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Today's cybersecurity landscape highlights several critical threats and vulnerabilities. A zero-day vulnerability in F5 BIG-IP is being actively exploited, allowing unauthenticated attackers to achieve remote code execution; F5 has released patches to address this issue. Similarly, a new flaw in Next.js could enable server code execution through crafted SVG input. In a concerning development, the ShinyHunters group claims to have breached the FBI, threatening to leak sensitive data unless a report is retracted. Additionally, vulnerabilities in Chromium and Check Point's management server are also drawing attention, underscoring the ongoing risks associated with software security. As malicious bot activity continues to surge, nearly two-thirds of websites tested are failing bot defenses, signaling a growing cyber threat landscape.
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Quishing has become a popular alternative to traditional phishing. Here’s how businesses can close the gap.
One ad blocker is giving up the fight against Facebook ads. The consequences could go beyond annoying advertising.
Threat actors gained root access to the vulnerable systems and deployed a Monero miner.
The post Recent macOS Screen Sharing Vulnerability Exploited in Attacks appeared first on SecurityWeek.
A litigant hid AI prompt injections in a court filing to influence a ruling. The judge caught it and banned him from electronic filing. A man suing the New York Bariatric Group reportedly hid AI prompt in a court filing, instructing any AI system that read it to rule in his favor. The July 26 […]
Wolfgang Goerlich has spent his career in security and has been a CISO for the past seven years.
Like many long-term security execs, Goerlich has seen plenty of changes within the profession. He’s bracing for more.
“For the future I see growing the role of CISO to be the...
The vulnerability tracked as CVE-2026-58231 can be exploited to execute arbitrary code and compromise internal components.
The post Critical SAP Commerce Cloud Vulnerability Exploited 3 Days After Disclosure appeared first on SecurityWeek.
German and Brazilian police dismantled an international bank fraud ring blamed for a €30 million cyberattack on a German financial institution, arresting four people in Brazil and pursuing three more suspects in Spain and Bulgaria. Brazilian police named the operation “Klonen.” On August 13, agents...
A seller claims 1.7M McDonald’s employee records were stolen from Azure. An 8,000-row sample appears genuine, but its age and full size remain unconfirmed. A seller on a data-trading forum posted an 8,000-row sample this week claiming it came from McDonald’s own Azure tenant, part of a supposed 1.7...
Cybersecurity researchers have attributed the exploitation of a newly patched security flaw in Broadcom VMware vCenter to a suspected China-nexus advanced persistent threat (APT).
The attacks involve the exploitation of CVE-2026-59310 (CVSS score: 9.8), a severe directory-traversal vulnerability in...
Flashpoint data reveals infostealers were responsible for taking 1.7 billion credentials in the first half of 2026
On this week's episode of The Reg's Kettle podcast, we revisit 'hacker summer camp,' where the hottest topic was ... sigh... agentic AI
Akira attackers used Safe Mode to disable EDR before deploying ransomware, but memory issues caused the encryptor to fail. An Akira ransomware affiliate broke into a company through an MFA-less SonicWall VPN on August 4, stole credentials and file shares, and then rebooted the compromised host into...
A list of topics we covered in the week of August 10 to August 16 of 2026
A threat actor is claiming the exfiltration of millions of records from McDonald’s, TCS, Vodafone, and other large organizations.
The post Fortune 500 Companies Hit in Azure Data Theft Campaign appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Researchers from the University of Birmingham and Durham University have found a way to knock down some of the toughest protections in Windows 11 without physically opening or modifying the target machine. The attack assumes the attacker has already gained privileged access to the system. A chip tha...
Hazmat is an open-source tool that runs AI coding agents inside a separate account on your own machine. It wraps the harnesses people use: Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode, Cursor Agent, and several more, plus any script you write yourself. An agent launched the ordinary way runs as you, which means it...
ScamNet: Anti-Scam Suite is a consumer security app from Synaptrex Technologies that helps users detect and block scams involving phone calls, text messages, websites, and other suspicious content. The app is available for iPhone, iPad, and Mac, with features varying by platform. Call protection is...
A few days ago, a paper named “Stealing Reasoning Traces from Proprietary LLM APIs” was published. It describes a simple, yet super elegant way to recover encrypted LLM reasoning traces.
Naturally, I had to try it.
Background
AI labs like OpenAI and Anthropic send reasoning traces back and forth as...
Companies that provide specific evidence of how they use AI tend to record stronger revenue growth. Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University and Larridin examined a study universe of 564 companies across 12 industry sectors. Individual analyses used smaller samples depending on data availability. T...