2026-08-19 18:06 UTC
Security Journalism
The Hacker News · info@thehackernews.com (The Hacker News) · indexed 2026-08-19 19:55 UTC
OpenAI on Tuesday revealed that it paused reinforcement learning (RL) training for its latest artificial intelligence (AI) models for two weeks while it shored up additional defenses and increased the scope of its monitoring to avert another Hugging Face-like incident. "As models become more capable, the risks associated with developing and testing them internally also grow," the AI company
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2026-08-19 17:58 UTC
Security Journalism
The Record · indexed 2026-08-19 18:15 UTC
The National Security Agency (NSA), FBI and other federal agencies said the campaign is targeting Siemens S7 Series PLCs and was being fueled by “AI-assisted development” alongside exploitation of known vulnerabilities.
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2026-08-19 17:50 UTC
Security Journalism
BleepingComputer · Lawrence Abrams · indexed 2026-08-19 17:55 UTC
U.S. cybersecurity agencies warn that threat actors are using AI-generated scripts to exploit Siemens S7 Series programmable logic controllers (PLCs) in U.S. critical infrastructure. [...]
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2026-08-19 17:35 UTC
Other
Security Affairs · Pierluigi Paganini · indexed 2026-08-19 17:40 UTC
An exposed operator directory reveals how one actor compromised 14,000+ Dahua cameras across Ukraine and Russia, no password needed for most. A researcher discovered an exposed directory containing the tools of an attacker who compromised more than 14,000 Dahua cameras between June 17 and July 22, 2026, mainly in Ukraine and Russia. Hunt.io reconstructed the […]
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2026-08-19 17:30 UTC
Vendor Research
Microsoft Security Blog · Ran Rosin · indexed 2026-08-19 18:05 UTC
Microsoft is named a visionary leader in the 2026 Frost Radar for Cloud Workload Protection Platforms, recognized for unified runtime security with Microsoft Defender for Cloud. The post Microsoft named a Leader in the Frost Radar™: Cloud Workload Protection Platforms, 2026 appeared first on Microsoft Security Blog.
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2026-08-19 17:24 UTC
Vendor Research
AWS Security Blog · Anshu Bathla · indexed 2026-08-19 17:35 UTC
Many teams now deploy AI agents that pull from Amazon DynamoDB tables, document repositories, software as a service (SaaS) platforms, and internal knowledge bases to answer questions and automate workflows. A key risk in these deployments is that the agent has no awareness of who’s asking, so it might return data the user shouldn’t see. […]
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2026-08-19 16:58 UTC
Security Journalism
Dark Reading · Elizabeth Montalbano · indexed 2026-08-19 17:15 UTC
A spear-phishing campaign by a China-nexus group linked to FamousSparrow provides insight into geopolitical, technical, and strategic global moves by the country's APTs.
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2026-08-19 16:46 UTC
Vendor Research
Rapid7 · Rapid7 · indexed 2026-08-19 17:30 UTC
OverviewOn August 19, 2026, a security advisory was published for CVE-2026-19490, a critical authentication bypass vulnerability affecting Citrix NetScaler ADC and NetScaler Gateway. The vulnerability carries a CVSS v4.0 base score of 9.3 and can be exploited remotely by an unauthenticated attacker over the network without user interaction or elevated privileges.NetScaler ADC and NetScaler Gateway are widely deployed enterprise networking products commonly positioned at or near the network peri…
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2026-08-19 16:13 UTC
Government
CERT-EU Security Advisories · indexed 2026-08-19 16:15 UTC
On 19 August 2026, Citrix published a security advisory addressing multiple critical vulnerabilities in NetScaler ADC (formerly Citrix ADC) and NetScaler Gateway (formerly Citrix Gateway). CERT-EU recommends updating affected devices as soon as possible.
