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If your developers are using AI coding tools, you are probably already seeing the upside: faster development, more code, and less time spent on routine work. The harder part is what comes after. AI can also introduce open-source packages at a pace your security team was never built to handle. More dependencies mean more vulnerabilities to review, more remediation work, and a backlog that can

If your developers are using AI coding tools, you are probably already seeing the upside: faster development, more code, and less time spent on routine work. The harder part is what comes after. AI can also introduce open-source packages at a pace your security team was never built to handle. More dependencies mean more vulnerabilities to review, more remediation work, and a backlog that can [email protected]

Cybersecurity researchers have found that several websites are still actively distributing a malware family known as Weedhack to gamers by masquerading as Minecraft clients. McAfee Labs said it detected and blocked more than 6,300 attempts to access malicious sites, adding that it found lookalike gaming websites designed to mimic legitimate projects, including branding, feature lists, FAQs,

Cybersecurity researchers have found that several websites are still actively distributing a malware family known as Weedhack to gamers by masquerading as Minecraft clients. McAfee Labs said it detected and blocked more than 6,300 attempts to access malicious sites, adding that it found lookalike gaming websites designed to mimic legitimate projects, including branding, feature lists, FAQs, Ravie Lakshmananhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/[email protected]

A suspected Iran-linked cyberattack shut down a small UK power plant around the time that a series of digital intrusions disrupted American water utilities across 12 states. A British government spokesperson confirmed the hack to The Register on Monday and told us that the security incident affected a “small-scale energy generator.” “At no point was there a risk to the wider energy system,” the spokesperson said, adding that the UK’s energy system is “highly resilient,” and that the government works “closely with the energy sector to protect infrastructure.” In a series of xeets about the cyberattack, UK Energy Minister Michael Shanks said that his department briefed energy CEOs after the incident and “shared further advice with companies on the steps they should take to stay secure.” Government officials did not disclose which power station shut down, and the UK has not formally attributed the cyberattack to Iran - or any other government or hacking group. The Telegraph, which first reported the news, said that the incident shut down the power plant for four days in what is believed to be the first disruptive Iranian cyberattack of its kind in the UK. In late July, suspected Iranian cyber operatives disrupted more than 30 water facilities in Minnesota, with similar intrusions subsequently reported across at least 11 other US states. While neither state nor federal officials have attributed these hacks to Iran, private-sector threat analysts have told The Register that Iran is “almost certainly” behind these breaches, which are a direct response to the ongoing Middle East conflict. While these earlier water-system intrusions didn’t appear to have an AI assist - most or all of the American utility cyberattacks involved internet-connected programmable logic controllers (PLCs) - last week the feds warned that attackers are now using AI-generated exploitation scripts to break into internet-exposed Siemens S7 Series PLCs at water, manufacturing, energy, and other critical facilities. “This is not a theoretical risk – it is an active threat,” the FBI and four other federal agencies warned. “This appears to be a continuation of the same suite of activity we suspect is affiliated with Iran targeting PLCs,” Cynthia Kaiser, Halcyon Ransomware Research Center SVP and a former FBI cyber analyst, told The Register. “Iran-affiliated actors and adversaries are actively targeting a wide swath of operational technology because these PLCs underpin essential health, safety, and critical infrastructure across society,” Kaiser said. ®

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You can’t have missed all the recent leaks. What used to be occasional glimpses into Apple’s future plans, followed by scripted public events, has now become a cadence of leaks followed by announcements.

Apple can’t seem to make a single move without it being telegraphed in advance to its users, usually from the same sources. We get treated to spookily accurate predictions about the big announcements, such as new iPhones. But now we also get a heads up for the smaller stuff, like the recently introduced Apple Upgrade scheme. It makes for interesting reading for the world’s most committed Apple watchers, that interest translates into waves of headlines, which is why Apple now effectively holds endless iPhone announcements each year.

Using the upcoming folding iPhone as an illustration, it works like this:

The seven waves of Apple product launches

• First, we get an outsider rumor that Apple is about to introduce a new device, in this case a folding iPhone.
• Later, we might get more speculation, usually along the lines that the still unannounced device has been “delayed” for some reason.
• A third series of rumors drip feed additional details about the upcoming new device. (There could be multiple waves of these.)
• At some point, Apple will announce the event rumormongers has been predicting for months, spawning yet more reporting, speculation, and analysis.
• Once the news is officially announced, it has already been reported, discussed, reported again, analysed, refuted, and even denied multiple times. 
• Of course, the announcement also gets reported.
• Then, the narrative turns to one of surprise/disappointment/analysis as the real-world product is compared to months of eerily accurate speculation and rumor.
• Reality sets in as the early reviews arrive, typically first in the US. 
• Millions rush to buy the new product, by which time many feel like they have nursed its birth for months.
• Then the post-purchase help, advice, and follow-up reports begin.

