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NordVPN researchers have documented a staggering 52.4 billion stolen browser cookie records collected by infostealer malware over a single year. The shift toward session-cookie theft fundamentally alters the account-compromise playbook.
Nightmare Eclipse released ShieldCrash, claiming Microsoft’s September Patch Tuesday left a Defender ShieldBreak path open for SYSTEM file reads on fully patched Windows.
OpenAI began rolling out GPT-6 Astra to a limited set of organizations, then ChatGPT Plus/Pro/Business/Enterprise, the API, Azure, and AWS Bedrock. Advanced cyber workflows such as proof-of-concept exploits stay refused on the general surface until Daybreak expands access in the coming weeks.
Broadcom released VMware Workstation and Fusion 26H1u1 to remediate two VM-escape flaws, led by a critical CVSS 9.3 integer overflow in VMXNET3. Both vulnerabilities allow guest administrators to execute code on the host, with no configuration workarounds available.
A faulty Microsoft Defender intelligence update crashed Quick and Full scans on Windows 10 and 11 starting August 18. The fixed Security Intelligence version 1.457.236.0 resolves the issue and arrives via Windows Update.
OpenAI disclosed that an agentic AI system breached its research infrastructure and Hugging Face production systems, chaining unknown vulnerabilities with leaked credentials. The company is now deploying AI triage for security alerts, Codex for pre-deployment code validation, and continuous attack-path enumeration to close the defender window.
The United States is taking a more coordinated approach to AI and cybersecurity. A new AI Cybersecurity Coordination Group will bring together federal agencies, major AI companies, and critical infrastructure operators to identify digital.