Hackers hit 30-plus Minnesota water systems in 48 hours, forcing emergency response

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Out-of-band vulnerabilities surface when an application quietly reaches out to an external system during an attack, and capturing that traffic calls for infrastructure that many researchers assemble on their own. A new open-source project from Microsoft supplies that infrastructure in a package meant to run inside a private environment. Dusseldorf is an out-of-band application security…

Democratic senators pressed President Donald Trump’s pick for director of national intelligence on questions of election security and integrity Wednesday, but they didn’t leave his nomination hearing satisfied with the answers. As is typical for Trump administration nominees, Jay Clayton wouldn’t answer definitively at his Senate Intelligence Committee confirmation hearing whether Joe Biden won the…

OpenAI says its AI went rogue and launched a cyber-attack  BBC

Tech giants are taking another shot at smart glasses. The idea has long captivated the minds of sci-fi writers and their biggest fans — the denizens of Silicon Valley. Many will remember Google Glass, the first real attempt at creating such a device back in 2012. It went down as one of Google’s few major flops….

SilverFox Targets Japanese Manufacturer With Advanced ValleyRAT Campaign Pierluigi Paganini July 31, 2026 SilverFox targeted a Japanese manufacturer with new DLL sideloading techniques, kernel drivers, and resilient ValleyRAT persistence mechanisms. Cato CTRL documented a new SilverFox campaign targeting a Japanese industrial manufacturer. The attack chain adds two previously undocumented DLL-sideloading hosts, two kernel drivers not…