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Anthropic: All your zero-days are belong to Mythos

The Register - Wed, 08/04/2026 - 00:50
Hasn't released it to the public, because it would break the internet - in a bad way

For years, the infosec community’s biggest existential worry has been quantum computers blowing away all classical encryption and revealing the world’s secrets. Now they have a new Big Bad: an AI model that can generate zero-day vulnerabilities.…

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Iran cyber actors disrupting US water, energy facilities, FBI warns

The Register - Wed, 08/04/2026 - 00:30
Your PLCs aren't internet-connected, right? Right?!

Iranian-affiliated actors have escalated intrusions targeting critical US water and energy facilities, in some cases disrupting operations, the FBI and American cyber defense agencies said on Tuesday.…

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Hundreds of orgs compromised daily in Microsoft device code phishing attacks

The Register - Tue, 07/04/2026 - 21:19
Who needs MFA when you've got EvilTokens?

Hundreds of organizations have been compromised daily by a Microsoft device-code phishing campaign that uses AI and automation at nearly every stage of the attack chain to ultimately snoop through corporate email inboxes and steal financial data.…

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US cybercrime losses pass $20B for first time as AI boosts online fraud

The Register - Tue, 07/04/2026 - 18:59
Bots are now firmly in the toolbox, helping crooks scale old scams

Crims are taking advantage of AI to sharpen old scams. The FBI reported Monday that cybercrime losses hit a record $20.87 billion in 2025, with help from bots.…

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Russia's Fancy Bear still attacking routers to boost fake sites, NCSC warns

The Register - Tue, 07/04/2026 - 18:02
200 orgs and 5,000 devices compromised so far in Vlad's latest intelligence grab, Microsoft reckons

The UK's National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) has issued a fresh warning about Russia's ongoing targeting of routers to steal passwords and other secrets.…

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Yahoo<i>!</i> Japan’s owner consolidating 164 OpenStack clusters into one

The Register - Tue, 07/04/2026 - 04:21
Customizations are causing pain so new cloud will stick to upstream cuts of the open source stack

LY Corporation, the Japanese web giant that dominates messaging, e-commerce and payments in many Asian countries, has revealed it is replacing a heavily-customized OpenStack cloud with a more conventional cut of the open source cloud stack – and making massive consolidations along the way.…

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AI agents found vulns in this popular Linux and Unix print server

The Register - Tue, 07/04/2026 - 00:03
CUPS server shown spilling out remote code execution and root access

In the latest chapter on leaky CUPS, a security researcher and his band of bug-hunting agents have found two flaws that can be chained to allow an unauthenticated attacker to remotely execute code and achieve root file overwrite on the network.…

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