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Today

China opened a cybersecurity review of Palo Alto Networks, citing national security concerns but giving no details about the reasons behind the probe. China’s Cyberspace Administration (CAC) announced that it’s launching a cybersecurity review of products Palo Alto Networks sells in the country. The announcement itself runs to a few sentences of formal Chinese, citing national security law and cy
Attackers exploited a CVSS 10 Metabase zero-day to gain admin access and steal sensitive data. Framework confirmed it was among the victims. Metabase just confirmed something no analytics vendor wants to write: attackers found and used an unpatched, maximum-severity flaw against Metabase Cloud before anyone on the defense side knew it existed. The company’s own advisory says the vulnerability car
U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) adds a Progress LoadMaster vulnerability to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) added a Progress LoadMaster vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-8037 (CVSS score of 9.6), to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog . The vulnerability is an OS Command Injec

Yesterday

Hackers stole personal, medical, and insurance data of 3.8 million people from Unlimited Technology Systems’ data center. Unlimited Technology Systems disclosed a data breach affecting more than 3.8 million people after hackers accessed one of its commercial data centers between October 5 and 10, 2025. Unlimited Technology Systems is a U.S.-based healthcare technology company headquartered in Mon
WordPress XSS2Shell flaw enables admin takeover and remote code execution. Users should update to patched versions. Researchers at Pwn just published a report on a vulnerability chain they’re calling XSS2Shell, and the entry point is quite simple: type a username that doesn’t exist, and WordPress echoes it back with a tiny formatting flaw baked into how two different sanitizers read the same stri
Hackers used fake IT help desks to steal MFA credentials, targeting over 200 firms, including major financial companies. A hacking campaign operating under names including Redact, Pink, Falcon, and Helix has built credential-stealing websites targeting employees at Blackstone, Bridgewater Associates, Apollo Global Management, Bain Capital, KKR, TPG, CME Group, Clearlake Capital, and Moody’s, amon
Meta was ordered to pay $567M after a judge ruled its platforms harmed children, bringing New Mexico penalties to $942M. Meta ‘s child-safety legal bill just got another half-billion dollars heavier. A New Mexico state judge ruled that company’s platforms constitute a “public nuisance,” the BBC reports, ordering $567 million into a fund meant to address harm the company caused to children. Combin
A hidden backdoor in 20 router models lets remote servers execute commands as root, putting affected devices at risk of takeover. Jacob Baines had a router on his desk that kept trying to call home, and it wasn’t supposed to. VulnCheck researchers found a backdoor baked into Zbtlink routers, and it’s not the kind of flaw you patch with an update. It’s a feature the vendor built in on purpose and

Aug 6, 2026

Scammers use AI deepfakes to impersonate OnlyFans creators, trick fans into sending money, then disappear after payment. Criminals are building fake identities using AI-generated deepfakes of real OnlyFans creators, luring their followers with promises of live chats, and then disappearing after collecting payment. The scheme runs on social platforms that most people consider harmless, TikTok for
An exposed SISVISA database leaked 102,215 Brazilian health records, exposing IDs, tax data, and regulatory documents without authentication. Researcher Jeremiah Fowler found a publicly accessible database that turned out to belong to SISVISA, Brazil’s Health Surveillance Information System, and alerted ExpressVPN, which later shared the findings with Hackread. The exposed instance held exactly 1
A U.S. court sentenced Ransom Cartel founder Maksim Silnikau to 16 years for running a ransomware-as-a-service operation. Maksim Silnikau (aka “J.P. Morgan,” “lansky,” and “xxx,”) built a ransomware business the way a franchise owner builds a chain: he never had to touch most of the crime scenes himself. This week, a federal judge in Virginia handed the 40-year-old Belarusian 16 years in prison f

Aug 5, 2026

Meta says an AI model hacked a company during testing after accidental internet access, marking the third disclosed AI lab breach in weeks. Meta confirmed that one of its AI models breached an unidentified company during cybersecurity testing, after its independent testing partner Irregular gave the model unintended internet access through a misconfiguration. This is the third major AI lab to dis
U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) adds a JetBrains TeamCity vulnerability to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) added a JetBrains TeamCity vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-63077 (CVSS score of 9.8), to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog . At the end of July, JetBrains released se
Snowflake hacker Connor Moucka pleads guilty after breaching 165 organizations, stealing billions of records, and extorting victims. Connor Riley Moucka , 26, of Kitchener, Ontario, pleaded guilty this week to a computer hacking conspiracy that compromised over 165 organizations, stole billions of customer records, and extorted multiple victims for millions of dollars. “Connor Riley Moucka, 26, o
AISI found AI agents taking unsanctioned online actions, including social engineering and code attacks, during controlled cyber tests. The UK’s AI Security Institute (AISI) has put something uncomfortable on the table: during cyber testing, frontier models didn’t just follow instructions badly. In some runs, they crossed into real-world actions, touched real people and organisations, and then tri
Brown Health Medical Group-MA breach exposed personal, medical, and financial data of over 311,000 individuals after hackers accessed its servers. Brown Health Medical Group-MA data breach exposed personal, medical, and financial data of over 311,000 individuals after hackers accessed its servers. The healthcare group identified a data security breach involving a legacy file server on December 16
U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) adds Langflow, Apache Tomcat, and N-able N-central flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) added the following vulnerabilities to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog : CVE-2026-9198 (CVSS score of 9.8) IBM Langflow Code Injection Vulnerability C

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