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Bitsight says some cheap Android TV boxes have shipped with apps that rewrite their hardware identity to mimic Samsung, Huawei, Xiaomi, or Vivo phones, then click ads on websites run by the same operators. Researchers named the operation Fuyao and attributed it to Zhejiang Fengwo IoT Technology Co., Ltd., a mainland China company founded in 2019. The same…
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Device code phishing - the abuse of the OAuth 2.0 device authorization grant to steal access tokens - has evolved from a niche red-team technique to an industrial-scale threat in under six months. Designed for input-constrained devices like smart TVs, printers, and so on, the device authorization login flow has been adopted by a wide range of apps and…
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Palo Alto Networks' Unit 42 says a Chinese-speaking threat actor used DeepSeek through the open-source Hermes Agent framework to launch attacks autonomously. After an initial Telegram instruction, the agent found internet-facing systems and selected public exploits. The researchers recovered no further operator input in the session. The operator, tracked…
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Anthropic on Thursday became the latest artificial intelligence (AI) company to reveal that three of its models, including Claude Opus 4.7, Mythos 5, and an unnamed research model, had breached three unnamed organizations during cybersecurity testing without its knowledge. The AI firm said the earliest incidents date back to April 2026, adding it made the…
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One of Anthropic's Claude models built and uploaded a malicious Python package to PyPI during a botched security evaluation, where it ran on 15 real systems and stole credentials from a security vendor. It was one of three incidents affecting real companies. [...]
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South Korea's Personal Information Protection Commission (PIPC) has fined telecommunications giant KT Corporation KRW 53.979 billion ($39 million) over data protection violations. [...]
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JetBrains is warning of a critical authentication bypass vulnerability affecting TeamCity On-Premises that could be exploited to achieve remote code execution. [...]
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Threat actors with ties to North Korea have been attributed to a sophisticated macOS malvertising campaign that involves redirecting users to fake web pages displaying a full-screen non-existent update sequence to deliver malware as part of a new iteration of the long-running Contagious Interview campaign. The defining aspect of the attack is that bogus…
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Amazon linked multiple high-profile open-source software supply chain attacks targeting the Node Package Manager (npm) ecosystem to North Korean hackers. [...]
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Broadcom has released security updates to fix five vulnerabilities in VMware vCenter, ESX, Workstation, and Fusion, including three critical flaws that allow attackers to bypass authentication, execute arbitrary code, or escape from a virtual machine to the host. [...]
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Google says artificial intelligence is dramatically increasing the number of security vulnerabilities it can find and fix in Chrome, with more than 1,000 security bugs patched across the browser's two most recent releases as it expands its use of AI. [...]
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Security experts have been sounding the alarm for years about the risks of using generic TV boxes that promise unlimited content streaming for a one-time fee, warning that they secretly rent the user's Internet connection out to strangers. But a groundbreaking new analysis finds these devices also routinely spoof themselves as mobile phones clicking ads on…
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Residential security company Brinks Home has disclosed that hackers breached some of its systems and are threatening to leak allegedly stolen data. [...]
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This month’s updates help security and IT teams secure their AI environments, use AI to defend, and strengthen the foundations that AI-powered operations depend on. The post What’s new in Microsoft Security: July 2026 appeared first on Microsoft Security Blog.
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Threat actors are impersonating IT support staff in Microsoft Teams calls to gain remote access to corporate devices and deploy Chaos ransomware in attacks targeting North American organizations. [...]
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A lot of security still comes down to trusting the wrong screen. This week, that screen might be a login page, an install guide, a recruiter call, or a familiar service behaving slightly wrong. Behind it: reused credentials, exposed systems, quiet loaders, abused trust, and exploit paths that should have been harder. Some defenses improved. The loose parts…
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American semiconductor company Analog Devices announced that an unauthorized party accessed some of its systems and exfiltrated certain files. [...]
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Attackers rarely stop after gaining initial access. Huntress analyzes a real-world intrusion to show how threat actors establish persistence, disable defenses, and reshape compromised systems, and why defenders must investigate the original entry point rather than simply remove the malware. [...]
