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AUG26
FBI Disrupts China-Linked QTFY Infrastructure Used to Steal Data From U.S. Organizations

The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) on Wednesday announced the disruption of two hacking platforms named QScan and QTRouter operated by Chinese threat actors to target critical infrastructure and other sensitive networks in the country. The activity has been attributed to a Chinese state-sponsored group known as QTFY, employed by Nanjing Xinjiuwei Network Technology Company (南京鑫玖维网络科技有限公司).&

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AUG26
Nimbus Manticore Expands Toolset With TWOSTROKE-Like Backdoor and SSH Tunneler

Cybersecurity researchers have discovered additional infrastructure and previously undocumented malware associated with Nimbus Manticore, an Iranian state-sponsored hacking group affiliated with the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC). Group-IB, in a new analysis published today, described the cyber espionage actor as among the most active Iranian APT groups in 2026. Nimbus Manticore (aka

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AUG26
AI Speeds Up Malware Development, Not Its Success Rate: Analysis

Palo Alto Networks Unit 42 analyzed 405 AI-linked malware samples and found only 12 reached production endpoints. The post AI Speeds Up Malware Development, Not Its Success Rate: Analysis appeared first on SecurityWeek.

Security Week by Eduard Kovacs
AUG26
NovaCookies Campaigns Abuse Genuine Docusign Notifications to Steal Microsoft 365 Sessions

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a new adversary-in-the-middle (AitM) phishing toolkit called NovaCookies that's used as a proxy to redirect Microsoft 365 sign-ins, while capturing authenticated sessions in the process. In a report shared with The Hacker News ahead of publication, Island characterized the $320/month service as a subscription-based phishing platform that

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AUG26
CISA Red Team Compromised Two Critical Infrastructure Orgs, One Detected Nothing

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has published the results of two red team assessments it conducted simultaneously against two critical infrastructure organizations, using what it described as similar tradecraft while recording sharply different defensive outcomes. Both organizations were fully compromised at the domain level, and in both, the red team also

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AUG26
Adobe and Nvidia Patch Dozens of Vulnerabilities

Adobe and Nvidia each published several advisories, including ones that address critical vulnerabilities in their products. The post Adobe and Nvidia Patch Dozens of Vulnerabilities appeared first on SecurityWeek.

Security Week by Eduard Kovacs
AUG26
Unpatched Kaltura mwEmbed Flaws Could Let Remote Attackers Read Files and Run Code

The CERT Coordination Center (CERT/CC) has disclosed two unpatched vulnerabilities in Kaltura's HTML5 video player library that allow a remote, unauthenticated attacker to read arbitrary files from a server and execute code on it. The flaws, tracked as CVE-2026-19913 and CVE-2026-19912, both stem from the same unsafe deserialization in the mwEmbedLoader.php endpoint of the mwEmbed player

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AUG26
Imagine the SOC Without a Queue: From Alert Backlog to AI Hypothesis Engine

The SOC we've always known was built around a model that guarantees most of the alert queue will never receive analyst review. There's never time. In a traditional SOC, the typical progression follows a well-known pattern: an alert arrives; a detection engine assigns a severity score. The issue then waits for a human to decide if it should escalate to an investigation. Given the volume of

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AUG26
CISA: Over 100 Internet-Exposed Water Systems Targeted in July Cyberattacks

The agency has released guidance on reducing internet exposure in the wake of the recent Iran-linked hacker attacks. The post CISA: Over 100 Internet-Exposed Water Systems Targeted in July Cyberattacks appeared first on SecurityWeek.

Security Week by Eduard Kovacs
AUG26
The MFA Identity Trap: When Authentication Creates a False Sense of Security

Organizations must distinguish identity verification, authentication and threat detection, or risk successfully authenticating the attackers they are trying to stop. The post The MFA Identity Trap: When Authentication Creates a False Sense of Security appeared first on SecurityWeek.

Security Week by Torsten George
AUG26
Claude Opus 4.6 Bypasses Gym Booking Limit, Cancels Other Users' Reservations in Tests

Aikido Security has published research that recreates the Australian gym-booking incident in a synthetic environment, finding that Claude Opus 4.6, running on the OpenClaw agent harness, exploited a client-side-only booking restriction in 9 of 10 runs. The original incident was first reported by ABC News on August 10, based on chat logs and screenshots the user supplied. He had asked an

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AUG26
Chrome 152 Patches Over 300 Vulnerabilities

Most of the flaws were discovered by Google using AI, but researchers are still discovering high-value Chrome vulnerabilities. The post Chrome 152 Patches Over 300 Vulnerabilities appeared first on SecurityWeek.

Security Week by Eduard Kovacs
AUG26
OpenAI Bans Russian ChatGPT Accounts Used to Run Influence Operation

OpenAI on Tuesday said it banned a cluster of Russian ChatGPT accounts that used VPNs to bypass access restrictions and run an influence operation, which relied on its artificial intelligence (AI) tool to generate social media posts and comments that were shared on Substack, Telegram, X, Facebook and LinkedIn. The accounts "were being used to promote the International Burke Institute (IBI), a

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AUG26
INTERPOL Operation Jackal IV Arrests 58, Identifies 263 in Global Cyber Fraud Crackdown

An eight-month INTERPOL operation targeting West African organized crime groups has led to arrests of 58 people and the identification of 263 suspects. "The operation, which brought together 22 countries from six continents, is a response to the escalating global threat posed by West African criminal networks – such as the Black Axe and other similar groups," INTERPOL said. "These groups are

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AUG26
Sensitive Information Exposed in Nutex Health Data Breach

Nutex Health has informed the SEC that it recently detected unauthorized access and data exfiltration. The post Sensitive Information Exposed in Nutex Health Data Breach appeared first on SecurityWeek.

Security Week by Eduard Kovacs