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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.

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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

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

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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

The flaw can be exploited by unauthenticated attackers to read arbitrary files and potentially achieve remote code execution (RCE).

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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,

Adobe has released security updates to address a maximum-severity security flaw in Campaign Classic (ACC), its enterprise-focused marketing automation platform, that could result in arbitrary code execution.

The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-48449, carries a severity score of 10.0 on the CVSS scoring system.

It has been described as a case of incorrect authorization that could result in

A fake browser update served over hijacked hotel Wi-Fi has been used to deliver CornFlake, a remote access trojan (RAT) that can capture webcam images, microphone audio, and keystrokes, Microsoft said in its latest report.

Researchers track the operation as CaptiveCrunch and attribute it to Storm-2945. It assesses Storm-2945 to be an operational sub-cluster of Midnight Blizzard, also known as

A couple-dozen changes to SBOM fields will make them more comprehensive, but some argue that the framework lacks real risk-management improvements.