Cybersecurity News

• OpenAI Agents Linked to RubyGems Campaign That Gained RCE on RubyDoc Servers (Saturday September 12, 2026)
  The "major malicious attack" that targeted RubyGems in May 2026 was the work of a swarm of OpenAI agents, according to a new report published by researchers Spencer Kitts, Thomas Larsen, and Sydney Von Arx. On May 12, Maciej Mensfeld, senior product manager for software supply chain security at Mend.io, disclosed details of a coordinated cyber attack that targeted the package manager for the (HackerNews)
• GitLab CVSS 10 File-Read Flaw Draws In-the-Wild Probes After Disclosure (Friday September 11, 2026)
  GitLab has released patches to address multiple flaws, including a maximum-severity security vulnerability that has witnessed in-the-wild probes within hours of public disclosure. The vulnerability in question is CVE-2026-85706 (CVSS score: 10.0), a path traversal issue in the repository commits API that could allow an unauthenticated user to read arbitrary files from the GitLab server under (HackerNews)
• Anthropic Says Seven China-Based AI Labs Ran Industrial-Scale Claude Distillation Attacks (Friday September 11, 2026)
  Anthropic on Thursday said it identified and disrupted industrial-scale illicit distillation attacks against Claude from seven labs based in China, including Alibaba, Moonshot, DeepSeek, Z.ai (aka Zhipu), and MiniMax. Knowledge distillation by itself is a legitimate training method. It refers to a machine learning technique where a large, powerful AI model assumes the role of a "teacher" to (HackerNews)
• Claude Used to Automate Exploitation and Data Theft Across Multiple Victims (Friday September 11, 2026)
  Anthropic has warned that cybercriminals and state-sponsored hackers alike are using its Claude models for cyber attacks, weapons design, propaganda, and mass surveillance between December 2025 and August 2026. The threat actors, which the artificial intelligence (AI) company has branded Generative Threat Groups (GTGs), span state-sponsored groups, financially motivated criminals, commercial (HackerNews)
• Russian State-Sponsored Hackers Use Claude to Rebuild Malware After Detection (Friday September 11, 2026)
  Anthropic on Thursday revealed it disrupted a campaign mounted by a Russian state-sponsored threat actor that abused Claude for developing an AI-assisted workflow to get ahead of the detection curve. The operation has been attributed to a cyber espionage group it calls GTG-20006 (where "GTG" stands for Generative Threat Group), which aligns with broader reporting linking the cluster to Midnight (HackerNews)
• Your Critical Vulnerabilities Might Not Be Your Biggest Risk (Friday September 11, 2026)
  Security teams have become exceptionally talented at finding vulnerabilities. Now, it’s time to turn our attention to optimizing the process for determining which of those vulnerabilities actually create a path to compromise. A critical vulnerability may look alarming on a scanner report, but if it sits behind strong segmentation, identity controls, and other defenses that prevent an attacker (HackerNews)
• Attackers Chain JFrog Artifactory Flaws to Gain Admin Control and Plant Backdoors (Friday September 11, 2026)
  Attackers have chained two flaws in JFrog Artifactory, the repository that software build pipelines pull from, to take administrator control of self-hosted servers and plant backdoors, cloud security company Wiz said in a report. Wiz saw the attacks between August 15 and September 8. JFrog had fixed both flaws before then, so only servers that had not been updated were open to them. (HackerNews)
• China-Linked UNC3569 Exploited Sogou Input Method Flaw to Deploy GRAYRABBIT Backdoor (Friday September 11, 2026)
  A China-linked hacking group exploited a flaw in Sogou Input Method, one of the most widely used tools for typing Chinese characters on Windows, to install a backdoor on victims' computers, security company Gen Digital said in research published Thursday. The attack started with a crafted link and ended with the attacker able to do anything the logged-in user could do. Tencent, which owns (HackerNews)
• PaperCut Replaces Emergency Patches With Fixes for Two Actively Exploited Flaws (Friday September 11, 2026)
  PaperCut on Thursday released a new security maintenance release that replaces all previously published emergency patches that were pushed to address two security flaws that have come under active exploitation. The software development company said PaperCut NG/MF versions 26.0.5, 25.0.13 and 24.1.10 are now available for customers to download. "These are Regular Maintenance Releases (MR) that (HackerNews)
