August 2026
ShieldFont fights AI scraping by handing crawlers the wrong words
Isaque Seneda and Gabriel Abrucio built a web font that draws one set of words on screen and leaves a different set in the page’s source code. A person reading in a …
Gut feeling does nothing against AI spear phishing texts
A banker at a credit union sat down at a table with a dozen printed text messages, all of them written for that banker personally, and put them in order from the one most …
Photos: Black Hat USA 2026, part two
Round two from Black Hat USA 2026. This set covers the parts of the show floor that did not make the first gallery. Scroll through below. Featured vendors: BlackCloak, …
Novel-reading apps used users’ phones to generate fake ad traffic
A new mobile ad fraud scheme, dubbed Papyrus, is using a cluster of novel-reading apps to generate hidden browser traffic, according to IAS Threat Lab. Sample novel-reading …
Photos: Black Hat USA 2026
Photo gallery from the Business Hall at Black Hat USA 2026. Interesting booths, demo stages, crowded aisles, and the moments in between. The second gallery is here. Featured …
Three in four AI-generated vulnerability patches leave something broken
Ask a frontier model to patch a real vulnerability and it will hand you something that looks like a fix. It reads like the patch a maintainer would write. When there is a …
Snowflake hacker pleads guilty, faces up to 32 years in prison
A Canadian man is facing decades in prison for hacking customer accounts at cloud storage provider Snowflake and stealing data from more than 165 organizations. Connor Riley …
Discounted Claude access bought on the gray market may expose every prompt you send
More than half a dozen services advertised on underground forums and messaging platforms, offering discounted or “unlimited” token access to frontier AI models, …
Critical Cisco IMC bug gives attackers root, PoC is out (CVE-2026-20200)
Cisco has fixed a critical vulnerability (CVE-2026-20200) in its Integrated Management Controller (IMC), which allows an attacker to run commands as root through the …
Microsoft extends zero trust deeper into enterprise AI
Microsoft expanded its Zero Trust for AI strategy with updates to the Zero Trust Assessment tool and the Zero Trust Workshop. The additions help organizations assess security …
Photos: Black Hat USA 2026 Arsenal
This week Help Net Security is at the Mandalay Bay, where Arsenal is running alongside the Briefings. If you’ve never been, it’s the corner of Black Hat that feels …
OWASP 2026 LLM Top 10: “The model will be fooled”
The OWASP GenAI Security Project has released the 2026 edition of its Top 10 for LLM Applications and, for the first time, the list was influenced by real-world incidents. The …
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