Cybersecurity Articles
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 […]
427/69 Friday, August 7, 2026 Cybersecurity researchers from Huntress reported detecting a cyberattack in late July 2026, in which hackers exploited a SQL Injection vulnerability to deploy a post-exploitation toolkit called khunt directly inside an organization’s Oracle database. The attack was carried out through a public-facing Java application running on Apache Tomcat. In this incident, […]
426/69 Thursday, August 6, 2026 CISA has added three vulnerabilities to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) Catalog after finding evidence that they have been actively exploited in attacks. The vulnerabilities are CVE-2026-9198 in IBM Langflow, CVE-2026-18556 in N-able N-central, and CVE-2026-34486 in Apache Tomcat. These vulnerabilities could lead to remote code execution, authentication bypass, or […]
425/69 Thursday, August 6, 2026 Reports indicate that Greatness, a Phishing-as-a-Service (PhaaS) platform, has evolved from credential theft to Adversary-in-the-Middle (AiTM) attacks and device-code phishing to target Microsoft 365 accounts. The platform has been active since 2022 and previously targeted Microsoft 365 users in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Australia, and South Africa. […]
424/69 Thursday, August 6, 2026 Barracuda Red Team researchers have disclosed the results of an attack simulation highlighting a new risk posed by AI assistants in enterprise email systems. The researchers stated that the key danger is not that AI creates new access privileges for attackers, but that AI enables attackers to use access gained […]
423/69 Wednesday, August 5, 2026 Thermo Fisher Scientific has released a security update to fix a Critical vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-17583, in its Applied Biosystems Human Identification software, which is used for forensic genetics data analysis and human identification. The vulnerability could allow threat actors to modify DNA analysis data files before they are imported […]
422/69 Wednesday, August 5, 2026 The Police National Legal Database (PNLD), a legal reference database used by all 43 Home Office police forces in England and Wales, has confirmed a data breach after contact information belonging to police officers, staff, and justice sector personnel was published on the dark web. The incident also affected Ask […]
421/69 Wednesday, August 5, 2026 Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a new attack technique called Pass-ta-key, which targets Google Password Manager in the Chrome browser on Windows systems using TPM chips. The attack affects devices that are already infected with malware and could allow threat actors to take over accounts, bypass authentication processes, and extract passkey […]
