The Cop Who Took On Flock
After Noel Pichardo called out his city's embrace of Flock surveillance cameras, he was subjected to five internal affairs investigations in less than two years.
https://www.wired.com/story/the-cop-who-took-on-flock/
After Noel Pichardo called out his city's embrace of Flock surveillance cameras, he was subjected to five internal affairs investigations in less than two years.
https://www.wired.com/story/the-cop-who-took-on-flock/
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The Cop Who Took On Flock
After Noel Pichardo called out his city's embrace of Flock surveillance cameras, he was subjected to five internal affairs investigations in less than two years.
16 Typosquatted RubyGems Packages Steal Browser Credentials and Crypto Wallets
Cybersecurity researchers have flagged a new typosquatting campaign targeting RubyGems users with a Windows-based information stealer.
OpenSourceMalware, which discovered the activity on August 15, 2026, is tracking the threat under the moniker StubMaker. The complete list of packages published as part of the campaign is below -
ubnuler
ubnlder
ri18nr
reaker
rakier
orakw
joxn
https://thehackernews.com/2026/08/16-typosquatted-rubygems-packages-steal.html
Cybersecurity researchers have flagged a new typosquatting campaign targeting RubyGems users with a Windows-based information stealer.
OpenSourceMalware, which discovered the activity on August 15, 2026, is tracking the threat under the moniker StubMaker. The complete list of packages published as part of the campaign is below -
ubnuler
ubnlder
ri18nr
reaker
rakier
orakw
joxn
https://thehackernews.com/2026/08/16-typosquatted-rubygems-packages-steal.html
One Attacker Has Scraped Both Salesforce and ServiceNow Portals Since 2025
A single piece of infrastructure has been pulling records out of Salesforce and ServiceNow customer portals across multiple industries for more than a year, according to research published this week by agent security platform Reco.
The activity, which Reco has named the City Forum campaign after a domain tied to the attacker's IP address, traces back to one server: 158.220.87.79, hosted on a
https://thehackernews.com/2026/08/one-attacker-has-scraped-both.html
A single piece of infrastructure has been pulling records out of Salesforce and ServiceNow customer portals across multiple industries for more than a year, according to research published this week by agent security platform Reco.
The activity, which Reco has named the City Forum campaign after a domain tied to the attacker's IP address, traces back to one server: 158.220.87.79, hosted on a
https://thehackernews.com/2026/08/one-attacker-has-scraped-both.html
AI "Mind Viruses" Can Spread Between Agents Through Persistent Prompt Files
Security researchers at Anthropic and Switzerland's EPFL have demonstrated that self-propagating payloads can spread from one artificial intelligence (AI) agent to the next through the editable system prompt files that autonomous agent harnesses use to carry state between sessions.
The work, released as a preprint on August 10, 2026, tests the technique in a simulated six-agent coding
https://thehackernews.com/2026/08/ai-mind-viruses-can-spread-between.html
Security researchers at Anthropic and Switzerland's EPFL have demonstrated that self-propagating payloads can spread from one artificial intelligence (AI) agent to the next through the editable system prompt files that autonomous agent harnesses use to carry state between sessions.
The work, released as a preprint on August 10, 2026, tests the technique in a simulated six-agent coding
https://thehackernews.com/2026/08/ai-mind-viruses-can-spread-between.html
TWINLOOT Abuses SharePoint and Teams to Steal Credentials and Move Across Networks
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a previously undocumented Python implant framework dubbed TWINLOOT.
"TWINLOOT is a modular, PyArmor-hardened Python implant designed to operate its entire command-and-control infrastructure inside trusted Microsoft services," Ontinue said in a technical report shared with The Hacker News. "Tasking flows through SharePoint Online file
https://thehackernews.com/2026/08/twinloot-abuses-sharepoint-and-teams-to.html
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a previously undocumented Python implant framework dubbed TWINLOOT.
"TWINLOOT is a modular, PyArmor-hardened Python implant designed to operate its entire command-and-control infrastructure inside trusted Microsoft services," Ontinue said in a technical report shared with The Hacker News. "Tasking flows through SharePoint Online file
https://thehackernews.com/2026/08/twinloot-abuses-sharepoint-and-teams-to.html
Meta Ran Ads for an App That Promised to Nudify Female Politicians
One advertisement featured a pornographic video with a deepfake closely resembling a prominent US politician. Apple removed the app from the App Store after an inquiry from WIRED.
https://www.wired.com/story/meta-ran-ads-for-an-app-promising-to-nudify-female-politicians/
One advertisement featured a pornographic video with a deepfake closely resembling a prominent US politician. Apple removed the app from the App Store after an inquiry from WIRED.
https://www.wired.com/story/meta-ran-ads-for-an-app-promising-to-nudify-female-politicians/
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Meta Ran Ads for an App That Promised to Nudify Female Politicians
One advertisement featured a pornographic video with a deepfake closely resembling a prominent US politician. Apple removed the app from the App Store after an inquiry from WIRED.
