Captive portals on hotel and conference Wi-Fi networks have been hijacked to route guests through attacker infrastructure, serving fake browser and operating system updates that install Russian espionage malware. According to research published by Microsoft Threat Intelligence on July 31,… Read More "Midnight Blizzard Targets Travelers via Captive Portals"
Many companies are showcasing their cybersecurity products and services this week at the 2026 edition of the Black Hat conference in Las Vegas. To help cut through the clutter, the SecurityWeek team is publishing a digest summarizing vendor announcements at… Read More "Black Hat USA 2026 – Summary of Vendor Announcements (Part 1)"
Swati KhandelwalAug 03, 2026Data Breach / Dark Web 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… Read More "PNLD Breach Exposes U.K. Police and Government Contact Details on Dark Web"
The war in Iran was less than 24 hours old when it produced a historic first: the deliberate targeting of commercial data centers. On March 1st, Iranian drones hit three Amazon Web Services (AWS) facilities in the United Arab Emirates… Read More "Cyber fallout from the Iran war: What to have on your radar"
China-affiliated threat actors are capable of exploiting critical vulnerabilities within 24 hours of public disclosure, according to new findings from CrowdStrike. The China-nexus groups Vault Panda and Genesis Panda were observed conducting rapid, systematic attacks that targeted the React2Shell exploit… Read More "Chinese Threat Actors Weaponize New Vulnerabilities in Under a Day"
Horizon3 has raised $250 million in a Series E funding round, tripling the firm’s valuation from $650 million to $2 billion in the year from June 2025. The new funding was co-led by existing investors NightDragon and NEA, with participation… Read More "Horizon3 Raises $250 Million to Fund Continuing Growth"
Modern organizations no longer operate within a fixed network perimeter. Cloud services, remote work, third-party integrations, and rapid digital expansion have made the boundary between “inside” and “outside” for the enterprise increasingly difficult to define. Attackers exploit this ambiguity by scanning continuously… Read More "Attack Surface Discovery: Why Asset Visibility Matters Most"
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… Read More "⚡ Weekly Recap: Rogue AI Models, $88M Bitcoin Theft, Water-System Attacks and Dangling DNS Hijacks"
“We’re doing the same thing for AI agents that least privilege did for people, except now it must be automatic,” said Benny Lakunishok, CEO and Co-founder of Zero Networks, in the release. “If an agent gets fooled or misused, it… Read More "Zero Networks launches Least Agency Enforcement to stop compromised AI agents at the network layer"
Since 2006, Dark Reading has been at the forefront of covering cybersecurity. The more things change, the more they stay the same. Source link Read More "Cybersecurity, Then & Now"
