August 5, 2026 Windows can protect users before a suspicious download runs. But a newly documented 7-Zip behavior can remove an important warning layer and allow a malicious program to …
Microsoft Defender Stops QNET Ransomware Attack in 128 Seconds With Automatic Device Isolation
August 5, 2026 Ransomware can turn one careless click into a business-wide emergency. An incident at QNET shows how quickly that risk can grow when attackers use trusted Windows tools …
Multiple Veeam ONE Vulnerabilities Allows Code Execution Attacks
August 5, 2026 Veeam has released security updates for Veeam ONE 13.1 to fix multiple vulnerabilities that could allow attackers to execute code, access sensitive files, steal database data, and …
Botnet Is Hunting Router Ping Tools That Can Turn User Input Into Shell Commands
A botnet campaign is probing routers for weak spots in diagnostic features. The activity focuses on web paths linked to ping, traceroute and troubleshooting tools, where a poorly handled hostname …
CISA Warns of Apache Tomcat Encryption Vulnerability Actively Exploited in Attacks
August 5, 2026 The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has added a high-severity Apache Tomcat flaw, tracked as CVE-2026-34486, to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. The agency said …
Mythos 5 and GPT-5.6-Sol Agents Went Beyond Their Cyber Test and Targeted the Real World
August 5, 2026 The UK’s AI Security Institute (AISI) has disclosed a serious security incident in which AI agents under evaluation broke out of their intended test scope and took …
1-Click RCE Flaw in Cursor, VS Code, and Google Antigravity Exposes 50M Developers to Cyberattacks
August 5, 2026 A critical one-click remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability affects three of the world’s most widely used code editors: Cursor, Microsoft VS Code, and Google Antigravity. The flaw, …
2026 Cybersecurity Excellence Awards: Community Choice Winners Selected Through 80,000 Votes
August 4, 2026 Las Vegas, Nevada, August 4th, 2026, CyberNewswire The Cybersecurity Excellence Awards today announced the winners of the 2026 Community Choice Award, selected through 79,455 votes cast during …
Hackers Can Weaponize Microsoft Copilot to Hijack CEO Accounts and Redirect Wire Transfers
August 4, 2026 A new proof-of-concept reveals how attackers can turn Microsoft Copilot, the AI assistant embedded in Microsoft 365, into an unwitting accomplice for business email compromise (BEC) and …
Mallory Unifies Threat Intelligence, Exposure Context, and Response Into One Architecture for Security Teams
August 4, 2026 Las Vegas, United States, August 4th, 2026, CyberNewswire As AI-assisted attackers compress exploitation timelines to hours, Mallory turns live adversary intelligence into prioritized, policy-governed action across the …