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Tuesday August 4, 2026

  Networking  

Russia-linked "Midnight Blizzard" group hijacks hotel wi-fi with CaptiveCrunch

Hacked hotel wireless harvests credentials and delivers malware.

By Juha Saarinen

 

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Microsoft can't kill dogged researcher's Copilot for Word worm
  Security  

Microsoft can't kill dogged researcher's Copilot for Word worm

Self-propagating prompt injection attack survives months of mitigation efforts.

By Juha Saarinen

 
Okta details 'Work Panel', a turnkey SaaS platform for vishing crews
  Security  

Okta details 'Work Panel', a turnkey SaaS platform for vishing crews

Automates domains, hosting and lookups via legitimate tools.

By Juha Saarinen

 
 
 
 
In Pictures: Security in the age of shadow AI Security Centric roundtable
  Security  

In Pictures: Security in the age of shadow AI Security Centric roundtable

A selection of photos from a recent iTnews roundtable lunch at Bambini Trust restaurant in Sydney.

By Velvet-Belle Templeman

 
Arch Linux halts package adoptions after malware hijacking wave
  Security  

Arch Linux halts package adoptions after malware hijacking wave

As supply chain attack on code repository continues.

By Juha Saarinen

 
OpenAI's Hugging Face hack mixed technical brilliance with incoherent noise
  Security  

OpenAI's Hugging Face hack mixed technical brilliance with incoherent noise

Post-mortem with input from nearly 700 CISOs shows AI took "paths no human would take".

By Juha Saarinen

 
Visa snaps up BioCatch
  Financial Services  

Visa snaps up BioCatch

Bolsters cyber security offerings.

By Arasu Kannagi Basil

 
 
 
 

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ASD to critical infrastructure ops: be ready to isolate systems for three months
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Microsoft can't kill dogged researcher's Copilot for Word worm
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Microsoft can't kill dogged researcher's Copilot for Word worm

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Services Australia describes fraud, debt-related machine learning use cases
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Services Australia describes fraud, debt-related machine learning use cases

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