Miggo researchers discovered two vulnerabilities that could allow attackers to seize control of vulnerable message brokers or expose data across shared environments. While there is no evidence either vulnerability has been exploited in the wild, organizations running affected RabbitMQ versions should prioritize applying the available patches. Key Takeaways of the RabbitMQ Vulnerabilities Two RabbitMQ vulnerabilities…
Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Google Chrome, the most severe of which could allow for arbitrary code execution. Successful exploitation of the most severe of these vulnerabilities could allow for arbitrary code execution in the context of the logged on user. Depending on the privileges associated with the user an attacker could then install…
US and allies warn of Russian APT groups targeting routers and network devices to compromise critical infrastructure worldwide. The US and allied governments warn that Russian state-sponsored APT groups are scanning and exploiting poorly secured network devices, especially routers, to access critical infrastructure. Groups linked to FSB Center 16, including Berserk Bear, Energetic Bear, Ghost…
SonicWall customers are attempting to dodge another security challenge as attackers are exploiting a pair of zero-day vulnerabilities that have been confirmed by the vendor. The company publicly disclosed the vulnerabilities — CVE-2026-15409 and CVE-2026-15410 — in a security advisory Tuesday. SonicWall credited an employee with discovering the defects, but it hasn’t said when the…
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a previously unreported Internet-of-Things (IoT) botnet framework dubbed TuxBot v3 Evolution that shows signs of being developed with assistance from a large language model (LLM), albeit with not so successful results. “While the AI complied with their request to generate botnet code, it included a safety disclaimer that the…
A Russian-speaking threat actor known as “bandcampro” used Google’s open-source Gemini CLI AI tool as a hacking agent and to operate a small-scale botnet. […]
Thinking Machines Lab CEO Mira Murati is betting on smaller and more customizable artificial-intelligence models to chip away at the lead of frontier labs such OpenAI and Anthropic.
Democratic senators pressed President Donald Trump’s pick for director of national intelligence on questions of election security and integrity Wednesday, but they didn’t leave his nomination hearing satisfied with the answers. As is typical for Trump administration nominees, Jay Clayton wouldn’t answer definitively at his Senate Intelligence Committee confirmation hearing whether Joe Biden won the…
We’re thrilled to unveil the latest evolution of Dark Reading’s DR Global section — your go-to source for region-specific cybersecurity intelligence beyond North America.
Employers are looking for AI skills – here’s how to let them demonstrate you know what you’re doing.
CrashStealer is now in the wild, targeting your data, passwords, and cryptocurrency. Here’s everything you need to know about this new MacOS threat.
SonicWall patched two recently exploited zero-day vulnerabilities in its SMA 1000 Series secure remote access appliances which may have been chained for unauthenticated remote code execution. Key takeaways CVE-2026-15409 and CVE-2026-15410 are a pair of exploited vulnerabilities that may have been chained together to allow for code execution on SonicWall SMA1000 series appliances. Zero-day exploitation…
The US government’s restrictions on Anthropic and OpenAI frontier models have intensified calls in the UK and other countries to reduce their reliance on US tech companies, with significant cyber implications.
Here’s how two of my favorite premium business headphones of 2026 compare.
LegacyHive PoC exposes a Windows Privilege Escalation flaw affecting fully patched Windows desktop and server systems. Just hours after Microsoft’s July 2026 Patch Tuesday, security researcher Nightmare Eclipse, also known as Chaotic Eclipse, published a new Windows zero-day proof-of-concept called LegacyHive. This time, the target is the Windows User Profile Service (ProfSvc), and unlike the…
Cyber insurers and managed service providers have long debated where insurance ends and cybersecurity services begin. As insurers expand into offerings such as managed detection and response (MDR), many MSPs have questioned whether those moves create channel conflict or create new opportunities to improve customer security. Josh Hohbein, manager of cybersecurity and automation at centrexIT,…
Group-IB says scammers are targeting Céline Dion fans through Facebook, duplicate digital tickets and fake websites impersonating Ticketmaster, AXS and the venue site.
I wanted to save my back during my next work trip, so I assembled a workstation using the smallest devices I could find.
C won’t be disappearing tomorrow, says the stable kernel maintainer, but the future of Linux belongs to Rust.
