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Vulnerabilities

NASA Spacecraft Control Software Has a Critical Flaw Attackers Could Use Remotely

Researchers at Cycode found a chain of bugs in AIT-GUI, a NASA/JPL tool used to talk to spacecraft, that lets outsiders send commands with no login required.

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Threat Intelligence

ToxicPanda 2.0: Android Banking Malware Now Targets 140+ Apps and Steals PINs

A revamped version of the ToxicPanda Android malware carries 167 remote commands and a PIN-grabbing routine aimed at banking and cryptocurrency apps worldwide.

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AI Security

After Russian Hackers Knocked Out a Satellite Network, an AI Tool Is Now Stress-Testing Its Defences

Viasat's satellite network was crippled by a Russian cyberattack in 2022. Now an AI-assisted security tool from Atalanta is being used to check whether the rebuilt defences can hold.

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AI Security

AI Agents That Go Rogue Are Now an Insider Threat, Security Expert Warns

A breach involving AI systems at a major machine-learning platform has exposed a problem companies weren't expecting: the AI tools they deploy to protect themselves can turn against them.

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AI Security

OpenAI Tightens AI Model Security After Hugging Face Breach and Astra Findings

New sandboxing controls, 30-minute alert windows, and the ability to pause model training mark a significant shift in how OpenAI handles security risks inside its own systems.

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Threat Intelligence

Manic Android malware hops between infected phones to steal Ukrainian banking data

Researchers at ThreatFabric say the spyware, active since February, targets 169 apps and can relay stolen data through nearby infected devices over Wi-Fi Direct or Bluetooth when the internet is unavailable.

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Vulnerabilities

Poland's CERT warns of active attacks on critical Zimbra email flaw

CERT Polska says attackers are exploiting CVE-2026-73570 in Zimbra Collaboration Suite. Zimbra patched the bug in version 10.1.20 on July 20.

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Vulnerabilities

Citrix Patches Critical Login-Bypass Flaw in NetScaler, Attacks Expected Soon

A security hole rated 9.3 out of 10 lets criminals walk straight past the login screen on widely used corporate network gear. Patches are out now, and researchers say exploitation is a matter of when, not if.

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Vulnerabilities

Microsoft probes Windows 11 August update after gamers report crashes in ARC Raiders and The Finals

The KB5121003 patch is under investigation after players on 24H2 and 25H2 reported freezes, access-violation errors and sudden reboots.

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Cloud Security

Airlock Digital Passes Australia's Toughest Government Security Check

The Australian application control firm has cleared an independent IRAP assessment at PROTECTED level, giving government and critical-infrastructure buyers one more piece of evidence for their due-diligence files.

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Cloud Security

ChatGPT goes dark worldwide as OpenAI scrambles to fix login failures

A global outage starting late Wednesday locked users out of ChatGPT, Codex and a dozen OpenAI API endpoints.

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Policy & Regulation

Australian Supermarkets Are Testing Face-Scanning Technology on Shoppers

Coles and Woolworths have confirmed trials of facial recognition software in their stores. Privacy advocates say collecting biometric data from grocery shoppers crosses a line.

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Identity & Access

UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham Tricked Into Texting a Fake Trump Aide

Someone impersonating Susie Wiles, Donald Trump's chief of staff, exchanged messages with the British Prime Minister. It is the latest in a string of attacks targeting senior politicians through simple social deception.

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AI Security

Meet Kriminal: The AI Service With No Rules That Anyone Can Find on Google

A subscription AI platform called Kriminal markets itself as uncensored and unlimited. Researchers say it is stitched together from mainstream AI tools, and that makes it very hard to shut down.

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Breaches

Sakura Internet Says Breach May Have Exposed 1.36 Million Customer Accounts

The Japanese cloud provider, a chosen supplier for Japan's Government Cloud, found the wider intrusion while investigating a smaller hack of its rental server service.

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Breaches

CareCloud tells 3.7 million patients their data was taken in March breach

The healthcare IT firm's SEC filing pointed to an eight-hour outage. The full patient count only landed with regulators months later.

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Cloud Security

Researchers pull a login token out of Cloudflare's edge with a browser-era ghost bug

A Spectre-style side-channel attack ran inside one Cloudflare Worker and quietly read data from another sitting on the same machine, at speeds fast enough to lift a JSON Web Token in seconds.

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AI Security

OpenAI Halted Frontier Model Training for Two Weeks After Safety Scare

The AI lab says it paused reinforcement learning on its newest models to add monitoring and defenses, citing risks that grow as models become more capable.

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Threat Intelligence

CameraSwarm: hackers hijack 14,500 Dahua cameras in month-long spree

A 35-day campaign quietly took over Dahua security cameras across Ukraine and Russia, planting a hidden backdoor account that even factory resets can't remove.

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Threat Intelligence

US agencies warn hackers are using AI to break into Siemens factory controllers

CISA, NSA, FBI, DOE and EPA say attackers are scanning the internet for exposed Siemens S7 PLCs and running AI-written scripts dressed up as monitoring tools.

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Identity & Access

Password Spraying Attacks Jump 155-Fold as Attackers Hunt for MFA Blind Spots

Huntress logged more than 81 million login attempts in a single two-week campaign, with attackers targeting old sign-in methods that skip multi-factor checks.

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