Microsoft Copilot Personal Flaws Could Let One Click Exfiltrate Data From Connected Apps
Varonis Threat Labs has disclosed three vulnerabilities in Microsoft Copilot Personal that it said could allow a single click on a crafted link to silently pull data from connected apps and other information available to the victim's Copilot session.
The flaws, which the researchers collectively named CoSnitch, turn in part on an undocumented URL parameter that the assistant itself surfaced
https://thehackernews.com/2026/08/microsoft-copilot-personal-flaws-could.html
Varonis Threat Labs has disclosed three vulnerabilities in Microsoft Copilot Personal that it said could allow a single click on a crafted link to silently pull data from connected apps and other information available to the victim's Copilot session.
The flaws, which the researchers collectively named CoSnitch, turn in part on an undocumented URL parameter that the assistant itself surfaced
https://thehackernews.com/2026/08/microsoft-copilot-personal-flaws-could.html
Attackers Exploit MLflow SSRF Flaw to Steal Cloud Credentials and Secrets
Two critical vulnerabilities impacting MLflow, an open-source artificial intelligence (AI) platform, and FUXA, an open-source, web-based SCADA / HMI software built for operational technology (OT) and industrial automation, are witnessing malicious scanning and exploitation efforts.
According to independent reports from watchTowr and VulnCheck, the vulnerabilities in question are as follows -
https://thehackernews.com/2026/08/attackers-exploit-mlflow-ssrf-flaw-to.html
Two critical vulnerabilities impacting MLflow, an open-source artificial intelligence (AI) platform, and FUXA, an open-source, web-based SCADA / HMI software built for operational technology (OT) and industrial automation, are witnessing malicious scanning and exploitation efforts.
According to independent reports from watchTowr and VulnCheck, the vulnerabilities in question are as follows -
https://thehackernews.com/2026/08/attackers-exploit-mlflow-ssrf-flaw-to.html
Ransom Busters Claims It Hacked Ransomware Servers, Asks Victims for Up to $60,000
A ransomware affiliate calling itself Ransom Busters has been spotted proactively sending emails to victim organizations and claims to delete stolen data from ransomware groups' servers in exchange for a fee ranging from $20,000 to $60,000.
"In these messages, the third-party offers to help the victim recover from ransomware attack. This immediately stands out as anomalous," GuidePoint Research
https://thehackernews.com/2026/08/ransom-busters-claims-it-hacked.html
A ransomware affiliate calling itself Ransom Busters has been spotted proactively sending emails to victim organizations and claims to delete stolen data from ransomware groups' servers in exchange for a fee ranging from $20,000 to $60,000.
"In these messages, the third-party offers to help the victim recover from ransomware attack. This immediately stands out as anomalous," GuidePoint Research
https://thehackernews.com/2026/08/ransom-busters-claims-it-hacked.html
OpenAI Overhauls Safety Protocols After Its AI Agents Went Rogue
The ChatGPT maker says its upcoming Astra model may have reached “critical” cyber capabilities, prompting it to halt a significant number of training runs while it tightens internal safeguards.
https://www.wired.com/story/openai-overhauls-safety-protocols-after-its-ai-agents-went-rogue/
The ChatGPT maker says its upcoming Astra model may have reached “critical” cyber capabilities, prompting it to halt a significant number of training runs while it tightens internal safeguards.
https://www.wired.com/story/openai-overhauls-safety-protocols-after-its-ai-agents-went-rogue/
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OpenAI Overhauls Safety Protocols After Its AI Agents Went Rogue
The ChatGPT maker says its upcoming Astra model may have reached “critical” cyber capabilities, prompting it to halt a significant number of training runs while it tightens internal safeguards.
Microsoft Links 30+ Rotating Domains to MacSync Stealer Infrastructure
Microsoft Defender Experts have linked more than 30 web domains to MacSync Stealer, a macOS-focused information stealer, after correlating recurring endpoint and network behaviors across changing infrastructure, tracing the malware from payload retrieval through data collection, staging, and exfiltration.