When Apple sued OpenAI last week, the argument it made was that former employees had stolen Apple data and then used it to benefit OpenAI. The technical details — an employee used “a rare, previously unknown authentication bug to access Apple’s shared network folders” — are interesting. But the larger story is Apple’s ridiculous attempt…
OpenAI’s first device will be a screenless home AI system that can play music, control appliances, and respond to messages and questions, according to Bloomberg. I can’t help but ask what makes this device different from Apple’s HomePod with SiriAI? The OpenAI product is intended to be the first of a family of solutions and…
SAN FRANCISCO, July 15, 2026, CyberNewswire – Backed by Foundation Capital and Zetta Venture Partners with $8M in seed funding, Pulse Security delivers the program intelligence and agentic infrastructure that security leaders have been missing. Pulse Security AI launched from stealth today to solve a problem the security industry has spent decades ignoring: giving the leader…
I try to be diligent about my default firewall policies and which apps access the internet. A simple-to-use tool called Firewally makes it easy.
Here’s how the industry has come together to meet the challenges presented by agentic AI.
Five malicious versions of AsyncAPI packages were published to the Node Package Manager (npm) in a supply-chain attack that delivered a remote access trojan with info-stealing capabilities. […]
A malware framework called OkoBot has been running on Windows machines since April 2025, and one of its modules is built to con hardware wallet owners out of their recovery phrase. On an infected PC, the request comes from inside the wallet’s own desktop software. Sometimes it waits until you plug the device in first.…
As AI-enabled hacking becomes a bigger threat for cybersecurity and national security, public attention has focused on mainly a few leading frontier AI companies developing more powerful large language models. These models, and the billions of dollars behind them matter, but they’re only part of a larger shift. Enterprises are now building their own technology…
The PCI Security Standards Council (PCI SSC) is pleased to welcome its newest team member, Ed O’Neill, Head of Business Operations and Risk Management. In this new role, Ed will be responsible for business operations, enterprise risk management, governance, compliance, and quality oversight.
When combined with another exploit, the “PromptFiction” vulnerability, which has been fixed, could have enabled an end-to-end attack on a targeted system.
TORONTO, July 15, 2026, CyberNewswire – According to Insignary Inc., a leader in software supply chain security and binary software composition analysis (SCA), most organizations cannot independently verify what is actually inside the software they deploy — because traditional SCA tools read what software claims to contain, not what it actually contains. Today, the company…
Anthropic’s new AI agent for Slack acts under an admin-configured access bundle rather than each user’s own credentials. Here’s how that model works, what admins should understand and how to securely configure it. Key takeaways Claude Tag, Anthropic’s newly launched AI agent for Slack, acts on connected services using shared credentials an admin configures for…
We tested Cisco Secure Firewall 6160 with NetSecOPEN for AI-scale. It delivered 5X more throughput than previously tested and 100% threat block rate.
Six-month phishing campaign used seasonal eCard lures to plant legitimate RMM tools on victims
LabubaRAT, a previously undocumented Rust-based remote access tool (RAT) masquerading as NVIDIA software that enables post-compromise operations on Windows systems, has been uncovered by Blackpoint Cyber. According to researchers, LabubaRAT creates “a reusable foothold for hands-on activity.” Once deployed, it can profile the host, identify installed security tools, receive operator commands, transfer files, capture screenshots,…
The July Patch Tuesday Windows update breaks the record for the most security bugs fixed in a single month, with three zero-day flaws and 61 rated critical.
How does ChatGPT Work compare with Claude Cowork for desktop automation? My testing reveals similar results, similar strengths, and one major reason Claude currently feels considerably safer right now.
