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New GitHub, PyPI Policies Boost Supply Chain Security

Mon, 07/27/2026 - 10:26am

Dependabot gets a three-day cooldown window before opening pull requests, and PyPI rejects file uploads to releases older than 14 days.

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PTC Windchill Vulnerability Exploited in Ransomware Campaign

Mon, 07/27/2026 - 9:19am

The critical unsafe deserialization flaw allows attackers to execute arbitrary code remotely, without authentication.

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MedusaHVNC Malware Uses Hidden Windows Desktops to Evade Detection

Mon, 07/27/2026 - 9:00am

The malware-as-a-service operation launches legitimate browsers on an invisible desktop, giving attackers persistent and covert remote access to compromised Windows systems.

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Nvidia and Tech Giants Launch AI Security Alliance

Mon, 07/27/2026 - 8:25am

The Nvidia-led coalition aims to give defenders more open tools for testing, auditing and protecting AI models and agents.

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Coca-Cola Confirms Data Breach After Fairlife Ransomware Attack

Mon, 07/27/2026 - 7:29am

The Anubis cybercrime group has taken credit for the attack and is threatening to leak data.

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Beelzebub Raises $3.4 Million for Hacker-Trapping Platform

Mon, 07/27/2026 - 7:06am

The company plans to expand its research team, open new offices in Rome and San Francisco, and acquire new clients.

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What’s Hiding in Your Mobile Apps? Lookout MSEC Aims to Find Out

Mon, 07/27/2026 - 7:00am

The new Mobile Security Exposure Center creates SBOMs for enterprise mobile apps to uncover vulnerable components, dependencies and hidden risks.

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Hacked Public Wi-Fi Gateways Used to Harvest Corporate Credentials

Mon, 07/27/2026 - 6:50am

A threat actor has been using the compromised appliances to target the Microsoft 365 accounts of traveling corporate employees.

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Anthropic’s Opus 5 Nears Mythos 5 on Finding Bugs, but Falls Short on Exploits

Mon, 07/27/2026 - 6:02am

Binary-based vulnerability scanning, penetration testing, and exploit generation are blocked in Opus 5.

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DentaQuest Data Breach Potentially Impacts Over 23 Million People

Mon, 07/27/2026 - 5:34am

In May 2026, hackers stole personal and dental health information from DentaQuest’s computer network.

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MCBS Data Breach Affects 1.2 Million Individuals

Mon, 07/27/2026 - 12:51am

The PEAR ransomware group claimed to have stolen 3 TB of information from the medical business management company.

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Rockwell Patches Code Execution Flaws in Arena Simulation Software

Sat, 07/25/2026 - 4:30am

A researcher has explained how an attacker could exploit these vulnerabilities to target industrial organizations.

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In Other News: Dolphin X AI-Powered Malware, Car Anti-Theft Device Hack, 400 Linux Kernel Flaws

Fri, 07/24/2026 - 10:20am

Noteworthy stories that might have slipped under the radar: Siemens ROX II industrial switch vulnerabilities, Russian Zimbra webmail espionage campaign, Stadler Rail ransomware extortion attempt.

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AegisAI Raises $36 Million for AI-Powered Email Security

Fri, 07/24/2026 - 8:01am

The company has raised a total of $49 million in funding, including from Battery Ventures, Accel and Foundation Capital.

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Industry Reactions to OpenAI Models Hacking Hugging Face: Feedback Friday

Fri, 07/24/2026 - 7:19am

Industry professionals debate whether it represents a lab containment failure or an unprecedented agentic capability milestone.

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Data Breach Confirmed After Australian Energy Giant Origin Is Hacked

Fri, 07/24/2026 - 1:52am

A hacker claims to have stolen the information of 2 million Origin Energy customers and is threatening to leak it. 

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OpenAI Fixes ChatGPT Agent Flaw That Could Let Attackers Forge an AI Insider

Thu, 07/23/2026 - 11:09am

AgentForger allows an attacker to create, insert and remotely control an invisible autonomous AI agent inside a victim organization.

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Is Patching Dead? Vulnerability Management in the Post-Mythos Era

Thu, 07/23/2026 - 11:00am

You cannot out-patch a machine that writes a working exploit from a vulnerability description in twenty hours. Stop trying to optimize a game you cannot win.

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Chick-fil-A Accounts Get Fried in Credential Stuffing Attack

Thu, 07/23/2026 - 10:55am

Threat actors used credentials obtained from other companies to hack into Chick-fil-A One accounts.

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Abstract Raises $25 Million to Expand Composable Security Operations Platform

Thu, 07/23/2026 - 9:54am

The latest investment round brings the total raised by Abstract to nearly $50 million.

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