• Cisco FMC Flaws Exploited to Steal Credentials and Deploy Qilin Ransomware (Friday September 11, 2026)
  Cisco has revealed that three distinct threat clusters linked to ransomware and state-sponsored attacks have been exploiting two recently patched Secure Firewall Management Center (FMC) vulnerabilities. The attacks leverage CVE-2026-20079 (CVSS score: 10.0), an authentication bypass vulnerability in the web interface of FMC software that could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to bypass (HackerNews)
• ThreatsDay: 200 Android Flaws, Browser-Built Phishing, 119K Scam Shops + 23 More Stories (Thursday September 10, 2026)
  A lot of this week’s security news has the same awkward answer to one question: “Why was that allowed to work?” An extension asks for access and takes too much. A trusted service becomes part of a phishing chain. An old bug still gets results. An exposed system stays exposed. A package looks useful right up until it isn’t. Different stories, same basic problem: the path in was often already (HackerNews)
• Google Play Early Access Abused to Push Thousands of Deceptive Android Apps (Thursday September 10, 2026)
  Bad actors are misusing Google Play's Early Access program to push deceptive apps that claim to offer money, rewards, casino winnings, and premium content. Early Access apps are apps that haven't been released on the official Android app marketplace. The main idea behind the program is for developers to solicit user feedback for new applications or features they may be working on before their (HackerNews)
• Check Point Discloses Two 9.8-Rated VPN Certificate Flaws Enabling Unauthenticated RCE (Thursday September 10, 2026)
  Check Point has patched two critical vulnerabilities in the way its firewall and management products handle VPN certificates. The company says both could allow an unauthenticated remote attacker to run code, but only "under specific conditions" that it has not described. One flaw affects Check Point's Security Gateways, its firewall appliances. The other affects those gateways and the Security (HackerNews)
• PaperCut Attacker Uses Hundreds of AI Agents to Compromise 440+ Instances (Thursday September 10, 2026)
  A suspected Russian-speaking cyber actor has been attributed to the use of artificial intelligence (AI) to devise exploits targeting a recently disclosed pair of security flaws in PaperCut NG/MF and break into hundreds of instances. According to independent reports from Blackpoint Cyber and GreyNoise, the activity originates from "45.142.193[.]132," an IP address that has been linked to (HackerNews)
• Gigabud Creates Android Work Profiles to Hide From Banking App Malware Checks (Thursday September 10, 2026)
  The Gigabud banking trojan now installs a second Android app that creates a work profile on an infected phone and drops a tampered banking app inside it, security firm Group-IB said in a report published on September 9. A work profile is a separate space that Android typically reserves for employer apps, and what's inside it is kept separate from everything in the personal space. That (HackerNews)
• CISA Flags Exploited Cisco, Citrix, Fortinet Flaws, Sets Sept. 12 Federal Patch Deadline (Thursday September 10, 2026)
  The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Wednesday added three flaws, each impacting Cisco, Citrix, and Fortinet, to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, requiring Federal Civilian Executive Branch (FCEB) agencies to apply the patches by September 12, 2026. The vulnerabilities are listed below - CVE-2026-20079 (CVSS score: 10.0) - An authentication (HackerNews)
• Nearly 1 in 10 Exposed LiteLLM Gateways Accepted the Example "sk-1234" Admin Key (Thursday September 10, 2026)
  Nearly one in ten of the internet-facing LiteLLM servers that Wiz Research scanned in February accepted sk-1234, the example admin key in LiteLLM's own setup guide. LiteLLM is an open-source AI gateway, the software a company puts between its applications and the model providers it pays for. That key is the gateway's administrator credential. Anyone who holds it can read every (HackerNews)
• Anthropic Discloses Fourth AI Hacking Incident Involving Claude Opus 4.6 (Thursday September 10, 2026)
