Nearly 700 rogue AI agents coordinated in the Hugging Face attack
New details about the July attack on Hugging Face reveal that hundreds of AI agents driven by OpenAI’s internal IM1 model coordinated the compromise through…
Month: August 2026
Cybercriminals Are Selling Corporate Executives’ Social Security Numbers for Just 25 Cents
Corporate executives’ most sensitive identity data is being sold on dark web marketplaces for as little as a quarter, according to new threat intelligence from…
CISA Warns of Actively Exploited Citrix NetScaler ADC and Gateway Vulnerability
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has added CVE-2026-8452, a vulnerability affecting Citrix NetScaler ADC and NetScaler Gateway appliances, to its Known Exploited…
Unknown PaperCut NG/MF vulnerability is under active attack
A yet unspecified vulnerability affecting print management solutions PaperCut NG and PaperCut MF is being exploited by attackers, PaperCut Software warned today. “We are aware…
Fake listings can turn trusted platforms into scam springboards
Recently, we found a listing on BuzzFeed from someone pretending to be Malwarebytes Support. It reminded us why we need to be cautious about content…
OpenAI Says Reward Hacking Drove AI Agents to Exploit Zero-Days and Breach Hugging Face
OpenAI on Wednesday revealed that reward hacking was a key driver behind the artificial intelligence (AI)-powered hack of Hugging Face last month, adding that it…
Meta pays $18bn to settle US child safety lawsuit
Social media giant Meta has agreed to pay an $18bn settlement with US states and territories over legal claims that its Facebook and Instagram platforms…
Health hands enterprise computing to Leidos in $91m deal
Key points The Department of Health, Disability and Ageing has contracted Leidos Australia for enterprise computing services over three years in a deal worth $91…
OpenAI Agents Coordinated via Makeshift Message Board Ahead of Hugging Face Hack
OpenAI says an improvised, unauthorized message board built by its own AI agents was central to how those agents came to breach parts of Hugging…
Dark Caracal Deploys New Go Malware With Ethereum-Based C2 Fallback
Dark Caracal Deploys New Go Malware With Ethereum-Based C2 Fallback Pierluigi Paganini August 27, 2026 Dark Caracal targets Venezuela with GoCaracal, an upgraded Bandook toolkit…
Federal authorities disrupt China-backed hacking operation targeting US critical infrastructure
Compromised IoT devices were used in a yearslong campaign against key sectors and U.S. government agencies. Source link
Unit 42 warns AI has shifted balance of power from defenders to attackers
Unit 42’s top brass has seen enough from internal frontier AI model testing and malicious in-the-wild use of commercially available AI tools to be genuinely…