A hacker claims to be selling 3.6 million Azure-linked employee records from McDonald’s, Vodafone, TCS, and others, but no breach is confirmed.
IT Security News Hourly Summary 2026-08-18 22h : 8 posts
8 posts published in the last hour 19:02OpenAI institutes new safeguards after Hugging Face breach 19:02OpenAI Overhauls Safety Protocols After Its AI Agents Went Rogue 19:02Attackers Exploit MLflow SSRF Flaw to Steal Cloud Credentials and Secrets 19:02French Tax Authority Data…
OpenAI institutes new safeguards after Hugging Face breach
The new safeguards include more detailed monitoring of models during the development process, as well as greater emphasis on alignment and security during…
OpenAI Overhauls Safety Protocols After Its AI Agents Went Rogue
The ChatGPT maker says its upcoming Astra model may have reached “critical” cyber capabilities, prompting it to halt a significant number of training runs…
Attackers Exploit MLflow SSRF Flaw to Steal Cloud Credentials and Secrets
Two critical vulnerabilities impacting MLflow, an open-source artificial intelligence (AI) platform, and FUXA, an open-source, web-based SCADA / HMI…
French Tax Authority Data Breach Exposes 600,000+ Users’ Personal Tax-Related Data
France’s tax authority has confirmed a data breach affecting approximately 678,000 individuals and businesses after threat actors gained unauthorized…
Microsoft Copilot Personal Flaws Could Let One Click Exfiltrate Data From Connected Apps
Varonis Threat Labs has disclosed three vulnerabilities in Microsoft Copilot Personal that it said could allow a single click on a crafted link to…
CISA Warns Medusa Ransomware Hackers Steal Data, Kill Security Tools, and Encrypt Entire Networks
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and the U.S. Department of Health and Human…
Ransom Busters Claims It Hacked Ransomware Servers, Asks Victims for Up to $60,000
A ransomware affiliate calling itself Ransom Busters has been spotted proactively sending emails to victim organizations and claims to delete stolen data…
IT Security News Hourly Summary 2026-08-18 21h : 4 posts
4 posts published in the last hour 18:31Hackers Expose Data of 1.2 Million Heights Finance Customers 18:01DDoS Attack Knocks Threema Messaging Service Offline for Hours 18:01Microsoft Confirms ShieldBreak Defender Flaw, Windows Defender Fix Still Pending 18:00IT Security News Hourly Summary…
Hackers Expose Data of 1.2 Million Heights Finance Customers
A Heights Finance breach exposed personal and financial data of over 1.2 million people after hackers compromised a third-party cloud platform. Heights…
DDoS Attack Knocks Threema Messaging Service Offline for Hours
A large-scale DDoS attack disrupted Threema for hours, knocking hosted messaging offline as OnPrem deployments stayed online and attackers remained…
Microsoft Confirms ShieldBreak Defender Flaw, Windows Defender Fix Still Pending
Microsoft is working on a fix for the ShieldBreak Windows Defender vulnerability as a public proof of concept raises privilege-escalation concerns.
IT Security News Hourly Summary 2026-08-18 20h : 10 posts
10 posts published in the last hour 17:31French Tax Authority Data Breach Exposes 600,000+ Users Personal Tax-Related Data 17:31Anthropic Launches New /design Skill for Claude Code UI Workflows 17:31Project noRecognition: Teaching AI to Fool Surveillance Cameras 17:31Critical MLflow SSRF Vulnerability…
French Tax Authority Data Breach Exposes 600,000+ Users Personal Tax-Related Data
France’s tax authority has confirmed a data breach affecting approximately 678,000 individuals and businesses after threat actors gained unauthorized…
Anthropic Launches New /design Skill for Claude Code UI Workflows
Anthropic has introduced a new /design skill for Claude Code, expanding its developer-focused AI platform into user interface design workflows. The…
Project noRecognition: Teaching AI to Fool Surveillance Cameras
Researchers tested 31 million patterns to disrupt surveillance AI, with promising results but significant gaps between simulation and real-world use. The…
Critical MLflow SSRF Vulnerability Exploited by Hackers in the Wild
Threat actors are actively exploiting a critical, unauthenticated server-side request forgery (SSRF) vulnerability in MLflow, the popular open-source…
Hunting MacSync Stealer infrastructure through behavioral pivots
MacSync Stealer rapidly rotates domains to evade detection, but its behavior remains consistent. Learn how Microsoft uncovered 30+ related domains using…
Microsoft 365 Search Outage Disrupts SharePoint, OneDrive, and Outlook Users Worldwide
Microsoft is actively managing a service disruption that has left a subset of enterprise users unable to search for content across SharePoint Online,…
Security Hub Extended adds Supply Chain Security as its tenth category
Since February, we’ve grown AWS Security Hub Extended from 14 curated partners across 9 categories to 23 partners across 10. At Black Hat this month, 14…
Hackers Hijack Thousands of WordPress Sites to Use as C2 Servers for StopAndProtect Malware
A newly uncovered malware operation dubbed StopAndProtect is transforming thousands of hacked WordPress websites into a sprawling criminal…
Comcast adds motion sensing to millions of its newer routers, with a privacy catch
A new feature added to Comcast’s newest routers can detect if there is motion is inside your home without needing traditional motion sensors.
IT Security News Hourly Summary 2026-08-18 19h : 6 posts
6 posts published in the last hour 16:02Projextor Shows How Malware Can Hide Behind Trusted Electron Executables 16:02DevSecOps Tutorial: Embedding Security into CI/CD Pipelines (2026) 16:02Wiz AI Agent Finds Critical Snowflake GitHub Repo Flaw Advanced Security Missed 16:01Bluesky says its…