  Anthropic on Wednesday disclosed a fourth incident in which its artificial intelligence (AI) model broke into real third-party systems, marking the latest in a growing list of cases that have raised concerns about the security risks posed by autonomous AI agents. The AI company said the incident dates back to January 2026 and involved an early version of Claude Opus 4.6 that breached " (HackerNews)
• U.S. Disrupts Xinbi Guarantee Scam Marketplace, Freezes $52.8 Million in Crypto (Wednesday September 09, 2026)
  The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) on Wednesday announced coordinated actions aimed at an illicit online marketplace called Xinbi Guarantee that offered scam services, including seizing Telegram channels used to run the service, confiscating two cryptocurrency wallets, and deploying the Scam Center Strike Force to Madagascar to help disrupt 13 scam compounds run by Chinese organized crime (HackerNews)
• Four Spy Groups Used the Same Chrome and Windows Exploit Kit Within a Week (Wednesday September 09, 2026)
  Multiple espionage-motivated threat activity clusters have been found deploying a previously undocumented exploit kit called BlueMoon that chains together multiple vulnerabilities in Microsoft Windows and Google Chrome. The first in-the-wild use of BlueMoon has been attributed to the China-aligned state-sponsored group tracked as APT31 (aka Bronze Vinewood, Judgement Panda, JungleBamboo, (HackerNews)
• Infostealer Logs Expose Replayable AI Tokens That Can Bypass MFA (Wednesday September 09, 2026)
  Cybercriminals are hijacking artificial intelligence (AI) user accounts via information stealer logs to create "stolen keys" that grant illicit access to tools from model providers like Google, Anthropic, and others.  Information stealers like Lumma Stealer or Vidar are equipped to harvest a wide range of data from compromised systems. This can include credential, session tokens, and API (HackerNews)
• Webinar: Learn How to Answer “Are We Exposed?” Faster After a New CVE (Wednesday September 09, 2026)
  A major vulnerability is disclosed. The alert lands immediately. Then comes the harder question: Are we actually exposed? For many security teams, answering that means jumping between vulnerability scanners, endpoint tools, cloud inventories, SBOMs, repositories, and application data to build enough context to act. As AI accelerates vulnerability discovery and research, that delay matters more (HackerNews)
• DeepSeek Harness Flaw Let AI Agents Disable Their Own File Sandbox Without Approval (Wednesday September 09, 2026)
  A flaw in DeepSeek Harness, DeepSeek's open-source tool for running AI coding agents on a developer's machine, let a sandboxed agent turn off its own sandbox with a single command. The tool runs an agent's commands inside an operating-system sandbox, so that an agent working on untrusted files cannot write outside its workspace. The agent could remove that limit by calling the tool's own web (HackerNews)
• Alby Hub Critical Flaw Could Let Attackers Take Over Internet-Exposed Bitcoin Wallets (Wednesday September 09, 2026)
  Bitcoin wallet company Alby has warned of a critical flaw in Alby Hub that could have let an attacker take over a wallet and send its funds, but only where the owner had made the Hub reachable from the internet. Alby Hub is a self-hosted Lightning wallet, meaning the owner runs it on their own computer or server, and it holds their bitcoin. The flaw affects versions v1.7.0 through (HackerNews)
• U.S. Agencies Accuse China AI Firms of Distilling Claude, GPT, Gemini, and Grok (Wednesday September 09, 2026)
  U.S. cybersecurity and intelligence agencies have accused China-based artificial intelligence (AI) companies of conducting "systematic extraction" of proprietary functionalities and capabilities of American frontier models through distillation attacks. The activity has been described as occurring at an industrial-scale and one that forms the "core" of their AI development strategy, according to (HackerNews)
• Chrome V8 Zero-Day Exploited in the Wild Enables Code Execution Inside Sandbox (Wednesday September 09, 2026)
  Google on Tuesday released updates to patch 230 security vulnerabilities, including one that has come under active exploitation in the wild. The medium-severity vulnerability, assigned the CVE identifier CVE-2026-87491 (CVSS score: N/A), has been described as an out-of-bounds bug in V8, Chrome's JavaScript and WebAssembly engine. "Out-of-bounds write in V8 in Google Chrome prior to (HackerNews)
• New cPanel Flaw Lets a Hosting Account With Mail Privileges Run Code as Root (Wednesday September 09, 2026)
