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SecurityWeekEnterpriseJul 28, 2026 11:11 AM

Microsoft Unveils MAI-Cyber-1-Flash, Its First Cybersecurity AI Model 

The company claims MAI-Cyber-1-Flash tops Anthropic’s Mythos and OpenAI’s GPT-5.6 Sol in CyberGym testing. The post Microsoft Unveils MAI-Cyber-1-Flash, Its First Cybersecurity AI Model  appeared first on SecurityWeek.

SecurityWeekEnterpriseJul 28, 2026 11:00 AM

Hacker Conversations: Tal Kollander’s Journey From Black Hat to Hack Blocker

Tal Kollander’s history divides neatly into two halves: first as an active hacker and then as the block that stops hacks.

SecurityWeekEnterpriseJul 28, 2026 11:00 AM

Act Security Emerges from Stealth to Fight the Patch Problem

Act Security tackles the spiraling patch problem caused by AI’s ability to find new vulnerabilities in existing cloud environments.

SecurityWeekEnterpriseJul 28, 2026 10:17 AM

Hush Security Raises $30 Million for AI Agent Governance

The startup will invest in expanding engineering and sales teams, accelerating ecosystem support, and expanding corporate partnerships.

BleepingComputerThreatsJul 28, 2026 9:10 AM

Data breach at medical billing firm MCBS affects 1.26 million people

Healthcare billing company Medical Computer Business Services (MCBS) has disclosed that a 2025 network breach exposed the sensitive information of more than 1.2 million people. [...]

SecurityWeekEnterpriseJul 28, 2026 8:42 AM

Google Adopts New Threat Actor Naming System

The new two-word naming convention uses a memorable term utilized in public reporting and a cluster-categorization word. The post Google Adopts New Threat Actor Naming System appeared first on SecurityWeek.

The Hacker NewsBreakingJul 28, 2026 8:11 AM

Critical TeamCity Flaw Could Let Attackers Run OS Commands Without Logging In

JetBrains is urging customers of on-premise versions of TeamCity to update to the latest version following the discovery of a critical security issue that could result in arbitrary code execution.

The Hacker NewsBreakingJul 28, 2026 8:04 AM

Researcher Says AI Helped Develop Linux Traffic-Control Race Into Root Exploit

STAR Labs has published a Linux kernel exploit that turns an ordinary local user into root on the CentOS Stream 9 build it targeted. The flaw, tracked as CVE-2026-53264 (CVSS score: 7.

SecurityWeekEnterpriseJul 28, 2026 7:27 AM

Unpatched Fastjson Vulnerability Exploited in Attacks

The critical remote code execution bug can be exploited without authentication, under the library’s stock default configurations. The post Unpatched Fastjson Vulnerability Exploited in Attacks appeared first on SecurityWeek.

SecurityWeekEnterpriseJul 28, 2026 6:40 AM

Critical Arista VeloCloud Orchestrator Vulnerability Exploited as Zero-Day

Impacting on-premises deployments, the OS command injection allows attackers to access privileged internal functionality.

The Hacker NewsBreakingJul 28, 2026 6:07 AM

Microsoft Says New Cybersecurity AI Model Helps MDASH Score 95.95% at Half the Cost

Microsoft has launched its first cybersecurity-specific model inside MDASH, its multi-model vulnerability identification and remediation harness. The company says MDASH, using MAI-Cyber-1-Flash and GPT-5.4, scored 95.

SecurityWeekEnterpriseJul 28, 2026 5:01 AM

Origin Energy Data Breach Affects 900,000 Australians

The hacker claimed to have stolen the information of 2 million Origin Energy customers after breaching its systems. The post Origin Energy Data Breach Affects 900,000 Australians appeared first on SecurityWeek.

The Hacker NewsBreakingJul 28, 2026 4:43 AM

Attackers Exploit Arista VeloCloud Orchestrator Command Injection Flaw

A maximum-severity security flaw impacting on-premises versions of Arista VeloCloud Orchestrator (VCO) has come under active exploitation in the wild. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-16812 (CVSS score: 10.