The tech giant said it required multiple endpoint and network behaviors to align before
https://thehackernews.com/2026/08/microsoft-links-30-rotating-domains-to.html
Microsoft Defender Experts have linked more than 30 web domains to MacSync Stealer, a macOS-focused information stealer, after correlating recurring endpoint and network behaviors across changing infrastructure, tracing the malware from payload retrieval through data collection, staging, and exfiltration.
The tech giant said it required multiple endpoint and network behaviors to align before
https://thehackernews.com/2026/08/microsoft-links-30-rotating-domains-to.html
Clop-Linked Windchill Web Shell Decrypts Credentials and Maps Engineering Data
A JavaServer Pages (JSP) web shell deployed following the exploitation of a critical security flaw in PTC Windchill and FlexPLM servers is specifically designed for the enterprise Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) software, according to new findings from ReliaQuest.
The cybersecurity company characterized the web shell as a fully equipped extortion platform capable of mapping sensitive vault
https://thehackernews.com/2026/08/clop-linked-windchill-web-shell.html
A JavaServer Pages (JSP) web shell deployed following the exploitation of a critical security flaw in PTC Windchill and FlexPLM servers is specifically designed for the enterprise Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) software, according to new findings from ReliaQuest.
The cybersecurity company characterized the web shell as a fully equipped extortion platform capable of mapping sensitive vault
https://thehackernews.com/2026/08/clop-linked-windchill-web-shell.html
StopAndProtect Uses Nearly 2,000 Hacked WordPress Sites to Spread Malware and Steal Data
Cybersecurity researchers have flagged a global cybercrime operation that abuses thousands of hacked WordPress websites as infrastructure to disseminate malware, commandeer infected hosts, store stolen documents, screenshots, and activity logs created to track the status of the activity.
"The operation doesn't rely on a single piece of malware, but on a whole toolkit of criminal software
https://thehackernews.com/2026/08/stopandprotect-uses-nearly-2000-hacked.html
Cybersecurity researchers have flagged a global cybercrime operation that abuses thousands of hacked WordPress websites as infrastructure to disseminate malware, commandeer infected hosts, store stolen documents, screenshots, and activity logs created to track the status of the activity.
"The operation doesn't rely on a single piece of malware, but on a whole toolkit of criminal software
https://thehackernews.com/2026/08/stopandprotect-uses-nearly-2000-hacked.html
Critical macOS, SharePoint, vCenter, and Microsoft IKE Flaws Under Active Exploitation
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Tuesday added four critical vulnerabilities to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, stating they are being exploited in the wild.
The shortcomings added to the KEV catalog are listed below -
CVE-2026-65400 (CVSS score: 9.8) - An improper authentication vulnerability impacting Apple macOS that could allow an
https://thehackernews.com/2026/08/critical-macos-sharepoint-vcenter-and.html
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Tuesday added four critical vulnerabilities to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, stating they are being exploited in the wild.
The shortcomings added to the KEV catalog are listed below -
CVE-2026-65400 (CVSS score: 9.8) - An improper authentication vulnerability impacting Apple macOS that could allow an
https://thehackernews.com/2026/08/critical-macos-sharepoint-vcenter-and.html
Reverse-Lookup Service Exposed Millions of Photos of People’s Faces
The people-search tool ClarityCheck says its reverse image search service is “private and secure”—but it left a database containing more than 9 million image files exposed.
https://www.wired.com/story/reverse-lookup-service-exposed-millions-of-photos-of-peoples-faces/
The people-search tool ClarityCheck says its reverse image search service is “private and secure”—but it left a database containing more than 9 million image files exposed.
https://www.wired.com/story/reverse-lookup-service-exposed-millions-of-photos-of-peoples-faces/
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Reverse-Lookup Service Exposed Millions of Photos of People’s Faces
The people-search tool ClarityCheck says its reverse image search service is “private and secure”—but it left a database containing more than 9 million image files exposed.
Flock Has a Powerful New AI Tool for Police. We Got Its Code
Flock’s surveillance cameras have already sparked outrage. WIRED reconstructed its next-generation AI system, already in use by some police, to confirm it goes much further than tracking license plates.
https://www.wired.com/story/flock-safety-os-investigate/
Flock’s surveillance cameras have already sparked outrage. WIRED reconstructed its next-generation AI system, already in use by some police, to confirm it goes much further than tracking license plates.
https://www.wired.com/story/flock-safety-os-investigate/
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Flock Has a Powerful New AI Tool for Police. We Got Its Code
Flock’s surveillance cameras have already sparked outrage. WIRED reconstructed its next-generation AI system, already in use by some police, to confirm it goes much further than tracking license plates.
SilkParasite Espionage Campaign Targets Central Asian Governments with Five New RATs
A previously unreported cyber espionage operation dubbed SilkParasite has been observed targeting government bodies in Central Asia.
