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Security & Lifecycle News
Aggregated from vendor advisories, security research, and industry publications.
Brazilian Banking Trojan Actively Spreading in Portugal
Portuguese businesses operate in the same native language as Brazilian hackers, making those businesses easy targets.
Check Point Patches Exploited SmartConsole Flaw Allowing Full Admin Access
Check Point has released security updates to address multiple vulnerabilities impacting Security Management and Multi-Domain Management (MDSM) products, including a critical flaw t…
US Warns of Iranian Hackers Targeting Siemens, Schneider, and Rockwell ICS Devices
An updated advisory from federal agencies provides information on the techniques used to hack programmable logic controllers. The post US Warns of Iranian Hackers Targeting Siemens…
Senior White House official claims China’s K3 model stolen from Anthropic
And accuses Thailand hosting hardware that may have helped distillation attack
Google is hoarding TPUs to chase artificial general intelligence
Yet the Chocolate Factory is also buying more third-party compute capacity to handle high demand for the G-Cloud
Ransomware Attack Puts a Chill on Japanese Frozen-Food Chain
A cyberattack on a food and logistics firm disrupts the supply of frozen food to thousands of clients, including major franchises like Kentucky Fried Chicken.
Flaws in Passkey Implementation Show Old Attacks Still Work
Ahead of Black Hat USA, researchers find exploitable flaws in how Microsoft handles passkeys that could allow attackers to impersonate privileged users.
OpenAI scored an own goal with Hugging Face attack, showing how open Chinese models are winning
Closed models with guardrails can still cause harm, but may also not be able to fix problems they caused
Upbound says hack caused $13 million in fraudulent Acima leases
The Upbound Group fintech company disclosed that threat actors who stole data from its systems leveraged it to create $13 million in Acima leases. [...]
Attackers Are Learning to Live Off the AI Toolchain
Sandworm_Mode is an early example of malware that exploits trusted AI tools and workflows to make malicious activity virtually indistinguishable from normal activity.
Google Cloud is killing it
It's Alphabet's fastest-growing business and now makes up more than a fifth of the juggernaut's revenue and operating profit
Web app turns your old phone into a new smart display
ScreenWall's creator tells El Reg he doesn't want those obsolete devices going to waste
South Korea discloses data breach impacting diplomats worldwide
South Korea disclosed that hackers breached the National Diplomatic Academy's online education system for ten months and stole personal information belonging to current and former …
Sovereign AI is 'nonsense,' says Doctorow
As Trump dismantles the US-led world order, what the rest of the world really needs is sovereign apps and datacenters, argues 'enshittification' coiner
Fake Bahrain Alert App Deploys Android Surveillance Malware
A malicious application delivers four-stage Android spyware via phony Google Play sites, exploiting civilian fear during Iranian missile strikes.
Fresh off AI layoffs, Block now wants to whack Slack with agent-human collab tool
Because what could be more appealing to humans than sharing virtual space with AI?
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 findings will drop from $20,000-$30,000+ to a fixed $10,000, w…
Ubuntu snap-confine Flaw Could Give Local Users Root on Default Desktop Installs
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a new local privilege escalation (LPE) vulnerability in snap-confine that an unprivileged user can trigger to obtain root access…
Oracle expands Cloud@Customer with new database service for mid-sized workloads
Oracle is expanding its Cloud@Customer on-premises portfolio with a managed database offering that it says will enable enterprises to run databases, applications, and AI agents in …
Swiss rail giant Stadler rejects $12.3M ransom demand after cyberattack
Swiss rail vehicle manufacturer Stadler Rail says the Everest ransomware gang demanded about $12.3 million after breaching a data exchange platform shared with one of its suppliers…
TCG080: Skills Over MCP and More
What if your MCP server shipped with its own manual? Angie Jones, VP of Developer Experience at the Agentic AI Foundation, joins William and Eyvonne to break down the Skills Over M…
Linux kernel team publishes 432 CVEs in two days
Sunday-to-Monday onslaught fuels speculation over AI-assisted bug reports
NAN127: Scaling Network Automation Communities
Eric Chou welcomes Florian Lohden, a NetDevOps engineer and co-founder of the NetAuto Group, to discuss his community-building efforts and his latest adventures in network automati…
D2DO308: Exploring the AI Governance Paradox (Sponsored)
In this sponsored episode, Jonah Kowall from Spacelift joins the show to unpack the findings of the 2026 Infrastructure Automation Report. The discussion covers the “governance par…
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When AI Attacks: OpenAI Models Autonomously Hack Hugging Face
Advanced LLMs escaped their sandboxes while attempting to achieve a non-malicious benchmark test objective.
Astronomers spot exomoon candidate that's almost as massive as Jupiter
Object orbits a brown dwarf, which circles another star, confusing the cosmic taxonomy
Nvidia unveils Spectrum-X networking platform designed to connect millions of GPUs
Nvidia has introduced its next-generation Spectrum-X Ethernet networking platform, positioning it as a key building block for the next wave of “gigascale” AI factories designed to …
How enterprise GenAI can amplify ransomware risk — and how to contain it
Enterprise AI can accelerate ransomware attacks when AI assistants and agents inherit excessive permissions or compromised identities. Acronis explains how identity controls, gover…
Suno, Paidwork Data Breaches Affect Tens of Millions of Accounts
Hackers leaked names, email addresses, phone numbers, passwords, and financial information stolen from the two platforms. The post Suno, Paidwork Data Breaches Affect Tens of Mill…