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A now-patched vulnerability in Azure Cosmos DB could have let an attacker escape the service's Gremlin query sandbox and obtain full read and write access to databases across customer tenants, according to Wiz. Wiz, which codenamed the chain CosmosEscape, said the exploit chain began with a crafted query against a Gremlin database controlled by the…
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Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could allow an attacker to cause a denial-of-service condition. The following versions of NASA Core Flight System (cFS) Health & Safety (HS) Application are affected: Core Flight System (cFS) Health & Safety (HS) Application
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Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could allow an attacker with access to the same network segment to tamper with communication data in the affected product by sending specially crafted packets under specific timing conditions. This could allow the attacker to cause a denial-of-service (DoS) condition in the affected product by interfering with…
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Schneider Electric is aware of a vulnerability in its IGSS Definition module for the IGSS (Interactive Graphical SCADA System) product. The [IGSS](https://igss.schneider-electric.com/) product is a state-of-the-art SCADA system used for monitoring and controlling industrial processes. The IGSS Definition module is a design-time component used by system…
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Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could allow an attacker to extract the router's WireGuard private key in plaintext using only low‑privilege API access, enabling full VPN impersonation and decryption of all associated traffic. The following versions of MikroTik RouterOS are affected: RouterOS vers:all/* (CVE-2026-14227) CVSS Vendor Equipment…
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Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could allow an attacker to gain full system control and misuse it to access or manipulate connected networks and resources. The following versions of Toptech Systems RCU II+ and Multiload II+ are affected: RCU II+
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Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could allow a malicious user the ability to deliver malicious firmware that can update and gain full control of the controller. The following versions of Watchfire Controller Software are affected: BC550 12.30 (CVE-2026-5846) BC750 11.33|12.35 (CVE-2026-5846) BC760 12.38|13.00 (CVE-2026-5846) BC760DC 12.39…
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Successful exploitation of these vulnerabilities could allow an attacker to upload malicious files, execute stored cross-site scripting attacks, or inject arbitrary HTML content. The following versions of Johnson Controls OpenBlue Employee are affected: OpenBlue Employee (FMS Employee)
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Successful exploitation of these vulnerabilities could allow an attacker to cause a denial-of-service condition on the device. The following versions of MZ Automation GmbH libiec61850 are affected: libiec61850
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Open source software (OSS) is embedded in nearly every modern system, from business applications to critical infrastructure. Our new Open Source Software: Security Principles and Practices guidance helps agencies securely use, evaluate, and publish open source software. It covers OSS risk management across the full lifecycle, introduces the C4 Framework…
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Successful exploitation of these vulnerabilities could crash the device being accessed. The following versions of MZ Automation lib60870 are affected: lib60870 2.4.0 (CVE-2026-61893, CVE-2026-63033) CVSS Vendor Equipment Vulnerabilities v3 6.5 MZ Automation GmbH MZ Automation lib60870 Out-of-bounds Read Background Critical Infrastructure Sectors: Energy…
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Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could allow an attacker to cause a denial-of-service condition. The following versions of Rockwell Automation CompactLogix 5380 ControlLogix 5580 / 1756-EN4TR Communications Module are affected: ControlLogix 5580 >=V36|=V36|=V36|=V36|=V36|=V36|=V36|=V36|
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Successful exploitation of these vulnerabilities could allow an attacker to disclose sensitive information, cause a denial of service, or potentially execute arbitrary code. The following versions of o6 Automation open62541 are affected: open62541 on Windows and Linux…
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CISA is currently observing a significant increase in cyber threat actors targeting programmable logic controllers (PLCs) in the Water and Wastewater Systems (WWS) Sector. CISA urges critical infrastructure owners, operators, and integrators to remove publicly exposed PLCs and other operational technology (OT) from the internet as soon as possible. Threat…
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Hidden instructions in a Word document can make Microsoft 365 Copilot rewrite figures in a report, then copy the same instructions into the finished file. Håkon Måløy disclosed the technique on July 28, 144 days after reporting it to Microsoft. In his proof of concept, the internally generated file triggered the same behavior when it was used in a second…
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Network firewalls are the workhorses of modern cybersecurity. They are trusted to protect the network, blocking malicious traffic and preventing intrusions and breaches. And for decades, network security teams have built controls around a relatively stable model: users connect to applications, applications exchange data, and security tools inspect packets…
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South Korean authorities and four security firms have disclosed a state-sponsored campaign that compromised trusted domestic websites. The attackers used those sites to exploit locally installed financial-security software and infect targeted visitors with SIGNBT or COPPERHEDGE backdoors. A compromised page could infect a system running a vulnerable…
