It’s rather awkward when you buy a piece of hardware like a sketchy router to make a video about its hidden admin password backdoor – known as CVE-2026-11405 – only to discover that you bought the wrong Tenda router, namely the AC10V6 model. After making this mistake, [Low Level] did the only reasonable thing one...Read More
LAS VEGAS — National Cyber Director Sean Cairncross on Tuesday said the Trump administration is working to strike a balance between responsible, secure development practices, while promoting growth and allowing the private sector to innovate. Cairncross, the opening keynote at the Black Hat USA 2026 cybersecurity conference, said the White House understands the growing safety...Read More
By Scott Hochenberg ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND, Md.— As military operations increasingly rely on digital infrastructure, software security has become essential. To address this, cybersecurity engineers, computer scientists, and policymakers from 70 different government agencies gathered at the Mallette Training Facility for the Summer 2026 System Security Engineering Forum, held June 2-4. The event was a...Read More
Five Bay Area men are facing felony charges following a three-day undercover operation targeting people suspected of attempting to meet children online for sexual activity, authorities announced Wednesday. The operation was conducted by the San Francisco Sheriff’s Office, the San Francisco District Attorney’s Office, several Bay Area law enforcement agencies and officers from Florida. Investigators...Read More
The INC Ransomware group is the most active threat group exploiting two SonicWall Mobile Access (SMA) 1000 vulnerabilities, with multiple new victims being posted on the INC data leak site.In an Aug. 1 blog post by Resecurity, this finding was preceded by active, pre-disclosure exploitation observed by researchers at Volexity that started on June 22.Volexity tracked the threat...Read More
Aug. 5, 2026, 7:43 p.m. ET Meta’s META.O AI model hacked another company during cybersecurity testing, The Information reported on Wednesday, marking the latest incident of AI agents of major AI developers breaching other companies. Meta’s Muse Spark 1.1 model breached the unidentified company’s systems and made changes to its internal systems as the AI was able...Read More
For years, North Korea’s stealthy hackers and scam IT workers have infiltrated companies, stealing corporate secrets and plundering billions in cryptocurrency to help fund the totalitarian regime and its weapons programs. Now, a security researcher who has spent almost two years inside the systems belonging to a group of those North Korean hackers is raising...Read More
Reminding everyone that not all of the nation’s water infrastructure will be so readily disrupted by cyberattack, New York Gov. Kathy Hochul this week announced more than $9 million in grants to improve the cybersecurity of dozens of water systems across the state. One hundred and fifty-three local government projects are set to receive funding...Read More
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Maksim Silnikau, the creator and administrator of the Ransom Cartel ransomware operation, was sentenced to 16 years in prison for his role in ransomware attacks against at least 18 companies worldwide. The U.S. Department of Justice announced today that the 40-year-old Belarusian national was sentenced for conspiracy to commit offenses against the United States, conspiracy...Read More
