Korean telco KT has been fined $39m for a year-long breach linked to femtocell compromise
The OpenAI Hack Shows the Genie Is Out of the Bottle
This essay originally appeared in Foreign Policy . Earlier this month, two of OpenAI’s models broke out of their containment sandbox and attacked another…
Chinese Threat Actor Uses Leaked DarkSword Kit to Deploy GHOSTBLADE on iOS
An unknown Chinese-threat actor has been observed running a campaign targeting Apple iOS devices by leveraging a publicly leaked version of the DarkSword…
ICE Collected Nearly 1 Million People’s DNA Last Year—Including Young Children
Internal documents show ICE’s DNA collection has skyrocketed in the second Trump administration. Now hundreds of thousands of people never convicted of a…
Pass the Passkey: A Novel Attack Surface in Passwordless Authentication
Explore how passkey implementation gaps undermine security when relying parties fail to validate the User Verified flag, reducing MFA to a single factor.
IT Security News Hourly Summary 2026-08-03 12h : 6 posts
6 posts were published in the last hour 10:2 : Alleged Żabka Breach Exposes Jira Data, Source Code, and API Keys 10:2 : Silicon In Focus Podcast: AI Agents Enter the Enterprise: From Chatbots to Autonomous Digital Workers 10:2 :…
Alleged Żabka Breach Exposes Jira Data, Source Code, and API Keys
Alleged Żabka data leak offered for €5,000 includes Jira data, GitLab repos, and secrets; researchers verified much of the sample. A brand-new forum…
Silicon In Focus Podcast: AI Agents Enter the Enterprise: From Chatbots to Autonomous Digital Workers
Discover how AI agents are becoming autonomous digital workers, transforming enterprise productivity, governance, security and the future of work
XCSSET v40 Abuses Chrome DevTools Protocol to Steal Cookies and Run Commands
XCSSET has returned with a way to target macOS developers. The latest version, v40, hides inside poisoned Xcode projects and can turn a local build into a…
Critical N-able N-central Vulnerability Under Active Exploitation as Hotfix Lands
N-able has confirmed that a critical vulnerability in N-central, its flagship remote monitoring and management (RMM) platform, is being actively exploited…
Russian State APT Linked to Recent Public Wi-Fi Gateway Hacking
Midnight Blizzard has been stealing Microsoft account credentials via compromised Wi-Fi networks at hospitality organizations.
Internet-Facing SonicWall SMA Appliances Face Zero-Click Root Compromise
Internet-facing SonicWall Secure Mobile Access, or SMA, appliances face a serious threat after attackers turned two flaws into a route to full VPN-gateway…
Coldcard Users Lose $89m After Bitcoin Wallet Is Hacked
A hacker has drained nearly $89m from Coldcard Bitcoin wallets after exploiting a legacy bug
OpenAI reveals how criminals used ChatGPT to run scams
OpenAI banned a coordinated network of ChatGPT accounts that likely originated in Cambodia’s Preah Sihanouk province, a region reports have linked to…
Zoox To Offer US’ First Paid Rides In Custom Robotaxis
Zoox to offer commercial services in Las Vegas for first time, after receiving federal exemption for cars without steering wheels
Thermo Fisher Patches Flaw That Could Make DNA File Tampering Nearly Undetectable
Thermo Fisher Scientific has patched a flaw in select Applied Biosystems human identification software that could allow data files to be altered before…
What cybersecurity experts are talking about in 2026
Cybersecurity research in 2026 is revealing a threat landscape shaped by increasingly specialized actors, trusted platforms being turned into attack…
US Water Cyberattacks Extend Beyond Minnesota to at Least 6 Other States
Michigan, South Dakota, and Georgia are reportedly on the list of states whose water systems have been targeted by Iran-linked hackers.
Elastic Defend now covers 800+ vulnerable drivers, with automated troubleshooting and ARM support
Attackers reaching for kernel access on a Windows machine bring a driver Microsoft already trusts. It is signed, it loads, and it carries a known flaw.…
Amazon Finds Cost Overruns In Some AI Projects
Amazon engineers reportedly warn staff of ‘catastrophically expensive’ cost issues that have arisen with some AI programming deployments
Leak Affects Thousands Of Warwickshire Voters
Personal information on nearly 3,000 voters in Warwickshire sent via link in email due to ‘human error’, says local council
London Assembly Calls For More Control Over Robotaxis
Senior London Assembly member says ministers should cede full oversight of capital’s autonomous vehicles to Transport for London
Coldcard Hardware Wallet RNG Flaw Linked to $88.6 Million Bitcoin Theft
A firmware flaw in Coldcard hardware wallets has been linked to the theft of approximately $88.6 million in Bitcoin. Attackers exploited a compromised…
Hugging Face Diffusers Flaws Could Let Model Repositories Execute Arbitrary Code
Three high-severity security flaws have been disclosed in Hugging Face’s Diffusers library that could allow crafted model repositories to stealthily…