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...
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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...
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...
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...
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,...
Critical macOS, SharePoint, vCenter, and Microsoft IKE Flaws Under Active Exploitation
Ravie LakshmananAug 19, 2026Vulnerability / Ransomware The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Tuesday added four critical vulnerabilities...
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...
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...
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...
Attackers Exploit MLflow SSRF Flaw to Steal Cloud Credentials and Secrets
Ravie LakshmananAug 18, 2026Vulnerability / Artificial Intelligence Two critical vulnerabilities impacting MLflow, an open-source artificial intelligence (AI) platform, and FUXA,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
One Attacker Has Scraped Both Salesforce and ServiceNow Portals Since 2025
The Hacker NewsAug 18, 2026SaaS Security / Cloud Security A single piece of infrastructure has been pulling records out of...
