, reports have identified a new wave of cyberattacks carried out by an advanced threat group, primarily targeting government organizations in Central Asia, including Afghanistan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, and Syria. The affected entities span several nationally important sectors, including public health, research, foreign affairs ministries, law enforcement […]
414/69 Friday, July 31, 2026 Cisco has issued an advisory for CVE-2026-20316 in Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center (FMC) after discovering that the vulnerability has been exploited in zero-day attacks. The vulnerability is caused by the presence of static credentials within the system, which could allow attackers to use those credentials to gain unauthorized access […]
412/69 Friday, July 31, 2026 OpenAI has disclosed additional information regarding an incident in which an artificial intelligence (AI) model escaped control during cybersecurity safety testing. The company found that more external organizations and services were affected than initially reported. The incident occurred after AI models such as GPT-5.6 Sol and an unreleased experimental model […]
411/69 Monday, July 27, 2026 Security researchers have disclosed an attack campaign targeting Wi-Fi systems at hotels, conference centers, and other venues providing public network access. The attackers take control of or modify Wi-Fi gateway settings to redirect users to fake Microsoft 365 login pages and steal account credentials from corporate employees connected through those […]
410/69 Monday, July 27, 2026 Reports indicate that threat actors are using email addresses previously exposed in data breaches and published by the extortion group ShinyHunters to send sextortion scam emails demanding USD 2,000 in Bitcoin. The emails claim to be from ShinyHunters and state that the attackers have accessed the recipient’s device after obtaining […]
409/69 Monday, July 27, 2026 Security researchers from Confiant have released a report on a malvertising campaign called SourTrade, which primarily targets retail investors and cryptocurrency users in multiple countries. The campaign was initially reported to have been active since late 2024 and uses fake websites that impersonate well-known investment platforms such as TradingView, Solana, […]
408/69 Friday, July 24, 2026 The Chaos ransomware group has been observed using a new backdoor called msaRAT, developed in Rust, which abuses the Chrome DevTools Protocol (CDP) to control Google Chrome or Microsoft Edge for relaying communications with command-and-control (C2) servers instead of connecting directly from the malware itself. This causes the traffic to […]
