Cybersecurity News

• TikTok Agrees to $400 Million Settlement in U.S. Child Privacy Lawsuit (Saturday August 22, 2026)
  The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) announced on Friday that ByteDance-owned TikTok will pay $400 million to settle a 2024 lawsuit accusing the company of violating child privacy laws in the country. As part of the settlement, the social media platform will pay $300 million immediately, and an additional $100 million "upon entry of an order vacating a prior consent decree entered against (HackerNews)
• 14 Trojanized npm Packages Drop RedC2 4.0 Linux Backdoor With AI-Assisted C2 (Friday August 21, 2026)
  Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a set of trojanized npm packages that masquerade as working calendar and streak utilities but are engineered to stealthily deliver an artificial intelligence (AI)-powered Linux implant dubbed RedC2 4.0. "When the module loads, it locates the bundled binary, marks it executable, and launches it as a detached background process," TrendAI, Trend Micro's (HackerNews)
• Microsoft Defender's Own Driver Can Be Weaponized to Delete Security Software at Boot (Friday August 21, 2026)
  Check Point Research has disclosed a technique that uses Microsoft Defender's own legitimately signed boot-time remediation driver to perform arbitrary kernel-level file and registry operations on Windows systems ranging from Windows 7 through Windows 11 25H2, with no software flaw exploited and no driver imported from outside the machine. The driver, BTR.sys (Boot Time Removal Tool), is a (HackerNews)
• Android Car Malware Spreads Through Built-In Updaters for Ad Fraud, Proxy Botnet (Friday August 21, 2026)
  Cybersecurity researchers have flagged a new malware family that's specifically designed to infect Android-based vehicle head unit firmware developed by DoFun. Kaspersky, which discovered the threat in June 2026, said the end goal of the malware is to serve a multi-stage downloader to enable ad fraud and creation of a proxy botnet. "The malware spread through the built-in updaters of (HackerNews)
• Wazuh and AI For Enhanced SOC Workflows (Friday August 21, 2026)
  Artificial Intelligence (AI) has become one of this decade's defining technologies. From healthcare and finance to manufacturing and education, organizations increasingly rely on AI to automate repetitive tasks, uncover patterns hidden within large datasets, and support faster decision-making. Cybersecurity has experienced a similar transformation. While attackers employ AI to automate (HackerNews)
• Cisco Patches Nine Crosswork and Secure Workload Flaws, Five Scoring CVSS 10.0 (Friday August 21, 2026)
  Cisco has published another round of security updates for Crosswork platforms and Secure Workload Software as part of a continued comprehensive internal security review. Four of the security vulnerabilities affect Crosswork Data Gateway, Crosswork Network Controller, and Crosswork Planning, regardless of the device configuration. A brief description of each of the flaws is below - (HackerNews)
• GitLab CVE-2026-19478 Comes Under Active Exploitation Within Days of Disclosure (Friday August 21, 2026)
  A newly disclosed security flaw in GitLab has come under active exploitation within days of public disclosure, according to watchTowr. The vulnerability in question is CVE-2026-19478 (CVSS score: 9.4), a case of code injection that allows an unauthenticated attacker to modify or delete publicly accessible GitLab projects and rewrite their data under certain conditions without requiring (HackerNews)
• Microsoft Patches Severe Entra ID Flaw (CVSS 10.0) Allowing Remote Code Execution (Friday August 21, 2026)
  Update: The story was updated after publication to note that the vulnerability has not been exploited. Although the security bulletin originally marked the "Exploited" field under the Exploitability Assessment table as "Yes," on August 21, 2026, Microsoft corrected the "Exploited" status to "No" after The Hacker News contacted the company for comment. It also noted, "this vulnerability was not (HackerNews)
• Rust Supply Chain Attack Puts Build-Time Malware in Crates with 245 Million Downloads (Thursday August 20, 2026)
  The Rust Project has deleted malicious versions of three widely used Rust crates from crates.io after a compromised maintainer account published releases that added a typosquatted dependency whose build script downloaded and executed a remote payload during compilation. The affected releases are arrayref 0.3.10, internment 0.8.7, and append-only-vec 0.1.9, all published from the same owner (HackerNews)