SecurityWeekEnterpriseJul 28, 2026 2:28 AM

For Some, So-Called ‘Skynet Day’ Came too Close to Sci-Fi After a Rogue Agent Hacked Into a Startup

Decades after it appeared in “The Terminator,” Skynet looks more like a forecast of the cyber incident in which a rogue AI system hacked into another AI company on its own.

BleepingComputerThreatsJul 27, 2026 11:49 PM

Hackers target US firms in FastJson RCE zero-day attacks

Hackers are actively exploiting a vulnerability in the FastJson open-source Java library, allowing remote code execution without user interaction or elevated privileges. [...]

BleepingComputerThreatsJul 27, 2026 10:49 PM

Arista patches VeloCloud Orchestrator zero-day exploited in attacks

Arista has patched a maximum-severity command injection vulnerability in on-premises VeloCloud Orchestrator deployments that is being actively exploited in attacks. [...]

BleepingComputerThreatsJul 27, 2026 9:08 PM

New Dysphoria DDoS botnet spreads to 200k devices worldwide

A botnet called Dysphoria has compromised around 200,000 devices across the world and is using them for distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks and traffic relay operations. [...]

BleepingComputerThreatsJul 27, 2026 9:00 PM

New Certighost PoC exploit lets attackers hijack Windows domains

A proof-of-concept exploit for "Certighost," a Windows Active Directory Certificate Services vulnerability, has been released that can allow authenticated attackers to potentially compromise a Windows domain. [...]

The Hacker NewsBreakingJul 27, 2026 6:10 PM

NVIDIA Forms 37-Member Open Secure AI Alliance and Open-Sources NOOA Framework

NVIDIA and 36 other organizations have formed the Open Secure AI Alliance to develop and share open technologies, techniques, and tools for securing software and artificial intelligence (AI) agents.

BleepingComputerThreatsJul 27, 2026 5:29 PM

Apple sued over fake App Store crypto wallet app stealing $1.8M in Bitcoin

Apple is being sued by three people who claim approximately $1.8 million in Bitcoin was stolen after downloading and using a fraudulent Sparrow Wallet application from the App Store. [...]

The Hacker NewsBreakingJul 27, 2026 5:16 PM

Dysphoria IoT Botnet Adds Blockchain C2 and Victim Relays After JackSkid Disruption

Dysphoria, an Internet of Things (IoT) botnet line tracked by CNCERT and XLab, has adopted blockchain-based name services and infected-device relays after a March law-enforcement operation against JackSkid infrastructure.

BleepingComputerThreatsJul 27, 2026 3:39 PM

Coca-Cola confirms data theft in Fairlife ransomware attack

The Coca-Cola Company has confirmed that hackers stole data from its dairy subsidiary, Fairlife, during a ransomware attack earlier this month. [...]

BleepingComputerThreatsJul 27, 2026 3:12 PM

Ernst & Young data breach claimed by ShinyHunters extortion gang

The ShinyHunters extortion gang has claimed responsibility for a recently disclosed Ernst & Young data breach, saying it obtained credentials for some of the company's systems via a supply-chain attack. [...]

The Hacker NewsBreakingJul 27, 2026 2:40 PM

Public Exploit Released for Patched vBulletin Pre-Auth Code Execution Flaw

Public exploit details released on July 27 show how an unauthenticated request can reach PHP's eval() function inside vBulletin and execute code on an unpatched forum server.

SecurityWeekEnterpriseJul 27, 2026 2:26 PM

New GitHub, PyPI Policies Boost Supply Chain Security

Dependabot gets a three-day cooldown window before opening pull requests, and PyPI rejects file uploads to releases older than 14 days. The post New GitHub, PyPI Policies Boost Supply Chain Security appeared first on SecurityWeek.

The Hacker NewsBreakingJul 27, 2026 2:10 PM

⚡ Weekly Recap: Rogue AI Agents, Check Point Exploit, Slopsquatting, ClickFix Lures and More

Monday starts with the usual promise that everything is under control. Then the logs wake up.

BleepingComputerThreatsJul 27, 2026 2:01 PM

Shadow AI agents are multiplying. Here's how to find and secure them.

Shadow AI agents are rapidly spreading across enterprise platforms, often without IT or security visibility.