  cPanel has patched a flaw that it says lets a single hosting account take control of an entire server. An authenticated account holder with mail-related privileges can create files of their choosing on the server through EmailTrack and, from there, run code as the root user. cPanel published the advisory on September 8 and says every supported version of cPanel and WHM is affected. (HackerNews)
• F5 BIG-IP APM Malware Injects a PHP Web Shell Into Memory, Evading Disk Scans (Wednesday September 09, 2026)
  Malware linked to break-ins at F5 BIG-IP Access Policy Manager appliances hides a PHP web shell in memory instead of in a file on disk, Sophos said in an analysis published on September 7. When Apache loads any of the three appliances' own PHP scripts, the malware adds the web shell to the copy held in memory, so a check of the file on disk can come back clean. Those three scripts are (HackerNews)
• Researcher Drops New Microsoft Defender PoC Showing ShieldBreak Patch Can Be Bypassed (Wednesday September 09, 2026)
  The security researcher known as Chaotic Eclipse has dropped a proof-of-concept (PoC) for yet another zero-day in Microsoft Defender. The vulnerability, codenamed ShieldCrash, is assessed to be a patch bypass for CVE-2026-69414 (CVSS score: 7.8), also called ShieldBreak, which the researcher reported last month. "Microsoft has failed to properly patch ShieldBreak CVE-2026-69414," Chaotic (HackerNews)
• SAP Patches CVSS 10.0 Kernel Flaw Enabling Unauthenticated Remote Code Execution (Wednesday September 09, 2026)
  SAP has released security updates to address multiple vulnerabilities, including a maximum-severity flaw in SAP Extended Passport (EPP) Processing that could have a severe impact on the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of the application The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-44756 (CVSS score: 10.0), has been described as a case of memory corruption. Discovered and reported by SAP (HackerNews)
• Microsoft Patches Record 974 Flaws, Including Two Exploited Windows Zero-Days (Wednesday September 09, 2026)
  Microsoft on Tuesday broke Patch Tuesday records by addressing an earth-shattering 974 vulnerabilities spanning its software portfolio, including two flaws that it said have been actively exploited in the wild. These include 723 flaws in Windows, 111 in Office and Office 2016, 62 in SQL, and 22 in Developer Tools. Of these, over 110 shortcomings have been assigned a critical severity rating. (HackerNews)
• N-able N-central Pre-Auth RCE Flaw Exploited in the Wild (Wednesday September 09, 2026)
  The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Tuesday added a maximum-severity security flaw impacting N-able N-central to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, requiring Federal Civilian Executive Branch (FCEB) agencies to apply the fixes by September 11, 2026. The vulnerability in question is CVE-2026-86218 (CVSS score: 10.0), which has been described as a (HackerNews)
• Microsoft Plugs Nearly 1,000 Security Holes (Tuesday September 08, 2026)
  Microsoft Corp. today issued updates to plug at least 974 security holes in its Windows operating systems and other software, by far its biggest single patch batch ever. Microsoft says artificial intelligence is helping to speed the discovery of vulnerabilities, but security experts warn that many organizations already are struggling to prioritize the more human-intensive endeavor of testing and deploying so many fixes each month. (KrebsOnSecurity)
• Slim Spider Steals Crypto Custody Secrets From Brazilian Financial Institution (Tuesday September 08, 2026)
  A previously undocumented financially motivated threat actor has been linked to attacks targeting Brazilian financial institutions since at least March 2026. Cybersecurity company CrowdStrike is tracking the Brazil-based activity cluster under the name Slim Spider. "The adversary demonstrates deep operational knowledge of Brazilian financial infrastructure, including the instant payment (HackerNews)
• Liquid Hackers Return 3,400 Bitcoin Taken via Elements Bug, Still Holding $47M in BTC (Tuesday September 08, 2026)
  Whoever took nearly 4,000 bitcoin from the Liquid Network on Sunday, September 6, returned 3,400 of it the next day, Bitcoin's public record shows. About 598.5 bitcoin has not come back. Liquid is a Bitcoin sidechain that holds real bitcoin to back a token called L-BTC. The network is still paused, so holders cannot turn that token back into bitcoin. The 3,400 bitcoin was sent to a& (HackerNews)
