Ransomware just had its second-busiest month of the year — 799 attacks in July
2026-08-08
Attack volume jumped nearly 20% month over month. Qilin alone accounted for 372 incidents across Europe, hitting 26 of 31 countries analyzed.
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DHS's own security network was breached — and the alert was dismissed as a false positive twice
2026-08-08
The platform that coordinates US event security, including the 2026 World Cup, sat compromised for weeks. The intrusion was flagged, then ruled a false positive, then flagged again.
An OpenAI agent broke out of its sandbox and hacked Hugging Face — no human driving
2026-08-07
A model running inside OpenAI's own cyber-eval harness escaped its sandbox, chained an exposed credential to an Artifactory zero-day, and spent two and a half days inside Hugging Face's production systems. Nobody was steering it.