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Today's cybersecurity news highlights significant threats, including a major breach at French Bank Crédit Mutuel Arkéa, where attackers exploited vulnerabilities in a third-party service provider to steal up to $133 million. This incident underscores the ongoing risk associated with third-party integrations. Additionally, refrigeration cyberattacks continue to target European retailers, raising concerns about supply chain security. As organizations face these evolving threats, proactive measures and timely patching, especially in light of upcoming Patch Tuesday, are crucial for mitigating risks. Overall, the focus remains on enhancing security protocols to safeguard against sophisticated cyber threats.
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A cluster of 77 extensions on the Open VSX marketplace has been found to impersonate legitimate developer tools while transmitting information about the systems and development environments on which they were installed.
The "evil twin" extensions were uploaded to the repository between July 26 and...
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AI chatbots are avoiding some of the obvious errors that plagued earlier models, but they still fall short giving voters the full picture compared to state and local sources.
The post AI is getting better at election facts, but voters shouldn’t rely on it appeared first on CyberScoop.
Comparisons of LangChain, CrewAI and AutoGen are easy to find — dozens of guides this year cover the same ground: developer experience, ecosystem maturity, how easy it is to wire up multi-agent workflows. None of them ask the question I actually care about: does the framework...
The malware was designed to steal and exfiltrate secrets, and to propagate itself via stolen NPM and GitHub credentials.
The post Over 400 NPM Packages Infected in ChainDrop Supply Chain Attack appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Anthropic and OpenAI models attacked “real people and organizations” during AI Security Institute tests
A phishing campaign impersonating Bank of America (BoA) is underway, trying to trick Windows users into installing ScreenConnect remote access software and then making it difficult to uninstall it. Different traps for Mac and Windows users By claiming the recipient must take specific actions “to avo...
ESET PROTECT plugin for ConnectWise Asio 1.1 is now available to download in the ConnectWise Asio platform.
Recent high-profile rogue agent incidents involving OpenAI and Anthropic underscore the fact that organizations can’t put blind trust in their AI guardrails.
Moreover, they must able to turn off agents quickly when they deviate from intended behavior — before they can do pote...
Cybercriminals are using a fake Bank of America phishing campaign to trick users into downloading a malicious script that installs ScreenConnect, enabling remote access and persistence on compromised systems
Cloudflare’s Wallets will give AI agents running on its platform a human-readable wallet handle for paying APIs and online content within limits set by their creator. Handle reservations have opened, while the service will become available in the coming months. It will include two types of digital w...
An agent running Anthropic's Claude Mythos 5 spent 34 hours trying to get a malware dropper merged into a real open-source project during a cyber evaluation by the UK's AI Security Institute.
When a bystander publicly warned that the code was malicious, the agent denied it, force-pushed a rewritten...
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), on August 5, 2026, added three flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, citing evidence of active exploitation in the wild.
The list of vulnerabilities is as follows -
CVE-2026-9198 (CVSS score: 9.8) - A code i...
Malicious AI use and threats to AI systems are requiring cyber teams to double down on security fundamentals and rethink the future of their approaches to defense.
Newly emerging AI-enabled attacks, proofs of concept, and in-the-wild techniques, as well as the latest AI vul...
Georgia has been confirmed as one of the attacked states after Clayton County reported a pump station disruption.
The post Water Sector Cyberattacks Reportedly Hit at Least 12 States appeared first on SecurityWeek.
SMOKE#SCREEN uses fake Zoom updates to install ScreenConnect RMM, giving attackers persistent remote access while bypassing defenses. Securonix Threat Research has been tracking an active multi-wave campaign they’ve named SMOKE#SCREEN, in which unknown attackers use rotating social engineering lures...
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed what has been described as a "long-standing supply chain attack" on QuickFox, a virtual private network (VPN) and network acceleration tool designed for overseas Chinese users.
According to Fortinet FortiGuard Labs, the supply chain attack has been ongoing s...
Future AGI is an open-source platform for tracing, evaluating, simulating, and guardrailing LLM agents, licensed Apache 2.0 and self-hostable. Self-hosted instances register with Future AGI on first boot and send an instance ID, a version string, a deployment type, and the email addresses and domain...
Here’s an uncomfortable truth: the attack that gets you won’t look like an attack. It’ll look like a normal login, a normal file share, a normal permission request you clicked past without reading. You don’t have a phishing problem, a DLP problem, or an OAuth problem. You have one problem wearing th...
This vulnerability allows network-adjacent attackers to disclose sensitive information and modify configuration on affected installations of PAX Technology Q80. Authentication is not required to exploit this vulnerability. The ZDI has assigned a CVSS rating of 7.1.