What to expect as BSides, Black Hat, and DEF CON descend on Las Vegas [...]

Experts warn hotfix not optional. MSPs warned attacker gains 'full administrative access to an N-central console' [...]

Self-propagating malware named 'ChainDrop' has compromised more than 1,300 packages with a combined 2 billion monthly downloads on the Node Package Manager (npm) registry. [...]

Broader bounty rules added to a swelling volume of machine-assisted vulnerability reports [...]

AI agents need broad access to be useful, but traditional access controls cannot determine whether an action aligns with a user's intent. Varonis explains how Agent IBAC detects intent drift and enforces real-time guardrails to keep agents within their intended boundaries. [...]

Cops arrest budding politician for allegedly dealing with Flock's expansion the American way [...]

Customers told traffic may be limited at certain times following more than ten days offline [...]

And it’s personal information (alternate link ): The exposed data includes an AI-powered therapy app that someone appears to have vibe-coded, notes on meetings, and a dashboard someone made apparently to analyze medical billing data. Exposed chats reportedly include private cryptocurrency wallet keys and personal information like peoples’ addresses …

Automates bug bounty triage with Sonnet for $58 a month, CSO says Mythos would cost $200k [...]

Microsoft has linked a global campaign targeting hospitality Wi-Fi networks to the Russian threat actor Midnight Blizzard, also known as APT29. [...]

Security researchers have discovered three attacks that allow malware on already-compromised Windows devices to abuse Google Password Manager's synced passkeys to take over accounts, bypass user verification, and extract passkey private keys. [...]

Poisoned pull requests contain prompt injection that allows one to control another [...]

A new Russian loader-as-a-service named DOUBLECUP uses ClickFix attacks to hide malicious code in PNG images cached by victims' browsers, ultimately delivering CountLoader to Windows and macOS devices and a new remote access trojan named DeviceManager to Windows systems. [...]

Fake Xeno Executor installers are infecting unsuspecting Roblox players with malware that provides remote access and steals sensitive information. [...]

With NIST still buried under its backlog, expect AI-generated bogus reports to continue [...]

Hugging Face has published a detailed timeline of the attack. From the summary: The agent was running an internal OpenAI cyber-capability evaluation based on the ExploitGym benchmark, which tasks an AI agent with finding and exploiting software vulnerabilities. OpenAI ran this on its own infrastructure, and the ExploitGym maintainers …

N-able is warning customers that hackers are exploiting an authentication bypass vulnerability (CVE-2026-18577) affecting both hosted and on-premises N-central servers. [...]

Keyloggers, audio-visual surveillance, and token theft on CaptivePortal's agenda as hospitality sector put on alert [...]

A cyberattack on the U.K.'s Police National Legal Database (PNLD) has compromised contact data of more than 100,000 police officers and other criminal justice professionals. [...]

Flare researchers analyzed thousands of underground posts to examine how the BTMOB Android malware operation evolved into a fragmented ecosystem of resellers, source-code vendors, custom versions, and competing sales channels. [...]

Trump rejects Tehran theory, blames 'grossly incompetent' governor of Minnesota instead [...]

Employee failed to follow security policy, leaving internal management file open to the public [...]

This essay originally appeared in Foreign Policy. Earlier this month, two of OpenAI’s models broke out of their containment sandbox and attacked another AI company. The story is kind of wild. OpenAI was running security tests on two of its models: GPT-5.6 Sol and an unreleased model …

CrowdStrike tracks 89% surge in machine-assisted activity as patch windows shrink to 48 hours [...]

A vulnerability in COLDCARD hardware wallet firmware allowed attackers to steal an estimated $88.6 million in Bitcoin from thousands of wallets whose seeds were generated using a flawed random number generator. [...]

Google is preparing a new Chrome security feature that would block policy-installed extensions from hijacking the New Tab page or changing the default search engine. [...]

Security lapse leaves sensitive information and contact details of 51 government officials exposed for 40 hours The public body in charge of the UK’s state investments has been pushed to improve its internal security after a data breach left “high-level management information” publicly accessible for nearly two days …

A critical vulnerability in the Active Storage framework can allow an unauthenticated attacker to read arbitrary files from a Rails application, and potentially escalate to remote code execution (RCE). [...]

