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Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey had barely reached theaters before scammers began targeting people searching for pirated copies, according to Malwarebytes. Within hours of the film’s release, researchers found two separate scams running on cloned piracy sites: fake browser warnings and Windows executables disguised as movie downloads. “Neither scam has anything to do with the movie itself. They’re simply taking advantage of people searching for a popular new release,” Malwarebytes wrote. Fake browser warning pushes visitors … More →

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Microsoft 365 calendars have become a hiding place for espionage malware, with commands and stolen files stashed inside appointments dated to the year 2050, researchers from Group-IB discovered. Targeted campaign tied to Iranian espionage activity The malware, which Group-IB calls HOLLOWGRAPH, is one component of a bigger toolkit the company links with high confidence to the Cavern backdoor framework, a modular espionage toolkit built from separate plugins that each handle a different task, previously tied … More →

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Data belonging to more than 23 million users has been exposed following a breach at Paidwork, a platform that pays people for completing online microtasks. Paidwork markets itself as a way to earn money through simple tasks like watching ads, testing apps, and completing surveys, with most jobs paying only a few cents at a time. For its users, many of whom are drawn to the platform for small, incremental earnings, the fallout from this … More →

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Attackers have begun exploiting CVE-2026-6875, a critical pre-authentication vulnerability in the ServiceNow AI Platform, according to threat intelligence firm Defused. About the vulnerability ServiceNow AI is a Platform-as-a-Service that lets organizations build and automate digital workflows. CVE-2026-6875 is a code injection vulnerability that lets unauthenticated attackers escape ServiceNow’s script sandbox and execute code remotely on a targeted instance. The vulnerability was unearthed by Searchlight Cyber researchers and reported to ServiceNow in early April 2026. The … More →

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Italy’s data protection authority, the Garante per la Protezione dei Dati Personali, fined WINDTRE €1.7 million over “serious data security shortcomings” that let hackers breach its systems twice and exfiltrate personal data belonging to more than 365,000 customers. The regulator opened its investigation after WINDTRE, one of Italy’s major telecom operators, reported two separate data breaches in February 2025. The attackers relied on old-school social engineering instead of exploiting software vulnerabilities. Posing as support technicians, … More →

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Hugging Face, the widely used platform for sharing open-source machine learning models and datasets, has disclosed a security breach it says was carried out by an autonomous AI agent system. How the attack unfolded In a blog post published Thursday (July 16), the company said that earlier that week, it identified unauthorized access to some internal datasets and to several credentials used by its services. The intrusion was executed via a malicious dataset that abused … More →

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Windows 11 now runs on 78.8% of Windows devices after Microsoft ended support for Windows 10 on 14 October 2025, according to Lansweeper. Windows 10 still accounts for 16.9% of devices and no longer receives security updates, leaving newly discovered vulnerabilities unpatched. “There’s a temporary bridge that we need to consider when looking at these numbers. Microsoft’s consumer Extended Security Updates program keeps eligible Windows 10 devices patched for one extra year, until October 12, … More →

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Out-of-band vulnerabilities surface when an application quietly reaches out to an external system during an attack, and capturing that traffic calls for infrastructure that many researchers assemble on their own. A new open-source project from Microsoft supplies that infrastructure in a package meant to run inside a private environment. Dusseldorf is an out-of-band application security testing platform. It captures inbound network traffic across several protocols and lets an operator craft automated responses for validation workflows. … More →

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In this Help Net Security video, Thom Langford, EMEA CTO, Rapid7, explains why piling on more security alerts makes a SOC slower to respond. Attackers log in with stolen credentials and use trusted tools like PowerShell instead of custom malware. He shares a case where attackers called a help desk, reset a privileged cloud account, and exposed thousands of passwords in three minutes. Ransomware groups can go from access to payload in under three hours. … More →

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Developers lean on AI coding assistants for a growing share of their daily work, letting the tools predict the next few lines and accepting many suggestions with a quick glance. Those tools learn from large collections of code, and some of that code can be tampered with before training starts. A poisoned example teaches a model to write insecure code when it sees a certain cue, and the flaw sits quietly until the right prompt … More →