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2026-08-19 16:00 UTC
Vendor Research
Cisco Security Advisories · indexed 2026-08-15 14:33 UTC
On August 19, 2026, the Cisco Product Security Incident Response Team (PSIRT) published the following advisories: Cisco Security Advisory CVE ID Security Impact Rating CVSS Base Score Cisco Crosswork Security Hardening Release: August 2026 CVE-2026-20030CVE-2026-20357CVE-2026-20358CVE-2026-20359 Critical 10.0 Cisco Secure Workload Software Security Hardening Release: August 2026 CVE-2026-20231CVE-2026-20315CVE-2026-20317CVE-2026-20318CVE-2026-20319 Critical 10.0 Cisco BroadWorks Out-of-Band Bli…
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2026-08-19 16:00 UTC
Vendor Research
Cisco Security Advisories · indexed 2026-08-19 16:10 UTC
As part of Cisco's ongoing commitment to proactive security and product quality, the Cisco Secure Workload engineering team has conducted a comprehensive internal security review. This review resulted in software hardening releases that address multiple internally discovered vulnerabilities. These vulnerabilities were found during internal testing and are not known to be actively exploited. To assist customers in patching and to streamline the disclosure process, Cisco has grouped these issues …
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2026-08-19 16:00 UTC
Vendor Research
Cisco Security Advisories · indexed 2026-08-19 16:10 UTC
A vulnerability in the web-based management interface of Cisco Industrial Ethernet (IE) 1000 Series Switches could allow an authenticated, remote attacker to conduct a stored cross-site scripting (XSS) attack against a user of the interface. This vulnerability is due to insufficient validation of user-supplied input by the web-based management interface of an affected system. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by injecting malicious code into specific pages of the interface. A success…
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2026-08-19 16:00 UTC
Vendor Research
Cisco Security Advisories · indexed 2026-08-19 16:10 UTC
A vulnerability in Cisco Packaged Contact Center Enterprise (Packaged CCE) and Cisco Unified Contact Center Enterprise (Unified CCE) could allow an authenticated, remote attacker to conduct server-side request forgery (SSRF) attacks through an affected device. This vulnerability is due to improper input validation for specific HTTP requests. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending a crafted HTTP request to an affected device. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to send…
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2026-08-19 16:00 UTC
Vendor Research
Cisco Security Advisories · indexed 2026-08-19 16:10 UTC
A vulnerability in the web-based management interface of Cisco Unified Intelligence Center could allow an authenticated, local attacker to perform a blind SQL injection attack against an affected device. This vulnerability is due to insufficient validation of user-supplied input. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending a crafted request to the web-based management interface. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to read the contents of the internal database of an affecte…
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2026-08-19 16:00 UTC
Vendor Research
Cisco Security Advisories · indexed 2026-08-19 16:10 UTC
A vulnerability in the handling of management plane packets by Cisco Industrial Ethernet (IE) 1000 Series Switches could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause the device manager, SSH, or API to become inaccessible.This vulnerability is due to insufficient protection against management plane flooding attacks. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending a high rate of ICMP, SSH, or HTTP traffic to an affected device. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to cause …
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2026-08-19 16:00 UTC
Vendor Research
Cisco Security Advisories · indexed 2026-08-19 16:10 UTC
A vulnerability in the USB driver of Cisco RoomOS could allow an unauthenticated, local attacker with physical access to the USB port on an affected device to execute arbitrary code with root privileges. This vulnerability is due to insufficient boundary checks for specific data that is provided through the USB driver. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by connecting a malicious USB device to an affected device. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to cause a buffer overflow …
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2026-08-19 16:00 UTC
Vendor Research
Cisco Security Advisories · indexed 2026-08-19 16:10 UTC
A vulnerability in the Open Client Interface (OCI) XML Parser of Cisco BroadWorks could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to read sensitive configuration information on an affected system. This vulnerability exists because XML entries are improperly parsed due to external entity resolution being allowed by default. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending a crafted XML message to the Open Client Interface – Provisioning (OCI-P) service. A successful exploit could allow th…
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2026-08-19 15:56 UTC
Security Journalism
BleepingComputer · Bill Toulas · indexed 2026-08-19 16:10 UTC
The U.S. has charged 17 Iranians, alleged members of a hacking-for-hire company called Mabna Institute, involved in years-long operations that stole data from American organizations. [...]
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2026-08-19 14:24 UTC
Community
SANS Internet Storm Center · indexed 2026-08-19 14:30 UTC
Cloud providers typically expose a REST API at 169.254.169.254 that allows code running on virtual machines to retrieve machine-specific data. Some of the data is more or less harmless, such as the region the machine is running in or its MAC and IP addresses. However, the service may also be used to retrieve credentials for IAM roles and service account tokens.
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2026-08-19 14:00 UTC
Security Journalism
BleepingComputer · Sponsored by Huntress Labs · indexed 2026-08-19 14:05 UTC
Huntress observed a 155x increase in password spraying attacks in H1 2026, including a campaign that generated more than 81 million login attempts in two weeks. The attacks exploited legacy authentication and gaps in MFA policies that left some login flows unprotected. [...]
