Russian military hackers pose as recruiters to target Ukrainian IT workers
Ukraine’s computer emergency response team, CERT-UA, said Saturday that the campaign has been running since at least May and is linked to Sandworm, the notor...
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Kimsuky Builds Offline AI Stack to Boost Phishing and Automate Malware Development
North Korea's state hackers are no longer content to type prompts into public chatbots. One of the country's main espionage groups has begun running artifici...
WordPress Supply Chain Attack Exploits BdThemes Plugins to Create Rogue Admin Accounts and Install Webshells
A supply chain compromise affecting multiple BdThemes WordPress plugins has allowed attackers to hijack administrator sessions, create unauthorized admin acc...
OpenAI's Next AI Model Astra Shows Cyber Performance Strong Enough to Trigger Pause
OpenAI has announced that it's pausing some "internal activities" involving its upcoming artificial intelligence (AI) model Astra after an internal evaluatio...
PSA: Supply Chain Compromise in BdThemes Ecosystem via Poisoned API Response
The Wordfence Threat Intelligence Team was notified on August 7th, 2026 of a supply chain compromise affecting BdThemes, a WordPress plugin vendor whose plug...
Metabase Zero-Day Exploited in Wild Allows Admin Access Without Authentication
Metabase has warned that a maximum-severity security flaw impacting its business intelligence and data visualization software package has been exploited in t...
Wordfence Intelligence Weekly WordPress Vulnerability Report (July 27, 2026 to August 2, 2026)
Last week, there were disclosed in and that have been added to the Wordfence Intelligence Vulnerability Database, and there were that contributed to WordPres...
AI-Assisted HTTP Terminator Finds Novel HTTP Desync Techniques and Apache Zero-Day
PortSwigger says HTTP Terminator, an artificial intelligence (AI)-assisted research system built by James Kettle, generated and proved new HTTP desynchroniza...
The exploit window is shrinking. Most security workflows are not
AI is accelerating vulnerability discovery, exploit development, and attacker weaponization faster than most organizations can adapt. Security teams are inun...
NVIDIA Group Proposes SAFE Initiative for Agentic Threat Intel Sharing
The Open Secure AI Alliance has announced plans for the Shared AI Findings Exchange (SAFE)
Smashing Security podcast #479: How a fake police officer nearly stole Graham’s cryptocurrency
Graham gets a phone call from the police. Well, someone who sounds convincingly like the police.
Tom Cotton prods Treasury for tax code tweaks to modernize OT
The Senate Intel Committee chair wrote to Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent about changes to spur investment in aging technology to better guard against cyber...
OpenAI Disrupts Poipet Scam Network Using ChatGPT Across Multiple Fraud Schemes
OpenAI said it disrupted a Cambodia-based scam operation that used its generative artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot ChatGPT to facilitate a wide range of ...
Agentic AI and cybersecurity dominate discussions at Las Vegas Hacker Summer Camp
Per The Register, the annual Hacker Summer Camp in Las Vegas, encompassing three major cybersecurity conferences, is set to heavily feature discussions aroun...
Senate committee to debate new online privacy and AI safety bills
Based on information from cyberscoop, the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation is preparing to debate a series of new bills aimed at enha...
Poison Claude Sells Discounted Claude Access While Its Operator Sees Every Customer Prompt
Cybersecurity researchers have discovered more than half-a-dozen services advertisements for illegal access to artificial intelligence (AI) models on undergr...
Uppsala Security Becomes First Blockchain Intelligence Company to Join Cyber Threat Alliance
SIngapore, Singapore, August 5th, 2026, CyberNewswire Uppsala Security, a Singapore-based blockchain intelligence and crypto forensics company, announced tod...
Anthropic AI agent faked identities, phished real developers in UK government hacking test
An artificial intelligence agent built by Anthropic independently planted malicious code in a real software project and sent phishing emails to developers du...
Lumu launches live threat intelligence platform for real-time cyber defence
Lumu has announced the release of Lumu Threat Observatory as part of Maltiverse, its threat intelligence solution. Lumu Threat Observatory is Maltiverse’s li...
Uppsala Security Becomes First Blockchain Intelligence Company to Join Cyber Threat Alliance
SIngapore, Singapore, 5th August 2026, CyberNewswire