Read This Before You Buy That TV Streaming Stick
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'
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What’s new in Microsoft Security: July 2026
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 Microsof
Hims & Hers sued over alleged health data privacy failures
The FTC has sued telehealth provider Hims & Hers, alleging it shared customers' sensitive health information with advertisers.
Hidden prompt turns Microsoft Copilot into an AI worm
A new type of attack can trick Microsoft Copilot for Word into spreading hidden prompt injections from document to document.
OctLurk and SilkLurk: newly identified tailored backdoors in cyber-espionage campaign in Central Asia
Our experts discovered OctLurk and SilkLurk, backdoors operating primarily in memory, targeting Central Asia. They inject plugins to launch shells, scan networks, dump credentials, and keylogging.
Building secure Uniswap v4 hooks
Uniswap v4 hooks let developers add custom behavior to pools, including dynamic fees, custom accounting, and external integrations. This flexibility moves some security responsibilities into applicati
Toy Ghouls’ new toy: the GenieLocker ransomware
Kaspersky experts dissect GenieLocker: new custom ransomware variants for Windows, Linux, and ESXi systems. We found this family in attacks by Toy Ghouls, a financially motivated extortion group.
ISC Stormcast For Thursday, July 30th, 2026
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Reconnaissance First: An SSH Bot That Sizes Up Your Hardware Before Deploying a Miner [Guest Diary]
[This is a Guest Diary by Adam Cann, an ISC intern as part of the SANS.edu BACS program] 
Apple accused of letting fake crypto app steal $1.8 million
The case raises fresh questions about how effectively Apple polices apps that impersonate legitimate developers.
A little-known npm package was North Korea’s warm-up act for the axios hack
Amazon's threat intelligence team traced domain records from the open-source software hack to a smaller, earlier compromise by the same North Korean group. The post A little-known npm package was Nort
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 libraries, the shared building blocks that companie
Supply chain challenges loom large in quantum race, White House official says
Brad Blakestad, director of the National Quantum Coordination Office, also said encryption and measuring progress would pose challenges. The post Supply chain challenges loom large in quantum race, Wh
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 software and open-source AI models, was
Huntress warns about attack spree that hit 30 SonicWall customers in 2 days
Unknown attackers broke into 92 unique SonicWall user accounts with legitimate credentials, researchers said. The post Huntress warns about attack spree that hit 30 SonicWall customers in 2 days appea
WP2Shell WordPress Exploit Technical Analysis and Real Attack Data
On July 17th, 2026, the WordPress Security Team released updates to WordPress core addressing a critical vulnerability chain that can be leveraged by unauthenticated attackers to create an administrat
Better security starts with better questions
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
Bent: How A Homeless Teen Became One Of The Cybercrime Industry’s Most Prolific Counterfeiters
This week in cybersecurity from the editors at Cybercrime Magazine Sausalito, Calif. – Jul. 29, 2026 – Listen to the podcast Bent is the story of John J. Boseak’s phenomenal life of crime. Inked
Long-Lived Vulnerability in Microsoft Secure Boot
Microsoft’s Secure Boot has had a serious vulnerability for most of its existence. An industry-wide standard Microsoft invented to protect Windows, and later Linux, devices from firmware infecti
OpenAI’s rogue AI agent shows why we need federal rules for autonomous systems
The Hugging Face breach shows there is a gap in federal policy. The frameworks to govern autonomous AI already exist—there just needs to be the desire to apply them. The post OpenAI’s rogue AI a