12 Aug

Black Hat USA 2026: AI is racing ahead of cybersecurity controls

Business Security AI took center stage, but the clearest lesson was less about what AI can do than about who is accountable when something goes

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12 Aug

Akira ransomware scum blocked victim’s security tools – and broke their own encryptor

Security Gives a whole new meaning to Safe Mode An Akira ransomware affiliate rebooted a victim’s computer into Safe Mode to kill its security tools

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12 Aug

Shaping the NVD for the Future: We Need Your Feedback on AI-Enabled Vulnerability Management

For over two decades, the NIST National Vulnerability Database (NVD) has served as the U.S. government repository for standards-based vulnerability management data and as a

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12 Aug

Brit rail cops bring live facial recognition to the London Underground

SECURITY Victoria is the first stop as privacy campaigners warn the technology is becoming routine British Transport Police is expanding its trial of live facial

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11 Aug

Signal adds an extra layer of security to make sure you’re actually chatting with the right person

security One big caveat, though: You need your contact’s phone number Signal has introduced a new layer of security to help make sure no one

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11 Aug

421 bugs in Microsoft’s Patch Tuesday release, and the Norks have already attacked one

This is an epic month for Microsoft patches, though not a record-setting one. Redmond addressed 421 bugs in its own products this month – about

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11 Aug

DEF CON dingus suspected of trying to take over Delta in-flight Wi-Fi

security This is why we can’t have nice things, people A passenger on a Delta Air Lines flight from Las Vegas to Atlanta after DEF

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11 Aug

Two wars and a World Cup lead to epic DDoS attacks on publishers

Security Ukraine, Iran, and football inspire geopolitically motivated DDoS attacks, while 1 Tbps traffic jams up 519 percent Ongoing wars in Ukraine and Iran and

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11 Aug

Deepfake hiccup unmasks suspected digital certificate fraudster

Security Face-swap software blinked for ‘barely a second,’ giving Spanish cops the break they needed Spain’s national police say they caught a cybercriminal after a

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11 Aug

Mozilla revokes Firefox signing key after unencrypted copy lands in GitHub

SECURITY Audit logs found no unexpected visitors, but release verification still needs an update Mozilla has revoked a cryptographic key used to sign Firefox and

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11 Aug

Malicious SIMs can shut down phones, steal files, and drag 5G back to 2G

security Researchers find standards-compliant functionality can be abused to hijack modems, downgrade connections, and even execute code Researchers have found that a malicious SIM card

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10 Aug

DEF CON hackers add new muscle to water utility protection

Security Franklin project adds new security providers, employs digital twins and AI DEF CON hackers expanded their efforts to provide free cyber-defenses to rural water

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10 Aug

North Korean spies are running local LLMs to cause AI mischief

North Korean government snoops are operating LLMs locally and collecting technology to weave AI into their attack operations, according to South Korean security firm Genians.

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10 Aug

Gym rat asks AI agent to book him a class, it hacks a waitlist API to bump him up the list

ai and ml What wouldst thou ask of the monkey’s paw? An Australian man who asked his AI agent to book him a slot in

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10 Aug

Attackers pick Levi’s pockets in social engineering attack

SECURITY Crims talked their way onto three employee PCs before trousering corporate data Levi Strauss is investigating a data breach after attackers used social engineering

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10 Aug

Wetherspoons bars smart glasses from filming customers

Personal tech Pub chain says turn off the cameras, reminds punters not to blare sound from phone vids either Wetherspoons has stopped short of banning

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10 Aug

Cyber vulnerability sweep picks up Royal Navy drones sending data to China

EDGE AND IOT No, no nasties to see here, guv… Cameras aboard Royal Navy drone boats were found phoning home to an IP address in

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10 Aug

Framework loses customer data in Metabase zero-day attack

PERSONAL TECH Repairable hardware is little comfort when personal details escape Modular laptop maker Framework has warned customers that an attacker exploited a zero-day at

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