Cyber Security
A new infrastructure security review has exposed a busy month for defenders. Fourteen infrastructure vendors issued 61 relevant advisories worldwide during the 30 days ending July 17, including 26 flaws that attackers can reach remotely without logging in. Six...
Cyber Security
A Russian-speaking threat actor known as “Trim” has reportedly transformed jailbroken frontier AI models into an automated penetration testing platform called AI Pentest Checker. This activity highlights how criminals can misuse legitimate AI services and common...
Cyber Security
A new research threat called Bit2Watt shows how AI training jobs could be abused to disrupt the power systems that support data centers. Rather than installing malware or breaking into grid controls, an attacker could use legitimate GPU workloads to create rapid,...
Cyber Security
Federal prosecutors have charged three Russian nationals over infrastructure that allegedly enabled ransomware, malware, phishing, and other cyberattacks against organizations in the United States and abroad. The seven-year investigation links the activity to more...
Cyber Security
A sharp structural shift has been identified in the botnet landscape. Security researchers at XLab have uncovered NadMesh, a Go-based botnet that has been spreading rapidly since early July 2026. This malware marks a distinct evolution from opportunistic worm behavior...
Cyber Security
A critical pre-authentication remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability dubbed “wp2shell” has been discovered in WordPress Core, putting an estimated 500 million+ websites at risk of full takeover by unauthenticated attackers. Security researcher Adam Kues of...
Cyber Security
OpenAI is currently investigating a small number of reports indicating that the GPT-5.6 Codex unintentionally deleted files from users’ home directories. These incidents reportedly occurred when Codex was granted full filesystem access without the necessary sandbox...
Cyber Security
A stealthy Windows backdoor has resurfaced alongside Daxin, a sophisticated espionage tool previously tied to China-linked activity. The newly documented implant lets an intruder type a special username at the Windows sign-in screen and, in some cases, immediately...
Cyber Security
An active, highly structured intrusion campaign co-opting commercial artificial intelligence platforms as operational engines for state-sponsored operations. Rather than acting as peripheral research tools, Claude Code and DeepSeek-v4-pro were embedded directly into...
Cyber Security
Telegram’s core t[.]me domain has been placed on serverHold at the .me registry, a registry-level status that removes the domain from the global DNS and breaks every t[.]me short link worldwide. WHOIS records confirm the domain now carries eight status flags,...