The Hacker NewsBreakingJul 27, 2026 1:05 PM

n8n Sandbox Escape Lets Workflow Editors Run OS Commands as the n8n Process

n8n has patched a high-severity expression-sandbox escape that could let an authenticated workflow editor execute operating-system commands on the server running the automation platform.

The Hacker NewsBreakingJul 27, 2026 12:37 PM

Operation BlueDash Deploys Level RMM and ScreenConnect via Fake Teams Update

Cybersecurity researchers have flagged a Microsoft Teams-themed phishing campaign that employs "secure document" lures to deliver legitimate remote monitoring and management (RMM) tools.

The Hacker NewsBreakingJul 27, 2026 10:51 AM

Cruciferra Crypter Uses BYOVD and Process Ghosting to Hide Windows Malware

The China-linked cybercrime group behind the use of income tax-related phishing lures targeting Indian taxpayers, tax professionals, and corporate finance teams has been observed using a sophisticated crypter service called Crucif…

The Hacker NewsBreakingJul 27, 2026 8:48 AM

TELESHIM Abuses Telegram for C2 in Attacks Against Middle East Governments

Cybersecurity researchers have flagged fresh malicious cyber activity by a threat actor with ties to East Asia targeting government entities in the Middle East.

The Hacker NewsBreakingJul 27, 2026 8:01 AM

GitHub Adds 3-Day Dependabot Cooldown to Limit Poisoned Package Adoption

GitHub has announced a new cooldown mechanism in Dependabot, allowing the tool to wait at least three days after a release is published before opening a pull request. "The cooldown configuration option in the dependabot.

BleepingComputerThreatsJul 26, 2026 2:13 PM

GitHub, PyPI add time-based defenses against supply chain attacks

GitHub and PyPI (Python Package Index) have introduced a time-based mechanism in the Dependabot dependency management tool to protect against supply-chain attacks and to limit their impact. [...]

BleepingComputerThreatsJul 25, 2026 10:37 PM

Steam forum ClickFix attacks infect gamers with XMRig cryptominers

Steam discussion forums are being abused in ClickFix attacks that pretend to be fixes for game and computer problems but actually infect devices with cryptominers. [...]

The Hacker NewsBreakingJul 25, 2026 6:48 PM

Malvertising Sends Malware in Pieces, Then Makes the Browser Build the Executable

A malvertising operation dubbed SourTrade is making victims' browsers build the final Windows executable themselves, using a legitimate Bun runtime as its base instead of serving one complete malicious file from a fixed URL.

BleepingComputerThreatsJul 25, 2026 3:21 PM

Malicious sites use JavaScript to build malware in browser memory

A massive malvertising campaign is using fake Solana, Luno, and TradingView webpages with malicious JavaScript that instructs browsers to assemble malware directly in memory. [...]

BleepingComputerThreatsJul 25, 2026 2:16 PM

ShinyHunters data leaks fuel $2,000 sextortion email scam

Threat actors are using email addresses exposed in data breaches leaked by the ShinyHunters extortion group to send sextortion emails demanding $2,000 in Bitcoin. [...]

The Hacker NewsBreakingJul 25, 2026 12:52 PM

Fastjson 1.x RCE Vulnerability Targeted in Attacks With No Patched Available

Security firms ThreatBook and Imperva say attackers are targeting a critical flaw in Fastjson, Alibaba's JSON library for Java.

The Hacker NewsBreakingJul 25, 2026 10:14 AM

Researcher Publishes GitLab RCE PoC Letting Authenticated Users Run Commands as Git

Security researchers at depthfirst published working exploit code on July 24 for a GitLab flaw that GitLab patched six weeks earlier, on June 10. It runs commands as git on any self-managed 18.11.

The Hacker NewsBreakingJul 25, 2026 10:14 AM

CTM360 Research Reveals How Insurance Phishing Has Evolved Into Real-Time Account Hijacking

For years, phishing campaigns targeting financial institutions followed the same playbook.

