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GitHub
AI developers targeted via trojanized GitHub repositories

Cybercriminals are cloning popular GitHub repositories for AI tools and developer resources to distribute an infostealer, according to Netskope Threat Labs. (Source: Netskope) …

wireless
Russian hackers abuse hotel Wi-Fi networks to steal Microsoft 365 credentials and deploy malware

Midnight Blizzard, the Russian threat actor tied to the country’s foreign intelligence service, has spent months targeting users of public Wi-Fi networks at places like …

Uptime Kuma
Uptime Kuma 2.5.0 waits two weeks before trusting a new npm package

Uptime Kuma checks whether a website, a Docker container, a DNS record, or a Steam game server is still answering, and pushes a message to Telegram, Slack, or email when one …

Nuget
Microsoft shortens NuGet API key lifetime to improve supply chain security

Microsoft is reducing the lifetime of new NuGet.org API keys from 365 days to 30 days starting August 17, 2026, to improve the security of NuGet, its package repository for …

EU
EU begins enforcing AI Act, putting AI models under the microscope

Europe’s fight to regulate AI models moved from paper to practice on 2 August 2026, when the European Commission’s AI Office and national authorities began …

Brian Hill
Digital executive protection is a strategic imperative for CEOs

In this interview with Help Net Security, Brian Hill, Field CISO, Client Advisory for BlackCloak, explains how attackers reach companies through the personal lives of …

erase
OWASP’s subtractive security project measures the attack paths you erased

An attacker who talks a user into opening an attachment gets whatever that machine still permits: a service account with rights across the domain, an outbound route to …

Stellar Cyber
Analysts got 19 minutes back every hour in Stellar Cyber’s agentic auto triage trials

An analyst opening a queue on Monday morning will spend most of it on tickets that amount to nothing. Stellar Cyber’s Agentic Auto Triage closed 8,047 of those tickets …

crypto scams
Fake IRS letters direct crypto holders to bogus compliance portal

Scammers are sending physical letters to cryptocurrency holders that copy the look of official IRS notices. The letters tell recipients they must enroll in something called a …

cybersecurity jobs
Cybersecurity jobs available right now: August 4, 2026

Application Security Engineer Arcadia | USA | Remote – View job details As an Application Security Engineer, you will lead the application vulnerability management …

N-able N-central
Attackers exploit N-able N-central flaw to reach managed endpoints (CVE-2026-18577)

Attackers are exploiting an authentication bypass vulnerability (CVE-2026-18577) in N-able N-central, a remote monitoring and management (RMM) solution widely used by managed …

AI
Chinese hacker used DeepSeek to launch autonomous cyberattacks on vulnerable servers

A Chinese threat actor operating under the aliases “knaithe” and “KnYuan” used multiple LLMs to automate cyberattacks against internet-facing systems …

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