ThreatsDay: Android Spyware, PLC Attacks, AI Image Prompt Injection + 12 More Stories
Ravie LakshmananJul 23, 2026Hacking News / Cybersecurity News Most of this week's trouble came dressed as something useful. A package...
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Claude Cowork Flaw Could Let AI Agent Escape Its VM and Access Mac Files
Cybersecurity researchers have uncovered a sandbox escape vulnerability in Anthropic's Claude Cowork that makes it possible to break out of...
Chaos Ransomware Uses msaRAT to Route C2 Traffic Through Headless Chrome and Edge
The Chaos ransomware group ran its command-and-control through the victim's own browser. Cisco Talos on Thursday detailed msaRAT, the Rust...
China-Nexus JadeProx Uses New TriBack Loader in Government and Healthcare Attacks
Swati KhandelwalJul 23, 2026Malware / Threat Intelligence An exposed Alibaba Cloud server has revealed a China-nexus operation that Group-IB tracks...
How Synthetic Identity Fraud is Coming for Machine Identities
Most people understand identity theft as an attacker stealing a real person's sensitive information and impersonating them. Synthetic identity fraud...
Attackers Weaponize GitHub Actions Runners to Target cPanel and WHM Servers
Cybersecurity researchers have shed light on a large-scale campaign that has turned compromised GitHub repositories into distributed attack infrastructure designed...
Google Adds Selfie Video Recovery for Users Locked Out of Their Accounts
Ravie LakshmananJul 23, 2026Authentication / Data Protection Google on Thursday announced a new way for users to sign-in to their...
Nine-Year-Old RefluXFS Linux Flaw Gives Local Users Root on Default RHEL Installs
RefluXFS, a new Linux kernel flaw disclosed on July 22 and tracked as CVE-2026-64600, lets an unprivileged local user overwrite...
Check Point Patches Exploited SmartConsole Flaw Allowing Full Admin Access
Ravie LakshmananJul 23, 2026Vulnerability / Network Security Check Point has released security updates to address multiple vulnerabilities impacting Security Management...
GitHub Cuts Public Bug Bounty Payouts, Moves Top Rewards to VIP Tier
Beginning July 27, 2026, GitHub will cut public bug bounty payouts by at least half at every severity level. Critical...
Ubuntu snap-confine Flaw Could Give Local Users Root on Default Desktop Installs
Ravie LakshmananJul 22, 2026Linux / Vulnerability Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a new local privilege escalation (LPE) vulnerability in...
Adobe Acrobat Extension Flaw Let Malicious Sites Read WhatsApp Web Data
Ravie LakshmananJul 22, 2026Vulnerability / Browser Security Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a now-patched vulnerability chain in the Adobe...
Hackers Exploit Windmill Flaw to Read Arbitrary Server Files Without Authentication
Ravie LakshmananJul 22, 2026Vulnerability / Web Security A high-severity security flaw impacting open-source developer platform Windmill has come under active...
The Fastest Path to AI Adoption Runs Through Security
The Hacker NewsJul 22, 2026AI Security / Shadow IT Security leaders who build fast, visible paths to AI adoption are...
Why Modern SOCs Need Multi-Layered Detections
The cycle is over. For years, cybersecurity followed a familiar pattern: defenses improved, attackers adapted, and the back-and-forth continued. Today,...