The Hacker NewsBreakingJul 25, 2026 10:14 AM

Cl0p Affiliates Target Internet-Exposed PTC Windchill and FlexPLM with Unauthenticated RCE

Threat actors linked to the Cl0p (aka Chubby Scorpius, FIN11, Graceful Spider, and Lace Tempest) ransomware campaign are exploiting flaws in internet-exposed PTC Windmill and FlexPLM deployments as part of a new data extortion cam…

The Hacker NewsBreakingJul 25, 2026 9:53 AM

DevMan RaaS Portal Centralizes Payload Builds, Victim Management, and Affiliate Payouts

The operators of the DevMan ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) scheme are maintaining a dedicated web platform that offers affiliates the ability to build payloads, oversee earnings, and manage various aspects related to victims.

BleepingComputerThreatsJul 25, 2026 9:31 AM

OpenAI confirms ChatGPT is down worldwide

ChatGPT, the famous artificial intelligence chatbot that allows users to converse with various personalities and topics, has connectivity issues worldwide. [...]

BleepingComputerThreatsJul 24, 2026 7:55 PM

OnTrac notifies customers of data breach after network hack

OnTrac parcel delivery company is informing that hackers breached its corporate network and may have accessed personal details belonging to its customers. [...]

The Hacker NewsBreakingJul 24, 2026 3:12 PM

BlueNoroff Zoom Phishing Kit Profiles Crypto Wallets Before Malware Delivery

The North Korean threat actors behind the ClickFix-style campaigns that employ typosquatted Zoom and Microsoft Teams domains have been found to operate an active phishing kit to impersonate the videoconferencing platforms in socia…

The Hacker NewsBreakingJul 24, 2026 2:15 PM

Certighost Exploit Lets Low-Privileged Active Directory Users Impersonate a Domain Controller

Researchers H0j3n and Aniq Fakhrul published a working exploit on July 24 that lets a low-privileged Active Directory user obtain a certificate for a Domain Controller and authenticate as that machine.

The Hacker NewsBreakingJul 24, 2026 11:53 AM

ChatGPT AgentForger Flaw Could Deploy Rogue Workspace Agents via a Phishing Link

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed a critical vulnerability in OpenAI's ChatGPT Workspace Agents that could have allowed a single phishing link to stealthily build, authorize, and deploy an autonomous artificial intelligence…

The Hacker NewsBreakingJul 24, 2026 11:45 AM

Bing Images Flaws Let Crafted SVGs Run Commands as SYSTEM on Microsoft's Servers

A crafted SVG submitted to Bing's image search ran commands as NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM on Microsoft's production image-processing workers, and as root on the Linux machines in the same fleet.

The Hacker NewsBreakingJul 24, 2026 11:30 AM

Seeing AI Agents Is Not Enough. Security Teams Must Enforce What They Can Do

AI agent security is moving through a familiar maturity curve: adoption, then visibility, and finally, control.

The Hacker NewsBreakingJul 24, 2026 10:15 AM

Hacker Runs Hermes AI Agent Unattended for Post-Exploitation at Thai Finance Ministry

Someone installed a popular AI assistant on a rented server, switched off the setting that makes it ask permission before running risky commands, and pointed it at Thailand's Ministry of Finance, which runs the country's treasury…

The Hacker NewsBreakingJul 24, 2026 10:09 AM

Golden Chickens Resurfaces With Four New Malware Families and Modular Implants

The threat actors behind the Golden Chickens malware-as-a-service (MaaS) ecosystem have resurfaced with four new malware families, indicating that the operators are showing no signs of stopping despite extensive public disclosures…

The Hacker NewsBreakingJul 24, 2026 7:41 AM

NodeBB Patches Eight AI-Found Flaws Exposing Admin Access and Private Chats

Eight security flaws in NodeBB went public on Wednesday, along with the code to exploit them.

The Hacker NewsBreakingJul 24, 2026 6:58 AM

Kimi K3 Agents Found Redis Zero-Days and Built RCE Exploit, Researchers Say

Redis shipped seven security releases on July 23 after researchers published authenticated RCE PoCs for stock Redis 6.2.22, 7.4.9, 8.6.4, and 8.8.0. All four chains require RESTORE.

