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IT Security News Hourly Summary 2026-08-16 20h : 6 posts
6 posts published in the last hour 17:31Mustang Panda Upgrades CoolClient With a Kernel Rootkit 17:02Cyber Security Weekly Newsletter – Outlook RCE, Palo Alto, Cisco 0-day and Windows 0-Day Flaws +20 Stories 17:02Microsoft Begins to Merge Consumer and Enterprise Copilot…
Mustang Panda Upgrades CoolClient With a Kernel Rootkit
Mustang Panda upgraded CoolClient with a signed kernel driver that hides processes, files and network activity, making the backdoor harder to detect.…
Cyber Security Weekly Newsletter – Outlook RCE, Palo Alto, Cisco 0-day and Windows 0-Day Flaws +20 Stories
This week’s roundup covers a record-setting Microsoft Patch Tuesday, an actively exploited Cisco firewall zero-day, a Lazarus-linked Windows kernel bug,…
Microsoft Begins to Merge Consumer and Enterprise Copilot Apps to Make New Super App
Microsoft is moving closer to a unified Copilot experience by merging key elements of its consumer AI assistant with the Microsoft 365 productivity…
McDonald’s, Vodafone Hit by Azure Credential Theft Campaign Exposing Millions of Enterprise Records
A sprawling Azure data exfiltration campaign is unfolding across the dark web, with a threat actor systematically selling off internal employee…
AWS Certificate Manager to Discontinue Email Validation for Public Certificates
AWS Certificate Manager (ACM) has announced plans to permanently discontinue email-based domain control validation (DCV) for public certificate renewals…
IT Security News Hourly Summary 2026-08-16 19h : 4 posts
4 posts published in the last hour 16:02Visa Deploys Mythos to Uncover Vulnerabilities in Its Payment Network 16:02SAP Commerce Cloud Vulnerability Targeted After Patch 16:01Apple macOS Flaw Exploited in the Wild to Install Monero Cryptominers 16:01Evooo1Bot Hijacks Linux Routers for…
Visa Deploys Mythos to Uncover Vulnerabilities in Its Payment Network
During Anthropic’s Project Glasswing initiative, Visa evaluated Claude Mythos Preview against its global payment processing network. Operating across 200…
SAP Commerce Cloud Vulnerability Targeted After Patch
A maximum-severity vulnerability in SAP Commerce Cloud is reportedly facing exploitation attempts only days after SAP released a security update. Tracked…
Apple macOS Flaw Exploited in the Wild to Install Monero Cryptominers
A critical vulnerability in the recently updated Apple macOS has been weaponized by threat actors to mine Monero cryptocurrency, according to the…
Evooo1Bot Hijacks Linux Routers for Proxying, Credential Theft and DDoS Attacks
A new Linux botnet named Evooo1Bot is turning internet-facing routers and other gateway devices into SOCKS5 traffic relay nodes, giving attackers a way to…
Active Directory Security: Hardening Guide and Common Attack Paths (2026)
By HOC Team | Last updated: August 2026 | Read time: ~25 min When the NotPetya malware spread…
Cloud Penetration Testing: Methodology, Tools and Legal Requirements (2026)
By HOC Team | Last updated: August 2026 | Read time: ~24 min A financial services company commissioned…
Trezor Data Breach Exposes Personal Information of Nearly 14,000 Customers
Hardware cryptocurrency wallet maker Trezor has disclosed a data breach involving the personal information of nearly 14,000 customers, after an…
Stopping a cyberattack while walking your dog – defensive AI security CEO says it’s not ruff to do
Corma CEO tells The Reg it’s building ‘One ring to rule them all, for the defenders to have this power’
Security Affairs newsletter Round 590 by Pierluigi Paganini – INTERNATIONAL EDITION
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Sophisticated Cyberattack Exposes Data of 678,000 French Taxpayers
France’s tax agency says hackers stole data on 678,000 taxpayers, including income and tax details, in a sophisticated cyberattack. A threat actor claimed…
Week in review: Salesforce and ServiceNow portals exposed for 17 months, exploited Metabase 0-day
Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news, articles, interviews and videos: GitHub Dependabot malware alerts now cover eight…
APT36 Suspected in PATCHCORD Espionage Campaign Using Google Sheets C2
Acronis uncovered PATCHCORD, a stealthy backdoor targeting Afghan telecom and South Asian infrastructure via fake VPN tools and Google Sheets C2.…
Google Confirms Gmail Was Not Breached After Reports of 183 Million Password Leak
Google says Gmail was not breached, despite reports claiming that 183 million Gmail passwords had leaked. Thank you for being a Ghacks reader.
IT Security News Daily Summary 2026-08-15
74 posts published today 21:00IT Security News Hourly Summary 2026-08-15 23h : 6 posts 20:31Encrypted AI Reasoning Flaw Exposed Secrets Across Major LLM APIs 20:31Meccha Chameleon Players Urged to Update Game After Malicious Workshop Maps Infect PCs 20:31Anthropic AI Discovery…
IT Security News Hourly Summary 2026-08-15 23h : 6 posts
6 posts published in the last hour 20:31Encrypted AI Reasoning Flaw Exposed Secrets Across Major LLM APIs 20:31Meccha Chameleon Players Urged to Update Game After Malicious Workshop Maps Infect PCs 20:31Anthropic AI Discovery Pushes HAWK Out of US Post-Quantum Cryptography…
Encrypted AI Reasoning Flaw Exposed Secrets Across Major LLM APIs
A newly reported security weakness in the systems used by OpenAI, Anthropic and Google to preserve hidden AI reasoning between API calls has allowed…