This week’s bulletin captures a cybersecurity landscape increasingly shaped by artificial intelligence, both as a weapon and a shield. A ransomware…
Iran-Linked Hackers Force UK Power Plant Offline in Unprecedented Four-Day Cyberattack
A cyberattack attributed to hackers linked to Iran forced a British power plant offline for four consecutive days last month, marking what officials…
SECURITY AFFAIRS MALWARE NEWSLETTER ROUND 111
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IT Security News Hourly Summary 2026-08-23 20h : 3 posts
3 posts published in the last hour 17:02Sunbird Brings iMessage to Android Back After 2023 Security Scandal 17:02Hugging Face AI Hack Pushes Cybersecurity Leaders to Seek Solutions for Agentic AI Threats 17:02Trojanized npm Packages Distribute RedC2 4.0 Linux Backdoor Across…
Sunbird Brings iMessage to Android Back After 2023 Security Scandal
Sunbird has relaunched its iMessage app for Android users nearly three years after security issues forced the company to pause the service in 2023. The…
Hugging Face AI Hack Pushes Cybersecurity Leaders to Seek Solutions for Agentic AI Threats
Cybersecurity executives are pivoting their attention from the repercussions of the Hugging Face artificial intelligence (AI) hacking incident to plugging…
Trojanized npm Packages Distribute RedC2 4.0 Linux Backdoor Across Systems
In an investigation uncovered by cybersecurity researchers, 14 trojanized NPM packages have been masquerading as legitimate calendar modules and utility…
Oracle Database Abuse Lets Hackers Run Khunt Toolkit
Hackers recently abused a SQL injection flaw in a public-facing Java application to plant a post-exploitation toolkit called khunt directly inside an…
IT Security News Hourly Summary 2026-08-23 17h : 5 posts
5 posts published in the last hour 14:31Sysdig: Industry Highlights from Black Hat 2026 14:31AvePoint: Industry Highlights from Black Hat 2026 14:31Rethinking Cyber Readiness In Our Current Threat Landscape 14:31Microsoft Windows 11 App Pushes Bing as Default Search in Chrome,…
Sysdig: Industry Highlights from Black Hat 2026
Sysdig is acknowledging the fact that CISOs don’t have time to click through a dashboard anymore. Conor Sherman, the company’s Global CISO, argues the…
AvePoint: Industry Highlights from Black Hat 2026
Most organizations think they’ve solved the data sensitivity problem. AvePoint’s research says otherwise. In the company’s third annual State of AI…
Rethinking Cyber Readiness In Our Current Threat Landscape
Cybersecurity leaders are dealing with a threat landscape where disruption spreads quickly across systems, vendors, and business operations. AI is…
Microsoft Windows 11 App Pushes Bing as Default Search in Chrome, Firefox and Brave
Microsoft has built a dedicated Windows 11 app that exists to put Bing in front of users who already chose another search engine. The utility, Microsoft…
The Cyber Resilience Imperative: Why CISOs Must Shift from Prevention to Business Survival
For decades, cybersecurity strategies have been built around a single objective: preventing attacks. Organizations invested heavily in perimeter defenses,…
UK Power Plant Disabled for Four Days by Iran-Linked Hackers, Concurrent with US Water Attacks
Iran-linked hackers shut down a UK power plant for four days in the first confirmed attack of its kind, concurrent with water infrastructure attacks…
Security Affairs newsletter Round 591 by Pierluigi Paganini – INTERNATIONAL EDITION
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Week in review: Records allegedly stolen from Azure tenants, Medusa ransomware hits 500+ orgs
Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news, articles, interviews and videos: Windows 11’s strongest security defenses can be bypassed…
Zero-Click Grok Chat History Theft: Adversa AI Demonstrates Cryptographic Context Injection
New Cryptographic Context Injection technique bypasses AI guardrails via AES-encrypted payloads, leaking full Grok chat histories zero-click Adversa AI…
IT Security News Daily Summary 2026-08-22
39 posts published today 18:02ToxicPanda 2.0 Gets a Major Upgrade, Expanding Attacks Across 16 Countries 18:02Ultra-Wealthy Turn to Premium Services to Erase Their Digital Footprints 17:02Google Tightens Android Sideloading: Unverified Apps Now Face a 24-Hour Wait 17:00IT Security News Hourly…
ToxicPanda 2.0 Gets a Major Upgrade, Expanding Attacks Across 16 Countries
ToxicPanda 2.0 targets 349 financial apps and abuses Android Wireless Debugging to gain deeper device access and steal banking credentials. ToxicPanda…
Ultra-Wealthy Turn to Premium Services to Erase Their Digital Footprints
For the ultra-wealthy, protecting personal information is increasingly becoming a premium service. High-net-worth individuals and corporations are paying…
Google Tightens Android Sideloading: Unverified Apps Now Face a 24-Hour Wait
Google’s new Android verification flow adds a 24-hour wait for apps from unverified developers as broader identity checks approach.
IT Security News Hourly Summary 2026-08-22 19h : 5 posts
5 posts published in the last hour 16:31Syrian migrant smugglers arrested in coordinated strike in Germany and Serbia 16:02Siemens S7 PLCs Face Emerging Threat From AI-Generated Exploit Scripts 16:02Loud Phone Use is Becoming A New Battleground for Public-space Etiquette 16:02Frontier…
Syrian migrant smugglers arrested in coordinated strike in Germany and Serbia
This follows several years of intensive and extensive investigations led by the German Federal Police under the direction of three Bavarian Public…