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20 August 2026
The action taken by OpenAI comes in light of the Hugging Face incident and the discovery of the Astra model’s advanced capabilities.
The post OpenAI Overhauls Model Security With Sandboxing, 30-Minute Alerts, and Training Pauses appeared first on SecurityWeek.
20 August 2026
A set of 40 Mozilla Firefox extensions has been found to engage in cryptocurrency wallet theft by masquerading as OKX, Rabby Wallet, TronLink, and other Web3 products.
According to the Socket Threat Research team, the extensions are part of a broader set of 77 browser add-ons that share source code and infrastructure overlaps. The campaign, dubbed Offside Wallet Theft Factory, is believed to
20 August 2026
Remote, unauthenticated attackers could exploit the critical-severity flaw without user interaction.
The post Exploitation Expected for Critical Authentication Bypass Patched in Citrix NetScaler appeared first on SecurityWeek.
20 August 2026
CVE-2026-19478 can be exploited without authentication to modify or delete public projects and user data.
The post Critical GitLab Flaw Exploited Shortly After Disclosure appeared first on SecurityWeek.
20 August 2026
A cybersecurity advisory with technical details and recommendations has been written by the NSA, CISA and other agencies.
The post Hackers Using AI to Target Siemens PLCs in Critical US Sectors appeared first on SecurityWeek.
20 August 2026
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a critical flaw in the Elementor Pro WordPress plugin that, if successfully exploited, could lead to remote code execution.
The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-32475, carries a CVSS score of 9.0 out of 10.0. It has been described as a case of unrestricted upload of a file with a dangerous type.
"The flaw lives in the Forms module's File
19 August 2026
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a remote Spectre attack against Cloudflare Workers that leaked a JSON Web Token (JWT) from a co-located Worker in the production environment at up to 12 bits per second, 360 times the rate of an earlier attack demonstrated in 2021.
The end-to-end experiment used an attacker Worker and a victim Worker controlled by the researchers,
19 August 2026
OpenAI on Tuesday revealed that it paused reinforcement learning (RL) training for its latest artificial intelligence (AI) models for two weeks while it shored up additional defenses and increased the scope of its monitoring to avert another Hugging Face-like incident.
"As models become more capable, the risks associated with developing and testing them internally also grow," the AI company
19 August 2026
CodeSecCon is the premier virtual event bringing together developers and cybersecurity professionals to revolutionize the way applications are built, secured, and maintained.
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19 August 2026
A previously unreported cyber espionage operation dubbed SilkParasite has been observed targeting government bodies in Central Asia.
The intrusion set makes use of seven remote access tool (RAT) families, five of which have never been previously documented: DriveSilkRAT, CookiETagRAT, NomadRAT, GoginRAT, and NodeEdgeRAT. SilkParasite, first discovered in late 2025, is assessed to be a
19 August 2026
The previously bootstrapped company helps organizations securely and reliably operate AI agents at scale.
The post Prevalent AI Raises $22 Million to Expand Data Fabric Platform appeared first on SecurityWeek.
19 August 2026
Cybersecurity researchers at Hunt.io have disclosed details of a campaign that they say compromised more than 14,530 Dahua devices between June 17 and July 22, 2026, using credential attacks, two authentication-bypass flaws, and a peer-to-peer (P2P) relay technique.
The activity, codenamed Operation CameraSwarm, was reconstructed from a 407 MB exposed working directory containing 2,616 files
19 August 2026
The 17 members of the Mabna Institute targeted hundreds of universities and organizations in the US and abroad.
The post US Charges 17 Iranian Hackers, Offers $10 Million Rewards for 5 of Them appeared first on SecurityWeek.
19 August 2026
Most email defenses still do the job they did a decade ago. Scan the message, look for something malicious, block it. That worked when the danger sat in the payload, a bad link or an attachment. It stopped working when the danger moved into the message's intent, and it is failing now that the sender is no longer a person.
From Bad Content to Bad Intent to AI on Both Sides
Phishing 1.0 was bad
19 August 2026
Cybersecurity researchers have flagged a global cybercrime operation that abuses thousands of hacked WordPress websites as infrastructure to disseminate malware, commandeer infected hosts, store stolen documents, screenshots, and activity logs created to track the status of the activity.
"The operation doesn't rely on a single piece of malware, but on a whole toolkit of criminal software
19 August 2026
The cybercrime gang has listed major companies such as Shell, Philips, Fiserv, Zebra, Mindray, and Largan Precision.
The post Cl0p Ransomware Group Names Over 40 Victims of PTC Windchill Campaign appeared first on SecurityWeek.
19 August 2026
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Tuesday added four critical vulnerabilities to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, stating they are being exploited in the wild.
The shortcomings added to the KEV catalog are listed below -
CVE-2026-65400 (CVSS score: 9.8) - An improper authentication vulnerability impacting Apple macOS that could allow an
19 August 2026
The flaws can be exploited for remote code execution, authentication bypass, and device takeover.
The post CISA Urges Immediate Patching of Exploited Microsoft, VMware, Apple Vulnerabilities appeared first on SecurityWeek.
19 August 2026
The fixes resolve over 1,000 vulnerabilities across two dozen products, including over 460 remotely exploitable bugs.
The post 943 Patches Rolled Out With Oracle’s August 2026 Security Update appeared first on SecurityWeek.
19 August 2026
The bugs could lead to code execution, privilege escalation, sandbox escape, and information disclosure.
The post Chrome, Firefox Updates Patch Dozens of Vulnerabilities appeared first on SecurityWeek.