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Security News — 17 August 2026
A daily, automatically-compiled digest of the cyber security stories that broke in the last 24 hours, drawn from 4 trusted feeds. Each entry is a short excerpt — follow the link to read the full article at its original publisher. Compiled 17 August 2026 · 8 items.
Independent Investigative Journalism & Breaking News
BleepingComputer16 Aug
Cryptocurrency hardware wallet provider SafePal is warning of a data breach affecting about 39,798 customers after a flaw was exploited to steal customer order information, and a threat actor is now claiming to be selling the stolen data.…
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BleepingComputer16 Aug
Claude is experiencing a major outage, with users reporting login problems and degraded performance across several Anthropic services. [...]
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BleepingComputer16 Aug
Multiple distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks targeted the Threema secure messaging service earlier this week, causing severe disruptions to communications. [...]
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BleepingComputer16 Aug
A new information-stealing malware called AmnesiaStealer, which targets macOS users via ClickFix attacks, includes a streaming module that allows the attacker to interactively control the victim's web browser. [...]
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Blue Team, Incident Response & Detection Engineering
SANS Internet Storm Center (Handler Diary)17 Aug
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SANS Internet Storm Center (Handler Diary)16 Aug
Wireshark release 4.6.8 fixes 28 vulnerabilities and 25 bugs.
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Red Team, Bug Bounty & Exploit Research
ProjectDiscovery Blog16 Aug
Your code editor extensions auto-update and run with your privileges on the machine that holds your source code, your SSH keys, and your publishing credentials, but they rarely show up in a software bill of materials. Using Neo we audited…
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Security Executive, Architecture & Policy
Daniel Miessler17 Aug
Stolen Authority/images/stolen-authority.webp/images/stolen-authority.webp There's a parasitic marketing technique all over X right now, and I think the fastest way to kill it is to give it a name with adequate stigma attached. Stolen Auth…
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