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Researchers at Ledger’s Donjon security team have shown that a precisely timed laser pulse, aimed at the chip inside a Tangem crypto wallet card, can reset the card’s password to anything the attacker picks.

No old password. No backup card. Once it is reset, whoever did it controls the wallet and can move the coins out.

This is not an emergency for most owners. The attack needs

Details have emerged about three now-patched security flaws in the OpenClaw personal artificial intelligence (AI) assistant that, if successfully exploited, could enable credential theft, privilege escalation, and arbitrary code execution on the host.

A brief description of the high-severity vulnerabilities is as follows –

GHSA-hjr6-g723-hmfm (CVSS score: 8.8) – An operating system

The China-linked cybercrime group known as Silver Fox has been attributed to a new Rust-based remote access trojan (RAR) called MODBEACON.

Chinese cybersecurity company QiAnXin said that while the threat cluster may appear like a low-sophistication, high-activity operation that propagates malware via counterfeit installers using SEO poisoning techniques, it belies their true organizational

A single wrong variable on one line in XQUIC, Alibaba’s QUIC and HTTP/3 library, lets any remote client crash the server with a short burst of completely legal traffic. There is no patch.

FoxIO researcher Sébastien Féry disclosed the flaw on July 8 and nicknamed it XRING. He says it needs no login and no malformed packets: about 260 bytes of ordinary QPACK traffic takes the server

Most enterprises assume their asset inventory is close enough to accurate. The evidence suggests otherwise. According to a survey of over 600 security leaders in the 2026 Axonius Actionability Report, only 45% of organizations consolidate their asset and exposure data into a single view, and every downstream security program inherits whatever the inventory gets wrong.

Lumen Technologies, a

A cybercrime crew left one of its own servers wide open on the internet for three weeks, and it exposed the operation’s inner workings: the hacking tools, the activity logs, and target lists naming more than 1.4 million websites.

Far fewer were actually broken into, but the exposed files showed researchers how a mass site-hacking operation runs from the inside.

The operation, now tracked as

Researchers ran 281 of the most popular free VPN apps on the Google Play Store through a new testing system and found that many fail at the basics people install a VPN for, i.e., keeping their traffic private and secure.

The apps flagged with at least one problem have been installed more than 2.4 billion times.

The problems are basic, not sophisticated. 29 apps let user traffic leak outside

A threat actor has been targeting organizations spanning multiple sectors with voice-based fake security requests that prompt Microsoft 365 users to enroll a new Entra passkey with an aim to carry out data extortion attacks.

The threat actor, tracked by Okta under the moniker O-UNC-066, has deployed a panel-controlled phishing kit that’s capable of targeting the passkey enrollment process. The

Security firm Coinspect has disclosed a crypto wallet flaw it calls Ill Bloom, and attackers are already using it. The flaw is in how some wallet software generated its recovery phrase, the words that control the money. When that phrase is made with weak randomness, an attacker can work it out and take everything it controls.

Coinspect has confirmed one coordinated sweep on May

A 41-year-old former ransomware negotiator has been sentenced to nearly six years (i.e., 70 months) in prison in the U.S. for their role in conspiring with the now-defunct BlackCat ransomware operators to extort multiple victims and working with two other cybersecurity professionals to target additional victims in 2023.

In a sentencing memorandum, federal prosecutors described Martino as a “