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CALIFORNIA, USA, August 2nd, 2026, CyberNewswire AccuKnox, a leading Zero Trust Security platform, today announced that SabPaisa, an RBI-authorised digital payments company, has selected its AI-powered cloud security platform to ensure robust security of its payments platform. SabPaisa joins a growing roster of financial services leaders using AccuKnox to meet stringent compliance requirements while defending […]

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AI systems moved from experimental risk to confirmed attacker, a Cisco firewall zero-day was actively exploited in the wild, and a critical VMware authentication bypass put enterprise virtualization infrastructure at risk. Below is a roundup of the week’s most significant vulnerabilities, breaches, and security research. Critical VMware Authentication Bypass Flaws Broadcom issued advisory VMSA-2026-0006 covering […]

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A significant data breach has hit SplitVPN, a Russian VPN provider formerly known as NotVPN, exposing the personal records of roughly 865,000 unique users. The incident, which occurred in July 2026, has raised fresh concerns about the reliability of “no-logs” promises made by privacy-focused services, since the exposed data reveals far more retention than the […]

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Brinks Home, one of North America’s largest residential security providers, has confirmed that hackers breached its IT systems after the notorious ShinyHunters extortion group claimed responsibility for stealing nearly five million records tied to the company’s Salesforce environment. The confirmation comes after the threat actors listed “BH Security, LLC (brinkshome.com)” on their leak site, threatening […]

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Nearly every attack touches DNS the phishing click, the malware callback, the exfiltration tunnel which makes the DNS layer the cheapest place to break kill chains. Cisco Umbrella is our top pick for 2026 on the strength of Talos-fed intelligence and proven scale, with Infoblox leading DDI-integrated security and Akamai delivering edge-scale protection. DNS security […]

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A web application firewall (WAF) filters malicious HTTP/S traffic SQL injection, cross-site scripting, credential stuffing, and API abuse — before it reaches your applications. Cloudflare is our top WAF pick for 2026 on the strength of protection-per-dollar and a massive attack-visibility network, with Akamai and Imperva holding the enterprise depth tier and AWS WAF owning […]

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Cloud workloads don’t sit behind your data-center firewall, and attackers know it. A cloud firewall inspects and controls traffic to, from, and between cloud workloads VPC-to-VPC, workload-to-internet, and cloud-to-on-prem where traditional appliances can’t reach. Palo Alto Networks Cloud NGFW is our top pick for 2026 on managed NGFW depth, with Fortinet delivering the best licensed […]

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Microsoft has released a detailed update on its Windows quality initiative, four months after committing in March to improve performance, reliability, and everyday user experiences across Windows 11. The company says early improvements are already reaching Windows Insiders and will begin rolling out more broadly to Windows 11 PCs this fall, while stressing that work […]

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Adform, a major advertising technology company serving roughly 14,000 businesses and holding nearly 30% of the demand-side platform market, has suffered a supply chain compromise that turned its trusted ad-serving infrastructure into a distribution channel for cryptocurrency-stealing malware. Security researcher Kevin Beaumont uncovered the breach and revealed that attackers hijacked a widely used JavaScript file […]

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Arch Linux has temporarily disabled package adoption on its Arch User Repository (AUR) after security teams detected a wave of malicious takeovers and follow-up commits designed to compromise unsuspecting users. The move, announced by Robin Candau (known online as Antiz) on behalf of the Arch Linux DevOps team, comes as attackers increasingly exploit an abandoned […]

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HackerOne has confirmed that all hackers must now complete identity verification before submitting reports to any bug bounty program (BBP) on its platform, a move the company says is necessary to meet regulatory requirements. The policy distinguishes bug bounty programs from vulnerability disclosure programs (VDPs), which remain open to unverified researchers since no monetary reward […]

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During the first publicly documented agent-driven intrusion, the defenders tried to analyze the attack with commercial AI models and were refused. The attacker was operating under no usage policy at all. By Brad LaPorte The most quietly alarming sentence in the Hugging Face disclosure was not about the attacker. On July 16, 2026, Hugging Face published […]

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Keycloak has addressed a broken access control vulnerability that could allow restricted administrators to access usernames, email addresses, and other profile information belonging to users outside their permitted scope. This issue, tracked as CVE-2026-17059, affects the Keycloak Admin REST API and was discovered by Escape researcher Enzo Mongin, known as Orionexe. Red Hat published the […]

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A new open-source project called CyberStrike is positioning itself as the first AI agent built specifically for offensive security, turning any existing Claude, GPT, or LLM subscription into an autonomous red-team operator. Rather than functioning as a simple chatbot wrapper, CyberStrike installs as a terminal-based tool that handles reconnaissance, vulnerability discovery, exploitation, and reporting without […]

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JetBrains has announced a critical vulnerability in TeamCity On-Premises, identified as CVE-2026-63077. This vulnerability allows attackers to bypass authentication and execute arbitrary commands remotely. It affects all versions of TeamCity On-Premises. An attacker only requires HTTP or HTTPS access to a vulnerable TeamCity server to exploit this issue, with no need for a valid account, […]

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The U.S. State Department, FBI, and allied governments including Japan, Canada, Germany, Australia, the United Kingdom, and the Republic of Korea have issued a joint alert warning companies worldwide that North Korean information technology workers are infiltrating private firms with stolen identities, forged documents, and proxy networks. According to the July 31, 2026 advisory, these […]

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Google is expanding the use of artificial intelligence (AI) agents across the Chrome security lifecycle to identify source code weaknesses, test patches, and accelerate the delivery of security updates to users. The Chrome Security team stated that AI systems are now helping discover vulnerabilities across the broader Chromium codebase, rather than only assisting with limited […]

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A North Korean-linked cyber campaign is using fake macOS update screens to trick victims into installing malware. The operation targets cryptocurrency wallets, browser data, and developer credentials, turning a routine web search into a possible entry point for a serious compromise. The attack begins with a ClickFix-style lure that makes a browser page look like […]

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BlackTech has been linked to a newly examined Linux backdoor deployment against organizations in Japan, showing how a familiar remote-access tool can be reshaped for cyberespionage. The malware gives intruders a way to run commands, move files, and route traffic after they have already entered a network, raising the risk to internal systems and sensitive […]

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By John Grancarich, EVP, Head of Defense & Intelligence, Fortra The recent pause affecting the implementation of Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) Phase II has understandably generated questions across the Defense Industrial Base (DIB). For many organizations, the immediate reaction has been to ask whether compliance timelines will shift, whether assessment preparation can be slowed, or whether […]

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