Russia’s FSB said Pavel Durov was charged with facilitating terrorist activity, and Reuters reported that an international arrest warrant was issued on July 29, 2026.

The Russian government charged Pavel Durov.

Russia's Federal Security ‌Service announced this after claiming Telegram allegedly failed to remove chats and channels that Ukrainian intelligence used to coordinate attacks against Russia.

South Korea's KOSPI stock market halted again after 8% crash, triggering circuit breaker.

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg says US should not ban Chinese AI models.

Anthropic's Claude Mythos AI discovers new ways to attack cryptographic algorithms, including a post-quantum encryption candidate.

🇦🇪 UAE's largest airline 'Emirates' begins accepting crypto payments for flight bookings.

Apple $AAPL surpasses $5 trillion market cap for the first time in history.

Bitcoin falls back under $64,000 as $100 million is liquidated from the crypto market in the past 60 minutes.

Coinbase expects crypto Clarity Act vote as early as Monday, August 3rd.

JUST IN: Apple surpasses Nvidia to become the world's most valuable company.

$AAPL
: $4.92 trillion
$NVDA
: $4.75 trillion

On July 22, 2026, Check Point published a security advisory for CVE-2026-16232, an authentication bypass in the SmartConsole login process affecting Security Management Server and Multi-Domain Security Management Server (MDS). By leveraging CVE-2026-16232, an unauthenticated attacker can obtain an application login token, use this token to log in through SmartConsole with full administrator privileges, and modify the security policy or security configuration. Exploitation requires network access to the Management Server and for a Trusted Clients configuration that does not restrict GUI clients, which in our testing was a default setting. This vulnerability was reported as being exploited in the wild as a zero-day vulnerability at the time of disclosure.

Tengu Botnet Reboots Compromised Linux Devices When Defenders Kill Its Process.

DEF CON bans Meta-style 'pervert glasses'.

Italy fines US data broker Lusha €2 million over unlawful data collection.

Apple Patches 87 Vulnerabilities in iOS, 155 in macOS Tahoe.

Israel Spending Millions to Manipulate AI Chatbots Like ChatGPT and Claude

Israeli regime is paying former Trump campaign manager Brad Parscale $46.5 million to run an influence operation designed to manipulate AI chatbots like ChatGPT and Claude.

Hacker on the Altenen cybercrime forum is distributing a 17 GB SQL database claimed to have been stolen from SplitVPN, formerly known as NotVPN, a Russian VPN marketed for bypassing internet censorship. Mysterium’s research team obtained a copy, verified it against the raw dump, and confirmed the numbers: roughly 23.4 million user records, 13.6 million device records, 2.6 million payment records, and 58 million connection logs. A VPN that promised zero logs kept tens of millions of them.

PhantomEnigma Infects Organizations with Malware via Hijacked Government Websites.

Claude AI Just Cracked a Post-Quantum Test Scheme and Found a Faster 7-Round AES Attack.

Amazon Links Debug and Chalk npm Hijack to North Korea’s Sapphire Sleet.