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ZoneAlarm Mobile Security is a security app from Check Point designed to protect mobile devices against phishing, malicious websites, unsafe networks, and fraudulent links. It is available for iPhone, iPad, Android, and can run on Apple silicon Macs through the App Store. Getting started The onboarding process begins with a request for notification permissions, followed by instructions for enabling the Safari extension. Once enabled, the extension checks websites before they load to help protect browsing … More →

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Open models are moving into production across more organizations, and the work of securing those deployments increasingly extends beyond the model weights. Mozilla’s The State of Open Source AI 2026 identifies deployment, governance and operational tooling as persistent obstacles as model capability improves. Open source AI in 2026, in four numbers. (Source: Mozilla) “Without investment in the infrastructure, tooling, and governance around open models, we risk locking in a system where only restrictive, closed AI … More →

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Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news, articles, interviews and videos: Two new high severity WordPress vulnerabilities, patch immediately! The 7.0.2 WordPress security release addresses one critical and one high severity security issue. Cynative: Open-source deep research agent Running a large language model against a live cloud account to hunt for security holes comes with an obvious hazard. An agent that holds real credentials and a mandate to poke around can … More →

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The 7.0.2 WordPress security release addresses one critical and one high severity security issue. The vulnerabilities reported to the WordPress security team include: CVE-2026-60137 – A facilitated SQL injection issue reported as a team by TF1T, dtro, and haongo CVE-2026-63030 – A REST API batch-route confusion and SQL injection issue leading to Remote Code Execution reported by Adam Kues at Assetnote / Searchlight Cyber Which versions of WordPress are vulnerable? WordPress 6.9 is affected by … More →

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A previously unknown ransomware strain called Spirals was used last month in an attack against an IT services company in South Asia, where attackers went from initial access to data theft and encrypting the network in less than 24 hours, according to Symantec’s Threat Hunter Team. Spirals encrypts files quickly after gaining a foothold Spirals is written in Rust and encrypts files using a separate AES-128 key per file, each wrapped with an attacker-controlled ECDH … More →

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Apple is warning iPhone and iPad users that scammers are using FaceTime calls to trick them into handing over money and account details. According to Apple, scammers pose as trusted organizations and use social engineering to convince people to hand over account credentials, security codes, and financial information. Apple says a caller can fake its number entirely, a trick known as spoofing, so the incoming call looks like it comes from Apple or a bank … More →

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1Password has introduced 1Password for Claude, a beta integration that lets Anthropic’s AI assistant complete browser tasks requiring authentication without accessing users’ passwords or other secrets. The integration is available to paid Claude subscribers (Pro, Max, Team, and Enterprise) using Claude Desktop on macOS and to 1Password customers on individual, family, and business plans. It requires a Mac, Claude Desktop, Claude in Chrome, the 1Password desktop app, and the 1Password browser extension. For Team and … More →

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A ransomware attack has stopped milk production at Fairlife, the Coca-Cola dairy brand known for its high-protein milk, protein shakes, and nutrition drinks. Coca-Cola disclosed the incident on July 16, 2026, in a Form 8-K filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). “Product quality and safety have not been impacted. However, as a result of the incident, production operations at fairlife in the United States are temporarily suspended. fairlife’s Canada production operations are … More →

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Autonomous web agents read whatever a page displays, and much of that content comes from strangers. Product reviews, seller listings, and advertisements sit beside trusted site menus on a single page. An agent that reads all of that text as instructions can be steered by any of it. A group at UC Berkeley describe Cross-Site Prompting, or XSP, as the agent-era version of Cross-Site Scripting. Their system, Prismata, sits between a web agent and the … More →

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The call comes in at 4:40 on a Friday. The voice belongs to a senior manager, or sounds close enough, and she needs a password reset before a flight. She is polite, she is in a hurry, and she has the last four of the badge number. Researchers at Harvard Kennedy School, Meta and elsewhere ran a version of that moment past 4,100 US adults, using six commercial voice systems and human callers as a … More →

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