Cybersecurity

Chrome Store Hit: 737 Fake VPN Extensions Target Russian Users

737 malicious Chrome extensions, impersonating 66 VPN brands like NordVPN and Proton VPN, routed Russian users' browser traffic through a single SOCKS5 proxy infrastructure.Over...

Cisco Firewall Flaw Actively Exploited in the Wild

Cisco has confirmed active exploitation of a high-severity vulnerability (CVE-2026-20349) in its Secure Firewall ASA and FTD Software.The flaw allows an unauthenticated, remote attacker...

Aug Patch Tuesday: Zero-day exploited, 4 critical RCEs

Microsoft’s August 2026 Patch Tuesday fixes an actively exploited zero-day (CVE-2026-68820) in the Windows kernel driver, used by Lazarus Group in Operation Dream Job.Four...

Researchers Lure North Korean IT Workers via Fake Crypto Firm

Researchers posed as a crypto startup and hired three suspected North Korean operatives to study their methods.All three used AI-generated or altered IDs, with...

AI Code Speed Risks Outpacing Security Controls

AI can increase development output by 10 to 50 times, making security review the bottleneck.Traditional CVE-driven remediation may break down when software is built...

North Korean hackers deploy offline AI for espionage

North Korea's Kimsuky hacking group is now running AI models offline on its own servers, moving beyond public chatbots to build AI into its...

Malicious VS Code Extension Solidity Pro Steals Wallets, Credentials

Malicious VS Code extension "Solidity Pro" steals browser crypto wallets and credentials Captures seed phrases, GitHub tokens, AWS keys, OpenAI keys, and SSH private keys Uses...

CSS attacks in webmail can steal passwords, tokens

PortSwigger researcher Gareth Heyes presented CSS-based email attacks at Black Hat USA 2026 on August 8.The attacks exploited HTML and CSS techniques in Outlook,...

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39 US state banking groups launch BankChain Alliance for 2027 blockchain network

Thirty-nine US state banking associations formed the BankChain Alliance to build a nationwide, industry-owned blockchain network targeting a 2027...

Stocks Rise as Cooling Oil and Yields Lift Sentiment Before Nvidia Earnings

Treasury yields fell sharply, with the 10-year note dropping over 7 basis points to 4.63%Major U.S. stock indexes closed...

SpaceX plans $100B Louisiana spaceport near Texas coast

SpaceX plans to invest $100 billion in a new spaceport in Vermilion Parish, Louisiana, on land acquired from Exxon.Construction...