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Elastic goes all-in on Hacker Summer Camp at Black Hat and DEF CON in Las Vegas
Attack Discovery turns raw alerts into validated threats and Elastic Defend closes vulnerable driver gaps as fast as they're disclosed. Watch it all run against real attacks at the booth.
Amgen says cloud data breach exposed patient health, proprietary info
Pharmaceutical company Amgen says it suffered a data breach after threat actors stole corporate data and patient information stored in multiple cloud systems operated by third-party service providers. [...]
Arch Linux disables AUR package adoption to stop malware flood
The Arch Linux project has temporarily disabled adoption of Arch User Repository (AUR) packages after a surge in malicious takeovers of existing packages. [...]
South Korea Warns of State-Backed Watering Hole Attacks
South Korea warned that nation-state actors are using phishing and compromised websites to silently infect citizens and businesses. South Korea agencies (The National Intelligence Service, the National Police Agency, the Korea Internet & Security Agency, and the Financial Security Institute) jointly published an advisory warning that a state-backed hacking group is actively targeting South Korean
Online ad firm Adform’s script compromised to steal cryptocurrency
Online advertising firm Adform suffered a supply-chain attack that delivered cryptocurrency-stealing scripts to websites using its ad platform, replacing wallet addresses copied to visitors' clipboards with ones controlled by an attacker. [...]
Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Helps Discover New Marine Species
The Squid is a new scientific machine: One of the technological breakthroughs was the onboard use of a spinning wheel confocal microscope, nicknamed the Squid, which uses lasers to scan microscopic details of how organisms are put together. “That opens up a whole new world of exploring. We could see cells interacting with each other, exchanging material and building skeletons. And we could do that
CaptiveCrunch: Midnight Blizzard targets travelers worldwide for malware delivery and credential theft
A sophisticated threat actor known as Storm-2945, a sub-cluster of Midnight Blizzard, is targeting travelers worldwide through captive portal networks. The group manipulates network traffic to deliver malware, including a Go-based RAT called CornFlake, and conducts phishing attacks to steal credentials and register devices with Microsoft Entra ID. This campaign, dubbed CaptiveCrunch, leverages AI and mimics legitimate system updates to trick victims into downloading malicious software.
Trump blames Minnesota for cyberattacks on water sector, drawing pushback from cyber world
The president went against his intelligence agencies’ conclusions about Iran being the likely suspect in the campaign. The post Trump blames Minnesota for cyberattacks on water sector, drawing pushback from cyber world appeared first on CyberScoop.
Anthropic Says Claude Models Hacked 3 Organizations During Cyber Tests
Anthropic found Claude accessed systems at three real businesses after a testing error gave its AI models live internet access during cybersecurity evaluations.
OpenAI says its new GPT 5.6 models are becoming more cost-efficient
OpenAI says it has reduced the price of two GPT-5.6 models, cutting Luna's API price by 80% and Terra's by 20% as it works to make its models more efficient. [...]
Suspected Chinese-Speaking Hackers Target Central Asian Governments With OctLurk and SilkLurk
A Chinese-speaking threat actor is suspected to be behind a fresh wave of cyber attacks targeting government organizations mainly located in Central Asia, including Afghanistan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, and the Syrian Arab Republic, since January 2025. These targeted organizations operate across several sectors, such as healthcare, research, government offices,
CISA Issues Fresh SBOM Guidance. Did They Get It Right?
CISA has released updated guidance for Software Bill of Materials (SBOMs), introducing approximately two dozen changes to enhance their comprehensiveness. While these updates aim to provide more detailed information, some critics argue that the framework still falls short in offering substantial improvements for actual risk management.
CISA warns of spike in attacks on water systems as Minnesota incidents probed
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency said in a public alert on Thursday that facilities should “remove publicly exposed PLCs and other operational technology (OT) from the internet as soon as possible."
Hacker uses DeepSeek AI to autonomously attack vulnerable servers
A Chinese-speaking threat actor is using the DeepSeek AI model and the open-source Hermes Agent to conduct autonomous cyberattacks on exposed servers with limited human involvement. [...]
Cyber Command plans Silicon Valley office to drive innovation
The outpost will have its own director, though no one has yet been named for the post, and support the command’s nascent Cyber Warfare Innovation Center (CIWC).
Anthropic’s Opus 5 Is Better at Resisting Prompt Injection
The chart is interesting. On the IPI benchmark, Opus 5 improved over Opus 4.8, reducing the probability of an attacker succeeding within 15 attempts from 5.5% to 2.0%, and from 0.5% to 0.2% on 1 attempt. It also improved on Sonnet 5 (5.9% at k=15) and Mythos 5 (2.6%), making it the most robust model evaluated. Opus 5 also outperformed all non-Claude models on this benchmark. The most robust non-Cl
How Status Labs Helps Brands Get Cited in ChatGPT: The Data Behind AI Search Visibility
Disclosure: This article was created in collaboration with Status Labs.
CISA warns of cyberattacks disrupting U.S. water utilities
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) is warning of a significant increase in attacks targeting internet-exposed programmable logic controllers (PLCs) in the water and wastewater systems sector. [...]
HollowFrame Loader Deploys Matryoshka Backdoor in Spear-Phishing Attack on Law Firm
Cybersecurity researchers have identified a new Go-based loader framework named HollowFrame, which is used in conjunction with a Rust-based backdoor called Matryoshka. The attack chain begins with a spear-phishing email containing a malicious link that, when clicked, leads to the execution of a Windows Shortcut file. This initiates a multi-stage process involving privilege escalation, disabling Microsoft Defender, and downloading further malicious payloads.
The most famous brand in physical security got pwned by ShinyHunters
Hopefully the company secures houses better than it locks down SaaS systems
Fake Fortnite rewards are stealing players’ accounts
Scammers are using fake V-Bucks offers and locker value sites to hijack Fortnite accounts.
In Other News: OpenAI Open Source Tool, AWS Links Hacks to North Korea, Mythos Crypto Research
Noteworthy stories that might have slipped under the radar: parcel delivery company OnTrac hacked, Adobe patches, UK Department for Education loses 607,000 records. The post In Other News: OpenAI Open Source Tool, AWS Links Hacks to North Korea, Mythos Crypto Research appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Cyberattacks on Minnesota Water Systems Investigated as Officials Warn About Iranian Hackers
Iran has the “geopolitical motivations” and a recent history of targeting water systems, experts pointed out. The post Cyberattacks on Minnesota Water Systems Investigated as Officials Warn About Iranian Hackers appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Anthropic and OpenAI are competing to see whose agents can go rogue harder
Whoever wins, we lose