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2026-08-19 13:45 UTC
Security Journalism
The Record · indexed 2026-08-19 14:10 UTC
Latvia’s road traffic agency confirmed that hackers stole data connected to about two-thirds of the country’s population in a major cyberattack that has prompted calls for senior officials to resign.
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2026-08-19 13:12 UTC
Security Journalism
The Hacker News · info@thehackernews.com (The Hacker News) · indexed 2026-08-19 13:35 UTC
A previously unreported cyber espionage operation dubbed SilkParasite has been observed targeting government bodies in Central Asia. The intrusion set makes use of seven remote access tool (RAT) families, five of which have never been previously documented: DriveSilkRAT, CookiETagRAT, NomadRAT, GoginRAT, and NodeEdgeRAT. SilkParasite, first discovered in late 2025, is assessed to be a
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2026-08-19 12:15 UTC
Security Journalism
The Record · indexed 2026-08-19 12:40 UTC
The Justice Department accused 17 alleged hackers with ties to the Iranian government of breaching email accounts at U.S. government agencies and stealing intellectual property from dozens of universities.
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2026-08-19 12:00 UTC
Vendor Research
Rapid7 · Cássio De Alcântara · indexed 2026-08-19 14:20 UTC
Cássio De Alcântara is Director, LATAM Sales at Rapid7.Across Latin America, organizations are embracing cloud, AI, and digital transformation to drive innovation and business growth. These technologies create new opportunities, but also introduce greater complexity and expanding attack surfaces.In this environment, security leaders are being asked to understand where risk exists across increasingly distributed environments and quickly eliminate blind spots like Shadow IT and Shadow AI – all wi…
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2026-08-19 12:00 UTC
Government
NIST Cybersecurity Insights · Keith Stouffer, Michael Galler · indexed 2026-08-19 12:25 UTC
Recent cyberattacks highlight the growing threat to operational technology (OT) used in critical infrastructure. Whether you work for an infrastructure owner/operator or are a consumer of an infrastructure service, the events of the past few weeks have made it clear that cybersecurity is an important factor in ensuring the safe and reliable delivery of critical goods and services. For OT owners/operators, it can be challenging to address the range of cybersecurity threats, vulnerabilities and r…
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2026-08-19 11:34 UTC
Security Journalism
The Hacker News · info@thehackernews.com (The Hacker News) · indexed 2026-08-19 13:35 UTC
Cybersecurity researchers at Hunt.io have disclosed details of a campaign that they say compromised more than 14,530 Dahua devices between June 17 and July 22, 2026, using credential attacks, two authentication-bypass flaws, and a peer-to-peer (P2P) relay technique. The activity, codenamed Operation CameraSwarm, was reconstructed from a 407 MB exposed working directory containing 2,616 files
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2026-08-19 11:30 UTC
Security Journalism
The Hacker News · info@thehackernews.com (The Hacker News) · indexed 2026-08-19 13:35 UTC
Most email defenses still do the job they did a decade ago. Scan the message, look for something malicious, block it. That worked when the danger sat in the payload, a bad link or an attachment. It stopped working when the danger moved into the message's intent, and it is failing now that the sender is no longer a person. From Bad Content to Bad Intent to AI on Both Sides Phishing 1.0 was bad
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2026-08-19 11:25 UTC
Security Journalism
The Hacker News · info@thehackernews.com (The Hacker News) · indexed 2026-08-19 11:35 UTC
Cybersecurity researchers have flagged a global cybercrime operation that abuses thousands of hacked WordPress websites as infrastructure to disseminate malware, commandeer infected hosts, store stolen documents, screenshots, and activity logs created to track the status of the activity. "The operation doesn't rely on a single piece of malware, but on a whole toolkit of criminal software
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2026-08-19 11:14 UTC
Security Journalism
BleepingComputer · Sergiu Gatlan · indexed 2026-08-19 11:35 UTC
Microsoft has resolved a bug that caused Windows Defender to crash after a recent security update, resulting in 0xc0000005 access violation errors on some affected systems. [...]
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2026-08-19 11:01 UTC
Security Journalism
The Hacker News · info@thehackernews.com (The Hacker News) · indexed 2026-08-19 11:35 UTC
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Tuesday added four critical vulnerabilities to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, stating they are being exploited in the wild. The shortcomings added to the KEV catalog are listed below - CVE-2026-65400 (CVSS score: 9.8) - An improper authentication vulnerability impacting Apple macOS that could allow an
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