• Suspected Russian Hackers Abuse Google OAuth and WhatsApp Linking to Hijack Accounts (Thursday August 20, 2026)
  Three distinct suspected Russian cyber espionage threat clusters have been observed leveraging legitimate authentication flows to single out individuals working in academia, aerospace and defense, governments, and think tanks across Europe, as well as academia and think tanks within the U.S. These clusters include UNC6293, UNC7005, and UNC5976. "These clusters engage in persistent, adaptive (HackerNews)
• ThreatsDay: Gogs 10.0 RCE, n8n Workflow-to-RCE, $10M Reward, GLM-5.3 AI Exploit, and More (Thursday August 20, 2026)
  A lot of this week’s trouble starts with something trusted doing exactly what it was allowed to do. Signed drivers get turned against defenses. Legitimate apps help malware blend in. A weak header check opens a path to code execution. Elsewhere, exposed systems, old bugs, odd hiding tricks, and AI-assisted exploit research keep lowering the effort needed to cause damage. Nothing here needs (HackerNews)
• AI-Generated Exploit Scripts Target Siemens S7 PLCs in U.S. Critical Infrastructure (Thursday August 20, 2026)
  The U.S. government on Wednesday warned of an "active threat" targeting critical infrastructure organizations in the country using artificial intelligence (AI)-generated exploit scripts. The activity is targeting Siemens S7 SeriesProgrammable Logic Controllers (PLCs) to conduct reconnaissance and capability development using AI-generated scripts disguised as legitimate monitoring tools. That (HackerNews)
• New Cryptographic Context Injection Attack Could Let Web Pages Steal Grok Chat Data (Thursday August 20, 2026)
  Adversa AI has disclosed an attack technique that it says can cause xAI's Grok chatbot to send a user's name, approximate location, subscription tier, and the prompts from the ongoing conversation to an attacker-controlled server after the user asks it to summarize an ordinary web page. The AI security company, which has codenamed the technique "Cryptographic Context Injection," said the (HackerNews)
• Isolated-vm Flaw Lets Sandboxed JavaScript Escape to Host for Potential RCE (Thursday August 20, 2026)
  Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed a critical security flaw in isolated-vm, a popular open-source sandbox with more than 2,900 stars and 190 forks on GitHub, that could allow attackers to escape the confines of the isolated environment. The vulnerability ("GHSA-864f-rcv7-6rh4"), which has yet to be assigned a CVE identifier, impacts all versions of the library before and including 7.0.0. (HackerNews)
• Critical NetScaler Flaw Can Bypass Authentication on Certain Gateway and AAA Servers (Thursday August 20, 2026)
  Citrix has released updates to address two security flaws impacting NetScaler ADC and NetScaler Gateway deployments, including a critical-severity authentication bypass vulnerability. According to the cloud computing and virtualization technology company, the issues affect customer-managed NetScaler ADC and NetScaler Gateway, including certain FIPS and NDcPP builds, as well as SecurAccess (HackerNews)
• Attackers Exploit Zimbra SNMP Flaw for Unauthenticated Remote Code Execution (Thursday August 20, 2026)
  A now-patched security flaw impacting Zimbra Collaboration (ZCS) has come under active exploitation in the wild, according to the Polish Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT Polska). The vulnerability in question is CVE-2026-73570 (CVSS score: 8.9), which refers to a case of command injection that can lead to remote code execution. "A remote code execution vulnerability exists in Zimbra (HackerNews)
• Zombie Card Attack Can Revive Expired Visa Cards for Contactless Payments (Thursday August 20, 2026)
  Researchers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst have demonstrated an attack that revives expired Visa contactless credit cards for real in-store purchases by rewriting the expiration date a point-of-sale (POS) terminal reads over near-field communication (NFC), without breaking any of the card's cryptography. The attack, which the researchers named "Zombie Card," requires physical (HackerNews)
• Why "Shady AI" is Security's Next Big Governance Problem (Thursday August 20, 2026)
  In March 2026, an internal AI agent at Meta triggered a “Sev 1” incident after sensitive company and user data was exposed to employees who weren’t authorized to access it.  The incident began when a Meta employee posted a technical question on an internal forum. An engineer used an approved AI agent to analyze it, but the agent posted its response publicly without approval. The employee (HackerNews)