The Hacker NewsBreakingJul 24, 2026 6:50 AM

Fake Notepad++ Plugin Delivers MATCHBOIL.V2 in UAC-0099 Attacks

The Computer Emergency Response Team of Ukraine (CERT-UA) has warned of a new campaign that involves the use of a malicious program that's dressed up as a Notepad++ plugin to compromise Windows systems.

The Hacker NewsBreakingJul 23, 2026 6:36 PM

Russian Espionage Group Exploited Zimbra Zero-Day to Steal Mail and 2FA Codes

A Russian state-supported espionage group spent months reading Western mailboxes through a then-unknown flaw in Zimbra's webmail client.

The Hacker NewsBreakingJul 23, 2026 3:02 PM

ThreatsDay: Android Spyware, PLC Attacks, AI Image Prompt Injection + 12 More Stories

Most of this week's trouble came dressed as something useful. A package stole data. A fake extension opened remote access. A safety app became spyware. An image gave hidden orders to an AI agent.

The Hacker NewsBreakingJul 23, 2026 1:27 PM

Claude Cowork Flaw Could Let AI Agent Escape Its VM and Access Mac Files

Cybersecurity researchers have uncovered a sandbox escape vulnerability in Anthropic's Claude Cowork that makes it possible to break out of the confines of a Linux virtual machine (VM) within which the agent runs to read or write…

The Hacker NewsBreakingJul 23, 2026 1:11 PM

Chaos Ransomware Uses msaRAT to Route C2 Traffic Through Headless Chrome and Edge

The Chaos ransomware group ran its command-and-control through the victim's own browser. Cisco Talos on Thursday detailed msaRAT, the Rust implant behind it, found on a compromised Windows machine ahead of the encryptor.

The Hacker NewsBreakingJul 23, 2026 12:20 PM

China-Nexus JadeProx Uses New TriBack Loader in Government and Healthcare Attacks

An exposed Alibaba Cloud server has revealed a China-nexus operation that Group-IB tracks as JadeProx.

The Hacker NewsBreakingJul 23, 2026 11:45 AM

How Synthetic Identity Fraud is Coming for Machine Identities

Most people understand identity theft as an attacker stealing a real person's sensitive information and impersonating them. Synthetic identity fraud is much harder to catch.

The Hacker NewsBreakingJul 23, 2026 11:28 AM

Attackers Weaponize GitHub Actions Runners to Target cPanel and WHM Servers

Cybersecurity researchers have shed light on a large-scale campaign that has turned compromised GitHub repositories into distributed attack infrastructure designed to target cPanel and WebHost Manager (WHM) instances.

The Hacker NewsBreakingJul 23, 2026 10:00 AM

Google Adds Selfie Video Recovery for Users Locked Out of Their Accounts

Google on Thursday announced a new way for users to sign-in to their accounts by letting them take a selfie video.

The Hacker NewsBreakingJul 23, 2026 8:04 AM

Nine-Year-Old RefluXFS Linux Flaw Gives Local Users Root on Default RHEL Installs

RefluXFS, a Linux kernel flaw disclosed on July 22 and tracked as CVE-2026-64600, lets an unprivileged local user overwrite root-owned files on an XFS filesystem and gain persistent root access.

The Hacker NewsBreakingJul 23, 2026 6:34 AM

Check Point Patches Exploited SmartConsole Flaw Allowing Full Admin Access

Check Point has released security updates to address multiple vulnerabilities impacting Security Management and Multi-Domain Management (MDSM) products, including a critical flaw that has come under active exploitation in the wild…

The Hacker NewsBreakingJul 22, 2026 6:37 PM

GitHub Cuts Public Bug Bounty Payouts, Moves Top Rewards to VIP Tier

Beginning July 27, 2026, GitHub will cut public bug bounty payouts by at least half at every severity level.

