A shared security ‘Nightmare’
Hackers Use QR Codes in Phishing Emails to Steal Login Credentials
Hackers are putting QR codes in phishing emails to steal login credentials. Known as quishing, the method hides a dangerous web address inside a square…
Hijacked ScreenConnect Installs Are Spreading Malware Like a Worm, Huntress Warns
Cybersecurity firm Huntress has uncovered a wave of malicious installations of ScreenConnect, a widely used remote-support tool, that spread between…
New $7 SweepLED Device That Allows Anyone to Detect Hidden Cameras in Hotels
Researchers have developed SweepLED, a low-cost smartphone accessory designed to help travelers find concealed cameras in hotel rooms and short-term…
The story behind the intelligence
From engaging with cybercriminals to surviving a live Flamin’ Hot Cheetos taste test, Hazel reflects on the latest Beers with Talos with Azim, where they…
153 Million Driver’s License Scans Surface on Dark Web as FBI Opens Investigation
A dark web identity theft service known as Nexus has reportedly offered scans of more than 153 million driver’s licenses from people in the United States…
Museum heists turn violent: new Europol report on cultural property theft tactics
The spotlight features some key findings:Increasing violence: Museum thefts are becoming more aggressive, with offenders using tools like sledgehammers,…
Claude AI Faces Outage Impacting Mythos 5.1, Fable 5.1, and Opus 5
Anthropic’s Claude AI experienced a partial outage on September 3, 2026, disrupting requests across several Claude models and affecting developers,…
IT Security News Hourly Summary 2026-09-03 20h : 18 posts
18 posts published in the last hour 17:32Chaotic Eclipse Claims Avast Antivirus 0-Day Vulnerability – PoC Released 17:32Agents of Chaos: A New $100K Agentic Security Challenge 17:32ASCII smuggling crosses over from AI prompt injection to phishing evasion 17:32ISC Stormcast For…
Chaotic Eclipse Claims Avast Antivirus 0-Day Vulnerability – PoC Released
Researcher Chaotic Eclipse has claimed to have discovered a zero-day privilege-escalation vulnerability affecting Avast Antivirus and released a public…
Agents of Chaos: A New $100K Agentic Security Challenge
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ASCII smuggling crosses over from AI prompt injection to phishing evasion
Invisible Unicode characters popularized for hiding instructions from AI models are now being used to obfuscate words before email filters parse them.
ISC Stormcast For Tuesday, September 1st, 2026 https://isc.sans.edu/podcastdetail/10076, (Tue, Sep 1st)
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Phantom Deal Hackers Impersonate Executives and Use Fake NDAs to Steal Corporate Wire Transfers
Cybercriminals are using fake acquisition deals to steer employees toward large wire transfers. The campaign, called Phantom Deal, begins with a…
SonicWall SMA1000 Zero-Days Under Active Attack: Patch Now
SonicWall says attackers are actively exploiting two SMA1000 vulnerabilities that can be chained for unauthenticated remote code execution.
LLMjacking Attack Uses Leaked AWS IAM Key to Steal Paid AI Model Access
A newly documented cloud intrusion shows how quickly attackers can turn a single leaked AWS credential into a revenue stream by hijacking access to…
The Bottleneck of Scaling
Any input/output operation, be it accessing a file, handling an HTTP request, or a database connection, is based on 3 fundamental system concepts — file…
OpenAI Investigates Elevated Errors Affecting ChatGPT and Codex Services
OpenAI has reported an ongoing service incident involving elevated errors across ChatGPT and Codex, with the company confirming that it is investigating…
Guildma (Astaroth) malware infection from Brazilian Portuguese email, (Tue, Sep 1st)
Introduction
Hackers Weaponize ScreenConnect to Spread Worm-Like Malware Across Windows Systems
Hackers are turning rogue remote-support installations into a tool that can spread malicious code between Windows computers. The activity stands out…
Sality Botnet Disrupted as Authorities Seize Key Infrastructure
An international public-private operation has disrupted Sality, a peer-to-peer botnet that remained active for more than two decades, by seizing domains…
Thomson Reuters Court Software Breach May Have Exposed SSNs and Sealed Data
Thomson Reuters disclosed on Wednesday that an unauthorized party obtained files from C-Track, the court case management platform sold by its West…
Fewer attacks, more force: Link11’s European Cyber Report finds new DDoS records for the first half of 2026
Frankfurt am Main, Germany, September 3rd, 2026, CyberNewswire Super-botnets and hijacked cloud servers drive new bandwidth and packet-rate records as…
Critical Cisco Nexus 9000 Flaw Lets Unauthenticated Remote Attackers Run Code as Root
Cisco has released patches to address a critical security flaw affecting 10 Silicon One-based Nexus 9000 switches that could allow an unauthenticated,…