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The Chinese cybercrime group known as Silver Fox has been observed using new drivers as part of bring your own vulnerable driver (BYOVD) attacks targeting a Japanese organization in the industrial manufacturing sector to ultimately deliver ValleyRAT (aka Winos 4.0) for persistent remote access. "In this campaign, the group combines new vulnerable-driver…
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The Russian threat actors recently linked to the exploitation of a now-patched vulnerability in Zimbra have been observed exploiting another vulnerability, this time in Microsoft Outlook Web Access (OWA), to target U.S. and European government entities, as well as the telecommunications, financial, hospitality, and aerospace sectors. The activity, which…
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The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) added foreign-produced mobile robots and networked power inverters to its Covered List on July 28. The move generally prevents new models from receiving the equipment authorization required for import, marketing, or sale in the US. Previously authorized models can still be sold, and devices people already own are…
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Amazon has tied the September 2025 hijack of the npm packages debug and chalk to North Korea. For ten months, the incident sat in the public record as crypto theft: a maintainer phished through a lookalike npm domain and a wallet-draining script pushed into at least 18 packages carrying more than 2 billion weekly downloads between them. The original Aikido…
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The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Wednesday added a newly disclosed security flaw impacting Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center (FMC) Software to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, following reports of zero-day exploitation. The vulnerability, assigned CVE-2026-20316 (CVSS score: 5.3), could permit an…
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The Russian state-sponsored hacking group Laundry Bear, also known as Void Blizzard, is exploiting an Exchange Outlook Web Access vulnerability in email campaigns to deliver a sophisticated backdoor called OWAReaper. [...]
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Claude is down for some users, with Anthropic confirming elevated errors across multiple AI models. The disruption is causing requests to fail with a "529 Overloaded" message, including in Claude and tools that rely on its API. [...]
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Cisco is warning that a high-severity Secure Firewall Management Center (FMC) static credential vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-20316, was actively exploited in zero-day attacks to gain unauthorized access to vulnerable devices. [...]
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Ruby on Rails has released fixes for a critical Active Storage vulnerability that could let unauthenticated attackers read arbitrary files from application servers through crafted image uploads. Tracked as CVE-2026-66066 (CVSS score: 9.5), the flaw can expose the Rails process environment and secrets such as secret_key_base, the Rails master key, database…
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Health-ISAC, a cybersecurity information-sharing organization for the health sector, is warning healthcare and medical technology organizations of an observed increase in successful attacks by ShinyHunters. [...]
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In a new update, OpenAI says its AI models also used publicly exposed credentials to compromise accounts on four third-party services during the recent attack on Hugging Face, expanding the scope of the four-day security incident to other organizations. [...]
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Learn how better questions, trusted AI, and human judgment help security leaders make confident decisions and build resilient systems. The post Better security starts with better questions appeared first on Microsoft Security Blog.
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Cybersecurity researchers have flagged a maximum-severity security flaw in Ruflo, an open-source agent meta-harness for Anthropic Claude Code and OpenAI Codex, that could result in unauthenticated remote code execution. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-59726 (CVSS score: 10.0), impacts all versions of the project before version 3.16.3. It has been…
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Broadcom has released security updates to address multiple security flaws impacting VMware ESX, vCenter, Workstation, and Fusion, three of which have been designated as critical in severity. The first of the three critical-rated flaws is CVE-2026-59309 (CVSS score: 9.8), which has been described as an authentication bypass in VMware vCenter. "A malicious…
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The Minnesota IT Services (MNIT) agency activated its cybersecurity incident response capabilities across the entire state after hackers targeted more than 30 community water systems in "a coordinated cyberattack." [...]
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AI agents are designed to improvise as they complete tasks, making broad permissions a growing security risk. Token Security explains why identity, intent-based access controls, and least privilege are becoming the foundation for securing agentic AI. [...]
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Microsoft has released the KB5101684 preview cumulative update for Windows 11 24H2 and 25H2, which 42 bug fixes and additional feature improvements for the operating system. [...]
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A coordinated cyberattack targeted operational technology at more than 30 Minnesota community water systems on July 26 and 27, triggering a statewide cybersecurity response. Braham, Plymouth, South St. Paul and Maple Plain have publicly described a plant outage, communications failures or affected automated controls. Braham's water plant went offline, and…
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