Mathspace breach exposes data on over a million students and parents
Mathspace has confirmed that attackers broke into its internal reporting system through an unpatched Metabase vulnerability and stole data belonging to more ...
Intel
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Ransomware negotiation tactics have turned into a business process
In this Help Net Security video, Dave Ross, Senior Director of the Intelligence Fusion Team at Intel 471, explains what happens behind the scenes during rans...
Chinese Hackers Use AI Agents in Multi-Country Cyber Campaign
Hunt.io uncovered a Chinese-speaking campaign using AI agents to automate cyberattacks against Asian government, education and industrial targets.
GPT-6 Astra Scores 100% on ExploitBench as OpenAI Blocks PoC Exploit Requests
OpenAI on Thursday officially unveiled GPT‑6 Astra, which it described as the "world's most intelligent and aligned model." The development comes days after ...
Wordfence Intelligence Weekly WordPress Vulnerability Report (August 24, 2026 to August 30, 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...
Senator Wyden urges NSA to update VPN guidance amid foreign surveillance concerns
A Congressional Research Service analysis, requested by Wyden, indicates that foreign intelligence services may be able to link VPN users to specific website...
Your threat feed is someone else’s database: What ingesting malware intel at scale takes
The advice is to consume shared threat intelligence. Join the ISAC.
Threat Intelligence: Definition, Benefits, and Use Cases
Security teams rarely struggle because they lack data. More often, the challenge is deciding which signals actually deserve attention.
NASCIO urges Congress to reauthorize grant program and address AI governance
NASCIO's executive director, Doug Robinson, outlined three federal priorities in a letter to congressional leaders: reauthorizing the SLCGP, reauthorizing Fi...
Architectural intent is the cornerstone for the future of software security
With agentic AI further boosting productivity, human code review becomes a serious bottleneck. Developers need to move upstream, establishing the ground rule...
Cryptography expert: AI could make software too secure, impacting government hacking capabilities
Cryptography professor Matthew Green has raised concerns that artificial intelligence could make software so secure that law enforcement and intelligence age...
Wordfence Argus Finds Unauthenticated Arbitrary File Upload Vulnerability in Gravity Forms
On August 9th, 2026, Wordfence Argus, created by the Wordfence Threat Intelligence team, discovered an Arbitrary File Upload vulnerability in Gravity Forms, ...
Critical JFrog Artifactory Authentication Bypass Exploited in the Wild
Security researchers have issued warnings that attackers are actively exploiting a critical authentication bypass vulnerability in JFrog Artifactory, tracked...
Attackers Steal METR API Key and Consume AI Credits Worth About $600,000
METR (short for Model Evaluation and Threat Research and pronounced "Meter"), a research non-profit that evaluates frontier artificial intelligence (AI) mode...
Russia-Aligned UAC-0099 Plants Nuclear Weapon Prompt in Malware to Disrupt AI Analysis
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed a new technique dubbed GuardBreaker that's been put to use by a Russia-aligned threat actor known as UAC-0099 agains...
Askeal, the AI cybersecurity assistant that gives verifiable, expert-backed answers
Askeal takes the opposite approach to omniscient Gen AI: rather than pretending to know everything, it combines AI with community expertise. Vetted vendors, ...
Aurora Ransomware Operators Use Cursor AI in Attacks Against 10 Targets
Threat actors associated with Aurora (aka Aur0ra) ransomware have been observed using SpaceX's artificial intelligence (AI)-powered coding assistant Cursor t...
OpenAI Warns Astra AI Model May Develop Zero-Day Exploits and Launch Autonomous Cyberattacks
OpenAI has issued a warning regarding Astra, an upcoming artificial intelligence model, which may be close to a threshold of cybersecurity capabilities that ...
Former DIA IT specialist pleads guilty to attempting to leak classified information
A former Defense Intelligence Agency IT specialist has pleaded guilty to attempting to pass secret and top-secret information to foreign spies following a su...
Leaked University Files Reveal How Russia Trains Hackers for Military Cyber Operations
A cache of leaked internal records has exposed what appears to be a structured Russian military cyber-operator pipeline embedded inside Bauman Moscow State T...