White House accuses Chinese company of distilling Anthropic’s Fable
A top White House technology official is accusing a Chinese company of distilling Anthropic’s models to create their own AI product. Michael Kratsios, who leads…
Month: July 2026
German law enforcement claims to have ‘dismantled’ mega phishing-as-a-service group Kratos
“This appears to be more than a routine website seizure. The reporting points to a PhaaS platform with centralized infrastructure, subscription-style customers, and Microsoft 365…
Wiz MCP Server Available on AWS AI Agent & Tools Marketplace
We are excited to share that the Wiz Model Context Protocol (MCP) Server is now available in the new AWS Marketplace AI Agents and Tools…
AI Threat Detection Is Not Enough Without Adversary Intelligence
AI is changing the economics of cyber offense. The 2026 emergence of Anthropic’s Claude Mythos Preview showed security leaders that AI can now find software…
South Korea discloses data breach impacting diplomats worldwide
South Korea disclosed that hackers breached the National Diplomatic Academy’s online education system for ten months and stole personal information belonging to current and former…
Adobe Acrobat Extension Flaw Lets Attackers Steal WhatsApp Chats From 329 Million Users
A newly disclosed flaw in the Adobe Acrobat Chrome extension allowed attackers to silently harvest WhatsApp Web chats, contacts, and profile data from any user…
Ghost in the Calendar: The Microsoft 365 Calendar Implant
Carmen Estela Cyber Defense Magazine July 21, 2026 How HollowGraph Operates On July 20, 2026, Group-IB security researchers released a study describing an implant known…
How to Make AI Tools Work Reliably for Growing Teams
Most teams don’t start using AI with a grand strategy. It usually begins with small, useful tasks: drafting emails, outlining blog posts, summarizing calls, writing…
Another SharePoint RCE exploited: Patch, then rotate your machine keys (CVE-2026-50522)
Attackers are exploiting a critical SharePoint remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability (CVE-2026-50522) to extract the servers’ IIS machine keys. “WatchTowr is observing active exploitation of…
GitHub Cuts Public Bug Bounty Payouts, Moves Top Rewards to VIP Tier
Beginning July 27, 2026, GitHub will cut public bug bounty payouts by at least half at every severity level. Critical findings will drop from $20,000-$30,000+…
Stop debating frontier AI – start defending against it
In mid-June, global access to two of the most anticipated frontier AI models was abruptly suspended following a US Commerce Department export control directive, a…
CommBank iQ is putting AI to work on its core dataset
CommBank iQ is bringing AI to bear on its main banking data asset, after security, governance and risk concerns meant the technology was used almost…