Tag: 2026-08-21

IT Security News Daily Summary 2026-08-21

157 posts published today 21:31The Department of Know: Living off Azure, OpenAI’s “defender window,” and AI-driven PLC attacks 21:31Friday Squid Blogging: Neon Flying Squid 21:02Flock Has a Powerful New AI Tool for Police. We Got Its Code 20:3114 Trojanized npm…

IT Security News Hourly Summary 2026-08-21 22h : 8 posts

8 posts published in the last hour 19:31Apple Changes EU Fees For Third-Party App Stores 19:31France Probes Major Tax Authority Data Breach 19:02Pennsylvania Governor Restricts Data Centre Development 19:02Your Shredded Visa Card May Still Work at the Checkout 19:02UK Fraud…

IT Security News Hourly Summary 2026-08-21 20h : 8 posts

8 posts published in the last hour 17:31Microsoft discloses maximum severity flaw in Entra ID 17:31AI “mind virus,” malware living off Azure, an Irregular post-mortem 17:31Defense contractors still struggling with basic CMMC requirements 17:02AI Is Learning to Write Genetic Code…

IT Security News Hourly Summary 2026-08-21 19h : 21 posts

21 posts published in the last hour 16:32Android Car Malware Spreads Through Built-In Updaters for Ad Fraud, Proxy Botnet 16:32Microsoft Patches Entra ID RCE Vulnerability Exploited in Attacks 16:31ISC Stormcast For Wednesday, August 19th, 2026 https://isc.sans.edu/podcastdetail/10058, (Wed, Aug 19th) 16:31Critical…

IT Security News Hourly Summary 2026-08-21 18h : 10 posts

10 posts published in the last hour 15:31In Other News: Zombie Card Attack, T-Mobile Cut Cable to Stop Hackers, GitHub Denies AI Caused Bug 15:31Phishing-as-a-Service Is Turning Credential Theft Into a Scalable Cybercrime Business 15:31Defense contractors’ CMMC confidence lags, even…

IT Security News Hourly Summary 2026-08-21 17h : 10 posts

10 posts published in the last hour 14:31Federal Agencies Warn of Active Attacks on Siemens Industrial Controllers 14:31The Expiry Illusion: Why Fresh Evidence Can Still Be Wrong 14:31Inside NIST SP 1353: The New Quick-Start Guide for AI-Powered CSF Analysis 14:31Alation…

IT Security News Hourly Summary 2026-08-21 16h : 9 posts

9 posts published in the last hour 13:31New “Cryptographic Context Injection” Leaks Grok Chat History in Zero-Click Exploit 13:31US Bank Investigates Alleged Data Breach After LockBit Ransomware Extortion Claim 13:31Senator asks US government watchdog to review how feds use hacking…

IT Security News Hourly Summary 2026-08-21 15h : 11 posts

11 posts published in the last hour 12:31Wazuh and AI For Enhanced SOC Workflows 12:31Critical Microsoft Entra ID vulnerability exploited in the wild (CVE-2026-69836) 12:31Critical Isolated-vm Vulnerability Leads to RCE on Host 12:31Medical records, SSNs, and bank details exposed in…

IT Security News Hourly Summary 2026-08-21 14h : 5 posts

5 posts published in the last hour 11:31OpenAI Frontier Models Get Zero Data Retention With Private Safety Processing 11:31Cisco Patches Nine Crosswork and Secure Workload Flaws, Five Scoring CVSS 10.0 11:31Critical N-Able PassPortal Extension Flaw Gives Attackers Full Password Vault…

IT Security News Hourly Summary 2026-08-21 13h : 5 posts

5 posts published in the last hour 10:31Hackers Hide Agent Tesla Malware Behind Emojis to Steal Browser and Email Passwords 10:31Quarkslab Says Anti-Reversing Software Should Return Plausible Wrong Answers Instead of Crashing 10:02More Incidents of AIs Going Rogue in Cybersecurity…

IT Security News Hourly Summary 2026-08-21 12h : 11 posts

11 posts published in the last hour 09:31Sakura Internet Breach – Hackers Accessed 1.36 million Customers’ Personal Records 09:31Rust Supply Chain Attack Linked to North Korean Hackers 09:31DOJ Charges 17 Iranian Hackers in IRGC-Linked Campaign That Stole 31.5TB of Research…

IT Security News Hourly Summary 2026-08-21 11h : 10 posts

10 posts published in the last hour 08:31Microsoft Rolls Out 22 Fresh Security Patches 08:31Russia-Linked Hackers Exploit Legitimate Login Flows to Bypass 2FA and Steal Account Access 08:31GitLab CVE-2026-19478 Comes Under Active Exploitation Within Days of Disclosure 08:31The invisible passenger…

IT Security News Hourly Summary 2026-08-21 10h : 10 posts

10 posts published in the last hour 07:31Google Chrome 151 Chromoting Flaw Allows Attackers to Execute Malicious Code Remotely 07:31UAE Police ‘Detained’ Two Binance Employees 07:31CISA MLFlow warning, Siemens PLCs warning, CareCloud confirms breach 07:31China-Linked Spy Campaign Uses Five New…

IT Security News Hourly Summary 2026-08-21 09h : 9 posts

9 posts published in the last hour 06:31New Manic Android Malware Targets 169 Apps, Steals PINs and Exfiltrates Data via Wi-Fi Mesh 06:31Hackers Use Fake Google Gemini Installer to Deploy Vidar Stealer and Steal Browser Credentials 06:31Compromised Rust Crate With…

IT Security News Hourly Summary 2026-08-21 08h : 4 posts

4 posts published in the last hour 05:31A $25 template helped scammers build hundreds of phantom bank domains 05:31SilkParasite Uses Google Drive as C2 to Hide RAT Traffic Inside Trusted Cloud Services 05:02Nearly half of enterprises have no one leading…

IT Security News Hourly Summary 2026-08-21 01h : 5 posts

5 posts published in the last hour 22:31Medusa Ransomware Hits 500-Plus Victims as Agencies Warn of Rapid Exploitation 22:31Inside Astaroth’s New Spambot Component 22:31Researchers Use Remote Spectre Attack to Leak JWT From Cloudflare Worker 22:02Rust Supply Chain Attack Puts Build-Time…

IT Security News Hourly Summary 2026-08-21 00h : 9 posts

9 posts published in the last hour 21:55IT Security News Daily Summary 2026-08-20 21:31Windows 11 24H2 Home and Pro Support Ends Oct. 13: What Users Should Do 21:31Amazon’s Order Email Privacy Change Creates a Potential Phishing Trade-Off 21:31Proton launches free…