Estee Lauder announced that their Oracle E-Business Suite (EBS) system that manages human capital operations was targeted by cyber criminals who managed…
The OpenAI and Anthropic AI Hacking Sprees Are a Messy New Legal Frontier
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…
Claude AI Breached Three Organizations During Internal Testing
Anthropic’s Claude models, during internal security testing, made a malicious Python package and uploaded it to PyPi, where it ran on 15 real systems. The…
Top 10 Best DNS Security Solutions in 2026
Nearly every attack touches DNS the phishing click, the malware callback, the exfiltration tunnel which makes the DNS layer the cheapest place to break…
Should You Use AI for a Task? Here’s a Simple Way to Decide
This essay originally appeared in The Guardian . I teach public policy at the Harvard Kennedy School and the Munk School at the University of Toronto. And…
Top 10 Best Web Application Firewall (WAF) in 2026
A web application firewall (WAF) filters malicious HTTP/S traffic SQL injection, cross-site scripting, credential stuffing, and API abuse — before it…
Russian Hackers Hijack Hotel Wi-Fi to Steal Microsoft 365 Tokens
Microsoft says Russian hackers hijacked hotel Wi-Fi portals to spread malware and steal Microsoft 365 tokens from travelers. Microsoft Threat Intelligence…
OctLurk and SilkLurk: newly identified tailored backdoors in cyber-espionage campaign in Central Asia
Our experts discovered OctLurk and SilkLurk, backdoors operating primarily in memory, targeting Central Asia. They inject plugins to launch shells, scan…
How Heimdal grew from a bold idea into a global cybersecurity platform
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).