A daily, automatically-compiled digest of the cyber security stories that broke in the last 24 hours, drawn from 8 trusted feeds. Each entry is a short excerpt — follow the link to read the full article at its original publisher. Compiled 11 August 2026 · 19 items.
Advisory at a Glance Title #StopRansomware: Gunra Ransomware Original Publication August 10, 2026 Executive Summary Gunra is a ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) used by affiliates to target government, critical infrastructure, and other organ…
Read at source →Analysis of the Aeternum botnet loader, a threat leveraging Polygon blockchain smart contracts for decentralized C2 infrastructure and payload execution. The post The Permanent Threat: Analyzing Aeternum’s Blockchain-Based C2 Operations an…
Read at source →Microsoft is named a Leader in the 2026 IDC MarketScape for MDR services. Discover how Microsoft Defender Experts MDR combines AI, threat intelligence, and human expertise. The post Microsoft named a Leader in the 2026 IDC MarketScape for…
Read at source →Microsoft Threat Intelligence examines DeadLock ransomware, an emerging financially motivated operation distinguished by its use of decentralized infrastructure to support victim communications, negotiations, and data leak operations along…
Read at source →Hackers breached a heat-and-power plant facility in Poland, which supplies heat to about 50,000 residents, using a private APN (Access Point Name) to access an OT (Operational Technology) network. [...]
Read at source →New research shows how attackers can use security alerts and blocked events to manipulate and hijack AI agents.
Read at source →Attacks targeting water systems just keep flowing across a dozen states, against ill-secured, Internet-exposed PLCs.
Read at source →A threat actor compromised the upstream infrastructure of BdThemes, a developer of premium WordPress web-design tools, and modified a remote JSON feed delivered to administrators' browsers to create rogue admin accounts. [...]
Read at source →The maximum-severity vulnerability, which still has no CVE, allows malicious, remote administrator access to the business-analytics platform and its downstream users.
Read at source →OpenAI has developed a new model called "GPT 5.6 Cyber," designed for vulnerability research, penetration testing, incident response, and remediation. [...]
Read at source →It's time to turn from CVSS-backed patching to choke-point patching focused on breaking chains to critical assets.
Read at source →A financially motivated threat actor previously associated with the Medusa ransomware operation is now deploying a new ransomware strain called StormEncryptor. [...]
Read at source →AI is helping development teams produce far more code, far faster. But security teams still have to review vulnerabilities, manage dependencies, prioritize fixes, and control risk at human speed. When software output jumps 10 to 50 times,…
Read at source →Microsoft has disclosed that Storm-1175, a financially motivated threat actor linked to China, has deployed a previously undocumented ransomware strain called StormEncryptor. The use of StormEncryptor marks a shift from the adversary's pre…
Read at source →A lot of security problems still begin with someone doing a completely normal thing. Cloning a repo. Answering a call. Leaving a box exposed. Trusting the default. That pretty much covers the mood this week. Old bugs are back, supply chain…
Read at source →North Korea's state hackers are no longer content to type prompts into public chatbots. One of the country's main espionage groups has begun running artificial intelligence (AI) offline on its own servers, connecting document-search tools…
Read at source →Solana is a crypto platform known for speed. Developers like it to develop distributed applications or to implement crypto payments. To interact with the blockchain, APIs are provided for developers. These APIs will either "speak" JSON or…
Read at source →This is good : Post-quantum cryptography is now one pip-install away for the entire Python ecosystem. With funding from the Sovereign Tech Agency , we implemented support for ML-KEM, the NIST-standard key-establishment primitive, and ML-DS…
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