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.

Apple accused of letting fake crypto app steal $1.8 million.

America bans imported robots due to supply chain and security risks.

CubePilot drone software dev hit by DNS hijacking to intercept traffic.

Cisco is warning that a high-severity Secure Firewall Management Center (FMC) static credential vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-20316, was actively exploited in zero-day attacks to gain unauthorized access to vulnerable devices.

The vulnerability is caused by static credentials for a low-privilege account built into Cisco Secure FMC Software.

The Russian state-sponsored hacking group Laundry Bear, also known as Void Blizzard, is exploiting an Exchange Outlook Web Access vulnerability in email campaigns to deliver a sophisticated backdoor called OWAReaper.

Email security company Proofpoint spotted the activity a week ago targeting various organizations, including government entities in the U.S. and Europe, and companies in the telecommunications, financial, hospitality, and aerospace sectors.

Laundry Bear exploited CVE-2026-42897, a cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability that allows executing arbitrary JavaScript in the browser context when users open a specially crafted email in the Outlook Web Access (OWA) app.

The source code for the Flying Eagle Android remote access trojan (RAT) framework is being shared on criminal Telegram channels. Researchers from Hunt.io and NetAskari have identified 170 internet servers linked to matching control panels and certificates.

HOLLOWGRAPH Backdoor Turns Microsoft 365 Calendars Into a C2 Channel.