• CDN Tsunami Attack Abuses HTTP/3 Translation for Up to 350x DoS Amplification (Thursday August 20, 2026)
  Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed two denial-of-service (DoS) attacks that exploit how major content delivery networks (CDNs) convert client-facing HTTP/3 traffic into HTTP/1.1 requests to the websites they front, amplifying a low-bandwidth request stream by up to 350x against the origin server. The attacks, collectively named "CDN Tsunami," were evaluated against Alibaba, Baidu, (HackerNews)
• Manic Android Malware Exfiltrates Data From Offline Phones via Nearby Infected Devices (Thursday August 20, 2026)
  A new Android threat codenamed Manic has been observed actively targeting Ukrainian banks, government and identity services, and messaging applications, as well as Russian and European financial institutions, global fintech and cryptocurrency services, and military-focused communications. "Manic sits at the intersection of Android banking malware and mobile spyware, combining financial-fraud (HackerNews)
• NASA AIT-GUI Flaws Could Let Unauthenticated Attackers Issue Spacecraft Commands (Thursday August 20, 2026)
  Security researchers at Cycode have disclosed a chain of flaws in AIT-GUI, the browser-based operator console for NASA/JPL's open-source AMMOS Instrument Toolkit, that allow an unauthenticated attacker to issue arbitrary commands to the software's spacecraft and instrument command bus. The chain, tracked as GHSA-p9r8-2q67-fp86 and rated 9.4 on the CVSS v3.1 scoring system, impacts AIT-GUI (HackerNews)
• ToxicPanda 2.0 and GoldDigger Expand Android Banking Attacks with On-Device Fraud (Thursday August 20, 2026)
  Cybersecurity researchers have shed light on an updated version of ToxicPanda (aka TgToxic) that comes with "significant enhancements," including a set of 167 remote commands and expands its targeting footprint globally. Zimperium zLabs, in a Wednesday report, said the Android malware also features a PIN harvesting workflow targeting more than 140 banking and cryptocurrency applications. (HackerNews)
• 40 Malicious Firefox Extensions Pose as Web3 Products to Steal Wallet Secrets (Thursday August 20, 2026)
  A set of 40 Mozilla Firefox extensions has been found to engage in cryptocurrency wallet theft by masquerading as OKX, Rabby Wallet, TronLink, and other Web3 products. According to the Socket Threat Research team, the extensions are part of a broader set of 77 browser add-ons that share source code and infrastructure overlaps. The campaign, dubbed Offside Wallet Theft Factory, is believed to (HackerNews)
• Elementor Pro Flaw Could Let Unauthenticated Attackers Upload PHP and Execute Code (Thursday August 20, 2026)
  Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a critical flaw in the Elementor Pro WordPress plugin that, if successfully exploited, could lead to remote code execution. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-32475, carries a CVSS score of 9.0 out of 10.0. It has been described as a case of unrestricted upload of a file with a dangerous type. "The flaw lives in the Forms module's File (HackerNews)
• Cloudflare Workers Spectre Attack Leaks JWT From Co-Located Worker at 12 Bits/Second (Wednesday August 19, 2026)
  Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a remote Spectre attack against Cloudflare Workers that leaked a JSON Web Token (JWT) from a co-located Worker in the production environment at up to 12 bits per second, 360 times the rate of an earlier attack demonstrated in 2021. The end-to-end experiment used an attacker Worker and a victim Worker controlled by the researchers, (HackerNews)
• OpenAI Pauses Frontier RL Training as It Tightens Defenses Against Unsafe AI Behavior (Wednesday August 19, 2026)
  OpenAI on Tuesday revealed that it paused reinforcement learning (RL) training for its latest artificial intelligence (AI) models for two weeks while it shored up additional defenses and increased the scope of its monitoring to avert another Hugging Face-like incident. "As models become more capable, the risks associated with developing and testing them internally also grow," the AI company (HackerNews)
• SilkParasite Espionage Campaign Targets Central Asian Governments with Five New RATs (Wednesday August 19, 2026)
