Cyber crime dominated the first half of August 2026, driving 108 confirmed incidents in just fifteen days. Malware remained the attacker’s weapon of…
IT Security News Hourly Summary 2026-09-02 12h : 19 posts
19 posts published in the last hour 09:32Hackers Breach Brazilian Financial Firms and Execute Hundreds of Fraudulent Transactions 09:32GeoNetwork Fixes Unauthenticated RCE Chain Affecting Government Geoportal Backends 09:31Your AI chats could be used in court 09:31Hackers Chain Two New SonicWall…
Hackers Breach Brazilian Financial Firms and Execute Hundreds of Fraudulent Transactions
A financially motivated threat actor tracked as BREEZE COMET has breached Brazilian financial, retail, and eCommerce organizations, using privileged…
GeoNetwork Fixes Unauthenticated RCE Chain Affecting Government Geoportal Backends
Two vulnerabilities in GeoNetwork can be chained to achieve unauthenticated remote code execution (RCE) on the open-source geospatial metadata catalog,…
Your AI chats could be used in court
What you tell an AI chatbot could come back to haunt you in court. The Washington Post found chat histories already used in 12 legal cases.
Hackers Chain Two New SonicWall Zero-Day Vulnerabilities
SonicWall has urged customers to patch two new zero-day vulnerabilities being exploited in the wild
Critical HPE Fabric Composer Flaws Let Unauthenticated Attackers Execute Code and Take Over Systems
HPE has released security updates for HPE Networking Fabric Composer following the discovery of a large set of vulnerabilities that could allow…
Waymo, Zoox Expand Robotaxis To More Cities
Google spin-off Waymo adds three US cities for total of 14, while Amazon’s Zoox begins testing in Houston, San Diego
Manchester Airports Group – 8,728,451 breached accounts
In August 2026, Manchester Airports Group (MAG) disclosed a data breach impacting their services . The incident was later claimed by the FulcrumSec…
A battery storage cyberattack would look exactly like a badly tuned controller
Batteries connected to the grid make money by reacting to frequency, pushing power out when it sags and soaking it up when it rises. A few hundred of them…
Chrome and Firefox Updates Patch Dozens of Vulnerabilities
The browser refreshes fix multiple use-after-free, sandbox escape, and privilege escalation bugs.
Extradited Russian Hacker Faces Charges Over Excel Malware Campaign That Infected Thousands
The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) has charged a Russian national, extradited from Cyprus on August 28, with using roughly 255 fake accounts on a…
Critical SonicWall Remote Code Execution Vulnerabilities Actively Exploited in Attacks
SonicWall has warned that attackers are actively exploiting two critical vulnerabilities affecting SMA1000 Series secure mobile access appliances. The…
EU Queries Publishers Over Google AI Opt-Out
European Commission reportedly asks publishers whether they plan to take advantage of Google offer to opt-out of AI features
23-Year-Old Sality P2P Botnet Disrupted
The shutdown operation involved peer list manipulation and Sality payload URL takedown.
Global sinkhole operation ends Sality botnet’s 23-year run
Sality, a peer-to-peer (P2P) botnet that had been running for 23 years and infecting more than 15,000 machines worldwide, has been taken down in a joint…
Google Patches 26 Chrome Vulnerabilities, Including Critical WebGL and Shared Tab Groups Flaws
Google has released a new update for the Chrome Stable Channel on desktop platforms, addressing 26 security vulnerabilities. This includes two critical…
ChatGPT Faces Tougher EU Rules
OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Reddit, Roblox all gain designations under EU’s Digital Services Act, subjecting them to stricter standards
Global public-private operation disrupts Sality botnet active for two decades
An international operation supported by Europol has disrupted the Sality peer-to-peer (P2P) botnet, a long-running criminal infrastructure used to…
Critical HPE Fabric Composer Flaw Lets Unauthenticated Attackers Execute Commands as Privileged User
Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) has released security updates addressing 52 vulnerabilities in HPE Networking Fabric Composer, including two critical…
IT Security News Hourly Summary 2026-09-02 11h : 16 posts
16 posts published in the last hour 08:32FulcrumSec Claims Responsibility for Manchester Airport Group Breach 08:32Hackers Target Langflow in CVE-2026-0768 Attacks 08:32Hugging Face Transformers Flaw Writes Malicious Python Code to Disk Before User Consent 08:32Anthropic Revamps Pricing With Fable 5.1…
FulcrumSec Claims Responsibility for Manchester Airport Group Breach
Threat group FulcrumSec claims MAG breach and leaks 550GB of data online
Hackers Target Langflow in CVE-2026-0768 Attacks
Hackers are exploiting a critical Langflow flaw that lets unauthenticated attackers remotely execute Python code on vulnerable systems. Hackers have…
Hugging Face Transformers Flaw Writes Malicious Python Code to Disk Before User Consent
A newly disclosed vulnerability in the Hugging Face Transformers library could allow attacker-controlled Python files to be written to a victim’s system…