The Hacker NewsBreakingJul 22, 2026 6:07 PM

Ubuntu snap-confine Flaw Could Give Local Users Root on Default Desktop Installs

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a new local privilege escalation (LPE) vulnerability in snap-confine that an unprivileged user can trigger to obtain root access and gain complete control of a target environment…

The Hacker NewsBreakingJul 22, 2026 3:01 PM

Adobe Acrobat Extension Flaw Let Malicious Sites Read WhatsApp Web Data

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a now-patched vulnerability chain in the Adobe Acrobat Chrome extension that has over 314 million users, which, if exploited, could facilitate a silent hijack of a user's WhatsAp…

The Hacker NewsBreakingJul 22, 2026 12:36 PM

Hackers Exploit Windmill Flaw to Read Arbitrary Server Files Without Authentication

A high-severity security flaw impacting open-source developer platform Windmill has come under active exploitation in the wild, per VulnCheck. The vulnerability in question is CVE-2026-29059 (CVSS score: 7.

The Hacker NewsBreakingJul 22, 2026 11:58 AM

The Fastest Path to AI Adoption Runs Through Security

Security leaders who build fast, visible paths to AI adoption are becoming the most valued partners in their organizations.

The Hacker NewsBreakingJul 22, 2026 11:30 AM

OpenAI Says Its AI Models Escaped Sandbox, Targeted Hugging Face to Cheat Benchmark

OpenAI on Tuesday said a combination of its artificial intelligence (AI) models, including GPT-5.

The Hacker NewsBreakingJul 22, 2026 11:25 AM

Why Modern SOCs Need Multi-Layered Detections

The cycle is over. For years, cybersecurity followed a familiar pattern: defenses improved, attackers adapted, and the back-and-forth continued. Today, AI-equipped attackers are simply outpacing defenses.

The Hacker NewsBreakingJul 22, 2026 6:38 AM

Police Dismantle Kratos Phishing Kit Built to Steal Microsoft 365 Sessions and Bypass MFA

German and US law enforcement have taken down the core infrastructure of Kratos, described by German investigators as one of the world's most widely used criminal phishing kits, and Indonesian authorities arrested the man they say…

The Hacker NewsBreakingJul 22, 2026 6:00 AM

Trojanized Newtonsoft.Json Fork Hides Game-Rigging Code in a Working Library

Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a NuGet typosquat that's unlike the typical information-stealing malware distributed via package registries: usual info-stealers: it's designed to rig live game results on Digitain.

The Hacker NewsBreakingJul 22, 2026 4:57 AM

Microsoft Azure DevOps MCP Flaw Lets Hidden PR Comments Hijack AI Review Agents

A single invisible comment in an Azure DevOps pull request can turn a reviewer's own AI coding agent against them, driving it into projects the attacker has no rights to reach and quietly leaking what it finds.

Krebs on SecurityInvestigationsJul 22, 2026 1:10 AM

LG to Ban Residential Proxies from Smart TV Apps

The home appliance giant LG Electronics USA said this week it plans to suspend any apps built for its smart TVs that turn one's television into an always-on residential proxy node.

The Hacker NewsBreakingJul 21, 2026 6:46 PM

Apple Fixes Hide My Email Bug That Exposed Real Addresses in Mail Logs

Apple has moved to address a security flaw in its Hide My Email service that enabled users' real email addresses to be unmasked, effectively undermining the feature's privacy guarantees.

Krebs on SecurityInvestigationsJul 14, 2026 7:22 PM

Microsoft Patches a Record 570 Security Flaws

Microsoft Corp. today released software updates to plug at least 570 security holes in its Windows operating systems and other software, almost triple the number of vulnerabilities the software giant fixed in its record-smashing P…

Krebs on SecurityInvestigationsJul 13, 2026 3:03 PM

Lessons Learned from CISA’s Recent GitHub Leak

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has issued a postmortem on a data leak in which a contractor published dozens of internal CISA credentials -- including AWS Govcloud keys -- in a public GitHub repository…

Krebs on SecurityInvestigationsJul 8, 2026 12:31 PM

Felons, Fraudsters Flog Offensive Cybersecurity Startup

A cybersecurity startup dangling millions of dollars to acquire zero-day security vulnerabilities in popular software is run by a pair of far-right conspiracy theorists and convicted felons whose most recent ventures included fake…

Krebs on SecurityInvestigationsJul 2, 2026 7:27 PM

FBI Seizes NetNut Proxy Platform, Popa Botnet

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) said today it worked with industry partners to seize hundreds of domains associated with NetNut, a sprawling residential proxy service operated by the publicly-traded Israeli company Alaru…