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DentaQuest Data Breach Potentially Impacts Over 23 Million People

Security Week - Mon, 07/27/2026 - 5:34am

In May 2026, hackers stole personal and dental health information from DentaQuest’s computer network.

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MCBS Data Breach Affects 1.2 Million Individuals

Security Week - Mon, 07/27/2026 - 12:51am

The PEAR ransomware group claimed to have stolen 3 TB of information from the medical business management company.

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Rockwell Patches Code Execution Flaws in Arena Simulation Software

Security Week - Sat, 07/25/2026 - 4:30am

A researcher has explained how an attacker could exploit these vulnerabilities to target industrial organizations.

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In Other News: Dolphin X AI-Powered Malware, Car Anti-Theft Device Hack, 400 Linux Kernel Flaws

Security Week - Fri, 07/24/2026 - 10:20am

Noteworthy stories that might have slipped under the radar: Siemens ROX II industrial switch vulnerabilities, Russian Zimbra webmail espionage campaign, Stadler Rail ransomware extortion attempt.

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AegisAI Raises $36 Million for AI-Powered Email Security

Security Week - Fri, 07/24/2026 - 8:01am

The company has raised a total of $49 million in funding, including from Battery Ventures, Accel and Foundation Capital.

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Industry Reactions to OpenAI Models Hacking Hugging Face: Feedback Friday

Security Week - Fri, 07/24/2026 - 7:19am

Industry professionals debate whether it represents a lab containment failure or an unprecedented agentic capability milestone.

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Data Breach Confirmed After Australian Energy Giant Origin Is Hacked

Security Week - Fri, 07/24/2026 - 1:52am

A hacker claims to have stolen the information of 2 million Origin Energy customers and is threatening to leak it. 

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OpenAI Fixes ChatGPT Agent Flaw That Could Let Attackers Forge an AI Insider

Security Week - Thu, 07/23/2026 - 11:09am

AgentForger allows an attacker to create, insert and remotely control an invisible autonomous AI agent inside a victim organization.

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Is Patching Dead? Vulnerability Management in the Post-Mythos Era

Security Week - Thu, 07/23/2026 - 11:00am

You cannot out-patch a machine that writes a working exploit from a vulnerability description in twenty hours. Stop trying to optimize a game you cannot win.

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Chick-fil-A Accounts Get Fried in Credential Stuffing Attack

Security Week - Thu, 07/23/2026 - 10:55am

Threat actors used credentials obtained from other companies to hack into Chick-fil-A One accounts.

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Abstract Raises $25 Million to Expand Composable Security Operations Platform

Security Week - Thu, 07/23/2026 - 9:54am

The latest investment round brings the total raised by Abstract to nearly $50 million.

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Nuclear-Sabotage Malware Benchmark Trips Up Most Frontier AI Models

Security Week - Thu, 07/23/2026 - 8:42am

SentinelOne’s new benchmark, built on the Fast16 case, shows which AI models can sustain a malware investigation and which cannot.

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Upbound Group Says Data Breach Led to $13 Million in Fraudulent Contract Losses

Security Week - Thu, 07/23/2026 - 6:49am

Hackers recently obtained non-sensitive customer information and other documents from the company.

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Assaf Keren Appointed New CISO of Meta

Security Week - Thu, 07/23/2026 - 5:53am

He replaces Guy Rosen, who announced his retirement from the company after 13 years.

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New Check Point Zero-Day Vulnerability Exploited in the Wild

Security Week - Thu, 07/23/2026 - 5:06am

The vulnerability tracked as CVE-2026-16232 has been exploited against customers with certain configurations.

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US Warns of Iranian Hackers Targeting Siemens, Schneider, and Rockwell ICS Devices

Security Week - Thu, 07/23/2026 - 1:28am

An updated advisory from federal agencies provides information on the techniques used to hack programmable logic controllers.

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Suno, Paidwork Data Breaches Affect Tens of Millions of Accounts

Security Week - Wed, 07/22/2026 - 11:02am

Hackers leaked names, email addresses, phone numbers, passwords, and financial information stolen from the two platforms. 

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Palo Alto Networks to Acquire Observability Platform Provider Embrace

Security Week - Wed, 07/22/2026 - 10:58am

Acquisition follows January's Chronosphere deal, deepening Palo Alto Networks' push beyond core security into observability.

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Flaw in Adobe Extension With 300M Installs Enabled WhatsApp Data Theft

Security Week - Wed, 07/22/2026 - 10:22am

An attacker only needed to convince the targeted user to visit a malicious website to exfiltrate WhatsApp messages and contacts.

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When Identity Verification Fails: Lessons from a Real-World SIM Swap and Near Account Takeover

Security Week - Wed, 07/22/2026 - 10:00am

Identity confidence changes throughout every interaction and should be reassessed continuously as new risk signals emerge.

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