OpenAI locks down Astra over potential critical cyber capabilities
OpenAI’s internal evaluation of its upcoming model, Astra, found significant advances in agentic coding and cybersecurity, leading the company to conclude that it cannot rule…
Author: Cybernoz
A week in security (August 3 – August 9)
Last week on Malwarebytes Labs: AI chat bots are sliding into League of Legends friend requests Meta ordered to pay $942 million over harm to…
OpenAI’s Next AI Model Astra Shows Cyber Performance Strong Enough to Trigger Pause
OpenAI has announced that it’s pausing some “internal activities” involving its upcoming artificial intelligence (AI) model Astra after an internal evaluation found it had made…
Levi Strauss Cyberattack Exposes Corporate Files
Levi Strauss cyberattack has exposed certain corporate information after an unauthorized third party gained access to company files through compromised employee computers, according to a…
Critical Flaws Discovered in Belgian eID Software Used by 2 Million People
DEF CON — A security researcher has revealed severe, now-resolved security vulnerabilities in the Connective digital identity system, a browser extension used by over two…
Experian research flags AI-data readiness gap among Australian lenders
New research from Experian suggests Australian financial institutions are moving quickly to deploy AI in credit and fraud risk workflows, but many say their underlying…
Practical lessons from deploying AI securely at scale
When I first started working on enterprise AI security initiatives, I expected the biggest challenges to be technical. I assumed we’d spend most of our…
The Role of Runtime Security in Cloud Environments
As cloud adoption accelerates, security teams must protect dynamic, cloud-native environments that include containers, serverless functions, and virtual machines (VMs). Runtime cloud security refers to…
Windows 11’s Built-In Weather App Reportedly Consumes 1.2GB of RAM for Showing Forecasts
Windows 11’s default Weather app, a fixture on the taskbar for millions of users, is under fire after independent testing revealed it consumes more than…
Why Your Security Maturity Score Is Lying to You
Picture a quarterly board meeting. The CISO walks in with a polished slide. “We are operating at Tier 3 of the NIST Cybersecurity Framework, and…
Best IDS/IPS Tools Compared (2026): Features & Pricing
This market runs from $0 to seven figures, and the free options power half the paid ones — so price comparisons here reward honesty. The…
AI-Assisted HTTP Terminator Finds Novel HTTP Desync Techniques and Apache Zero-Day
Swati KhandelwalAug 07, 2026Web Security / Vulnerability PortSwigger says HTTP Terminator, an artificial intelligence (AI)-assisted research system built by James Kettle, generated and proved new…