China’s hackers pick DeepSeek OpenAI blocks a Russian influence push A webpage can mess with local AI Get the show notes here:…
Fake Apple Support AI Calls Target Stolen-Device Owners for Passcodes and 2FA Codes
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a phishing-as-a-service (PhaaS) platform built to strip Apple’s Activation Lock from stolen devices,…
AI-Powered Balonx Sistema PhaaS Harvests Credentials From Over 1,100 Banking Users
Mexico’s financial sector is facing an industrialized phishing Balonx Sistema, a Mexico-focused Phishing-as-a-Service (PhaaS) platform that has harvested…
New CoreRAT Malware Gives Core Werewolf Hackers Full Control of Compromised Systems
A new remote access trojan called CoreRAT is giving the Core Werewolf threat group a way to take over infected Windows systems. The malware appeared in…
OpenSSL Flaws Allow Remote Attackers to Crash Servers With Malformed Packets
OpenSSL has released security updates addressing nine vulnerabilities that could allow remote attackers to crash QUIC, DTLS, CMS, CMP, and TLS-enabled…
IT Security News Hourly Summary 2026-08-26 09h : 4 posts
4 posts published in the last hour 06:02Production data in testing is still common, and Tricentis’ CISO wants it gone 06:02Hackers Hide Malware Inside Plain English Words to Infect Windows Users With Amatera Stealer 06:02Linux Foundation takes on TRACE, a…
Production data in testing is still common, and Tricentis’ CISO wants it gone
In this Help Net Security interview, Erika Dean, CISO at Tricentis, talks about keeping production data out of test environments and why she thinks the…
Hackers Hide Malware Inside Plain English Words to Infect Windows Users With Amatera Stealer
Threat actors behind ClearFake campaigns are using a newly identified loader, WordlistLoader, to deliver the Amatera Stealer to Windows systems. The…
Linux Foundation takes on TRACE, a hardware-backed runtime evidence specification for AI agents
The Linux Foundation announced the contribution of TRACE (Trust, Runtime Attestation and Compliance Evidence), from OPAQUE. Collaboratively developed by…
IT Security News Hourly Summary 2026-08-26 08h : 8 posts
8 posts published in the last hour 05:31Microsoft Teams Outage Disrupts Meetings and Screen Sharing for Users 05:31CISA Warns of Exploited Gitea Vulnerability 05:31AI vulnerability discovery scores the highest impact of 20 emerging risks 05:31CISA Red Team Achieves Full Domain…
Microsoft Teams Outage Disrupts Meetings and Screen Sharing for Users
Microsoft confirmed that some customers were unable to use multiple features of Microsoft Teams. However, the company reported that monitoring indicated…
CISA Warns of Exploited Gitea Vulnerability
CVE-2026-60004 is a remote code execution vulnerability patched by Gitea developers in late July with the release of version 1.27.1.
AI vulnerability discovery scores the highest impact of 20 emerging risks
Risk managers, auditors and senior executives at 316 companies spent April and May ranking 20 threats they have not yet felt. AI discovery of cyber…
CISA Red Team Achieves Full Domain Compromise Across Critical Infrastructure Networks
CISA’s latest red team assessment shows how common failures in Active Directory, cloud identity, and SOC processes can turn a phishing foothold into an…
Hottest cybersecurity open-source tools of the month: August 2026
Presented here is a curated selection of noteworthy open-source cybersecurity solutions that have drawn recognition for their ability to enhance security…
WhatsApp Passkeys Now Protect Over 1 Billion Users Against Account Takeover Attacks
WhatsApp has announced that over one billion people now use passkeys to secure their accounts, enhancing phishing-resistant authentication across one of…
Linux Turns 35 – Hobby Kernel Now Powers Cloud, Android, and Global Cyber Defense
On August 25, 1991, a 21-year-old University of Helsinki student posted a modest note to the Usenet group comp.os.minix. “I’m doing a (free) operating…
Core Werewolf Hackers Deploy New CoreRAT Malware Against Russian Government and Defense Organizations
The Core Werewolf espionage cluster has introduced a previously undocumented remote access trojan dubbed CoreRAT in targeted attacks on Russian…
Microsoft Teams Outage Largely Mitigated After Users Lost Access to Multiple Features
Microsoft confirmed early Wednesday that customers may have been unable to use multiple Microsoft Teams features, then said its monitoring showed the…
Multiple OpenSSL Flaws Let Remote Attackers Crash Servers and Corrupt Heap Memory
OpenSSL has issued a fresh security advisory disclosing seven vulnerabilities across its cryptographic library, ranging from a heap-corrupting write bug…
ISC Stormcast For Wednesday, August 26th, 2026 https://isc.sans.edu/podcastdetail/10068, (Wed, Aug 26th)
This post has no text preview — click the link below to read the original article. This article has been indexed from SANS Internet Storm Center, InfoCON: green Read the original article: ISC Stormcast For Wednesday, August 26th, 2026 https://isc.sans.edu/podcastdetail/10068,…
Back-to-School Season Is the Perfect Time to Fine-Tune Your Data Security Strategy
Back-to-School Season Is the Perfect Time to Fine-Tune Your Data Security Strategy lee.potok@thal… Tue, 08/25/2026 – 08:36 This time every year, students…
Iranian hackers darken UK power plant, ShinyHunters breaches the threat hunters, Zombie Visa cards
Iran-Linked Cyberattack Hits UK Power Facility, ShinyHunters Phish ReliaQuest, LockBit Claims US Bancorp, Teams Blocks Bots, Expired Visa Card Flaw Cyber…
Carhartt – 12,933,413 breached accounts
In August 2026, clothing retailer Carhartt was the target of a ShinyHunters “pay or leak” extortion campaign . The group subsequently published data…