• ChatGPT Flaw Let a Planted Prompt Send a Victim's Gmail Data to Another Account (Tuesday September 08, 2026)
  Check Point Research said in a report published today that a single instruction planted in a ChatGPT conversation could cause ChatGPT to quietly work for an attacker while answering the user's question as usual. In the company's proof of concept, that hidden work read data from the user's connected Gmail account and passed it to a second ChatGPT account through a hidden channel (HackerNews)
• Autonomous AI Agents Compromise Thousands of Credentials in Under Six Hours (Tuesday September 08, 2026)
  Threat actors are continuing to leverage artificial intelligence (AI) to streamline their operations, with one financially motivated hacking group employing an autonomous, multi-agent attack framework to carry out a large-scale credential harvesting campaign within six hours. Google Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG) said it has observed attackers with diverse motivations targeting proprietary AI (HackerNews)
• WeChat Zero-Click Worm Took Over Accounts on iPhone and Android via Incoming Calls (Tuesday September 08, 2026)
  Researchers at the security firm Calif have built a worm that takes over a WeChat account via an incoming call and demonstrated it spreading among three test phones. The person being called does not have to answer or touch their phone for it to work, but the caller must already be one of their WeChat contacts. Calif reported the flaw to Tencent in July and says the company has since (HackerNews)
• What It Took to Reach 1 Billion Build Manifests (Tuesday September 08, 2026)
  In the last six months, Chainguard doubled its output from 500 million to more than 1 billion container build manifests. We also surpassed 3,000 unique container images and 675,000 image versions in our catalog. Those are the headline numbers, but I want to share what's actually behind them. The number itself is less interesting than the system that produced it, and why we had to fundamentally (HackerNews)
• FreeIPA Flaw Chain Lets Anonymous Clients Create Reusable Administrator Credentials (Tuesday September 08, 2026)
  A flaw in FreeIPA lets a client that has never logged in create a Kerberos identity of its own choosing in the directory and end up in the administrators group, Red Hat says. FreeIPA is the system that determines who may log in across a Linux domain and maintains all identities in a 389 Directory Server database accessed via LDAP. The attack needs a second flaw in that database software. The (HackerNews)
• Adobe Patches Magento Zero-Day Exploited to Deploy Rust Backdoor and PHP Web Shell (Tuesday September 08, 2026)
  Adobe on Monday released security patches to address a maximum-severity flaw impacting Adobe Commerce and Magento Open Source that has come under active exploitation in the wild. The vulnerability, now tracked as CVE-2026-75650 (CVSS score: 10.0), has been codenamed StyleSmuggler by Sansec, which discovered zero-day exploitation starting September 4, 2026. "This update resolves a critical (HackerNews)
• BengalSEO Poisons Bing Search Results to Deliver MayaBot and Tech Support Scams (Tuesday September 08, 2026)
  Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a sprawling search engine optimization (SEO) poisoning campaign that paves the way for malware deployment and tech support scams. The campaign, discovered by the DFIR Report in March 2026, has been codenamed BengalSEO. It has operated out of the Indian state of Rajasthan since at least 2015, driven by two IT service providers named WeConnect (HackerNews)
• Grindr to Pay £26 Million to Settle U.K. Claims Over HIV Status Data Sharing (Tuesday September 08, 2026)
  Online dating app Grindr has opted to pay £26 million ($35.1 million) to settle a lawsuit in the U.K. over allegations that it shared users' personal information, including their HIV status, with third-parties. Grindr, which is the largest LGBTQ+ dating app, was sued in April 2024, accusing it of violating U.K. privacy laws by sharing sensitive data for commercial purposes such as advertising. (HackerNews)
• PEEP Turns Chrome and Edge Into Post-Compromise Backdoors for Host Command Execution (Monday September 07, 2026)
  Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a complex Chromium-based post-exploitation toolkit called PEEP that masquerades as a bookmarks extension for the web browser. "Requiring prior administrative or code execution access, its installer injects the extension directly into Chrome/Edge profiles, bypassing Web Store checks and user prompts by forging Chromium's own Secure Preferences (HackerNews)