First reported in May, ClaudeBleed is basically a “fake remote control” problem. A sneaky browser extension can pretend to be Claude’s own website and secretly drive the Claude for Chrome extension to read your data and take action in your accounts. The Claude for Chrome browser extension is an assistant that has the user’s permission…
Intruder built an AI-powered “vulnerability vending machine” that combines code slicing with LLMs to automatically discover complex software vulnerabilities. The company explains how the system found and exploited a previously unknown WordPress plugin zero-day, with additional discoveries already under responsible disclosure. […]
Eleven forgotten Microsoft-signed UEFI shims can bypass Secure Boot on almost any machine
A financially motivated threat actor is impersonating hundreds of brands on GitHub and pushing a smash-and-grab infostealer masquerading as legitimate downloads of popular software, Arctic Wolf threat researchers have warned. “The 292 impersonated repositories span security tooling, fintech and personal finance, cryptocurrency wallets and exchanges, developer and productivity tools, secure email providers, macOS utilities, and…
Socure has launched Remote Verifier in RiskOS, a new identity verification tool that helps organizations verify identities requiring additional review while reducing manual effort. Socure’s AI-powered document verification solution instantly verifies more than 99% of identities on the first try, compared to an industry average of 64%. The Remote Verifier is designed for individuals who…
Xint.io has launched Xint Pulse, a black-box autonomous penetration testing tool that provides product security teams with on-demand security assessments of their applications. Unlike the company’s enterprise platform, which is designed for continuous testing, Xint Pulse is intended for timely, one-off penetration tests. But with Xint Pulse, organizations of all sizes, from startups to large…
Sony and Sonos have spectacular, high-performing home theater gear. But personal preferences matter more than brand name alone.
F5 has announced new fleet management capabilities for F5 Insight for ADSP that help enterprises reduce risk exposure across F5 BIG-IP environments as frontier AI compresses vulnerability response timelines. The new F5 Insight workflows give security and operations teams fleet-wide visibility, guided update management, enterprise authentication, role-based access controls, and a tamper-evident AI audit trail.…
Mozilla has released updates to address two critical flaws in Firefox for which it warned that exploit code has been published. The vulnerabilities are listed below – CVE-2026-15718, an invalid pointer in the JavaScript: WebAssembly component CVE-2026-15719, a site isolation in the DOM: Navigation component “We are aware that exploit code for this is public,…
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Simple age-old bugs give bad actors access to developers’ secrets and source code-rich environments.
New wireless service options may break up multiline plans and land carriers a bevy of long-term customers.
Attackers who already have administrator privileges on a Windows machine have newer ways to slip past endpoint security without exploiting a vulnerable driver or modifying trusted binaries. Bitdefender researchers have warned against three techniques that abuse Windows Bind Links, a legitimate filesystem virtualization capability, to occupy security tools with clean files while malicious ones execute…
This Gemini prompt can find flights, stays, and things to do for you. It’ll even build an itinerary doc.
Nomad’s tech accessories rarely go on sale, but now is your chance to scoop up some of our favorites at over 20% off.
Research of incidents by Sophos finds that phishing, brute force attacks and other identity-based threats have surpassed software vulnerabilities as means of delivering ransomware
When you incorporate data from application security scanners into your exposure management platform, you can assess the threat from formerly isolated code flaws using a broader risk context, which illuminates hidden exposures that your security and development teams can eliminate together. Key takeaways Break application security silos and obtain full code-to-runtime visibility by integrating standalone…
The White House is expanding the use of AI beyond cyber threat detection into vulnerability management, launching a new program that aims to help government agencies and critical infrastructure operators identify, prioritize, and remediate software vulnerabilities faster. Called Gold Eagle, the initiative will act as a centralized clearinghouse for cybersecurity vulnerabilities, coordinating vulnerability reporting, verification,…
None of these new Waze features is offered in Apple Maps.
As organizations rush to deploy agentic AI, their identity systems built for humans are struggling to govern a rising tide of machine identities, and most still can’t define what it would take to keep the business running after an attack. The identity crisis nobody saw coming When companies began rolling out AI agents at scale,…
A one-click Claude Desktop flaw allowed attackers to submit concealed instructions without review, exposing chats and enabling code execution on some systems remotely.
Just one month ago, June 2026 Patch Tuesday broke Microsoft’s previous record with 206 CVEs and three zero‑days. July now triples that count, reinforcing that the era of “small” Patch Tuesdays may be over as AI‑driven vulnerability discovery ramps up. The update includes 59 critical vulnerabilities, as well as three publicly disclosed zero-days. Microsoft classifies…
Want to know whether Waze or Google Maps is better? I’ve driven with both for hundreds of miles. Here’s my choice.
