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150-Plus Polymarket Accounts Flagged as Betting With 'Sensitive National Security Information,' CNN Reports
CNN senior reporter Marshall Cohen joined anchor Wolf Blitzer on Friday to discuss new findings that some 150 Polymarket accounts appear to be U.S. military insiders, some with apparent access to sensitive military information. Blitzer began the…
What the future of commercial spaces means for technology leaders
Opinions expressed by Digital Journal contributors are their own. Integrated technology strategies make workplaces more adaptable for organizations and those they serve. The commercial landscape is changing beyond design and style preferences, and…
GTA 6 Leaks, The Odyssey Malware, and Water Grid Attacks: This Week in Cybersecurity
Maybe you've heard about this little video game coming out soon called Grand Theft Auto VI. Well, while most people are waiting to get their hands on it, one enterprising group, CyberLeek, claims to have a copy and has been posting images and…
New Phishing Toolkit Uses Passkeys to Maintain Access After Password Resets
iAuthFlow V2 is a new phishing toolkit demonstrating the rapidly improving sophistication of phishing techniques. iAuthFlow V2 is a malware toolkit first seen on a Russian-language cybercrime forum. It is an advanced form of phishing that offers…
Former NSA Director Paul Nakasone Launches National Security Advisory Firm
Retired U.S. Army General Paul M. Nakasone, former director of the National Security Agency and commander of U.S. Cyber Command, has launched a boutique national security advisory firm. The newly-formed Nakasone Group will counsel government…
Critical Isolated-vm Vulnerability Leads to RCE on Host
A critical-severity type confusion in the isolated-vm Node.js library could allow threat actors to achieve remote code execution (RCE) on the host system. Through isolated-vm, developers can access the V8 JavaScript engine's Isolate interface to…
Rust Supply Chain Attack Linked to North Korean Hackers
North Korean hackers are responsible for a new open source software (OSS) supply chain attack targeting the Rust ecosystem, cybersecurity firm Wiz reports. The attack occurred on August 20 and involved one of the most popular Rust crates, arrayref…
In Other News: Zombie Card Attack, T-Mobile Cut Cable to Stop Hackers, GitHub Denies AI Caused Bug
SecurityWeek's weekly cybersecurity news roundup offers a concise overview of important developments that may not receive full standalone coverage yet remain relevant to the broader threat landscape. This curated summary highlights key stories…
ACDC Study Flags $8M In Polymarket Military Bets, Urging Stricter Controls On Prediction Markets | Metaverse Post
A new analysis by the nonprofit Anti-Corruption Data Collective (ACDC) has identified over 150 cryptocurrency wallets on the prediction platform Polymarket that appear to have profited from non-public U.S. military information. The research, which…
Encrypted Prompts Bypass AI Safety Guardrails in Grok and Gemini
Researchers at Adversa AI discovered a new attack technique and named it Cryptographic Context Injection. They reported their findings to xAI on June 3, 2026, and attempted to coordinate disclosure on August 4 and August 10. At the time of writing…
Microsoft Rolls Out 22 Fresh Security Patches
Microsoft on Thursday announced the rollout of 22 new security updates that resolve severe vulnerabilities across multiple products. Most of the patches address critical and high-severity flaws in Microsoft Azure, Entra ID, Exchange, Fabric, and…
Contractors' CMMC Confidence Rises as Ability to Prove It Falls Behind
Two industry surveys released this week paint a consistent picture of the defense industrial base: contractors say they're more confident in their cybersecurity compliance than ever, even as their ability to prove that compliance lags behind.
CISA Urges Immediate Patching of Exploited TrueConf Vulnerabilities
The US cybersecurity agency CISA on Thursday warned federal agencies that threat actors have been exploiting two vulnerabilities in TrueConf. A secure on-premises video conferencing platform, TrueConf relies on Scalable Video Coding (SVC) to…
Chinese humanoids steal the spotlight at San Francisco's robot party
At a sold-out conference in San Francisco for people who build robots, the robots were surprisingly hard to find. This week, 1,500 robotics investors, founders, and engineers packed a cavernous former Army warehouse at Fort Mason, overlooking San…
Compliance theater is over: What FedRAMP 20x means for every vendor selling to government
Pete Waterman did not mince words at Carahsoft's FedRAMP Summit last month. Speaking about vendors that claim they lack the resources to fix a known, exploitable vulnerability within days, the FedRAMP director said plainly he does not want them in…
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