The intrusion set makes use of seven remote access tool (RAT) families, five of which have never been previously documented: DriveSilkRAT, CookiETagRAT, NomadRAT, GoginRAT, and NodeEdgeRAT. SilkParasite, first discovered in late 2025, is assessed to be a
https://thehackernews.com/2026/08/silkparasite-espionage-campaign-targets.html
A previously unreported cyber espionage operation dubbed SilkParasite has been observed targeting government bodies in Central Asia.
The intrusion set makes use of seven remote access tool (RAT) families, five of which have never been previously documented: DriveSilkRAT, CookiETagRAT, NomadRAT, GoginRAT, and NodeEdgeRAT. SilkParasite, first discovered in late 2025, is assessed to be a
https://thehackernews.com/2026/08/silkparasite-espionage-campaign-targets.html
Hackers Compromised 14,500+ Dahua Devices Using Credential Attacks, Auth Bypasses, and P2P
Cybersecurity researchers at Hunt.io have disclosed details of a campaign that they say compromised more than 14,530 Dahua devices between June 17 and July 22, 2026, using credential attacks, two authentication-bypass flaws, and a peer-to-peer (P2P) relay technique.
The activity, codenamed Operation CameraSwarm, was reconstructed from a 407 MB exposed working directory containing 2,616 files
https://thehackernews.com/2026/08/hackers-compromised-14500-dahua-devices.html
Cybersecurity researchers at Hunt.io have disclosed details of a campaign that they say compromised more than 14,530 Dahua devices between June 17 and July 22, 2026, using credential attacks, two authentication-bypass flaws, and a peer-to-peer (P2P) relay technique.
The activity, codenamed Operation CameraSwarm, was reconstructed from a 407 MB exposed working directory containing 2,616 files
https://thehackernews.com/2026/08/hackers-compromised-14500-dahua-devices.html
Phishing 3.0: The Fight Moves to Agent Versus Agent
Most email defenses still do the job they did a decade ago. Scan the message, look for something malicious, block it. That worked when the danger sat in the payload, a bad link or an attachment. It stopped working when the danger moved into the message's intent, and it is failing now that the sender is no longer a person.
From Bad Content to Bad Intent to AI on Both Sides
Phishing 1.0 was bad
https://thehackernews.com/2026/08/phishing-30-fight-moves-to-agent-versus.html
Most email defenses still do the job they did a decade ago. Scan the message, look for something malicious, block it. That worked when the danger sat in the payload, a bad link or an attachment. It stopped working when the danger moved into the message's intent, and it is failing now that the sender is no longer a person.
From Bad Content to Bad Intent to AI on Both Sides
Phishing 1.0 was bad
https://thehackernews.com/2026/08/phishing-30-fight-moves-to-agent-versus.html
Cloudflare Workers Spectre Attack Leaks JWT From Co-Located Worker at 12 Bits/Second
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a remote Spectre attack against Cloudflare Workers that leaked a JSON Web Token (JWT) from a co-located Worker in the production environment at up to 12 bits per second, 360 times the rate of an earlier attack demonstrated in 2021.
The end-to-end experiment used an attacker Worker and a victim Worker controlled by the researchers,
https://thehackernews.com/2026/08/cloudflare-workers-spectre-attack-leaks.html
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a remote Spectre attack against Cloudflare Workers that leaked a JSON Web Token (JWT) from a co-located Worker in the production environment at up to 12 bits per second, 360 times the rate of an earlier attack demonstrated in 2021.
The end-to-end experiment used an attacker Worker and a victim Worker controlled by the researchers,
https://thehackernews.com/2026/08/cloudflare-workers-spectre-attack-leaks.html
OpenAI Pauses Frontier RL Training as It Tightens Defenses Against Unsafe AI Behavior
OpenAI on Tuesday revealed that it paused reinforcement learning (RL) training for its latest artificial intelligence (AI) models for two weeks while it shored up additional defenses and increased the scope of its monitoring to avert another Hugging Face-like incident.
"As models become more capable, the risks associated with developing and testing them internally also grow," the AI company
https://thehackernews.com/2026/08/openai-pauses-frontier-rl-training-as.html
OpenAI on Tuesday revealed that it paused reinforcement learning (RL) training for its latest artificial intelligence (AI) models for two weeks while it shored up additional defenses and increased the scope of its monitoring to avert another Hugging Face-like incident.
"As models become more capable, the risks associated with developing and testing them internally also grow," the AI company
https://thehackernews.com/2026/08/openai-pauses-frontier-rl-training-as.html