Cybersecurity Articles
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 […]
420/69 Tuesday, August 4, 2026 Google is preparing to add a new security feature in Chrome to block extensions that attempt to change the New Tab page or default search engine through enterprise policies on unmanaged Windows and macOS devices. The feature aims to reduce attacks involving browser hijacker extensions, which may redirect users to […]
419/69 Tuesday, August 4, 2026 CareCloud, a healthcare technology company based in New Jersey, United States, has disclosed a data breach affecting approximately 345,000 people after attackers stole medical and financial data from systems hosted by the company on Amazon Web Services (AWS). CareCloud provides Electronic Health Records (EHR), practice management systems, revenue cycle management, […]
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 […]
