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Thermo Fisher Patches Flaw That Could Make DNA File Tampering Nearly Undetectable

Thermo Fisher Scientific has patched a flaw in select Applied Biosystems human identification software that could allow data files to be altered before analysis software loads them.

The vendor’s July 31 security bulletin says nearly undetectable changes to .fsa and .hid outputs could occur if laboratory controls are circumvented.

Thermo Fisher tracks the issue as CVE-2026-17583 and rates it

  • August 3, 2026

PNLD Breach Exposes U.K. Police and Government Contact Details on 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 belonging to police officers, police staff, criminal justice professionals, government partners and customers.

The incident, identified on July 26, also exposed some names

  • August 3, 2026

Chinese Threat Actor Uses Leaked DarkSword Kit to Deploy GHOSTBLADE on iOS

An unknown Chinese-threat actor has been observed running a campaign targeting Apple iOS devices by leveraging a publicly leaked version of the DarkSword exploit kit.

Attack surface management platform Censys said it identified the threat actor running more than 100 web properties, most of which are fake Amazon Web Services (AWS) sign-in pages on a domain that also hosts the exploit toolkit.

  • August 3, 2026

FOMO in the SOC: Where AI Platforms like Claude Actually Fit

AI is moving incredibly fast, and every security leader is feeling the pressure to keep up.

AI platforms like Claude, Codex and Cursor are already helping security teams write detections, investigate alerts, summarize incidents, and automate repetitive work. The conversation has evolved from whether AI belongs in the SOC, to where each type of AI delivers the most value.

With so many new AI

  • August 3, 2026

Coldcard Hardware Wallet Flaw Linked to $70 Million Bitcoin Theft in 41 Minutes

An attacker drained 1,196 Bitcoin addresses in 41 minutes on July 30, taking 1,082.65 BTC worth about $70.2 million at the time. Galaxy Research mapped the sweep and tied it to a firmware flaw in Coldcard, the Bitcoin-only hardware wallet made by Canadian firm Coinkite.

A March 2021 firmware integration error routed seed generation to a deterministic software pseudorandom number generator (PRNG

  • August 2, 2026

Hackers Poison Adform Script to Swap Crypto Wallet Addresses Across Customer Sites

Attackers modified a JavaScript file served by advertising technology company Adform, turning it into a browser-side tool that rewrites cryptocurrency wallet addresses.

Adform detected the incident on July 27, 2026, removed the malicious code, notified affected clients, and reported it to authorities.

Anyone who visited a site carrying the affected script on July 27 and copied a Bitcoin,

  • August 1, 2026