Radware has announced a new cloud-augmented protection architecture for DefensePro X, extending the platform with new AI-powered cloud algorithms while keeping traffic inspection and mitigation locally within customer premises. The first such service released is Cloud Web DDoS Protection for DefensePro X designed to improve characterization and real time footprint generation of sophisticated application-layer distributed…
Two vulnerabilities found in Anthropic’s Claude for Chrome extension remain exploitable months after they were reported to the company, a research by Manifold Security noted. According to the researchers, the flaws can allow a malicious browser extension to trigger Claude into performing privileged actions, including reading Gmail messages, Google Docs content, and Calendar entries on…
LatticeFlow AI has announced a platform for managing AI risk across agentic systems. Organizations are deploying autonomous AI in critical business processes, while governance approaches based on documentation and point-in-time assessments struggle to keep up with evolving risks. The LatticeFlow AI Platform links AI governance frameworks with technical controls to continuously generate evidence and translate…
Progress has restored access to its ShareFile Storage Zones Controller after a four-day suspension triggered by a credible external security threat
Microsoft’s July 2026 Patch Tuesday fixes 622 CVEs, including exploited AD FS and SharePoint flaws, plus the disclosed BitLocker bypass requiring urgent action.
AsyncAPI npm packages with 2M weekly downloads were compromised, spreading malware with info-stealing, crypto-theft and RAT capabilities. OX Security researchers disclosed on July 14 that the AsyncAPI npm organization was compromised, with malicious code injected into four packages that together account for over 2 million weekly downloads. The affected versions are @asyncapi/generator 3.3.1, @asyncapi/generator-components 0.7.1,…
Spanish National Police have dismantled a cybercrime network accused of stealing and laundering about €140 million through fake investment platforms, CEO fraud, invoice fraud, and man-in-the-middle attacks. Four people were arrested as part of the operation: two in Portugal, one in Spain, and one in Panama. The investigation began after officers identified 19 companies whose…
Nudge Security has announced new agentic capabilities to help security and IT teams find and remediate malicious and high-risk OAuth grants and browser extensions, two of the fastest-growing and hardest to manage attack surfaces in the enterprise. The new agents continuously analyze OAuth grants and browser extensions discovered by Nudge Security, flag what’s risky, and…
For years, routing traffic through cloud proxies was good enough. Then work moved to the browser, AI entered the workflow, and the inspection model stopped keeping up. Enterprise workflows now live across SaaS applications, browsers, and an expanding ecosystem of generative AI tools, unsanctioned browser extensions, and autonomous agents. Employees routinely paste intellectual property into
Binary Defense has announced NightBeacon CMD, a standalone AI-driven SOC workbench that enterprise security teams can deploy in their own environments. Built and hardened inside Binary Defense’s live 24/7 Security Operations Center (SOC), NightBeacon CMD gives customers the same operating platform Binary Defense’s own analysts use every day, without requiring a managed service. Rather than…
Polygraf AI has announced Meeting Guard, a real-time AI fraud detection solution for enterprise meetings built to detect fraud and protect meeting security. AI can clone a voice, animate a face, and answer every interview question in real time, making trust signals obsolete across hiring processes, executive meetings, vendor calls, and enterprise collaboration. Organizations are…
Security researcher Chaotic Eclipse (aka Nightmare-Eclipse) has released a new proof-of-concept (PoC) exploit called LegacyHive. It has been described as a Windows User Profile Service arbitrary hive load elevation of privileges vulnerability. The Windows User Profile Service, also referred to as ProfSvc, is a core system component that manages user accounts and environments. “The PoC…
A single approved marketing tag can quietly load fourth-party code your security team has never seen, granting full access to your forms, customer data, and checkout pages. This on-demand webinar reveals how this Approval Gap forms, and gives your team the blueprint to close it before an auditor, regulator, or attacker finds it first. The…
OpenVPN offers three modes of deployment with varied pricing based on the same underlying protocol. Here are the pros, cons, and costs associated with each.
The malware is written in C++ and uses a signed and notarized dropper to evade Gatekeeper.
This is Part 2 of a series on tech worker unionization. See Part 1: “A brewing battle: More IT workers want unions. The industry doesn’t.” The best time for tech workers to unionize was 20 years ago, when they had plenty of leverage. The second-best time is now, when they don’t. Mass layoffs, AI-driven displacement,…
Open a repository in Cursor on Windows and, if a file named git.exe is sitting in the project root, Cursor runs it. No click, no approval dialog, no warning that anything in the folder is about to execute. Whatever that binary does, it does as you, with your source, your SSH keys and your cloud tokens. Cursor keeps…
U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) adds SonicWall and Microsoft flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) added SonicWall and Microsoft flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. The flaws added to the catalog are: CVE-2026-15409 SonicWall SMA1000 Appliances Server-Side Request Forgery Vulnerability CVE-2026-15410 SonicWall SMA1000 Appliances Code…
ClickFix has moved from a one-off social engineering trick into an industrialized attack ecosystem that is outpacing conventional antivirus and endpoint defenses, according to ReversingLabs. The technique first showed up in late 2023 and early 2024, and Proofpoint named it in mid-2024. The method skips exploits and vulnerabilities entirely. A fake webpage, styled as a…
New rules forbid chatbots designed for companionship from encouraging emotional reliance.
