Overview Earlier this month, security sleuth and researcher “Chaotic Eclipse” (also known as Nightmare-Eclipse) published a zero-day exploit known as YellowKey, which allowed them to access BitLoc...
Overview of the First VPN Service 🚀 The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has released a FLASH report to share indicators of compromise (IOCs) and tactics related to the First VPN Service. Thi...
🚨 Important Security Alert! An attachment in an email impersonating DHL about a shipment contains a link to a preconfigured SimpleHelp remote access tool—an ideal starting point for attackers to e...
Benchmaxxing When the Benchmark Becomes the Target
Benchmaxxing: When the Benchmark Becomes the Target Source: Crowdstrike Date Published: August 19, 2026 But the more attention a benchmark receives, the stronger the incentive to optimize for it....
Simple Scans for Cloud Metadata Service
Simple Scans for Cloud Metadata Service Cloud providers typically expose a REST API at 169.254.169.254 that allows code running on virtual machines to retrieve machine-specific data. Some of the d...
What You Say During a Cyber Breach Can -- and Will -- Be Used Against You
What You Say During a Cyber Breach Can – and Will – Be Used Against You Cyber breach communications can become costly evidence 💰, making disciplined documentation and privilege practices essential...
Operation CameraSwarm Over 14,000 Dahua Cameras Compromised Across Ukraine and Russia
Operation CameraSwarm: Over 14,000 Dahua Cameras Compromised Across Ukraine and Russia 🚨 Between 17 June and 22 July 2026, a single operator compromised over 14,000 Dahua IP cameras. The scanning ...
NASA Ground Control Software Flaw Enables Unauthenticated Commands
🚨 Critical Vulnerability in NASA’s Ground Control Software A significant vulnerability has been discovered in NASA’s open-source AMMOS Instrument Toolkit (AIT)-GUI ground software. This flaw could...
Microsoft Tests Faster Windows File Explorer and New Context Menu
Microsoft Tests Faster Windows File Explorer 🚀 Microsoft has started testing a faster File Explorer and a less cluttered and more customizable context menu in Windows 11 preview builds rolling out...
Hackers Expose Data of 1.2 Million Heights Finance Customers
🚨 Data Breach Alert: Heights Finance Hack 🚨 A significant breach at Heights Finance has exposed personal and financial data of over 1.2 million individuals after hackers compromised a third-party ...
Be Careful What You Put in 'Anyone with the Link' Google Docs
Be Careful What You Put in ‘Anyone with the Link’ Google Docs The next time you type something sensitive into a Google Doc—or any other online tool with a sharing feature—be careful about the perm...
Your Controls Block Known Attacks. What About the Behavior?
Overview Now in its fourth year, the Blue Report 2026 from Picus Labs measures how enterprise prevention and detection actually perform in production, across more than 338 million attack simulatio...
CVE-2026-52854 - mediawiki/maps Stored XSS Vulnerability
CVE-2026-52854 - mediawiki/maps: Stored XSS Vulnerability CVE-2026-52854, with a HIGH CVSS 3.1 score of 8.6, addresses a stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability within the mediawiki/maps e...
2026-08-18 Daily Vulns
Why Facebook's War on Ad Blockers Could Help Scammers
Why Facebook’s War on Ad Blockers Could Help Scammers Reports that uBlock Origin is stepping back from the effort to filter Facebook ads are a reminder that ad blocking is no longer just about inc...
Revealed Cyber Spies Used Malware from GitHub to Hack EncroChat Cryptophone Network
Revealed: Cyber Spies Used Malware from GitHub to Hack EncroChat Cryptophone Network Computer Weekly reveals for the first time how French cyber spies hacked EncroChat phones, used by organized cr...
Call for Applications Information Controls Research Program 2026
Call for Applications - Information Controls Research Program 2026 The Information Controls Research Program (ICRP) from the Open Technology Fund (OTF) supports applied research into how authorita...
UNISOC Modem Flaw Enables Remote Code Execution via Video Calls
UNISOC Modem Flaw Enables Remote Code Execution via Video Calls A vulnerability in UNISOC modem firmware can allow arbitrary code execution with kernel privileges from the modem context, potential...
McDonald's Employee Data Appears in Leak, Seller Claims 1.7M Records Stolen
McDonald’s Employee Data Leak 🚨 A seller claims that 1.7 million McDonald’s employee records were stolen from Azure. An 8,000-row sample appears genuine, but its age and full size remain unconfirm...
Invisible AI Prompts Trigger Court Sanctions
Invisible AI Prompts Trigger Court Sanctions 🚨 A litigant hid AI prompt injections in a court filing to influence a ruling. The judge caught it and banned him from electronic filing. A man suing t...