Hackers Breach Polish Power Plant Controls via Private Cellular Network and Shut Turbine
Attackers shut down a steam turbine and the process-water treatment system at a Polish combined heat and power plant by coming in over the private…
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China-Linked Hackers Deploy New StormEncryptor Ransomware, Likely via N-central Flaw
Ravie LakshmananAug 10, 2026Ransomware / Cybercrime Microsoft has disclosed that Storm-1175, a financially motivated threat actor linked to China, has deployed a previously undocumented ransomware…
Shipping 10–50× More Code? Watch This Webinar on Securing AI-Speed Development
The Hacker NewsAug 10, 2026Software Supply Chain / DevSecOps AI is helping development teams produce far more code, far faster. But security teams still have…
Kimsuky Builds Offline AI Stack to Boost Phishing and Automate Malware Development
Swati KhandelwalAug 10, 2026Cyber Espionage / Artificial Intelligence North Korea’s state hackers are no longer content to type prompts into public chatbots. One of the…
Solidity Pro VS Code Extensions Steal Crypto Wallets, API Keys, and Credentials
Ravie LakshmananAug 10, 2026Malware / Cybercrime Cybersecurity researchers have flagged a malicious Microsoft Visual Studio Code (VS Code) extension named Solidity Pro (“solidity-pro”) that has…
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…
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…
Microsoft 365 AitM Phishing Hijacks Accounts to Collect Payroll and Finance Emails
Cybersecurity researchers have called attention to an active “widespread email-driven phishing campaign” that employs adversary-in-the-middle (AitM) techniques to take control of Microsoft 365 accounts with…
New NatJack Attacks Hijack TCP Sessions and Spoof DNS by Manipulating NAT Tables
Swati KhandelwalAug 07, 2026Network Security / Vulnerability Security researcher Malcolm Stagg has disclosed a new attack class called NatJack that manipulates network address translation (NAT)…
18-Year-Old Linux SCTP Flaw Could Let Local Users Gain Root and Escape Containers
Swati KhandelwalAug 07, 2026Linux / Vulnerability A use-after-free bug in Linux’s SCTP networking code can be turned into full root on a host, and Tencent…
UNC6671 Vishing Attacks Target Personal Phones to Steal SaaS Data
A recent wave of cyber attacks targeting financial services, private equity, and professional services has been attributed to a data extortion group known as UNC6671.…
Progress Kemp LoadMaster Flaw Hits CISA KEV After 792 Reported Exploit Attempts
Ravie LakshmananAug 08, 2026Vulnerability / Network Security The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Friday added a critical-severity security flaw impacting Progress Kemp LoadMaster…