  A previously unreported cyber espionage operation dubbed SilkParasite has been observed targeting government bodies in Central Asia. The intrusion set makes use of seven remote access tool (RAT) families, five of which have never been previously documented: DriveSilkRAT, CookiETagRAT, NomadRAT, GoginRAT, and NodeEdgeRAT. SilkParasite, first discovered in late 2025, is assessed to be a (HackerNews)
• Hackers Compromised 14,500+ Dahua Devices Using Credential Attacks, Auth Bypasses, and P2P (Wednesday August 19, 2026)
  Cybersecurity researchers at Hunt.io have disclosed details of a campaign that they say compromised more than 14,530 Dahua devices between June 17 and July 22, 2026, using credential attacks, two authentication-bypass flaws, and a peer-to-peer (P2P) relay technique. The activity, codenamed Operation CameraSwarm, was reconstructed from a 407 MB exposed working directory containing 2,616 files (HackerNews)
• Phishing 3.0: The Fight Moves to Agent Versus Agent (Wednesday August 19, 2026)
  Most email defenses still do the job they did a decade ago. Scan the message, look for something malicious, block it. That worked when the danger sat in the payload, a bad link or an attachment. It stopped working when the danger moved into the message's intent, and it is failing now that the sender is no longer a person. From Bad Content to Bad Intent to AI on Both Sides Phishing 1.0 was bad (HackerNews)
• StopAndProtect Uses Nearly 2,000 Hacked WordPress Sites to Spread Malware and Steal Data (Wednesday August 19, 2026)
  Cybersecurity researchers have flagged a global cybercrime operation that abuses thousands of hacked WordPress websites as infrastructure to disseminate malware, commandeer infected hosts, store stolen documents, screenshots, and activity logs created to track the status of the activity. "The operation doesn't rely on a single piece of malware, but on a whole toolkit of criminal software (HackerNews)
• Critical macOS, SharePoint, vCenter, and Microsoft IKE Flaws Under Active Exploitation (Wednesday August 19, 2026)
  The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Tuesday added four critical vulnerabilities to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, stating they are being exploited in the wild. The shortcomings added to the KEV catalog are listed below - CVE-2026-65400 (CVSS score: 9.8) - An improper authentication vulnerability impacting Apple macOS that could allow an (HackerNews)
• Microsoft Links 30+ Rotating Domains to MacSync Stealer Infrastructure (Wednesday August 19, 2026)
  Microsoft Defender Experts have linked more than 30 web domains to MacSync Stealer, a macOS-focused information stealer, after correlating recurring endpoint and network behaviors across changing infrastructure, tracing the malware from payload retrieval through data collection, staging, and exfiltration. The tech giant said it required multiple endpoint and network behaviors to align before (HackerNews)
• Clop-Linked Windchill Web Shell Decrypts Credentials and Maps Engineering Data (Wednesday August 19, 2026)
  A JavaServer Pages (JSP) web shell deployed following the exploitation of a critical security flaw in PTC Windchill and FlexPLM servers is specifically designed for the enterprise Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) software, according to new findings from ReliaQuest. The cybersecurity company characterized the web shell as a fully equipped extortion platform capable of mapping sensitive vault (HackerNews)
• Microsoft Copilot Personal Flaws Could Let One Click Exfiltrate Data From Connected Apps (Tuesday August 18, 2026)
  Varonis Threat Labs has disclosed three vulnerabilities in Microsoft Copilot Personal that it said could allow a single click on a crafted link to silently pull data from connected apps and other information available to the victim's Copilot session. The flaws, which the researchers collectively named CoSnitch, turn in part on an undocumented URL parameter that the assistant itself surfaced (HackerNews)
• Attackers Exploit MLflow SSRF Flaw to Steal Cloud Credentials and Secrets (Tuesday August 18, 2026)
  Two critical vulnerabilities impacting MLflow, an open-source artificial intelligence (AI) platform, and FUXA, an open-source, web-based SCADA / HMI software built for operational technology (OT) and industrial automation, are witnessing malicious scanning and exploitation efforts. According to independent reports from watchTowr and VulnCheck, the vulnerabilities in question are as follows - (HackerNews)
• Ransom Busters Claims It Hacked Ransomware Servers, Asks Victims for Up to $60,000 (Tuesday August 18, 2026)
