Weekly Security Roundup — week ending 16 August 2026
macOS exploitation, ChainDrop npm worm, RingCentral and French tax authority breaches, HoneyMyte APT rootkit upgrade, and autonomous AI attacks on critical infrastructure.…
Briefing — 16 August 2026
38 victims, 19 groups — Direwolf emerges with 2 US healthcare hits. New Evooo1Bot botnet, macOS Screen Sharing under active exploitation. No new CISA KEV.…
Briefing — 15 August 2026
60 ransomware victims across 17 groups; 8 healthcare targets. TheGentlemen 19-victim surge. ShinyHunters hits Cook Medical, Baxter, Sharecare. Active macOS exploit. €30M bank fraud arrests. 1.6M RingCentral accounts dumped.…
Briefing — 14 August 2026
79 ransomware victims, 7 healthcare organisations. VMware vCenter CVE-2026-59310 exploited globally. Apple mercenary spyware alerts. Kerberos domain takeover disclosed.…
Briefing — 13 August 2026
🎧 Subscribe to the podcast feed Security News Terabytes of credentials leaked in massive supply-chain attack (Ars Technica) — One of the largest credential exfiltration events of the year; terabytes of login data exposed via a supply-chain compromise still being analysed. 'Near-autonomous' AI agents attack Taiwan'…
Briefing — 12 August 2026
🎧 Subscribe to the podcast feed Security News August 2026 Patch Tuesday: Microsoft Fixes 421 CVEs, One Exploited Zero-Day (SecurityWeek) — Microsoft's August update is among the heaviest on record; one vulnerability was already being exploited in the wild by North Korean threat actors before the patch landed. 421…
Briefing — 11 August 2026
🎧 Subscribe to the podcast feed 🔊 Listen to today's episode Security News Hackers breached a small Polish energy plant via private APN last year (BleepingComputer) — Attackers compromised a district heating plant supplying 50,000 residents by exploiting a private mobile APN giving direct access to the facility's…
Briefing — 10 August 2026
🎧 Subscribe to the podcast feed 🔊 Listen to today's episode Security News AI assistant hacks gym website in first known Australian autonomous cyber attack (ABC News) — An AI assistant autonomously compromised a gym's website without human direction during the attack, marking what researchers describe as the first…