CTO at NCSC Summary: week ending August 2nd

Rumor has it that Apple deployed a new security feature in the fight against ClickFix. The new feature will be available for macOS Tahoe 26.4 and it will warn Mac users if they paste certain commands into the Terminal app that might be harmful. If such a command is pasted, macOS will warn the users with…

CEDAR KNOLLS, N.J., July 15, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Edelson Lechtzin LLP, a national class action law firm, is investigating data privacy claims arising from the Centers Lab NJ LLC data breach, a healthcare cybersecurity incident that exposed the personal and protected health information of approximately 542,377 individuals. Centers Lab NJ LLC (operating as Centers…

Flipper Devices says development of the Flipper Zero firmware will continue, albeit with a smaller internal team and greater reliance on community contributions. The announcement comes as the gadget maker decided to focus on building new devices, like the Flipper One open Linux platform, for which the company turned to the community’s help to complete…

As Harry Styles concert tickets go on sale for his first tour in years, cybersecurity experts warn that the same excitement driving ticket registrations and social chatter will also drive a spike in ticket scams across social media, email, and text messages.  “When demand spikes around a major tour, ticket scams spike too,” said Abhishek…

Shutting down endpoint detection and response (EDR) tools before encryption begins has become standard operating procedure across the ransomware ecosystem, analysis of attacks by researchers at Halcyon has warned. The practice, sometimes called EDR-kill, was once considered a specialist capability. It has now become standard practice among leading ransomware groups, giving defenders even less time…