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Hackers Impersonate Claude, ChatGPT and Copilot to Deliver Infostealers and Backdoors

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ChatGPT, cyber security, Cyber Security News

Threat actors are increasingly abusing the popularity of generative AI brands to distribute malware, turning trusted names such as Claude, ChatGPT and Microsoft Copilot into convincing lures for infostealers, browser hijackers and remote-access backdoors. Sophos X-Ops reviewed 12 months of Managed Detection and Response (MDR) investigations, spanning July 2, 2025 to June 29, 2026. They […]

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Microsoft Defender Update Crashes Virus Scans on Windows PCs

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cyber security, Cyber Security News, Microsoft, Windows

Microsoft Defender has been aborting Quick, Full, and Offline virus scans on Windows systems following a series of Security Intelligence updates released on August 18, 2026. This issue has affected both consumer devices and Microsoft Defender for Endpoint-managed environments, disrupting a critical malware-detection capability for administrators and home users alike. Microsoft Defender Update Crashes Virus […]

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13 Malicious Rabby Firefox Extensions Steal Wallet Keyrings Before They Are Encrypted

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cyber security, Cyber Security News, Firefox

A broad Firefox add-on campaign that includes 13 malicious Rabby Wallet impersonators engineered to exfiltrate wallet keyring data before the application encrypts it locally. The activity is part of a larger operation, provisionally tracked as “Offside Wallet Theft Factory,” which links 77 Firefox extension identities through cloned code, reused infrastructure, deceptive listings, stable add-on IDs, […]

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Elementor Pro Flaw Could Let Unauthenticated Attackers Upload PHP and Execute Code

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Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a critical flaw in the Elementor Pro WordPress plugin that, if successfully exploited, could lead to remote code execution. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-32475, carries a CVSS score of 9.0 out of 10.0. It has been described as a case of unrestricted upload of a file with a dangerous type. “The flaw lives in the Forms module’s File

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Critical Citrix NetScaler Flaw Allows Attackers to Bypass Authentication

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CVE/vulnerability, cyber security, Cyber Security News, Vulnerabilities, vulnerability

Cloud Software Group has issued a critical security bulletin regarding two vulnerabilities that affect customer-managed NetScaler ADC and NetScaler Gateway appliances. Among these, there is an authentication-bypass flaw that could expose remote-access environments to unauthenticated breaches. Citrix NetScaler Flaw The most severe issue, tracked as CVE-2026-19490, has a CVSS v4 base score of 9.3 and […]

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CISA, NSA and FBI Warn Hackers Using AI-Generated Scripts to Target Siemens S7 PLCs

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cyber security, Cyber Security News

U.S. cybersecurity agencies have issued an urgent warning about an active campaign targeting Siemens S7 series programmable logic controllers (PLCs). Attackers are utilizing AI-generated scripts disguised as legitimate industrial monitoring tools. This joint advisory, published by the National Security Agency (NSA), the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the […]

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Aeternum Operators Use Polygon Smart Contracts to Rotate Malware C2 Domains Dynamically

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cyber security, Cyber Security News, Malware

Aeternum operators are abusing Polygon smart contracts as a decentralized dead-drop resolver, allowing malware to retrieve and rotate command-and-control (C2) domains without depending on conventional attacker-owned servers. The approach turns a public blockchain into resilient C2 infrastructure that is substantially harder to disrupt through domain seizures, hosting takedowns, or sinkholing. Rather than contacting a fixed […]

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T-Mobile Physically Cuts Network Cable to Evict Chinese Salt Typhoon Hackers

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cyber security, Cyber Security News

In 2024, T-Mobile’s security team took an unusually direct approach to contain a cybersecurity threat: they physically cut a network cable to terminate suspected access by the Chinese state-backed hackers known as Salt Typhoon. According to CSN, this action came after months of incident response efforts within T-Mobile’s network, during which defenders investigated signs of […]

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Critical Snowflake GitHub Actions Flaw Allows Attackers to Steal Internal Jira Credentials

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CVE/vulnerability, cyber security, Cyber Security News, vulnerability

A significant GitHub Actions injection vulnerability in Snowflake’s public snowflake-connector-net repository. This flaw could have allowed unauthenticated attackers to execute commands on a GitHub-hosted runner and potentially steal internal Jira credentials. The vulnerability was discovered by Wiz Red Agent, an autonomous AI-powered security research tool, just five days after the vulnerable workflow was deployed. Snowflake […]

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Airlock Digital Completes Independent IRAP Assessment at the PROTECTED Level

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Press Release

Adelaide, Australia, August 19th, 2026, CyberNewswire Independent assessment provides Australian organisations with additional evidence when evaluating application control for sensitive, government, defence and critical infrastructure environments. Airlock Digital, a global provider of application control and allowlisting solutions, today announced that it has completed an independent Information Security Registered Assessors Program (IRAP) assessment at the PROTECTED […]

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