2026-08-18 17:05 UTC
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Security Affairs · Pierluigi Paganini · indexed 2026-08-18 18:10 UTC
Researchers tested 31 million patterns to disrupt surveillance AI, with promising results but significant gaps between simulation and real-world use. The Kansas City-based cybersecurity researcher Bill Swearingen spent the past year doing something that sounds almost too simple to work: printing patterns, watching cameras fail to detect them, and repeating. TechCrunch reports that after roughly […]
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2026-08-18 17:04 UTC
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AWS Security Blog · Michael Fuller · indexed 2026-08-18 17:30 UTC
Since February, we’ve grown AWS Security Hub Extended from 14 curated partners across 9 categories to 23 partners across 10. At Black Hat this month, 14 of those partners were at the Amazon Web Services (AWS) booth demoing live. Four of those partners delivered theater talks and ten were featured on SecurityLive streaming. We hosted […]
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2026-08-18 16:58 UTC
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The Hacker News · info@thehackernews.com (The Hacker News) · indexed 2026-08-18 18:35 UTC
A ransomware affiliate calling itself Ransom Busters has been spotted proactively sending emails to victim organizations and claims to delete stolen data from ransomware groups' servers in exchange for a fee ranging from $20,000 to $60,000. "In these messages, the third-party offers to help the victim recover from ransomware attack. This immediately stands out as anomalous," GuidePoint Research
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2026-08-18 16:40 UTC
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The Record · indexed 2026-08-18 17:00 UTC
The affected ministries — one responsible for urban development, construction and housing, and the other for mobility, transport, climate protection and the environment — have been isolated from government networks since Friday as a precaution.
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2026-08-18 16:20 UTC
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The Record · indexed 2026-08-18 16:30 UTC
The University of Texas at San Antonio, which serves 40,000 students across six campuses, said its IT team identified threat activity on its academic campus over the weekend and took some systems, including phones, offline in response.
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2026-08-18 14:45 UTC
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The Record · indexed 2026-08-18 15:05 UTC
The agency said the latest attack came amid preparations to select a manager for seized corporate rights in IDS Ukraine, one of the country’s largest producers of bottled mineral water and beverages.
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2026-08-18 14:01 UTC
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BleepingComputer · Sponsored by Picus Security · indexed 2026-08-18 14:15 UTC
Security controls can block a familiar attack method while missing quieter ways to achieve the same objective. Picus Security's Blue Report 2026 shows how prevention rates can vary dramatically by technique and why behavioral testing is needed to uncover those gaps. [...]
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2026-08-18 14:00 UTC
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Google Threat Intelligence / Mandiant · Mandiant · indexed 2026-08-18 15:55 UTC
Written by: Alex Tselevich, Michael Maturi Introduction Adversarial misuse of AI has increased the risk of data theft and extortion events, because when proprietary source code is exposed, defenders must scramble to identify and patch vulnerabilities while attackers deploy machine-speed AI tools against them. By structuring the analysis process, enforcing skeptical validation steps, and injecting domain-specific human expertise directly into the pipeline, we’ve achieved a leap in efficacy. Comb…
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2026-08-18 13:00 UTC
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Dark Reading · Elizabeth Montalbano · indexed 2026-08-18 13:25 UTC
The Python-based malware framework takes living-off-the-land tactics to a new heights of stealth, with a modular implant that steals credentials and achieves persistence.
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2026-08-18 13:00 UTC
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Dark Reading · Alexander Culafi · indexed 2026-08-18 13:10 UTC
A ransomware affiliate appears to be sidling up to victims with offers of aid, masking its true intention of diverting ransom payments.
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2026-08-18 12:49 UTC
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Rapid7 · Rapid7 Labs · indexed 2026-08-18 15:35 UTC
You can’t patch everything. So what do you fix first? Findings in Q2 2026 have changed traditional answers.The latest Quarterly Threat Landscape Report from Rapid7 Labs shows vulnerability disclosures still surging while attackers use automation and AI-assisted tooling to compress the time between disclosure and exploitation. The gap that patch cycles were built to fill is closing. Speed and volume are overwhelming security teams that have relied on traditional patch cycles and reactive program…
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2026-08-18 12:38 UTC
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The Hacker News · info@thehackernews.com (The Hacker News) · indexed 2026-08-18 13:05 UTC
Security researchers at Anthropic and Switzerland's EPFL have demonstrated that self-propagating payloads can spread from one artificial intelligence (AI) agent to the next through the editable system prompt files that autonomous agent harnesses use to carry state between sessions. The work, released as a preprint on August 10, 2026, tests the technique in a simulated six-agent coding
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2026-08-18 12:38 UTC
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The Hacker News · info@thehackernews.com (The Hacker News) · indexed 2026-08-18 13:05 UTC
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a previously undocumented Python implant framework dubbed TWINLOOT. "TWINLOOT is a modular, PyArmor-hardened Python implant designed to operate its entire command-and-control infrastructure inside trusted Microsoft services," Ontinue said in a technical report shared with The Hacker News. "Tasking flows through SharePoint Online file
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2026-08-18 11:30 UTC
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The Hacker News · info@thehackernews.com (The Hacker News) · indexed 2026-08-18 11:55 UTC
A single piece of infrastructure has been pulling records out of Salesforce and ServiceNow customer portals across multiple industries for more than a year, according to research published this week by agent security platform Reco. The activity, which Reco has named the City Forum campaign after a domain tied to the attacker's IP address, traces back to one server: 158.220.87.79, hosted on a
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2026-08-18 11:20 UTC
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The Hacker News · info@thehackernews.com (The Hacker News) · indexed 2026-08-18 11:55 UTC
Cybersecurity researchers have flagged a new typosquatting campaign targeting RubyGems users with a Windows-based information stealer. OpenSourceMalware, which discovered the activity on August 15, 2026, is tracking the threat under the moniker StubMaker. The complete list of packages published as part of the campaign is below - ubnuler ubnlder ri18nr reaker rakier orakw joxn
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2026-08-18 11:14 UTC
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BleepingComputer · Sergiu Gatlan · indexed 2026-08-18 11:25 UTC
Microsoft has started testing a faster File Explorer and a less cluttered and more customizable context menu in Windows 11 preview builds rolling out to Insiders this week. [...]
