Tag: cyber
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AccuKnox Wins Best AI Startup Award for Enterprise Agentic AI Security at BSides Bangalore
Bangalore, India, July 22nd, 2026, CyberNewswire AccuKnox announced it has won the number one Startup Award at Security BSides Bangalore 2026, marking the second consecutive year the company has topped the category after also winning in 2025. The back-to-back recognition affirms AccuKnox’s standing among the region’s leading cybersecurity startups. AI Security Adoption For AccuKnox, this award…
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Yubico Launches YubiKey 5.8 With Hardware-Backed Authorization for AI Agent Workflows
Yubico has released the YubiKey firmware version 5.85.85.8, expanding its hardware security key platform beyond phishing-resistant authentication. This update introduces verifiable, hardware-backed authorization for digital signatures, identity wallets, payment confirmations, and AI agent approval workflows. Announced on July 21, 2026, this firmware update aims to help enterprises verify not only who accesses an application but…
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Jisc recommits to academic cyber collaboration network
Academic IT and network services network Jisc resigns a collaborative MoU with partners from Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the US. First seen on computerweekly.com Jump to article: www.computerweekly.com/news/366646002/Jisc-recommits-to-academic-cyber-collaboration-network
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Google Launches Gemini 3.5 Flash Cyber to Find, Validate, and Patch Critical Vulnerabilities
Google has introduced Gemini 3.5 Flash Cyber, a lightweight AI model specifically designed to help security teams discover, validate, and patch critical software vulnerabilities at scale. Announced on July 21, 2026, this model builds on Gemini 3.5 Flash and is optimized for security workflows. It enables agents to inspect large codebases, explore numerous execution paths,…
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Google Chrome Update Fixes 12 High-Severity Vulnerabilities That Enable Browser Attacks
Google has released a Chrome security update that addresses 12 high-severity vulnerabilities affecting various components, including WebAudio, ANGLE, Chromecast, extensions, Skia, the V8 JavaScript engine, certificate handling, the user interface, and GPU elements. Many of these vulnerabilities involve memory corruption issues, such as out-of-bounds reads and writes, use-after-free bugs, stack buffer overflows, and type confusion.…
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OpenAI Exploits Zero-Day to Gain Internet Access and Compromise Hugging Face Servers
OpenAI has revealed that during an internal evaluation of advanced cyber capabilities, AI agents exploited a zero-day vulnerability, escaped a constrained research environment, and compromised parts of Hugging Face’s production infrastructure. While Hugging Face detected and contained the activity, OpenAI’s internal security team also identified unusual behavior during the assessment. OpenAI Compromise Hugging Face Servers…
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Cyber resilience fuels AI growth, but CISOs see key gaps
First seen on scworld.com Jump to article: www.scworld.com/native/cyber-resilience-fuels-ai-growth-but-cisos-see-key-gaps
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Abbott Laboratories investigates 2 separate cyber incidents
First seen on scworld.com Jump to article: www.scworld.com/brief/abbott-laboratories-investigates-two-separate-cyber-incidents
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OpenAI says model test was behind Hugging Face hack
At the time, Hugging Face said it wasn’t clear which LLM was used in the attack. OpenAI confirmed it was one of their models being tested for “maximal” cyber capabilities. First seen on cyberscoop.com Jump to article: cyberscoop.com/openai-chatgpt-hugging-face-cyberattack-data-poisoning/
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The Next Crypto Fraud Frontier May Be Space
As Space Investment Grows, Cybercriminals May Target Trust, Hype and Opacity The next frontier of cyber-enabled fraud may involve tokenized space assets, fabricated aerospace claims and orbital projects that were never built. As commercial space investment grows, distinguishing innovation from manufactured credibility can become more difficult. First seen on govinfosecurity.com Jump to article: www.govinfosecurity.com/blogs/next-crypto-fraud-frontier-may-be-space-p-4156
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Where’s the Trump administration line on AI regulation?
