Your Incident Response Plan Has a Dependency You Never Approved
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…
Month: July 2026
Ransomware Killers Overwrite Security Process Memory Without Terminating Applications
Ransomware operators are increasingly deploying “ransomware killers” that surgically overwrite the memory of security processes instead of simply terminating them, allowing encryption to proceed. At…
XRP Volatility Surges as Cybersecurity Threats and Market Changes Raise New Concerns
XRP’s price volatility continues to attract the attention of both traders and cybersecurity professionals. As one of the world’s most actively traded cryptocurrencies, XRP frequently…
Criminals used AI and children’s coding software to build a multimillion-dollar ad fraud empire
A security investigation into inexpensive Android TV boxes led researchers to an ad fraud operation that had remained unnoticed for several years. Fuyao apps ecosystem…
Fake Fortnite rewards are stealing players’ accounts
Fortnite scam pages like the ones below appear by the dozen every day, recycled endlessly under different names and designs. One version promises $50 from…
Suspected Chinese-Speaking Hackers Target Central Asian Governments With OctLurk and SilkLurk
A Chinese-speaking threat actor is suspected to be behind a fresh wave of cyber attacks targeting government organizations mainly located in Central Asia, including Afghanistan,…
Anthropic lost control of Claude in latest AI cyber blunder
Anthropic has become the latest artificial intelligence (AI) company to admit it failed to adequately control its model testing processes after three different versions of…
FBI Warns Of PLC Cyberattacks On Water Utilities
The PLC cyberattacks targeting the Water and Wastewater Sector have prompted a joint warning from the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the Environmental Protection…
In Other News: OpenAI Open Source Tool, AWS Links Hacks to North Korea, Mythos Crypto Research
SecurityWeek’s weekly cybersecurity news roundup offers a concise overview of important developments that may not receive full standalone coverage yet remain relevant to the broader…
Google AI Supercharges Chrome Security, Fixing 1,072 Bugs
Google AI Supercharges Chrome Security, Fixing 1,072 Bugs Pierluigi Paganini July 31, 2026 Google says AI found and helped fix 1,072 Chrome security bugs in…
Anthropic says human error let Claude AI models escape test environment and hack third parties
The company said its discovery, which followed OpenAI’s similar admission, proved the need for better testing guardrails. Source link
Ghanaian national sentenced to 7 years in prison for stealing $10M from romance scam victims
A 41-year-old Ghanaian national was sentenced to 85 months in prison for stealing more than $10 million from mostly older, lonely and vulnerable victims via…