Pharmaceutical company Amgen says it suffered a data breach after threat actors stole corporate data and patient information stored in multiple cloud systems operated by third-party service providers. [...]

The Arch Linux project has temporarily disabled adoption of Arch User Repository (AUR) packages after a surge in malicious takeovers of existing packages. [...]

Online advertising firm Adform suffered a supply-chain attack that delivered cryptocurrency-stealing scripts to websites using its ad platform, replacing wallet addresses copied to visitors' clipboards with ones controlled by an attacker. [...]

The Squid is a new scientific machine : One of the technological breakthroughs was the onboard use of a spinning wheel confocal microscope, nicknamed the Squid, which uses lasers to scan microscopic details of how organisms are put together. “That opens up a whole new world of exploring. We could …

Anthropic said its Claude-based security models gained unauthorized access to the sensitive production environments of three outside organizations during internal testing designed to measure the models’ offensive cyber capabilities. The events, which Anthropic revealed Thursday, are the second revelation in 10 days that AI models from the world’s …

Today, we’re releasing the HIPAA Security Rule on AWS: Technical Safeguards Implementation and Readiness Guidance. This helps covered entities and business associates configure, implement, and evidence compliance with the HIPAA Security Rule Technical Safeguard requirements (45 CFR §164.312) when building healthcare workloads on AWS. The HIPAA Security …

A Chinese-speaking threat actor is using the DeepSeek AI model and the open-source Hermes Agent to conduct autonomous cyberattacks on exposed servers with limited human involvement. [...]

The chart is interesting. On the IPI benchmark, Opus 5 improved over Opus 4.8, reducing the probability of an attacker succeeding within 15 attempts from 5.5% to 2.0%, and from 0.5% to 0.2% on 1 attempt. It also improved on Sonnet 5 (5.9 …

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) is warning of a significant increase in attacks targeting internet-exposed programmable logic controllers (PLCs) in the water and wastewater systems sector. [...]

Hopefully the company secures houses better than it locks down SaaS systems [...]

Whoever wins, we lose [...]

Attackers are adapting established techniques to AI platforms, emerging technologies, and changing user behavior. ESET's new threat report examines the rise of malicious AI skills, AI-assisted malware, ClickFix attacks, record quishing activity, and ransomware tools designed to disable security software. [...]

A week into shutdown, 14,000 customers still have no restoration date and some are struggling to pay staff [...]

Welcome to the second Cloud CISO Perspectives for July 2026. Today, Chris Betz, CISO, Google Cloud, and Alicja Cade, Senior Director, Office of the CISO, Google Cloud, explain what boards of directors need to know about AI security and how to prepare their organizations for security governance and business …

Last month, the story broke (alternate link ) that Madison Square Garden uses facial recognition software on everyone entering the facility, and—among other groups—flags activists that oppose using facial recognition. Turns out that the system was shut off for Taylor Swift’s wedding. Evan Greer—one of the …

Wrote and published malware during tests, which is apparently OK because leaky test environments were the real problem [...]

One of Anthropic's Claude models built and uploaded a malicious Python package to PyPI during a botched security evaluation, where it ran on 15 real systems and stole credentials from a security vendor. It was one of three incidents affecting real companies. [...]

One of Anthropic's Claude models built and uploaded a malicious Python package to PyPI during a botched security evaluation, where it ran on 15 real systems and stole credentials from a security vendor. It was one of three incidents affecting real companies. [...]

South Korea's Personal Information Protection Commission (PIPC) has fined telecommunications giant KT Corporation KRW 53.979 billion ($39 million) over data protection violations. [...]

JetBrains is warning of a critical authentication bypass vulnerability affecting TeamCity On-Premises that could be exploited to achieve remote code execution. [...]

AI coding agents are part of the developer toolchain. Tools like Kiro and Claude Code generate features, tests, and code refactors from natural-language prompts. A single agent can open dozens of pull requests (PRs) across your repositories in an afternoon. That productivity comes with a trade-off: agents optimize for …

Russian state hackers are using a maximum-severity vulnerability in Microsoft Outlook’s Exchange Server to backdoor unpatched machines and steal credentials and other confidential information from them, security researchers said Thursday. The attacks are coming from TA488, a tracking name for a group working on behalf of the Kremlin …