Below I’ve curated cyber security news from the world-wide-web – the lefthand column is from “The Hacker News” website and on the right is news from “Security Week”. Both are top cyber security news sites. In the very least this shows that threats are daily and they are very real.
Hacker News
- Cloudflare Workers Spectre Attack Leaks JWT From...by info@thehackernews.com (The Hacker News) on August 19, 2026 at 7:02 pm
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a remote Spectre attack against Cloudflare Workers that leaked a JSON Web Token (JWT) from a co-located Worker in the production environment at up to 12 bits per second, 360 times the rate of an earlier attack demonstrated in 2021. The […]
- OpenAI Pauses Frontier RL Training as It Tightens...by info@thehackernews.com (The Hacker News) on August 19, 2026 at 6:06 pm
OpenAI on Tuesday revealed that it paused reinforcement learning (RL) training for its latest artificial intelligence (AI) models for two weeks while it shored up additional defenses and increased the scope of its monitoring to avert another Hugging Face-like incident. "As models become more […]
- SilkParasite Espionage Campaign Targets Central...by info@thehackernews.com (The Hacker News) on August 19, 2026 at 1:12 pm
A previously unreported cyber espionage operation dubbed SilkParasite has been observed targeting government bodies in Central Asia. The intrusion set makes use of seven remote access tool (RAT) families, five of which have never been previously documented: DriveSilkRAT, CookiETagRAT, NomadRAT, […]
- Hackers Compromised 14,500+ Dahua Devices Using...by info@thehackernews.com (The Hacker News) on August 19, 2026 at 11:34 am
Cybersecurity researchers at Hunt.io have disclosed details of a campaign that they say compromised more than 14,530 Dahua devices between June 17 and July 22, 2026, using credential attacks, two authentication-bypass flaws, and a peer-to-peer (P2P) relay technique. The activity, codenamed […]
- Phishing 3.0: The Fight Moves to Agent Versus...by info@thehackernews.com (The Hacker News) on August 19, 2026 at 11:30 am
Most email defenses still do the job they did a decade ago. Scan the message, look for something malicious, block it. That worked when the danger sat in the payload, a bad link or an attachment. It stopped working when the danger moved into the message's intent, and it is failing now that the […]
- StopAndProtect Uses Nearly 2,000 Hacked WordPress...by info@thehackernews.com (The Hacker News) on August 19, 2026 at 11:25 am
Cybersecurity researchers have flagged a global cybercrime operation that abuses thousands of hacked WordPress websites as infrastructure to disseminate malware, commandeer infected hosts, store stolen documents, screenshots, and activity logs created to track the status of the activity. "The […]
- Critical macOS, SharePoint, vCenter, and...by info@thehackernews.com (The Hacker News) on August 19, 2026 at 11:01 am
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Tuesday added four critical vulnerabilities to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, stating they are being exploited in the wild. The shortcomings added to the KEV catalog are listed below - CVE-2026-65400 (CVSS […]
- Microsoft Links 30+ Rotating Domains to MacSync...by info@thehackernews.com (The Hacker News) on August 19, 2026 at 6:01 am
Microsoft Defender Experts have linked more than 30 web domains to MacSync Stealer, a macOS-focused information stealer, after correlating recurring endpoint and network behaviors across changing infrastructure, tracing the malware from payload retrieval through data collection, staging, and […]
- Clop-Linked Windchill Web Shell Decrypts...by info@thehackernews.com (The Hacker News) on August 19, 2026 at 5:39 am
A JavaServer Pages (JSP) web shell deployed following the exploitation of a critical security flaw in PTC Windchill and FlexPLM servers is specifically designed for the enterprise Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) software, according to new findings from ReliaQuest. The cybersecurity company […]
- Microsoft Copilot Personal Flaws Could Let One...by info@thehackernews.com (The Hacker News) on August 18, 2026 at 5:47 pm
Varonis Threat Labs has disclosed three vulnerabilities in Microsoft Copilot Personal that it said could allow a single click on a crafted link to silently pull data from connected apps and other information available to the victim's Copilot session. The flaws, which the researchers collectively […]
WordPress News
- WordPress 7.1 “Mary Lou”by annezazu on August 19, 2026 at 11:33 pm
WordPress 7.1, “Mary Lou,” is here—celebrating the pioneering jazz pianist, composer, and arranger Mary Lou Williams and her spirit of reinvention and collaboration. This release brings a more flexible, responsive, and collaborative WordPress experience, with new responsive styling controls, […]
- Introducing the WordPress Browser Extensionby Jake Goldman on August 13, 2026 at 4:29 pm
The official WordPress Browser Extension is now available for Google Chrome and Chromium-based browsers in the Chrome Web Store and for Safari on macOS in the Mac App Store. This new open source extension lets logged-in site users easily hide the admin bar while keeping its most helpful shortcuts […]
- WordPress 7.0.4 Releaseby John Blackbourn on August 12, 2026 at 2:45 pm
WordPress 7.0.4 is now available WordPress 7.0.4 is now available which features a security fix. Because this is a security release, it is recommended that you update your sites immediately. You can update to WordPress 7.0.4 by downloading it from WordPress.org, or visiting your site’s Dashboard […]
- WordPress 7.0.3 releaseby John Blackbourn on August 6, 2026 at 6:55 pm
WordPress 7.0.3 is now available WordPress 7.0.3 is now available which features several security fixes. Because this is a security release, it is recommended that you update your sites immediately. You can update to WordPress 7.0.3 by downloading it from WordPress.org, or visiting your site’s […]
- WordPress 7.1 Release Candidate 1by Benjamin Zekavica on August 5, 2026 at 3:37 pm
The first Release Candidate (“RC1”) for WordPress 7.1 is ready for download and testing! This version of the WordPress software is still under development. Please do not install, run, or test this version of WordPress on production or mission-critical websites. Instead, it’s recommended to […]
- WordPress 7.1 Beta 4by Benjamin Zekavica on July 29, 2026 at 3:30 pm
WordPress 7.1 Beta 4 is ready for download and testing! This beta release is intended for testing and development only. Please do not install, run, or test this version of WordPress on production or mission-critical websites. Instead, use a test environment or local site to explore the new […]
- WordPress 7.1 Beta 3by Benjamin Zekavica on July 22, 2026 at 3:23 pm
WordPress 7.1 Beta 3 is ready for download and testing! This beta release is intended for testing and development only. Please do not install, run, or test this version of WordPress on production or mission-critical websites. Instead, use a test environment or local site to explore the new […]
- WordPress 7.0.2 Releaseby John Blackbourn on July 17, 2026 at 6:45 pm
WordPress 7.0.2 is now available. The 7.0.2 security release addresses one critical and one high severity security issue. Because this is a security release, it is recommended that you update your sites immediately. Due to the severity, the WordPress.org team have enabled forced updates via the […]
- WordPress 7.1 Beta 1by Krupa Nanda on July 15, 2026 at 3:53 pm
WordPress 7.1 Beta 1 is ready for download and testing! This beta release is intended for testing and development only. Please do not install, run, or test this version of WordPress on production or mission-critical websites. Instead, use a test environment or local site to explore the new […]
- Your Guide to WordCamp US 2026by Nicholas Garofalo on July 13, 2026 at 1:07 pm
WordCamp US 2026 returns for another year, this time in Phoenix, Arizona, for four days, August 16 to 19. It comes at a moment of real energy for WordPress, as artificial intelligence reshapes everyday workflows, the business of building and maintaining sites is shifting, and new people keep […]













