OpenAI’s Next AI Model Astra Shows Cyber Performance Strong Enough to Trigger Pause
OpenAI has announced that it's pausing some "internal activities" involving its upcoming artificial intelligence (AI) model Astra after an internal...
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Atlassian Rovo Can Be Tricked Into Sending Jira and Confluence Data to Attackers
Attacker-controlled instructions can make Atlassian's Rovo assistant collect Jira or Confluence data that a signed-in user can access, then send...
New CSS Attacks Can Break Webmail Defenses to Steal Passwords and Tokens
Swati KhandelwalAug 08, 2026Email Security / Vulnerability New research shows content inside an email can escape its message boundary and...
Metabase Zero-Day Exploited in Wild Allows Admin Access Without Authentication
Ravie LakshmananAug 08, 2026Zero-Day / Vulnerability Metabase has warned that a maximum-severity security flaw impacting its business intelligence and data...
N-able Issues N-central Hotfix 2 as Attackers Reach Managed Systems and Persist
N-able has released a fresh round of hotfixes for N‑central as part of its investigation into ongoing exploitation of a...
Progress Kemp LoadMaster Flaw Hits CISA KEV After 792 Reported Exploit Attempts
Ravie LakshmananAug 08, 2026Vulnerability / Network Security The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Friday added a critical-severity...
Nearly 800 Malicious npm Packages Deliver Cross-Platform RAT and Infostealer
A cluster of nearly 800 malicious packages has been published to the npm registry as part of a new campaign...
ClickFix Attacks Deliver macOS Stealer That Can Drain Crypto Wallets
Ravie LakshmananAug 07, 2026Malware / Social Engineering ClickFix-style attacks are being used to deliver a Go-based malware capable of stealing...
UNC6671 Vishing Attacks Target Personal Phones to Steal SaaS Data
A recent wave of cyber attacks targeting financial services, private equity, and professional services is attributed to a data extortion...
New WordPress Pre-Auth XSS Could Lead to PHP Code Execution – Patch ASAP
WordPress has fixed a pre-authentication reflected cross-site scripting (XSS) flaw in its login screen that affects every version of the...
Growing Up The Hard Way
Open Source had a great childhood. For two decades it got to be a kid. It ran around barefoot, gave...
18-Year-Old Linux SCTP Flaw Could Let Local Users Gain Root and Escape Containers
Swati KhandelwalAug 07, 2026Linux / Vulnerability A use-after-free bug in Linux's SCTP networking code can be turned into full root...
Microsoft 365 AitM Phishing Hijacks Accounts to Collect Payroll and Finance Emails
Cybersecurity researchers have called attention to an active "widespread email-driven phishing campaign" that employs adversary-in-the-middle (AitM) techniques to take control...
AI-Assisted HTTP Terminator Finds Novel HTTP Desync Techniques and Apache Zero-Day
Swati KhandelwalAug 07, 2026Web Security / Vulnerability PortSwigger says HTTP Terminator, an artificial intelligence (AI)-assisted research system built by James...
New NatJack Attacks Hijack TCP Sessions and Spoof DNS by Manipulating NAT Tables
Swati KhandelwalAug 07, 2026Network Security / Vulnerability Security researcher Malcolm Stagg has disclosed a new attack class called NatJack that manipulates network...
