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The New Russian Playbook: Bypassing MFA Without Cracking Passwords
Carmen Estela Cyber Defense Magazine August 21, 2026 OAuth Exploitation Russian threat actors are shifting away from plain old password theft and moving toward legitimate…
Deepfake Ads Funnel Investors Into WhatsApp Groups Controlled by Fake Financial Analysts
Investment fraud is increasingly exploiting the one action banks struggle most to block: a payment the customer actively wants to make. Deepfake advertisements, impersonated financial…
Attackers impersonate popular AI brands to spread malware
Attackers are impersonating popular AI brands like Perplexity, Claude, ChatGPT, and Copilot to spread information stealers, backdoors, malicious browser extensions, and other malware, according to…
Medical records, SSNs, and bank details exposed in CareCloud data breach
Healthcare technology giant CareCloud has confirmed that a data breach earlier this year impacted more than 3.75 million people, making it one of the largest…
Microsoft Defender’s Own Driver Can Be Weaponized to Delete Security Software at Boot
Check Point Research has disclosed a technique that uses Microsoft Defender’s own legitimately signed boot-time remediation driver to perform arbitrary kernel-level file and registry operations…
NCSC tells organisations to have AI kill switches at the ready
The UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) has set out a series of basic steps that organisations involved in designing and operating agentic AI environments…
Anthropic plans to change enterprise data retention policy
Key points Anthropic plans to give enterprise customers greater control over their data, shifting its data retention policy for the Claude chatbot maker. Business customers…
Former NSA Director Paul Nakasone Launches National Security Advisory Firm
Retired U.S. Army General Paul M. Nakasone, former director of the National Security Agency and commander of U.S. Cyber Command, has launched a boutique national…
Your Shredded Visa Card May Still Work at the Checkout
Your Shredded Visa Card May Still Work at the Checkout Pierluigi Paganini August 21, 2026 UMass Amherst researchers showed expired Visa contactless cards can make…