A malicious RubyGems campaign has turned seemingly useful developer packages into tools for hidden cryptocurrency mining. The poisoned packages can consume a machine’s computing power, slow down development work, and quietly generate Monero for the attackers. The campaign also goes…
Governing Al agents at scale: Lessons from the leaders who’ve done it
Enterprise AI leaders from ZoomInfo, Docusign and AppViewX share what it took to build AI Centers of Excellence and govern agent identities inside two companies operating at scale. What you’ll take away: What an AI Center of Excellence looks like…
Russian LAUNDRY BEAR Hackers Exploit Zimbra Zero-Day to Steal 90 Days of Emails
Russian state-supported threat actors, known as LAUNDRY BEAR, have exploited a zero-day vulnerability in the Zimbra Collaboration Suite to steal up to 909,090 days’ worth of emails from targeted organizations across Western countries. A joint cybersecurity advisory, AA26-204A, issued on…
Data Breach Confirmed After Australian Energy Giant Origin Is Hacked
A hacker claims to have stolen the information of 2 million Origin Energy customers and is threatening to leak it. The post Data Breach Confirmed After Australian Energy Giant Origin Is Hacked appeared first on SecurityWeek. This article has been…
Ransomware gangs go after EMEA healthcare’s supply chain
A ransomware attack against a hospital makes headlines, while attacks on the rest of the ecosystem around it tend to stay quiet despite doing damage that can be just as bad. Flare researcher Assaf Morag analyzed ransomware leak-site activity tied…
Hackers Weaponize Notepad++ Plugins to Silently Infect Windows Systems
CERT-UA has issued a warning regarding the UAC-0099 threat cluster, which has revised its malware delivery method by exploiting the legitimate Notepad++ application to load a malicious DLL disguised as a plugin. This campaign, observed since mid-summer 2026, introduces two…
The best-funded companies open the most phishing attachments
An employee gets an email dressed as a password reset. She clicks the link, types her credentials into a page built to copy her company’s login screen, and moves on with her morning. She tells no one. That silence is…
Next.js Patches Nine Security Flaws Enabling SSRF, Middleware Bypass, DoS, and Internal Endpoint Disclosure
The Next.js team has released security updates that address nine vulnerabilities affecting the App Router, Server Actions, rewrites, image optimization, caching, and middleware deployments. Organizations are urged to upgrade to Next.js versions 15.5.21 or 16.2.11 immediately, as these updates fix…
136 Malicious RubyGems Packages Deploy XMRig Miner and Spread via SSH
A large-scale supply chain attack has flooded RubyGems with 136 trojanized packages that deploy an XMRig Monero miner and self-propagate via SSH, underscoring systemic weaknesses in language ecosystems beyond npm and PyPI. On July 22, 2026, researchers Moe Ghasemisharif, Ruian…
Ransomware in 2026: More groups, more victims, no slowdown
Ransomware activity followed a recognizable pattern during the previous four years. Each year was defined by a dominant actor, its collapse, or a major supply chain incident. Black Kite’s 2026 Ransomware Report documents a more fragmented market, with multiple ransomware…
New infosec products of the week: July 24, 2026
Here’s a look at the most interesting products from the past week, featuring releases from Astelia, Druva, Swimlane, and ThreatDown. Druva brings backup, recovery and governance to AI workloads Druva has announced Druva AI Resilience, a new approach that helps…
IT Security News Hourly Summary 2026-07-24 06h : 1 posts
1 posts were published in the last hour 4:2 : Hackers Allegedly Claim Breach of Decathlon Customer Database With 160 Million Records
Hackers Allegedly Claim Breach of Decathlon Customer Database With 160 Million Records
A threat actor is allegedly claiming to possess and sell a Decathlon customer database containing approximately 160 million records. The database was advertised on a cybercrime forum, where the seller stated that payment would be accepted through cryptocurrency. The alleged…
ISC Stormcast For Friday, July 24th, 2026 https://isc.sans.edu/podcastdetail/10022, (Fri, Jul 24th)
This post doesn’t have text content, please click on the link below to view the original article. This article has been indexed from SANS Internet Storm Center, InfoCON: green Read the original article: ISC Stormcast For Friday, July 24th, 2026…
OpenAI’s Rogue Agent Hacks Hugging Face, a Claude Cowork Escape, and Microsoft’s Very Bad Week
OpenAI’s AI agent hacked Hugging Face, Microsoft 365 melts down, and Anthropic’s Claude CoWork sandbox escape Host David Shipley reports that OpenAI admitted an internal ExploitGym test let its GPT-5.6-Saul and a stronger pre-release model bypass safeguards, exploit a proxy…
IT Security News Hourly Summary 2026-07-24 03h : 1 posts
1 posts were published in the last hour 1:4 : How AI guardrails are impeding the work of offensive cybersecurity researchers
How AI guardrails are impeding the work of offensive cybersecurity researchers
We spoke with several cybersecurity researchers, who look for unknown vulnerabilities and develop tools to exploit them, about how OpenAI’s and Anthropic’s guardrails affect their work. This article has been indexed from Security News | TechCrunch Read the original article:…
OpenAI-Hugging Face attack doesn’t mean agents are evil – unless you tell them to be
Attack models gonna attack This article has been indexed from www.theregister.com – Articles Read the original article: OpenAI-Hugging Face attack doesn’t mean agents are evil – unless you tell them to be
Researchers replace downloaded macOS apps with evil twins, Apple shrugs
Gatekeeper has one job and it’s not doing it for some software This article has been indexed from www.theregister.com – Articles Read the original article: Researchers replace downloaded macOS apps with evil twins, Apple shrugs
OpenAI models escape containment, hack Hugging Face
<p>OpenAI reported this week that its autonomous AI models escaped an isolated testing environment during a training exercise and breached Hugging Face, an AI collaboration platform.</p> <p>Last week, Hugging Face <a target=”_blank” href=”https://huggingface.co/blog/security-incident-july-2026″ rel=”noopener”>disclosed</a> that it “detected and responded to…
13M+ Emails Sent in Tech Support Scam Targeting Users, Organizations in Japan
We analyzed a sustained tech support scam campaign that sent more than 13 million emails to Japanese addresses, with workplace-themed lures suggesting a possible expansion toward enterprise targets. This article has been indexed from Trend Micro Research, News and Perspectives…
IT Security News Hourly Summary 2026-07-24 00h : 5 posts
5 posts were published in the last hour 21:55 : IT Security News Daily Summary 2026-07-23 21:37 : One Password Mistake Helped Hackers Access Chick-fil-A Account 21:36 : Apple Fixes Hide My Email Bug After Yearlong Delay 21:36 : Russian…
IT Security News Daily Summary 2026-07-23
170 posts were published in the last hour 21:37 : One Password Mistake Helped Hackers Access Chick-fil-A Account 21:36 : Apple Fixes Hide My Email Bug After Yearlong Delay 21:36 : Russian TA488 Exploits Zimbra CVE-2025-66376 to Target Government Mail…
One Password Mistake Helped Hackers Access Chick-fil-A Account
Chick-fil-A disclosed a credential stuffing attack affecting customers across 10 states, underscoring the risks of password reuse and account takeover. The post One Password Mistake Helped Hackers Access Chick-fil-A Account appeared first on TechRepublic. This article has been indexed from…