Cybersecurity Professionals Who Ignore AI Are Arming Their Enemies
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Akira Ransomware Affiliate Rebooted Into Safe Mode to Dodge EDR and Broke Its Own Attack
An affiliate of the Akira ransomware operation attempted a novel technique to blind endpoint defences during a recent intrusion, rebooting a compromised server into Windows…
Jewelbug Uses Public Google Docs as Malware Command-and-Control Delivery Channel
A China-linked threat group tracked as Jewelbug has turned public Google Docs into a resilient command-and-control delivery channel, embedding freshly obfuscated malware payloads in documents…
Kai: The Agentic AI Platform Built To Fight AI-Enabled Attacks
Kai was founded on a simple and radical conviction: you cannot win a machine-speed war with human-speed defenses. Not with more tools. Not with more headcount.…
White House authorizes private US companies to hack foreign criminal networks
President Trump signed a National Security Presidential Memorandum on August 12 allowing vetted private companies to run offensive cyber operations against foreign threat actors, under…
Parents take on Meta, TikTok, Google, and Snap in 3,000 youth safety lawsuits
A group of big tech firms is fighting to stop roughly 3,000 youth safety lawsuits from moving forward, and they just lost a critical procedural…
Attackers Exploit VMware vCenter Vulnerability to Gain Persistent Remote Access
Ravie LakshmananAug 12, 2026Vulnerability / Threat Intelligence Threat actors have begun to actively exploit a recently patched critical security flaw in Broadcom VMware vCenter, according…
Rimini Street bids to broaden CIO appeal with agentic AI move
Rimini Street, a pioneer in enterprise software third-party maintenance, is steering a new course, having recently released Rimini Govern for AI, a managed service said…
Cybersecurity M&A Roundup: 21 Deals Announced in July 2026
Twenty-one cybersecurity-related merger and acquisition (M&A) deals were announced in July 2026. For a detailed view of the more than 420 acquisitions announced in 2025,…
Storm-1175 Replaces Medusa With New StormEncryptor Ransomware
Storm-1175 Replaces Medusa With New StormEncryptor Ransomware Pierluigi Paganini August 13, 2026 Microsoft says China-linked Storm-1175 is using a new ransomware called StormEncryptor, replacing Medusa…
Trump turns to private sector in offensive hacking operations memo
President Donald Trump signed a national security memorandum Wednesday that lays the groundwork for private sector companies to take a larger role in helping law…
Black Hat USA 2026: AI is racing ahead of cybersecurity controls
AI took center stage, but the clearest lesson was less about what AI can do than about who is accountable when something goes wrong 12…