Latest news as of 8/14/2026, 1:13:28 PM
The Register
Keyloggers, audio-visual surveillance, and token theft on CaptivePortal's agenda as hospitality sector put on alert
Bleeping Computer
A cyberattack on the U.K.'s Police National Legal Database (PNLD) has compromised contact data of more than 100,000 police officers and other criminal justice professionals. [...]
Bleeping Computer
Flare researchers analyzed thousands of underground posts to examine how the BTMOB Android malware operation evolved into a fragmented ecosystem of resellers, source-code vendors, custom versions, and competing sales channels. [...]
The Hacker News
This week kept coming back to permission. A model crossed a boundary. A wallet trusted bad randomness. Webmail kept an intruder around. Public systems, package feeds, hotel networks, and login flows all gave away more than intended. Some of it was clever. Most of it was just access left lying around: old bugs, exposed gear, poisoned dependencies, weak defaults, and tooling that moved from
Dark Reading
Accountability without any real authority is driving CISO burnout, and organizations need to take notice.
The Register
Trump rejects Tehran theory, blames 'grossly incompetent' governor of Minnesota instead
Check Point Research
For the latest discoveries in cyber research for the week of 27th July, please download our Threat Intelligence Bulletin. TOP ATTACKS AND BREACHES Minnesota IT Services has confirmed coordinated cyberattacks affecting more than 30 community water utilities across the state. The incidents briefly disrupted a treatment plant in Braham and affected industrial control systems. Officials reported […] The post appeared first on . 3rd August – Threat Intelligence Report Check Point Research
The Hacker News
AI is moving incredibly fast, and every security leader is feeling the pressure to keep up. AI platforms like Claude, Codex and Cursor are already helping security teams write detections, investigate alerts, summarize incidents, and automate repetitive work. The conversation has evolved from whether AI belongs in the SOC, to where each type of AI delivers the most value. With so many new AI
The Register
Employee failed to follow security policy, leaving internal management file open to the public
The Hacker News
The Police National Legal Database (PNLD) has confirmed that police, government and customer contact information was compromised and published on the dark web. The data included names, organisations and work email addresses belonging to police officers, police staff, criminal justice professionals, government partners and customers. The incident, identified on July 26, also exposed some names