Heimdal did not start as a traditional cybersecurity company. It started with two Danish cybersecurity researchers, a piece of innovative technology and a…
The Best Firewall-as-a-Service (FWaaS) Providers, Compared and Priced (2026)
Firewall-asa-service moved from experiment to default: inspection, IPS, and policy delivered from the cloud, priced per user or per site instead of per…
The Future of Age Verification Shifts to On-Device Privacy
It has become increasingly common for governments around the world to tighten online age verification requirements, as well as to incorporate a new…
Introducing the Industry’s First AI Network Firewall
AI has introduced a new class of network traffic. Prompts, file uploads, model calls, and agent actions carrying sensitive business context now traverse…
Windows 11 Gets More Taskbar Control and AI Integration as Microsoft Details Quality Progress
Microsoft has released a detailed update on its Windows quality initiative, four months after committing in March to improve performance, reliability, and…
The Best Cloud Firewall Solutions, Compared and Priced (2026)
Cloud firewalls bill three ways — usage-metered native services, licensed virtual appliances, and managed platform subscriptions — and picking the wrong…
Top 10 Best Cloud Firewall Solutions in 2026
Cloud workloads don’t sit behind your data-center firewall, and attackers know it. A cloud firewall inspects and controls traffic to, from, and between…
Fake Claude Install Guide Delivers Six-Stage macOS Stealer and RAT, Huntress Finds
Security researchers at Huntress have reverse-engineered a previously undocumented macOS malware family, dubbed MacSync, after tracing an intrusion back…
Hackers Turned a Trusted Advertising Platform Into a Crypto-Stealer Delivery Network
Adform, a major advertising technology company serving roughly 14,000 businesses and holding nearly 30% of the demand-side platform market, has suffered a…
SilverFox Targets Japanese Manufacturer with 3-Driver BYOVD Chain and ValleyRAT
The Chinese cybercrime group known as Silver Fox has been observed using new drivers as part of bring your own vulnerable driver (BYOVD) attacks targeting…
MediaArena malvertising: why a quarantine isn’t the end of the incident
If Microsoft Defender quarantines BrowserModifier:Win32/MediaArena on one of your endpoints, the alert reads like a win. Our SOC data says treat it as a…
IT Security News Hourly Summary 2026-08-01 15h : 2 posts
2 posts were published in the last hour 13:1 : Balance Theory Raises $19 Million to Help Enterprises Manage Cybersecurity Investments 13:1 : Adobe fixed a maximum-severity vulnerability flaw in Campaign Classic
Balance Theory Raises $19 Million to Help Enterprises Manage Cybersecurity Investments
The funding round was led by SYN Ventures, with participation from existing investors DataTribe and TEDCO.
Adobe fixed a maximum-severity vulnerability flaw in Campaign Classic
Adobe fixed a maximum severity vulnerability in Campaign Classic that could let attackers run code remotely without user interaction. Adobe has addressed…
Hackers Exploit AnySign4PC via Hacked Korean Sites to Install Backdoors Without Prompts
South Korean authorities and four security firms have disclosed a state-sponsored campaign that compromised trusted domestic websites. The attackers used…
Ruby on Rails Patches Critical Vulnerability
The flaw can be exploited by unauthenticated attackers to read arbitrary files and potentially achieve remote code execution (RCE).
Russian spies take their half-click email attack from Zimbra to Outlook
Opening a booby-trapped message unleashes a browser implant that can survive password changes and device rebuilds
7 States’ Water Systems Hit by Cyberattacks Likely Tied to Iran
Plus: The FBI eyes AI-powered tech to detect future crimes, Russia charges Telegram’s founder, xAI sues to stop a state’s “nudification” ban, and the…
Chinese-Speaking Threat Actor Harnesses AI Models for Autonomous Cyberattacks
Unit 42 details a Chinese speaking threat actor combining autonomous AI scanning across seven vulnerabilities with manual exploitation. Read more.
A Civilian Plane Crashed in New Mexico. Was the Military’s Tech to Blame?
Drone warfare is making the skies more dangerous, even for airplanes far from the battlefield.
IT Security News Hourly Summary 2026-08-01 12h : 2 posts
2 posts were published in the last hour 10:1 : Hackers Poison Adform Script to Swap Crypto Wallet Addresses Across Customer Sites 10:1 : Nobody Knows if OpenAI’s and Anthropic’s AI Hacking Sprees Are Illegal
Hackers Poison Adform Script to Swap Crypto Wallet Addresses Across Customer Sites
Attackers modified a JavaScript file served by advertising technology company Adform, turning it into a browser-side tool that rewrites cryptocurrency…
Nobody Knows if OpenAI’s and Anthropic’s AI Hacking Sprees Are Illegal
Both major AI labs’ models broke containment, escaped onto the internet, and hacked other companies. If a human had done that, the law would likely be…
Autonomous AI Agent Exploits Zero-Day to Breach Hugging Face Infrastructure
An autonomous AI agent powered by OpenAI models breached Hugging Face’s production infrastructure in July 2026 after escaping its evaluation sandbox via a…