943 Patches Rolled Out With Oracle’s August 2026 Security Update
Oracle on Tuesday announced the release of 943 new security patches as part of the August 2026 Critical Security Patch Update (CSPU), its third monthly…
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Xpander Raises $7.5 Million for AI Management and Governance
AI enablement platform Xpander has announced raising $7.5 million in a seed funding round led by Pico Venture Partners. Emerge Ventures, Samsung Next, and Seedil…
AI-Driven Vulnerability Surge Breaks the Traditional Patching Model
Recent analysis from Rapid7 demonstrates the fallacy of defenders continuing to rely on patching their way out of problems. “Q2 2026 was not just another…
CISO Conversations: Nico Waisman – From Self-Taught Hacker to AI-Driven Offensive Security at XBOW
“I don’t think I ever chose a career in cybersecurity. It chose me.” Well, we’ll see… Nico Waisman was born and still lives in Argentina.…
Webinar Today: Rethinking Cyber Defense for AI-Speed Attacks
Rethinking Cyber Defense for AI-Speed Attacks | August 18, 2026 at 1PM ET- Register to Attend Artificial intelligence is fundamentally changing cybersecurity. As patch-to-exploit timelines…
Heights Finance Data Breach Impacts at Least 1.2 Million Individuals
Consumer lender Heights Finance Holdings Co. is notifying over 1.2 million people that their personal and financial information was stolen in a data breach. In…
Recent macOS Screen Sharing Vulnerability Exploited in Attacks
Threat actors are exploiting a recently patched macOS vulnerability to gain root access and deploy cryptominers. The exploited bug, tracked as CVE-2026-65400, is a high-severity…
Conflicting Test Goals Pushed Claude Agents to Deploy Self-Replicating Malware
Anthropic has published new research showing that Claude-based AI agents, when placed in situations with competing objectives, deployed self-replicating malware against one another. The finding…
Irregular Details How a Naming Error Let AI Models Attack a Real Company
AI safety testing firm Irregular has published its account of an incident in which models being evaluated inside one of its testing environments took offensive…
680,000 Impacted by French Tax Authority Data Breach
France’s Directorate General of Public Finances (DGFiP) has disclosed a data breach impacting approximately 680,000 individuals. The incident was disclosed after a threat actor boasted…
40,000 Impacted by SafePal Data Breach
Crypto hardware wallet SafePal is notifying roughly 40,000 individuals that their personal information was stolen in a data breach. Hackers, it says, exploited a vulnerability…
AmnesiaStealer macOS Malware Steals Data, Controls Browser Sessions
A multi-stage Rust-based macOS information stealer has been distributed through a counterfeit GitHub download page in recent ClickFix attacks, Jamf reports. The fake download page…