JACKSON, Miss. (WLBT) – Mississippi leaders say cybercriminals are targeting residents’ personal data and tax dollars, and a new Senate select committee is now tasked with finding ways to better protect both. Lt. Gov. Delbert Hosemann announced the formation of the cybersecurity select committee, saying state agencies currently operate without a unified security standard. “Everybody...Read More
JACKSON, Miss. (WLBT) – Mississippi leaders say cybercriminals are targeting residents’ personal data and tax dollars, and a new Senate select committee is now tasked with finding ways to better protect both. Lt. Gov. Delbert Hosemann announced the formation of the cybersecurity select committee, saying state agencies currently operate without a unified security standard. “Everybody...Read More
COWETA, Okla. — The City of Coweta says they are currently responding to a ransomware attack. According to officials, on Werdnesday, August 5, the City experienced at system-wide attack and immediately contacted their contracted IT provider and additional cycbersecurity professionals to secure their systems to prevent any further intrusion and to begin a recovery process....Read More
The Coldcard Bitcoin hack has resulted in at least $111 million worth of stolen Bitcoin, according to new analysis from Galaxy Research. The actual losses could be even higher. Galaxy Research estimates that the total amount stolen may eventually exceed $130 million as researchers continue to investigate additional transactions linked to the attack. The data...Read More
Ahead of the Day of the Communications and Cybersecurity Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, which from now on will be observed on August 8, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy met with service members of the Communications and Cybersecurity Forces and presented them with state awards. The Head of State thanked them for their service and...Read More
By Rae Ann Varona ( August 7, 2026, 11:24 PM EDT) — A bipartisan bill Senate lawmakers introduced Friday aimed at protecting small businesses from threats to their networks would require the U.S. Government Accountability Office to develop a report informing small business owners what federal cybersecurity tools and programs are available to them…. Law360...Read More
Ravie LakshmananAug 05, 2026AI Security / Threat Intelligence Cybersecurity researchers have discovered more than half-a-dozen services advertisements for illegal access to artificial intelligence (AI) models on underground cybercrime forums and messaging platforms. One such service, Poison Claude, claims to offer access to Anthropic’s large language models (LLMs), including Opus 4.8, Opus 4.7, Opus 4.6, and...Read More
Ravie LakshmananAug 08, 2026Zero-Day / Vulnerability Metabase has warned that a maximum-severity security flaw impacting its business intelligence and data visualization software package has been exploited in the wild as a zero-day. The vulnerability (CVSS score: 10.0), which does not carry a CVE identifier, allows an unauthenticated remote attacker to inject arbitrary SQL into the...Read More
When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. OpenAI’s internal evaluations indicate that its upcoming frontier model, Astra, may have reached the “Critical” cybersecurity threshold. Pradeep Viswanathan Neowin @pradeepviswav · Aug 8, 2026 12:46 EDT Image generated by ChatGPT Over the past few months, we...Read More
Ravie LakshmananAug 08, 2026Vulnerability / Enterprise Security N-able has released a fresh round of hotfixes for N‑central as part of its investigation into ongoing exploitation of a recently disclosed security flaw in the Remote Monitoring and Management (RMM) product. “We are proactively expanding protections in response to ongoing monitoring of threat actors as they evolve...Read More