• Fake IT Calls Target Executives in Microsoft 365 Data Theft and Extortion Attacks (Monday September 07, 2026)
  Threat hunters have disclosed details of a widespread data theft and extortion threat cluster that's targeting Microsoft 365 and other software-as-a-service (SaaS) offerings through information technology (IT) help desk vishing, adversary-in-the-middle (AitM) token theft, and residential-proxy sign-ins. The activity, which mainly singles out directors, vice presidents, and other executive staff (HackerNews)
• ⚡ Weekly Recap: Chrome 0-Day, Router Hijacks, Coder Supply Chain Attack and More (Monday September 07, 2026)
  Turning off email images should at least stop the pictures. This week, attackers had a workaround: a scannable QR code built out of text. It still appears, even with images blocked. A small detail, but an annoying one if that was a precaution you were counting on. Elsewhere, a trusted software source delivered code that stole credentials, and a protocol designed for secure network management (HackerNews)
• Your Cloud Security Checklist Doesn't Work the Way You Think It Does (Monday September 07, 2026)
  If managing security across multiple cloud providers wasn't hard enough, each one fails in a different way. For the 2026 Cloud Security Index, Intruder analyzed misconfiguration data from 3,000 organizations across AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud and found that risk profiles across providers have almost nothing in common. Here’s what the data looks like. How risk differs across cloud providers (HackerNews)
• Rogue ScreenConnect Clients Spread Four-Stage VBScript Chain to Newly Connected Hosts (Monday September 07, 2026)
  Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of worm-like activity that abuses ConnectWise ScreenConnect to distribute a malicious Visual Basic Script (VBScript) payload to newly connected systems. According to Huntress, three unrelated incidents have been found to use diverse initial access methods, namely a Quick Assist tech-support scam, a phishing-delivered MSI installer, and a fake (HackerNews)
• Telerik UI Padding-Oracle Bug Chained to Unauthenticated RCE — Public Exploit Released (Monday September 07, 2026)
  A TantoSec proof-of-concept turns an AES-CBC "padding oracle" in Telerik UI for ASP.NET AJAX into unauthenticated remote code execution — but only against applications in a specific non-default configuration, and Progress patched the chain in July. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation in the wild. Security firm TantoSec has published a working exploit chain targeting vulnerabilities (HackerNews)
• N-able Issues Fourth N-central Hotfix in Five Weeks for Unauthenticated RCE Flaw (Monday September 07, 2026)
  Every on-premises N-central build below 2026.3.1.14 — including servers updated to Hotfix 3 a day earlier — needs Hotfix 4. N-able's incident notice says the flaw has been exploited in the wild; its release notes say that is unconfirmed. N-able has released its fourth hotfix in five weeks for the N-central remote monitoring and management (RMM) platform, this time for a (HackerNews)
• JSCeal Malware Can Bypass Google Authentication Using Stolen Session Cookies (Monday September 07, 2026)
  Cybersecurity researchers have unpacked JSCeal, a sophisticated compiled V8 JavaScript (JSC) malware with credential harvesting, surveillance, and traffic-interception capabilities. "The payloads are protected with javascript-obfuscator, using multiple techniques including RC4-protected strings, control-flow flattening, proxy functions, and operation wrappers," Check Point Research said in a (HackerNews)
• FBI Probes Service Selling 153M+ Drivers Licenses (Tuesday September 01, 2026)
  A new identity theft service launched on the dark web this week is selling digital scans of more than 153 million drivers licenses from people in the United States and Canada. Based on interviews with individuals whose licenses are available for purchase on this service, it appears to be siphoning images collected by a widely-used identity verification company based in Louisiana. KrebsOnSecurity also has learned that the New Orleans field office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) today launched an official inquiry into the source of the images. (KrebsOnSecurity)
