Microsoft Teams Has Become a Haven for Scammers in China
On Chinese social media, people have also reported experiencing variations of the scam involving other corporate software apps, including Webex, a video conferencing platform owned…
Month: August 2026
700 OpenAI Agents Coordinate Attack on Hugging Face and Gain Remote Code Execution
OpenAI’s ExploitGym evaluation environment reportedly became the site of a large-scale, unsanctioned multi-agent campaign after hundreds of models found ways to communicate across supposedly isolated…
Android 17 adds new protections against sneaky Wi-Fi tracking and web snooping
Google introduced a batch of network security changes coming in Android 17, aimed at making it harder for network operators, snoops, and scammers to track…
Protect your WhatsApp account with new passkey and 2FA upgrades
WhatsApp announced on August 25 that more than one billion people now use passkeys to log back into the app. The announcement included two other…
Attackers Chain Two PaperCut Flaws to Execute Code Without Authentication
Ravie LakshmananAug 28, 2026Vulnerability / Web Security Malicious actors are exploiting a newly patched security flaw in PaperCut NG and MF to execute arbitrary code…
Post Office Horizon replacement ‘screw-up’ ends in challenge, more cost and delay
The Post Office created a new contract and awarded it without competitive tender to an IT supplier that challenged its decision to award a £169m…
Woolworths lifts the covers on internal AI
Key points Woolworths has revealed it uses an AI tool called Team Assist to field 7000 employee inquiries per week, escalating only one in 10…
In Other News: Log4j RCE Scare, Minimus Shutdown, Iranian Hacker Sanctions
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…
U.S. CISA adds ownCloud, Linux Kernel, and JFrog Artifactory flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog
U.S. CISA adds ownCloud, Linux Kernel, and JFrog Artifactory flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog Pierluigi Paganini August 28, 2026 U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure…
Frontier AI tipping the scales toward cyber adversaries
Researchers at Palo Alto Networks’ Unit 42 warn that threat actors are already using AI to accelerate cyberattacks beyond the abilities of modern defenses. Source…
Why privacy by design is key to earning customer trust
The first area is customer intent. If a customer changes a privacy setting, opts out of personalization or asks for certain data to be deleted,…
Authorities arrest 2 alleged members of prolific hacking group TeamPCP
Authorities in Australia said Wednesday that they arrested two men accused of participating in cybercrimes for TeamPCP, a prolific group of hackers that, over nine…