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YARA-X 1.20.0 Release, (Sun, Aug 30th)

YARA-X's 1.20.0 release brings 14 improvements and 13 bugfixes.

Anthropic is cutting Claude Code's current weekly limits by 17%

Anthropic is permanently increasing Claude Code's standard weekly usage limits by 25% for Pro, Max, Team, and seat-based Enterprise plans, but it's not as good as it sounds. [...]

Five Critical WordPress Plugin and Theme Flaws Enable Site Takeover or RCE

Multiple critical security flaws have been disclosed in WordPress plugins and themes, including WPMU DEV Dashboard, Avada, TranslatePress, Pods, and GiveWP, that could lead to authentication bypass, account takeover, and arbitrary code execution. The vulnerabilities, according to Wordfence and Patchstack, are listed below - CVE-2026-76581 (CVSS score: 9.8) - An authentication bypass flaw in

Brave browser adds email aliases to help users evade tracking

The latest version of the Brave browser, 1.94, introduces a feature called 'Email Aliases' that allows users to generate disposable email addresses when signing up to a new service. [...]

Hack One Robot, Reach the Next: Unitree G1 Security Flaws

A researcher chained two Unitree G1 flaws to gain root access remotely and showed how a compromised robot could attack others nearby. Security researcher Olivier Laflamme spent about three months digging into the Unitree G1 humanoid robot and eventually found a way to fully compromise it without plugging in a single cable. In his technical […]

Rhysida Ransomware Group Targets Berlin Government Ahead of Vote

Berlin ‘s government faces a Rhysida ransomware attack weeks before elections, with officials refusing to pay despite a claimed 5.79 TB data theft. Berlin’s state government confirmed this week it’s dealing with an extortion attempt following an August cyberattack on the city-state’s administrative network, and officials have already refused the requested ransom. The ransomware group […]

Philippine Nuclear and Naval Targets Hit by Suspected Chinese Operator

An alleged Chinese-speaking actor breached Philippine nuclear and naval targets by exploiting known flaws, stealing sensitive data. A suspected Chinese-speaking operator targeted a Philippine nuclear research body and a marine engineering company that supports the Philippine Navy, using well-known vulnerabilities in internet-facing ownCloud and WordPress systems. The activity was uncovered after Hunt.io found an exposed […]

TerminalFix campaign deploys a reverse tunnel through multistage intrusion

Microsoft Threat Intelligence provides analysis of a ClickFix campaign that uses fake CAPTCHA prompts, DLL sideloading, and a reverse tunnel, with detections and hunting guidance. The post TerminalFix campaign deploys a reverse tunnel through multistage intrusion appeared first on Microsoft Security Blog.

[Virtual Event] What Every Enterprise Should Know About Securing Cloud Assets in the Age of AI

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[Virtual Event] Building a Secure AI Strategy for the Enterprise

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McKesson discloses breach after ShinyHunters claims patient data theft

Healthcare and pharmaceutical distribution giant McKesson has disclosed a cybersecurity incident involving unauthorized access to third-party applications and data theft, with the ShinyHunters extortion group claiming it stole 284 million patient data records. [...]

Perturbation Probing: A New Diagnostic for the Fragility of LLM Safety

New research reveals that AI safety refusal lives in a thin neural layer, highlighting the critical need for external, multi-layered security. The post Perturbation Probing: A New Diagnostic for the Fragility of LLM Safety appeared first on Unit 42.

Berlin Refuses to Pay Hackers Who Stole Data From the City's State Network

Berlin's state government has confirmed that it is the target of an extortion attempt following the August compromise of the city's state administrative network, and said it will not meet the extortionists' demands. The same statement disclosed that forensic work had found further data outflows in the portfolio of the Senate Department for Mobility, Transport, Climate Protection and Environment

Cosmos EVM Flaw Exploited After Cosmos Labs Knew Every Blockchain Running It Was Vulnerable

Cosmos Labs has warned that a critical balance-handling flaw in the shared Cosmos EVM module was exploited to drain funds from six blockchains between August 20 and August 25, 2026. The vulnerability, designated GHSA-7g4w-cg88-2cq2, is rated Critical by Cosmos Labs and was published without a CVE identifier, a weakness classification, or a CVSS score. Affected versions are < 0.6.2 and >=

Hundreds of OpenAI Agents Invaded Hugging Face Servers

The Hugging Face incident was bigger and worse than previously thought, with approximately 700 agents collaborating on a sophisticated, multistage attack.