Microsoft has released patches for 570+ vulnerabilities on July 2026 Patch Tuesday, including two that are being leveraged by attackers (CVE-2026-56155 and CVE-2026-56164), and one that was previouly disclosed (CVE-2026-50661). The release was once again followed by Nightmare Eclipse publishing a stripped down proof-of-concept exploit for an unpatched Windows elevation of privilege (EoP) vulnerability, which…
In this post, I will answer the question – how is web development evolving for multi device and cross platform experiences? People no longer access websites from a single desktop computer. They switch between smartphones, tablets, laptops, smart TVs, and wearable devices throughout the day, expecting a consistent experience every time. Modern web development has…
With the World Cup in full swing, stadiums across North America are currently accommodating thousands of fans every match day. That said, the stadiums’ biggest security challenge isn’t of a physical nature. It is not hyperbolic to say that football stadiums are some of the most chaotic endpoint environments in enterprise IT. On game days,…
Anker’s Solix E10 made backup power understandable for this first-timer, and I can’t wait to expand the system.
Widgets, widgets, widgets. Has there ever been an Android feature so full of promise that went unloved by Google for so very long? Okay, so maybe there has been — erm, lots of times, actually. But even so, Android’s widgets system is a perfect example of an exceptional advantage that Google basically buried, abandoned, and…
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) warned Tuesday that attackers are actively exploiting three vulnerabilities to hack Internet-exposed on-premises SharePoint Server instances. […]
Microsoft released fixes for a record 570 CVEs in its July Patch Tuesday update, as experts warn AI is dramatically accelerating vulnerability discovery and increasing patch volumes
Four compromised npm packages in the @asyncapi namespace have been observed distributing a multi-stage botnet loader, according to findings from OX Security, SafeDep, Socket, and StepSecurity. The affected packages are listed below – @asyncapi/generator-helpers@1.1.1 @asyncapi/generator-components@0.7.1 @asyncapi/generator@3.3.1 @asyncapi/specs(v6.11.2, v6.11.2-alpha.1) “The
Ask any medical doctor, and they’ll tell you that prevention is better than cure. It’s more cost-effective and it has better outcomes. The same is true in cybersecurity. But we believe that our industry has veered too far away from this simple concept. We observe that most new tools are detection-focused, and we are calling…
AWS added AI workload protection and Microsoft Azure security monitoring to Security Hub, its centralized security platform for collecting and prioritizing security findings across cloud environments. Support for additional cloud platforms will follow. “Collecting findings was never the hard part. The hard part is understanding them, connecting them, and acting before an attacker does, and…
FreeRDP is a free implementation of the Remote Desktop Protocol, released under the Apache license, and it runs on a large share of workstations and servers through the many tools built on it. The 3.29.0 version is a security, bugfix, and maintenance update that resolves 22 advisories. What the fixes address The commits read as…
CrashStealer is a new macOS infostealer that masquerades as Apple’s CrashReporter component, uses an Apple‑notarized installer to slip past Gatekeeper, tricks users into handing over their password, and then systematically loots browsers, password managers, crypto wallets, and Keychain secrets before exfiltrating them in AES‑encrypted bundles. Researchers have been following the development of CrashStealer since May…
Microsoft is blocking this month’s Windows 11 security updates on some Dell devices because they are causing shutdowns and performance issues. […]
SonicWall warns of active attacks exploiting two SMA 1000 zero-days, including a flaw enabling arbitrary command execution. SonicWall confirmed the active exploitation of two zero-day vulnerabilities affecting Secure Mobile Access (SMA) 1000 appliances. The vulnerabilities were internally discovered and reported by Adam Babis of the company’s PSIRT. The company investigated multiple incidents indicating these vulnerabilities…
The West African country advanced rules to force organizations to disclose cyberattacks, joining other nations in a shift to mandated transparency.
