Federal Officials Sound Alarm Over Active Router Flaws On July 27, 2026, federal cybersecurity officials released an emergency alert after finding that…
Beyond Deadlines: CMMC As A Continuous Enterprise Risk Governance Challenge
In the fall of 2024, the Department of Defense finalized one of the most consequential regulatory shifts to hit the defense industrial base in decades.…
Tracking Over 35,000 Fake Sites in the 2026 World Cup Scam Wave
Between January and June 2026, TrendAI™ tracked more than 35,000 fake sites exploiting the 2026 FIFA World Cup, spanning counterfeit merchandise shops,…
Data Loss Risks During Microsoft 365 Migration and Ways to Prevent Them
Preventing Data Loss in Microsoft 365 Migration Migrations do not fail loudly. The project closes, the team moves on, and three weeks later, someone in…
IT Security News Daily Summary 2026-07-29
210 posts were published in the last hour 21:31 : Claude Mythos Shows AI Can Outpace Human Cryptography Research 21:31 : Microsoft Threat Intelligence Portal Retires in August: 4 Checks Before the Cutoff 21:31 : Amazon identifies North Korean hacker…
Claude Mythos Shows AI Can Outpace Human Cryptography Research
Claude Mythos found new flaws in HAWK and reduced AES, proving AI can autonomously advance cryptography research. Anthropic published two cryptographic…
Microsoft Threat Intelligence Portal Retires in August: 4 Checks Before the Cutoff
Microsoft is retiring its legacy Threat Intelligence portal on August 1. Security teams should verify licenses, permissions, investigation projects, APIs,…
Amazon identifies North Korean hacker group behind open-source supply chain attacks
Amazon is sharing new findings about how a threat actor linked to the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) is targeting open source software…
Cruciferra Crypter Uses BYOVD and Process Ghosting to Hide Windows Malware
The China-linked cybercrime group behind the use of income tax-related phishing lures targeting Indian taxpayers, tax professionals, and corporate finance…
SourTrade Malvertising Campaign Secretly Builds Malware in the Browser
Impersonating well-known cryptocurrency and trading sites, SourTrade has developed a novel technique to drop infostealers to victims
Top 10 Best Security Configuration Assessment Tools in 2026
In the complex and ever-expanding digital landscape of 2026, a strong cybersecurity posture depends not only on identifying vulnerabilities in software…
Hackers Strike Minnesota Water Utilities, One Plant Briefly Offline
Coordinated OT cyberattacks hit 30+ Minnesota water utilities, briefly disrupting one plant. Backup procedures prevented major water service impacts.…
IT Security News Hourly Summary 2026-07-29 21h : 5 posts
5 posts were published in the last hour 19:2 : Closed models refuse to help researcher swat Linux bug 19:1 : AI-Generated Phishing No Longer Needs Malware: It Can Steal Your Session Inside the Browser 18:31 : Critical Rails Flaw…
Closed models refuse to help researcher swat Linux bug
“I’m sorry, Dave. I’m afraid I can’t do that” is an effective sales pitch for open source
AI-Generated Phishing No Longer Needs Malware: It Can Steal Your Session Inside the Browser
AI-generated phishing campaigns are rapidly evolving beyond traditional malware delivery, shifting the battleground directly into the web browser where…
Critical Rails Flaw Could Let Unauthenticated Attackers Read Server Files via Image Uploads
Ruby on Rails has released fixes for a critical Active Storage vulnerability that could let unauthenticated attackers read arbitrary files from…
Capital One Open-sources AI Security Tool VulnHunter to Help Developers Identify Exploitable Flaws before Deployment
Capital One has released VulnHunter, an open-source AI-powered application security tool designed to identify exploitable software vulnerabilities before…
Cognyte Sells a Mobile Cell Surveillance Van
Yet another Israeli mass surveillance company : Made by Israeli surveillance company Cognyte, the tech simulates a mobile phone tower, which forces nearby…
US government bans new foreign-made humanoids, robot dogs, and solar inverters, citing risks to national security
The ban largely affects U.S. imports from China, which currently dominates the global market for making humanoid robots and solar inverters.
Why Authentication UX Deserves More Attention on B2B Platforms
Better authentication UX helps B2B platforms reduce security fatigue, simplify account recovery, protect sensitive data, and keep business users engaged.
Buying TikTok views or followers? Here’s what you’re really getting
Behind TikTok’s booming growth industry are fake engagements, stolen accounts, and a fast track to getting flagged.
Java Spring Boot “heapdump” scans, (Mon, Jul 27th)
Spring Boot exposes the endpoint “/actuator/heapdump” to collect debug information. By default, the endpoint will return a file heapdump.hprof, which…
Measuring the Tendency of AI Agents to Go Rogue
This essay was written with Barath Raghavan, and originally appeared in The Guardian . In July, Hugging Face, a company that hosts much of the world’s AI…
Ransomware Groups Increasingly Deploy EDR Kill Techniques
Halcyon’s latest quarterly ransomware report showed that while ransomware attacks are declining, obfuscation techniques are getting harder to fight against