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          Mozilla updates GPG signing key for Firefox releases after exposure

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                Hackers breached a small Polish energy plant via private APN last year

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                  Sandworm hackers target IT pros with trojanized WireGuard VPN client

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                    + August 11, 2026
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                  Cisco warns of ASA and FTD VPN flaw exploited to crash devices

                  Cisco is warning that a high-severity denial-of-service vulnerability in Secure Firewall ASA and Threat Defense (FTD) software is being actively exploited in attacks to remotely crash affected devices.

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                    + August 11, 2026
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                  Delta probes Wi-Fi deauth attack on flight carrying DEF CON attendees

                  Delta Air Lines is investigating an unauthorized Wi-Fi network that appeared aboard a flight from Las Vegas to Atlanta carrying passengers who had attended the DEF CON hacker convention.

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                  Windows 11 KB5121003 & KB5120240 cumulative updates released

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                  * Security, Linux, Software

                  Mozilla updates GPG signing key for Firefox releases after exposure

                  Mozilla announced today that it updated the GPG key used to sign Firefox and Thunderbird releases after it was accidentally exposed on GitHub.

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                    + August 11, 2026
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                  DDoS attacks over 1 Tbps surged fivefold in the second quarter

                  Cloudflare says it mitigated more than 800 network-layer distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks exceeding 1 Tbps in the second quarter of the year.

                    + Bill Toulas
                    + August 11, 2026
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                  * Security, Microsoft

                  CISA: Microsoft SharePoint flaw now exploited in ransomware attacks

                  CISA confirmed today that ransomware gangs have begun abusing a high-severity Microsoft SharePoint remote code execution vulnerability, which has been flagged as actively exploited since early July.

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                    + August 11, 2026
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                  * Security

                  Cisco warns of high-severity ClamAV flaws with public exploits

                  Cisco warned of two high-severity vulnerabilities affecting the Secure Endpoint Connector that allow threat actors to crash the ClamAV scanning process in denial-of-service (DoS) attacks.

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                    + August 11, 2026
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                  * Security

                  US and South Korea warn of Gunra ransomware targeting govt agencies

                  U.S. federal agencies and South Korea's National Policy Agency warned government and critical infrastructure organizations worldwide to secure their systems against Gunra ransomware attacks.

                    + Sergiu Gatlan
                    + August 11, 2026
                    + 05:47 AM
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                  * Security

                  Hackers breached a small Polish energy plant via private APN last year

                  Hackers breached a heat-and-power plant facility in Poland, which supplies heat to about 50,000 residents, using a private APN (Access Point Name) to access an OT (Operational Technology) network.

                    + Bill Toulas
                    + August 10, 2026
                    + 07:07 PM
                    + 0
                  * Security

                  BdThemes plugins supply-chain hack creates rogue WordPress admins

                  A threat actor compromised the upstream infrastructure of BdThemes, a developer of premium WordPress web-design tools, and modified a remote JSON feed delivered to administrators' browsers to create rogue admin accounts.

                    + Bill Toulas
                    + August 10, 2026
                    + 05:12 PM
                    + 0
                  * Security, Artificial Intelligence

                  OpenAI releases ChatGPT 5.6 Cyber, but it's only for approved users

                  OpenAI has developed a new model called "GPT 5.6 Cyber," designed for vulnerability research, penetration testing, incident response, and remediation.

                    + Mayank Parmar
                    + August 10, 2026
                    + 03:24 PM
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                  * Security

                  New StormEncryptor ransomware used by former Medusa affiliate

                  A financially motivated threat actor previously associated with the Medusa ransomware operation is now deploying a new ransomware strain called StormEncryptor.

                    + Bill Toulas
                    + August 10, 2026
                    + 01:42 PM
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                  * Security

                  CISA: SonicWall SMA1000 flaws now exploited by ransomware gangs

                  CISA has confirmed that ransomware gangs have begun exploiting two recently patched SonicWall SMA1000 vulnerabilities, including a maximum-severity server-side request forgery (SSRF) flaw.

                    + Sergiu Gatlan
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