A memecoin, a manifesto, and a week of daily leaks — but to researchers, it's a familiar extortion playbook with an unusually large audience. The post The GTA VI leaks are breaking the internet. Secur
Joshua Culver, aka “Maverick Young,” is accused of imitating the head of the NSA’s Tailored Access Operations unit during a time it wasn’t called that. The post Arrested man allegedly impersonated NSA
A year ago we wrote that we'd put AI to work across the whole company, turning everyone on the team into a capable AI operator so our defenders could stay ahead of the threat actors attacking the site
Agency red-teamers got initial access to both organizations they tested, but one quickly isolated and shut down the attempts from going further. The post Water sector passes, government sector fails a
Organizations need protection that operates in the gap between discovery and remediation. The post The patch window is collapsing: Why security needs a new control plane appeared first on Microsoft Se
On August 11th, 2026, we received a submission for an Unauthenticated Account Takeover vulnerability in TranslatePress, a WordPress plugin with more than 400,000 active installations. This vulnerabili
It is pretty obvious that hostnames can replace IP addresses. Pretty much any software accepting an IP address will also accept a hostname as an argument. Last week, I wrote about scans for the cloud
A single malware infection on one senior officer’s computer exposed the active caseload of a Syrian National Army military police unit The post Inside a Syrian Interrogation Room: The Detainee Files a
This week in cybersecurity from the editors at Cybercrime Magazine Sausalito, Calif. – Aug. 25, 2026 – Watch the Video In 2011, when Wendy Nather was at 451 Research, she coined the term
Researchers found that prompt injection attacks can hide malicious instructions in encrypted text to get them past AI guardrails.
We found and reported a bug in Provenance Blockchain, a public proof-of-stake chain built on Cosmos SDK, that lets any user grant themselves admin control over marker accounts without holding a single
Andy Ellis has a roundup of the security vendors at Black Hat this year. Key Takeaways: We have entered into an AI world. While nearly half of booths didn’t directly mention AI or agents in thei
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Under the bill, FERC would consider cyber threats from quantum computers and post-quantum cryptography in its reliability standards for the energy sector. The post Bipartisan Senate bill aims to prepa
Bogus “Play Now” sites are exploiting the GTA 6 leak hype to spread malware that steals passwords stored in browsers.
We found fake Microsoft-branded scanners that invent security problems, tell victims to uninstall AV, and then steer them into a refund scam.
For the latest discoveries in cyber research for the week of 24th August, please download our Threat Intelligence Bulletin. TOP ATTACKS AND BREACHES Latvia’s Road Traffic Safety Directorate (CSDD) has
A new version of the Android banking Trojan can seize control of infected phones and block access to Google Play and Google Play Services.
This week in cybersecurity from the editors at Cybercrime Magazine Sausalito, Calif. – Aug. 24, 2026 – Read the Full Story Many small business owners operate under the dangerous misconception that the
We found PavinLoader being used across ClickFix, fake software, and RenPy campaigns to deliver Amatera Stealer and other malware.
