> TODAY'S SUMMARY (14 articles)
Today's cybersecurity news highlights several significant threats and trends. A major cyberattack on French bank Crédit Mutuel Arkéa resulted in fraudulent transactions totaling $133 million, emphasizing the risks associated with third-party service providers. Scammers are increasingly impersonating trusted brands in fake gift card schemes, collecting personal information from unsuspecting consumers. The rise of IoT vulnerabilities is underscored by recent hacks affecting critical infrastructure, such as blood labs and grocery stores. Additionally, vulnerabilities in SonicWall's SonicOS have been exploited, prompting CISA to add these to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. Developers are also reminded of security best practices, as sensitive credentials were found exposed in public GitHub repositories.
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Researchers at Ledger's Donjon security team have shown that a precisely timed laser pulse, aimed at the chip inside a Tangem crypto wallet card, can reset the card's password to anything the attacker picks.
No old password. No backup card. Once it is reset, whoever did it controls the wallet and c...
Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) have failed to block a proposal extending the mass scanning of private communications, a measure they have previously rejected twice.
This time too, more votes were cast against the proposal than in favor, but due to the absence of...
Security company CrowdStrike has identified five new prompt injection techniques that could leave enterprises at risk. Prompt injections attacks exploit the growing use of AI within organizations . They work by tricking LLMs into accepting instructions that a human operator wo...
Details have emerged about three now-patched security flaws in the OpenClaw personal artificial intelligence (AI) assistant that, if successfully exploited, could enable credential theft, privilege escalation, and arbitrary code execution on the host.
A brief description of the high-severity vulner...
A third ransomware negotiator has been jailed for helping a notorious ransomware group extort American victim companies into paying the hackers.
AI agents are accelerating the growth of non-human identities, making it harder for organizations to understand what exists, who owns it, and what it can access. Netwrix explains why stronger visibility and identity governance are essential as AI expands the enterprise attack surface. [...]
Researchers at the AI Now Institute developed a proof-of-concept exploit showing common AI tools used for security could backfire
GigaWiper is a remote access Trojan that can spy on victims and permanently wipe their systems in three different ways.
The activity, in some cases breaching the exact same systems, ran between February 2024 and April 2026 and centered on the force responsible for the country’s southwestern province that has been the site of a long-running separatist insurgency.
This post is part 2 in a series about automated content moderation. Read the first post here.
When whistleblower Frances Haugen leaked a set of documents from Meta in 2020, among the revelations was a jarring statistic: The company’s algorithms designed to detect terrorist content incorrectly delete...
The China-linked cybercrime group known as Silver Fox has been attributed to a new Rust-based remote access trojan (RAR) called MODBEACON.
Chinese cybersecurity company QiAnXin said that while the threat cluster may appear like a low-sophistication, high-activity operation that propagates malware v...
GodDamn ransomware uses remote desktop application to secretly move around networks and drop the malicious PoisonX kernel driver
Smart Tiered Cache allows for precise upper tier selection for origins hosted on AWS, GCP, Azure, and Oracle Cloud with customer-provided cloud region hints.
Angelo Martino, a former ransomware negotiator, was sentenced to 70 months for helping the BlackCat/Alphv group.
The post Third US Security Expert Sentenced to Prison for Helping Ransomware Gang appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Ransomware remains above 1,400 attacks yearly since 2023. Qilin leads in 2026, while the U.S. remains the main target. Ransomnews has independently confirmed 9,291 ransomware attacks worldwide between January 2018 and July 2026, tracking incidents only when verified through victim disclosures, regul...
Incode has launched On-Device Age Estimation, an age verification capability that performs age estimation and liveness detection directly on the user’s device, without transmitting facial data off the device. The company’s age estimation models are now available to run entirely on-device. The soluti...
Copenhagen company ‘sorry’ after 'perpetrator' pops order management system
Both foes and allies have targeted the Balochistan Police force in Pakistan for at least two years, according to SentinelOne.
The post China, India-Linked Hackers Both Targeted Same Pakistani Police Force appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Le chercheur derrière RoguePlanet affirme que le correctif pour Windows Defender permet un déni de service saturant le disque local.
Le post Windows Defender : le patch RoguePlanet aurait des effets de bord a été publié sur IT-Connect.
A single wrong variable on one line in XQUIC, Alibaba's QUIC and HTTP/3 library, lets any remote client crash the server with a short burst of completely legal traffic. There is no patch.
FoxIO researcher Sébastien Féry disclosed the flaw on July 8 and nicknamed it XRING. He says it needs no login...