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2026-08-18 10:32 UTC
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BleepingComputer · Sergiu Gatlan · indexed 2026-08-18 10:40 UTC
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has confirmed that ransomware gangs are also exploiting a high-severity Windows Task Host vulnerability that was flagged as actively exploited in April. [...]
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2026-08-18 09:24 UTC
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BleepingComputer · Sergiu Gatlan · indexed 2026-08-18 09:25 UTC
Microsoft says some users are experiencing issues searching in Microsoft 365 apps, including Outlook on the web, Outlook desktop, SharePoint Online, and OneDrive. [...]
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2026-08-18 09:10 UTC
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The Hacker News · info@thehackernews.com (The Hacker News) · indexed 2026-08-18 09:15 UTC
SafePal has disclosed that an authorization flaw in an order-tracking plug-in exposed the names, email addresses, shipping addresses, phone numbers, and purchase details of approximately 39,798 customers. The hardware wallet maker said all affected customers were notified individually by email on August 16 from security@safepal.com, with the subject line "[Important] Your SafePal Order
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2026-08-18 08:44 UTC
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Security Affairs · Pierluigi Paganini · indexed 2026-08-18 09:00 UTC
GitLab patched a critical GraphQL flaw that let unauthenticated attackers remotely modify or delete public projects on self-managed servers. GitLab pushed out an emergency patch this week to address a critical flaw, tracked as CVE-2026-19478 (CVSS score of 9.4), that could let an attacker with zero credentials remotely modify or delete public projects and user […]
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2026-08-18 08:12 UTC
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BleepingComputer · Sergiu Gatlan · indexed 2026-08-18 08:15 UTC
Microsoft announced that it removed the Windows Management Instrumentation Command-line (WMIC) tool from Windows 11 24H2 and 25H2, as well as from Windows 11 beta builds released this week. [...]
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2026-08-18 08:02 UTC
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Security Affairs · Pierluigi Paganini · indexed 2026-08-18 09:00 UTC
U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) adds a Ray-Project Ray vulnerability to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) added a Progress LoadMaster vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2025-62593 (CVSS score of 9.4), to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. CVE-2025-62593 is a critical remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability in Ray, […]
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2026-08-18 07:18 UTC
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Security Affairs · Pierluigi Paganini · indexed 2026-08-18 07:50 UTC
Evooo1Bot is a Mirai-based Linux botnet that hijacks routers and IoT devices for DDoS attacks, credential theft and criminal proxy services. Fortinet’s FortiGuard Labs disclosed Evooo1Bot in mid-August, a previously undocumented Linux botnet that’s been active since July 2026. The bot borrows Mirai‘s DDoS engine but adds encrypted command-and-control communications, an SSH brute-force scanner, a […]
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2026-08-18 06:34 UTC
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The Hacker News · info@thehackernews.com (The Hacker News) · indexed 2026-08-18 07:15 UTC
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Monday added a critical flaw impacting Ray to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, citing evidence of active exploitation. Ray is an open-source, Python-native distributed computing framework designed to scale artificial intelligence and machine learning workloads. As of writing, the GitHub project has more than
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2026-08-18 02:00 UTC
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SANS Internet Storm Center · indexed 2026-08-18 02:15 UTC
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2026-08-17 23:00 UTC
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The Record · indexed 2026-08-18 11:40 UTC
The unnamed 52-year-old is accused of attacking Swiss train manufacturer Stadler Rail alongside other enterprises as part of an international ransomware operation.
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2026-08-17 21:37 UTC
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Dark Reading · Jai Vijayan · indexed 2026-08-17 21:55 UTC
Researchers found that by combining two vulnerabilities, they could take over an Android device by delivering a payload and getting the victim to answer their phone.
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2026-08-17 21:03 UTC
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The Hacker News · info@thehackernews.com (The Hacker News) · indexed 2026-08-17 21:20 UTC
GitLab has released security updates to address a critical vulnerability impacting its Community Edition (CE) and Enterprise Edition (EE) software that, under certain conditions, could allow an unauthenticated attacker to remotely modify or delete public projects and user data. The flaw, tracked as CVE-2026-19478, has been rated Critical by GitLab and assigned a CVSS score of 9.4. Released on
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2026-08-17 20:26 UTC
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SANS Internet Storm Center · indexed 2026-08-17 20:35 UTC
Apple today released updates for iOS/iPadOS (26 and 18) and macOS 26. This update fixes 108 vulnerabilities and comes about two weeks after the much smaller macOS update that addressed the single screen-sharing vulnerability. This vulnerability did not affect iOS/iPadOS.
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2026-08-17 20:26 UTC
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Dark Reading · Rob Wright · indexed 2026-08-17 21:40 UTC
Three testing models with the same goal but different directives engaged in "increasingly aggressive" territorial attacks on one another, according to Anthropic.
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