  A ransomware affiliate calling itself Ransom Busters has been spotted proactively sending emails to victim organizations and claims to delete stolen data from ransomware groups' servers in exchange for a fee ranging from $20,000 to $60,000. "In these messages, the third-party offers to help the victim recover from ransomware attack. This immediately stands out as anomalous," GuidePoint Research (HackerNews)
• AI "Mind Viruses" Can Spread Between Agents Through Persistent Prompt Files (Tuesday August 18, 2026)
  Security researchers at Anthropic and Switzerland's EPFL have demonstrated that self-propagating payloads can spread from one artificial intelligence (AI) agent to the next through the editable system prompt files that autonomous agent harnesses use to carry state between sessions. The work, released as a preprint on August 10, 2026, tests the technique in a simulated six-agent coding (HackerNews)
• TWINLOOT Abuses SharePoint and Teams to Steal Credentials and Move Across Networks (Tuesday August 18, 2026)
  Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a previously undocumented Python implant framework dubbed TWINLOOT. "TWINLOOT is a modular, PyArmor-hardened Python implant designed to operate its entire command-and-control infrastructure inside trusted Microsoft services," Ontinue said in a technical report shared with The Hacker News. "Tasking flows through SharePoint Online file (HackerNews)
• One Attacker Has Scraped Both Salesforce and ServiceNow Portals Since 2025 (Tuesday August 18, 2026)
  A single piece of infrastructure has been pulling records out of Salesforce and ServiceNow customer portals across multiple industries for more than a year, according to research published this week by agent security platform Reco. The activity, which Reco has named the City Forum campaign after a domain tied to the attacker's IP address, traces back to one server: 158.220.87.79, hosted on a (HackerNews)
• 16 Typosquatted RubyGems Packages Steal Browser Credentials and Crypto Wallets (Tuesday August 18, 2026)
  Cybersecurity researchers have flagged a new typosquatting campaign targeting RubyGems users with a Windows-based information stealer. OpenSourceMalware, which discovered the activity on August 15, 2026, is tracking the threat under the moniker StubMaker. The complete list of packages published as part of the campaign is below - ubnuler ubnlder ri18nr reaker rakier orakw joxn (HackerNews)
• SafePal Hardware Wallet Maker Says Flaw Exposed Data of Nearly 40,000 Customers (Tuesday August 18, 2026)
  SafePal has disclosed that an authorization flaw in an order-tracking plug-in exposed the names, email addresses, shipping addresses, phone numbers, and purchase details of approximately 39,798 customers. The hardware wallet maker said all affected customers were notified individually by email on August 16 from security@safepal.com, with the subject line "[Important] Your SafePal Order (HackerNews)
• CISA Flags Actively Exploited Ray Flaw That Can Trigger Browser-Based RCE (Tuesday August 18, 2026)
  The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Monday added a critical flaw impacting Ray to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, citing evidence of active exploitation. Ray is an open-source, Python-native distributed computing framework designed to scale artificial intelligence and machine learning workloads. As of writing, the GitHub project has more than (HackerNews)
• Critical GitLab GraphQL Flaw Could Let Unauthenticated Attackers Delete Public Projects (Monday August 17, 2026)
  GitLab has released security updates to address a critical vulnerability impacting its Community Edition (CE) and Enterprise Edition (EE) software that, under certain conditions, could allow an unauthenticated attacker to remotely modify or delete public projects and user data. The flaw, tracked as CVE-2026-19478, has been rated Critical by GitLab and assigned a CVSS score of 9.4. Released on (HackerNews)
• Snowflake GitHub Actions Flaw Lets Crafted Issues Trigger Command Injection (Monday August 17, 2026)
  Cybersecurity researchers at Wiz have disclosed a new GitHub Actions workflow injection vulnerability in Snowflake's public snowflakedb/snowflake-connector-net repository that it said could be exploited through a crafted GitHub issue to execute commands in a workflow containing internal Jira credentials. The issue was present in .github/workflows/jira_issue.yml, which ran when a (HackerNews)
• Forminator WordPress Flaw Can Enable Unauthenticated RCE via Malicious PHP Uploads (Monday August 17, 2026)
