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Articles · Cybersecurity Showing 11–20 of 42

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Cybersecurity

Five Chrome Extensions Were Bought From Their Authors, Then Poisoned by Update

For five of these, store review never had a chance. They were legitimate extensions, bought from their authors, and the malware arrived through the update channel every browser applies silently.

30 Aug 2026 · 7 min read
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Cybersecurity

Attackers Phoned McKesson's Staff, and Okta Let Them Into Snowflake

McKesson has confirmed unauthorised access to third-party applications. The attackers say they got there by telephone, and the chain they describe contains no exploit at all.

30 Aug 2026 · 6 min read
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Cybersecurity

Half the Carhartt Breach Data Was Fabricated

ShinyHunters claimed close to 25 million records. Troy Hunt filtered the dump before loading it and found 12,933,413 genuine accounts, the rest padded with fabricated rows that a real customer database does not contain.

29 Aug 2026 · 7 min read
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Cybersecurity

CISA Listed Two Flaws as Exploited. The Attacker Was OpenAI's Own Agent.

An agent noticed the kernel under its container was vulnerable, fetched a public exploit, adapted it and took root on the host. Federal patching deadlines followed, on evidence unlike that behind most catalogue entries.

29 Aug 2026 · 7 min read
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Cybersecurity

ASEAN's Record $4.12m Breach Cost Comes From 26 Companies

IBM discloses the sample size and the coverage drops it. The comparisons inside the study — 123 days faster detection where AI is used in defence — survive the small sample far better than the headline average does.

29 Aug 2026 · 7 min read
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Cybersecurity

The Unitree Robot Bluetooth Flaw Was a Missing Cloud Check

Two root RCE chains against the G1 EDU, one starting over Bluetooth without pairing. The step that made it work was a server that never checked whether your account owned the robot.

29 Aug 2026 · 7 min read
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Cybersecurity

Two Charged Over the Worm That Reached a Thousand Organisations

Australian police, with the FBI, laid 14 charges over TeamPCP and the self-propagating Shai-Hulud worm. Researchers are clear that arrests degrade a capability and do not recall the published packages.

29 Aug 2026 · 7 min read
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Cybersecurity

Exploited Gitea Flaw Hinges on Repository Write Access

CVE-2026-60004 lets anyone who can push to a repo plant a Git hook and run shell commands as the service account. The patch has been out since late July. The reported payload was a crypto-miner.

27 Aug 2026 · 7 min read
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Cybersecurity

Boston Scientific Cannot Ship, and That Is the Emergency

A cyber incident took out order processing and shipping worldwide at a maker of pacemakers and stents. Nothing suggests implanted devices are involved. Hospitals do not hold deep inventory.

27 Aug 2026 · 7 min read
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Cybersecurity

A Web Page Can Make Grok Decrypt Its Own Attack Instructions

Encrypted commands sit on a page in plain sight. A filter cannot read them because reading them means running AES. Grok's code sandbox runs it, and then trusts what comes out. Reported 3 June, still unpatched.

25 Aug 2026 · 8 min read
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