Cybersecurity News and Updates

Russia Charges Telegram Founder Pavel Durov With Aiding Terrorist Activity

The Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation (FSB) on Wednesday said it charged Telegram founder Pavel Durov for allegedly facilitating terrorist activities and for failing to remove prohibited information in violation of Russian law.

The principal security agency said the instant messaging platform “failed to remove numerous channels, chats, and bots on the platform that are

  • July 29, 2026

OpenAI Agent Used Exposed Credentials Across Four Services During Hugging Face Breach

OpenAI on Tuesday revealed the rogue artificial intelligence (AI) agent that escaped its sealed evaluation environment and broke into Hugging Face’s production environment also hacked multiple third-party accounts and services as part of the attack.

The latest disclosure shows that the security incident, which stemmed from an internal security test, was more extensive in scope than previously

  • July 29, 2026

Public PoC Released for Exploited Check Point SmartConsole Authentication Bypass

Cybersecurity researchers have shared additional technical details about a recently patched critical security flaw impacting Check Point Security Management Server and Multi-Domain Security Management Server (MDS) that has come under active exploitation in the wild.

The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-16232 (CVSS score: 9.3), is an authentication bypass in the SmartConsole login process that

  • July 29, 2026

New Gitea RCE Lets Repository Writers Plant a Git Hook to Run Shell Commands

Gitea, the self-hosted Git platform, has patched a critical remote code execution vulnerability. A user with ordinary repository write access can turn attacker-controlled patch content into a live Git hook and run shell commands as the Gitea service account.

Tracked as CVE-2026-60004 (CVSS score: 9.8), the flaw affects Gitea versions 1.17 and later before 1.27.1 and is fixed in 1.27.1. The

  • July 29, 2026