China-Linked Hackers Deploy New StormEncryptor Ransomware, Likely via N-central Flaw
Ravie LakshmananAug 10, 2026Ransomware / Cybercrime Microsoft has disclosed that Storm-1175, a financially motivated threat actor linked to China, has...
⚡ Weekly Recap: AI Goes Rogue, Metabase 0-Day, MCP Supply-Chain Attacks, and Router Backdoors
Ravie LakshmananAug 10, 2026Cybersecurity / Hacking A lot of security problems still begin with someone doing a completely normal thing....
Kimsuky Builds Offline AI Stack to Boost Phishing and Automate Malware Development
Swati KhandelwalAug 10, 2026Cyber Espionage / Artificial Intelligence North Korea's state hackers are no longer content to type prompts into...
New Passkey Attacks Can Recover Synced Private Keys or Bypass Phishing-Resistant MFA
Three separate research efforts last week demonstrated ways to defeat passkey protections without breaking the cryptography they rest on. Passkeys...
Shipping 10–50× More Code? Watch This Webinar on Securing AI-Speed Development
The Hacker NewsAug 10, 2026Software Supply Chain / DevSecOps AI is helping development teams produce far more code, far faster....
TrueConf Server Flaws Exploited to Replace Client Installers with PhantomCore
The threat actor known as Head Mare has been observed weaponizing security flaws in unpatched TrueConf servers once again in...
Solidity Pro VS Code Extensions Steal Crypto Wallets, API Keys, and Credentials
Ravie LakshmananAug 10, 2026Malware / Cybercrime Cybersecurity researchers have flagged a malicious Microsoft Visual Studio Code (VS Code) extension named...
OpenAI’s Next AI Model Astra Shows Cyber Performance Strong Enough to Trigger Pause
OpenAI has announced that it's pausing some "internal activities" involving its upcoming artificial intelligence (AI) model Astra after an internal...
Atlassian Rovo Can Be Tricked Into Sending Jira and Confluence Data to Attackers
Attacker-controlled instructions can make Atlassian's Rovo assistant collect Jira or Confluence data that a signed-in user can access, then send...
New CSS Attacks Can Break Webmail Defenses to Steal Passwords and Tokens
Swati KhandelwalAug 08, 2026Email Security / Vulnerability New research shows content inside an email can escape its message boundary and...