The messy approach to U.S. AI regulation reflects both the rapid speed of model cyber capabilities and the White House’s “education” over the past two years, experts said. First seen on cyberscoop.com Jump to article: cyberscoop.com/trump-admin-ai-safety-cybersecurity-export-controls/
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Google Launches Gemini 3.5 Flash Cyber AI to Find and Fix Software Vulnerabilities
Google’s DeepMind on Tuesday announced the release of Gemini 3.5 Flash Cyber, a specialized artificial intelligence (AI) model built atop 3.5 Flash that’s designed to discover, validate, and patch vulnerabilities quickly and efficiently.According to the tech giant, the model will be exclusively available to governments and trusted partners via CodeMender as part of a limited-access…
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Hackers Abuse Ethereum Smart Contracts to Hide Amatera Stealer C2 Servers
Hackers are increasingly abusing decentralized infrastructure and legitimate development frameworks to evade detection, with a newly observed campaign leveraging Ethereum smart contracts to conceal command-and-control (C2) endpoints for the Amatera Stealer infostealer. These lures are propagated عبر malicious websites, file-sharing platforms such as Google Drive, MEGA, GoFile, and Wormhole, and spoofed download portals designed to…
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Forescout Report Reveals Surge in AI-Driven Cyber Threats
The Forescout 2026 H1 Threat Review found that more than 37,000 vulnerabilities were published during the first six months of the year, representing a 51% increase year on year. More than half were classified as high or critical severity, while ransomware attack claims rose by 25% to 4,544 incidents, averaging 25 attacks every day. The…
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New CAV3RN Module Replaces WebSocket C2 With Outlook Calendar Dead Drops
In a significant evolution of the Project CAV3RN tooling, a new .NET Native AOT communication module dubbed AzureCommunication.dll has been deployed to replace the framework’s earlier HTTP/WebSocket C2 component. A stealthy channel that abuses Outlook calendar events over Microsoft Graph and a DNS-based recovery mechanism for Microsoft 365 credentials. This shift reinforces CAV3RN’s positioning as…
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Trump’s AI Safety Agency Chief Resigns After Just Three Months Leading CAISI
Chris Fall, the director of the U.S. Center for AI Standards and Innovation (CAISI), has resigned just three months after being appointed to lead the Commerce Department agency. This departure raises new uncertainties regarding the Trump administration’s agenda on AI safety, model evaluation, and cybersecurity oversight. The Commerce Department confirmed his resignation on July 20,…
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1 in 4 businesses hit by cyber attacks through their supply chain in the last year
One in four UK businesses (26%) have suffered a cyber incident that originated in their supply chain over the last year, according to new research from business continuity and disaster recovery specialist Databarracks. The finding is particularly striking given that organisations are highly aware of the risk they face: nearly half (48%) admit they have…
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2026 Ransomware Report Reveals 7,551 Victims, 146 Active Groups, and Qilin’s 443% Surge
Ransomware volumes hit a new peak in 2026, with Black Kite tracking 7,551 publicly disclosed victims, 146 active groups, and a 443% year”‘over”‘year surge in Qilin activity that reshapes the threat landscape. The data points to a structurally higher operating tempo, a middle”‘market pivot, and attacker visibility that often outpaces defenders’ own understanding of their…
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Microsoft Retires Copilot Podcasts and Removes Access to Previously Created Content
Microsoft has announced that it will retire the Podcasts feature in its consumer Copilot app on August 18, 2026. This decision will permanently remove the ability to generate new AI-created podcasts, as well as access to all previously created content. This change affects all Copilot customers, including both free users and paid subscribers, and raises…
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Microsoft Defender XDR Blind Spot Lets Public C2 Traffic Evade Detection Queries
Microsoft Defender XDR users may inadvertently overlook command-and-control (C2) traffic when searching for Internet-bound connections due to a specific behavior in how IP addresses are classified. This issue arises from Kusto Query Language (KQL) detections that depend solely on filtering by RemoteIPType == >>Public<< in the DeviceNetworkEvents table. As a result, traffic destined for public…
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Hackers Use Cruciferra Crypter to Disable EDR and Deploy XWorm, Remcos, and AsyncRAT
Hackers are abusing the Cruciferra crypter-as-a-service to systematically turn off endpoint detection and response (EDR) tools and stealthily deploy XWorm, Remcos, AsyncRAT, and other commodity malware in email-driven campaigns targeting multiple sectors worldwide. By combining BYOVD-based driver abuse, indirect syscalls and a polymorphic encryption engine with more than 90 mix-and-match crypto routines, Cruciferra has rapidly…
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Hackers Exploit ServiceNow AI Platform Flaw to Gain Unauthenticated Remote Code Execution
Tags: advisory, ai, authentication, cve, cyber, exploit, flaw, hacker, remote-code-execution, threat, vulnerabilityThreat actors are actively exploiting CVE-2026-6875, a critical pre-authentication remote code execution vulnerability in the ServiceNow AI Platform. This vulnerability allows attackers to escape a restricted server-side script sandbox and execute code without valid credentials. Reports from Defused indicate observed exploitation activity targeting this flaw. Initially, ServiceNow’s advisory stated it was not aware of any…
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JADEPUFFER Deploys ENCFORGE Ransomware Built to Destroy AI Models and Training Data
JADEPUFFER has escalated from automated database extortion to purpose-built AI model destruction, deploying a custom Go ransomware dubbed ENCFORGE to encrypt and effectively wipe high”‘value AI and ML artifacts across an entire stack. A missing”‘authentication bug in the /api/v1/validate/code endpoint that enables unauthenticated arbitrary Python execution on the host. That initial operation chained reconnaissance, credential…
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What the World Cup can teach us about cybersecurity resilience
Future major events can’t rely on yesterday’s playbook. Lessons from the World Cup show why true cyber resilience starts months before kickoff and extends far beyond stadium perimeters. First seen on cyberscoop.com Jump to article: cyberscoop.com/world-cup-2026-major-event-cybersecurity-resilience-op-ed/
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AsyncAPI Supply Chain Attack Deploys Miasma Backdoor Through Trusted npm Workflows
AsyncAPI’s npm ecosystem suffered a coordinated supply chain compromise on July 14, 2026, delivering a Miasma”‘associated Node.js backdoor through trusted GitHub Actionsdriven release workflows and exposing high”‘value developer and CI/CD environments to remote access, credential theft, and further lateral movement. Malicious versions were shipped for @asyncapi/generator@3.3.1, @asyncapi/generator-helpers@1.1.1, @asyncapi/generator-components@0.7.1, and @asyncapi/specs@6.11.2 and 6.11.2-alpha.1, together accounting for…
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Hackers Exploit SonicWall SMA Zero-Days to Gain Root Access and Deploy ORANGETAIL Webshell
An ongoing exploitation of two zero-day vulnerabilities in SonicWall Secure Mobile Access (SMA) devices. These vulnerabilities allowed a threat actor, identified as UTA0533, to gain root-level access, install persistent malware, and deploy the ORANGETAIL Java webshell on vulnerable VPN appliances. The affected SonicWall SMA models include the 1000 series, specifically models 6210, 7210, and 8200.…