Love Electric Breach: 877,000 Driver Records Offered for $600

Love Electric’s alleged data breach exposes sensitive driver data and highlights the identity risks created by third-party salary sacrifice providers. A seller on an English-language data-breach forum claimed on August 26 that they had obtained the driver database of Love Electric, a UK broker that runs electric-vehicle salary sacrifice schemes. The seller, operating under the […]

PaperCut releases second emergency patch for exploited flaws

PaperCut has released a second emergency security update for two actively exploited vulnerabilities in its PaperCut NG and MF print management software after researchers discovered multiple ways to bypass the initial fixes. [...]

Extend your data perimeter to the AWS Management Console with Private Access

Organizations in regulated industries such as financial services, government, defense, and healthcare restrict their sensitive workloads to isolated network environments with no access to the public internet. Until now, customers could restrict AWS Management Console access to authorized AWS accounts and corporate networks, but the console itself required internet connectivity. This was creating tension between […]

Offensive Security Investments Surge as AI Threats Increase

Omdia's Theresa Lanowitz talks with the Dark Reading News Desk about the potential — and risks — of using agentic AI for penetration testing, red teaming, and other practices.

GiveWP WordPress donation plugin flaw lets hackers execute server commands

A maximum-severity vulnerability in the GiveWP plugin for WordPress allows an unauthenticated attacker to execute arbitrary commands on the hosting server. [...]

CVE-2026-81849 - Path traversal in the aws:downloadContent plugin in amazon-ssm-agent

Bulletin ID: 2026-091-AWS Scope: AWS Content Type: Important (requires attention) Publication Date: 08/28/2026 11:00 AM PDT Description: AWS Systems Manager Agent (amazon-ssm-agent) is Amazon software that runs on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances, edge devices, on-premises servers, and virtual machines (VMs). Amazon-ssm-agent makes it possible for Systems Manager to update, manage, and configure these resources. We identified CVE-2026-81849, where an improper limitation of a …

Trump Targets Foreign Technology in New U.S. Power Grid Security Order

Trump targets foreign-made power grid equipment, citing cyber, sabotage and supply-chain risks to U.S. national security. Executive Order 14420, signed on August 26, targets equipment and technologies that could expose the power grid to sabotage, unauthorized access, malicious remote activity or supply-chain disruption. The timing matters. The White House points to the rapid expansion of […]

Attackers Chain Two PaperCut Flaws to Execute Code Without Authentication

Malicious actors are exploiting a newly patched security flaw in PaperCut NG and MF to execute arbitrary code on susceptible instances, as the company released a fresh emergency fix with additional hardening. "This vulnerability gives an unauthenticated attacker remote control over PaperCut's trusted configuration, which could be used to execute arbitrary Java code inside the application's

CVE-2026-81838 - Zip Slip path traversal in awsdac (diagram-as-code)

Bulletin ID: 2026-090-AWS Scope: AWS Content Type: Important (requires attention) Publication Date: 08/27/2026 13:00 PM PDT Description: awsdac (diagram-as-code) is a CLI tool that generates AWS architecture diagrams from YAML definitions, enabling version-controlled, code-driven diagramming. We identified CVE-2026-81838, a Zip Slip (path traversal) issue. When awsdac extracts a zip archive referenced by a ZipFile resource in a definition file, a crafted archive can write files outside the inte…

68-year-old imprisoned after making $1.3 million by pirating IPTV services

A 68-year-old has been sentenced in the U.K. to more than six years in prison for operating an illegal IPTV (Internet Protocol Television) service that generated £980,812 ($1.3 million) over three years. [...]

PaperCut warns of hackers using printer management software flaw in attacks

PaperCut released an emergency advisory on Thursday evening saying vulnerabilities in their print management software, PaperCut NG and MF, are under active exploitation.

Android 17 Adds OS-Wide ECH to Hide Website Visits From Network Providers

Google on Thursday announced new network security protections in Android 17 to bolster connection privacy, address cellular vulnerabilities, and safeguard the privacy of users' home networks. Topping the list is support for Encrypted Client Hello (ECH), a privacy standard that prevents networks from eavesdropping on which websites a user is visiting. "This new privacy standard works in tandem

ownCloud Flaw Exploited to Steal Nuclear Records From Philippine Research Body

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Thursday added a critical security flaw impacting ownCloud to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog following reports that a Chinese-speaking threat actor weaponized the vulnerability to target a nuclear research body in the Philippines. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2023-49105 (CVSS score: 9.8), is a case of

19 Chrome and Edge Extensions Found With Wallet-Stealing and Crypto-Draining Code

Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a cluster of 18 Google Chrome and one Microsoft Edge extensions that were published over the last six months and harbored wallet secret stealing and cryptocurrency draining capabilities. The extensions, per Socket security researcher Karlo Zanki, share similarities in code and tradecraft, with evidence indicating that the campaign may have been active

Metasploit Wrap Up: Payloads and Exploits, and Scanners, Oh my!