  A critical security flaw has been disclosed in Forminator Forms, a WordPress plugin with more than 600,000 active installations, that could be exploited to achieve arbitrary code execution on susceptible sites. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-15748, is rated 9.8 out of 10.0 on the CVSS scoring system. It was discovered and reported by a security researcher who goes by the online alias " (HackerNews)
• Cavern C2 Uses DNS and Google Apps Script to Blend Into Legitimate Traffic (Monday August 17, 2026)
  Cybersecurity researchers have traced the continued evolution of the Cavern (aka Cav3rn) command-and-control (C2) framework used by Iranian nation-state hackers in attacks targeting entities in Israel. Russian cybersecurity company Kaspersky said its ongoing monitoring of the threat activity cluster since December 2025 has led to the discovery of previously unreported components that expand the (HackerNews)
• ⚡ Weekly Recap: VMware Exploits, Windows 0-Day, MCP Attacks, Browser Hijacks and More (Monday August 17, 2026)
  The expensive attacks are not always the clever ones. This week had plenty of proof. Exposed services got hit, old bugs found fresh use, browser sessions became attack paths, and supply-chain problems kept spreading farther than the original compromise. A lot of it came down to access that was already there and defenses that assumed nobody would look too closely. So, nothing magical. Just a (HackerNews)
• How MCP Servers Can Expose Enterprise Secrets (Monday August 17, 2026)
  MCP servers can expose enterprise secrets through plaintext configuration files, over-permissioned access and prompt injection, often before security teams even know the server is running. As more organizations adopt AI agents into their systems, that exposure can silently become a major gap in MCP server security. The Model Context Protocol (MCP) allows AI agents to reach the tools and data, (HackerNews)
• Unisoc VoLTE Video Call Exploit Chain Can Give Attackers Full Android Kernel Access (Monday August 17, 2026)
  Security researchers at SSD Secure Disclosure have published a two-stage exploit chain that achieves full Android kernel access on devices running Unisoc modem firmware through a VoLTE video call, with no fix from the chipset maker. The advisory, published August 17, 2026, is the second stage of a chain that began in March 2026, when SSD disclosed remote code execution in the (HackerNews)
• Evooo1Bot Linux Botnet Exploits Known Flaws to Turn Edge Devices Into SOCKS5 Proxies (Monday August 17, 2026)
  Cybersecurity researchers have flagged a previously undocumented Linux botnet family dubbed Evooo1Bot that derives its core functionality from the Mirai botnet source code and is equipped to turn internet-facing devices into SOCKS proxies. "While the malware reuses the DDoS engine from the publicly leaked Mirai source code, it extends the original framework with numerous capabilities, including (HackerNews)
• 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)
• Felons, Fraudsters Flog Offensive Cybersecurity Startup (Wednesday July 08, 2026)
  A cybersecurity startup dangling millions of dollars to acquire zero-day security vulnerabilities in popular software is run by a pair of far-right conspiracy theorists and convicted felons whose most recent ventures included fake intelligence companies and a now-defunct AI-based lobbying platform they operated under assumed names. (KrebsOnSecurity)
• FBI Seizes NetNut Proxy Platform, Popa Botnet (Thursday July 02, 2026)
  The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) said today it worked with industry partners to seize hundreds of domains associated with NetNut, a sprawling residential proxy service operated by the publicly-traded Israeli company Alarum Technologies [NASDAQ: ALAR]. The action comes roughly two weeks after KrebsOnSecurity published findings from multiple security firms connecting NetNut to the Popa botnet, a collection of at least two million devices that have been compromised by malicious software with little or no consent from victims. (KrebsOnSecurity)
• Scattered Spider Hackers Plead Guilty on Day 1 of Trial (Tuesday June 23, 2026)
  Two men pleaded guilty in the United Kingdom this week to criminal charges stemming from an August 2024 cyberattack that crippled Transport for London, the entity responsible for the public transport network in the Greater London area. The duo were key members of a prolific cybercrime group known as Scattered Spider, and their guilty pleas came on the first day of what was expected to be a six-week trial. (KrebsOnSecurity)

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