An updated ransomware campaign is targeting an important but often overlooked asset in artificial intelligence environments: trained AI models and their…
Citrix NetScaler Heap Overflow Flaw Lets Remote Attackers Execute Code as Root – PoC Released
A working proof-of-concept (PoC) exploit demonstrating how a pre-authentication heap overflow in Citrix NetScaler ADC and NetScaler Gateway can be turned…
AnMed Health Ransomware Attack Highlights Growing Patient Safety Risks in Healthcare
AnMed Health is the latest healthcare organization to be disrupted by a ransomware-related cybersecurity incident after having to cancel procedures and…
AI Agents Don’t Stop When Malware Fails, They Write Another Tool and Keep Attacking
AI agents are changing the shape of cyberattacks. Instead of relying on a fixed piece of malware, an agent can test an approach, see it fail, write a…
OpenAI Discloses AI Agent Breached Hugging Face and Accessed Four Other Services
OpenAI has disclosed that an autonomous AI agent involved in an internal cybersecurity evaluation accessed four accounts across four publicly available…
Veracode Finds AI-Generated Code Still Struggles With Security
Veracode finds that AI-generated code remains vulnerable despite near perfect syntax performance.
Lazarus Abuses Zero-Day Exploit to Install a New Backdoor
Lazarus does a zero-day exploitt The North Korean hacking group called Lazarus has been linked to the zero-day compromise of a recently patched…
Cloudflare Report Shows Massive Spike in High-Volume DDoS Attacks: Here Is What the Data Shows
Cloudflare says 805 DDoS attacks topped 1 Tbps in Q2 2026 as high-bandwidth attacks surged, raising new concerns for network defenses.
Hackers Steal 607,000 Records in Cyber-Attack on UK Department for Education
Hackers have stolen around 607,000 records from England’s Department for Education (DfE) after compromising systems used to handle enquiries and…
The first domino of AI disruption: How frontier models are revolutionising software security
Jimmy White, Chief Technology Officer, AI Security, F5 The first domino has well and truly fallen. The advent of high-powered AI models that can rapidly…
New York School District Pauses AI Robot Teacher Plan After Privacy and Safety Concerns
A rural school district in upstate New York decided to cancel the plan to bring in a robot after teachers, state officials, and community members raised…
Researchers Confirm ExfilSquad’s Access to Sensitive Data Across 13 Organizations
Researchers have verified that ExfilSquad possesses sensitive data stolen from at least 13 victims after the extortion group published leaked datasets via…
UK Retail Turns to Chinese Robots
Britain’s retail industry is entering a new phase of automation as Chinese robotics companies step in to fill growing labour gaps. With productivity…
Picus Blue Report Reveals Persistent Detection Gaps
Picus finds that cyber defenses are improving, but detection, post-compromise, and ransomware prevention gaps persist.
Here’s How to Secure Your SSO Against Credential Attacks
Single sign-on (SSO) has transformed how employees access business applications by allowing one account to authenticate users across multiple services.…
IT Security News Hourly Summary 2026-08-14 17h : 15 posts
15 posts were published in the last hour 14:31 : After Microsoft threatened legal action, a security researcher publishes a new Windows zero-day bug 14:31 : Wordfence Intelligence Weekly WordPress Vulnerability Report (August 3, 2026 to August 9, 2026) 14:31…
After Microsoft threatened legal action, a security researcher publishes a new Windows zero-day bug
This is the latest zero-day released by security researcher Nightmare Eclipse, despite Microsoft publicly threatening to take legal action against them.
Wordfence Intelligence Weekly WordPress Vulnerability Report (August 3, 2026 to August 9, 2026)
Last week, there were disclosed in and that have been added to the Wordfence Intelligence Vulnerability Database, and there were that contributed to…
Autonomous AI Hacking Campaign Targets Taiwan Infrastructure
Taiwan’s Ministry of Digital Affairs (MODA) confirmed that government systems and critical national infrastructure were targeted in a…
French tax authority admits data heist after crook touts 2M records
Government disputes claims of continued access as investigators measure damage
Hackers abuse AI models to find new entry paths
Network defenders are racing to secure their IT systems before criminal and state-actors circumvent existing guardrails.
Cyber Briefing: 2026.08.14
Rapid zero-day weaponization, high-tempo ransomware deployments, and large-scale web scraping continue to expose critical systems and personal data across…
Cisco says software vulnerability could let hackers crash firewalls
Threat actors have already begun exploiting the flaw, according to the U.S. government.
WindRelay Malware Pairs With SpyNote RAT in Live-Call Scam
New WindRelay NFC malware paired with SpyNote RAT let a fraudster clone a card mid-call