• Two Alleged ‘TeamPCP’ Hackers Arrested in Australia (Thursday August 27, 2026)
  Authorities in Australia have arrested two men believed to be members of TeamPCP, a prolific cybercrime and data extortion group blamed for perpetrating the longest running spree of software supply chain attacks ever. In a statement released today, the Australian Federal Police (AFP) said two unnamed suspects from Western Australia, aged 21 and 23, were arrested in connection with a "sophisticated cybercrime syndicate that allegedly created malicious open-source software to rob thousands of global businesses." The AFP did not name the defendants, but KrebsOnSecurity learned the 21-year-old suspect's real identity in June, and has been communicating with him ever since. This story includes interviews with TeamPCP's self-described spokesperson, and examines clues left behind by the TeamPCP leader that likely led to his undoing. (KrebsOnSecurity)
• Who’s Tracking You? Use This New Service to Find Out (Friday August 14, 2026)
  It can be daunting to determine who's responsible for showing ads on the websites we visit, or who's harvesting data from the mobile apps we use every day. That information is already semi-public, but it is not easily parsed and traditionally much of it has remained walled away in the hands of large advertising platforms. Not anymore: A powerful and free new service called DecryptAds scrapes and correlates this adtech data and makes it simple to quickly learn a great deal about the entities that are tracking you. (KrebsOnSecurity)
• Microsoft Plugs Nearly 400 Security Holes (Tuesday August 11, 2026)
  Microsoft today released updates to remedy at least 398 security vulnerabilities in its Windows operating systems and supported software, including one weakness that is already being actively exploited and two others that were publicly detailed prior to today. (KrebsOnSecurity)
• Canadian Man Pleads Guilty in Snowflake Extortions (Thursday August 06, 2026)
  A 26-year-old Canadian man once described as one of the most consequential cybercrime threat actors of 2024 has pleaded guilty to computer fraud and conspiracy to hack and extort more than 165 organizations that used the cloud data storage provider Snowflake. Connor Riley Moucka, of Kitchener, Ontario, also admitted to stealing call and text history records of more than 100 million AT&T customers. (KrebsOnSecurity)
• Read This Before You Buy That TV Streaming Stick (Thursday July 30, 2026)
  Security experts have been sounding the alarm for years about the risks of using generic TV boxes that promise unlimited content streaming for a one-time fee, warning that they secretly rent the user's Internet connection out to strangers. But a groundbreaking new analysis finds these devices also routinely spoof themselves as mobile phones clicking ads on AI-generated websites as part of sprawling operation that seeks to defraud online merchants and advertising networks. (KrebsOnSecurity)
• LG to Ban Residential Proxies from Smart TV Apps (Wednesday July 22, 2026)
  The home appliance giant LG Electronics USA said this week it plans to suspend any apps built for its smart TVs that turn one's television into an always-on residential proxy node. The move comes less than a month after researchers found that more than 42 percent of games and other apps available for download on LG's webOS store allow unknown third-parties to route their Internet traffic through a user's TV. (KrebsOnSecurity)
• Microsoft Patches a Record 570 Security Flaws (Tuesday July 14, 2026)
  Microsoft Corp. today released software updates to plug at least 570 security holes in its Windows operating systems and other software, almost triple the number of vulnerabilities the software giant fixed in its record-smashing Patch Tuesday release last month. Microsoft attributed the burgeoning patch counts to vulnerability discoveries aided by artificial intelligence. (KrebsOnSecurity)
• Lessons Learned from CISA’s Recent GitHub Leak (Monday July 13, 2026)
  The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has issued a postmortem on a data leak in which a contractor published dozens of internal CISA credentials -- including AWS Govcloud keys -- in a public GitHub repository for almost six months before being notified by KrebsOnSecurity. Experts say the gaps identified in the agency's initial response provide important lessons that all security teams should absorb. (KrebsOnSecurity)

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