But the magic is all in the stage setting during the earlier series of reports.

The arithmetic of anticipation

That means for every key Apple launch, we now experience at least seven waves of announcements for each product each year. Apple now holds two key calendar iPhone announcements annually, which makes for at least 14 waves of news — supplemented by additional speculation about individual models.

These multiple waves quickly add up, creating a tsunami of reporting that cannot help but establish Apple’s new product release in the public eye. How many people — and not just iPhone users — already know to expect a folding iPhone soon? How many also know demand for that device will exceed supply? Heck, we even know it will cost $2,000!

Manufactured consent 

This degree of public consciousness doesn’t happen by accident. It is created one wave at a time. It really doesn’t matter whether the speculation and rumors are generated by Apple itself or by merit of industrious digging on the part of well-connected reporters. It doesn’t matter because the results are the same. 

The rapid pace and multiple waves of leaks create a steady momentum to support any expected product release. This momentum works to Apple’s benefit, even when a leak is negative; the speculation allows for public debate before the bad news unfolds, giving Apple’s public time to digest the information. In this way, every news leak, every rumor, every bit of speculation does its part to support Apple’s incredible marketing machine. 

Momentum doesn’t care whether rumor makes the grade

Are we being cynical about this? Has the brazen nature of the approach turned people off from listening to news and speculation about the company? 

I don’t think so. Perhaps because, as the “father of public relations”, Edward Bernays said in his seminal book, “Propaganda”: “No matter how sophisticated, how cynical the public may become about publicity methods, it must respond to the basic appeals, because it will always need food, crave amusement, long for beauty, respond to leadership. If the public becomes more intelligent in its commercial demands, commercial firms will meet the new standards. If it becomes weary of the old methods used to persuade it to accept a given idea or commodity, its leaders will present their appeals more intelligently. Propaganda will never die out.”

Up next

We’re all expecting Apple to introduce new iPhones on Sept. 9. These will include the first ever folding iPhone, which will be available initially in the US only, and will deliver a high-end premium experience, though there may be some reservations around the camera. We’re also expecting a $100 price bump on other iPhones — but by the time the price increase is announced, we will already have come to terms with it. 

What’s coming next in the iPhone hype-cycle? Well, that will be news of the 20th anniversary glass iPhone, which is already up to wave three in the reporting cycle. Interested in following Apple’s news machinery? Sign up to my daily newsletter.

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Cybersecurity company ReliaQuest has confirmed that one of its employees was targeted in a social engineering attack after hackers impersonated a member of the security team. [...]

A package gets installed. A login prompt opens. A box sits exposed to the internet. Nothing looks unusual yet. That’s roughly the mood this week. Trusted tools turn hostile, old weak spots get fresh attention, AI makes exploit work cheaper, and researchers keep finding attacks that sound harder than they actually are. Plenty to clean up. Here’s the short version. ⚡ Threat of the Week U.S.

A package gets installed. A login prompt opens. A box sits exposed to the internet. Nothing looks unusual yet. That’s roughly the mood this week. Trusted tools turn hostile, old weak spots get fresh attention, AI makes exploit work cheaper, and researchers keep finding attacks that sound harder than they actually are. Plenty to clean up. Here’s the short version. ⚡ Threat of the Week U.S. Ravie Lakshmananhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/[email protected]

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Microsoft is rolling out a new Teams meeting protection policy that allows administrators to automatically block all identified external bots from joining Teams meetings. [...]

A breach at South Korea's government-backed startup platform exposed encrypted personal data after an encryption key was included in an API. Penta Security explains why encryption keys must be securely managed and kept separate from the data they protect. [...]

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Microsoft has confirmed that .NET Framework updates released as part of the August 2026 Patch Tuesday are breaking printing and PDF export in WPF applications. [...]

Cybersecurity researchers have flagged two new malware families called WordlistLoader and SynkLoader that's used to deliver next-stage payloads and likely sell access to ransomware groups. According to findings from Gen Digital, WordlistLoader is being used to deliver Amatera Stealer (aka ACR Stealer or AcridRain Stealer) via ClearFake campaigns, which employ the ClickFix (aka FakeCaptcha)

Cybersecurity researchers have flagged two new malware families called WordlistLoader and SynkLoader that's used to deliver next-stage payloads and likely sell access to ransomware groups. According to findings from Gen Digital, WordlistLoader is being used to deliver Amatera Stealer (aka ACR Stealer or AcridRain Stealer) via ClearFake campaigns, which employ the ClickFix (aka FakeCaptcha) Ravie Lakshmananhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/[email protected]

A Linux TCP query can touch congestion-control memory after a concurrent BPF update has freed it. Two new use-after-free reports show how an ordinary read path inherited a lifetime assumption that no longer holds when BPF makes congestion-control objects dynamically replaceable.