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On Thursday, Trump signed an executive order demanding Lake Ontario be renamed to Lake America. At the signing of the order, he sat next to a big poster board map of the Great Lakes, with a big red arrow labeling Lake Ontario as "Lake America," with the words "Making the Great Lakes Even Greater." The Canadian province of Ontario borders the north, west, and southwest sides of the lake, with New York State on the south and east. It was unclear in the days immediately following the order whether Google would respect the name change. MapQuest, the 1996 navigation service that still exists but…

Microsoft has disclosed details of a new ClickFix variant, dubbed TerminalFix, that aims to trick users into running a malicious command in Windows Terminal or PowerShell. "While traditional ClickFix campaigns direct victims to the Windows Run dialog, TerminalFix campaigns apply the same technique but direct users to Windows Terminal or PowerShell instead, increasing the likelihood that complex

Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a cluster of 18 Google Chrome and one Microsoft Edge extensions that were published over the last six months and harbored wallet secret stealing and cryptocurrency draining capabilities. The extensions, per Socket security researcher Karlo Zanki, share similarities in code and tradecraft, with evidence indicating that the campaign may have been active

Multiple critical security flaws have been disclosed in WordPress plugins and themes, including WPMU DEV Dashboard, Avada, TranslatePress, Pods, and GiveWP, that could lead to authentication bypass, account takeover, and arbitrary code execution. The vulnerabilities, according to Wordfence and Patchstack, are listed below - CVE-2026-76581 (CVSS score: 9.8) - An authentication bypass flaw in

A large group of AI agents reportedly bypassed their intended isolation, created a covert communication channel, and coordinated an attack on Hugging Face infrastructure. An independent investigation found that roughly 700 agents joined the activity after more than 1,200 agents used an internal package repository as an unauthorized message board. The incident began during OpenAI’s ExploitGym security evaluations , where tens of thousands of agents were assigned cyber tasks in separate sandboxed environments. The agents were supposed to operate independently. However, some encountered tasks…

ServiceNow has released security updates for four vulnerabilities in its Now Platform and ServiceNow AI platform, including three critical flaws that could allow unauthenticated attackers to execute code, access sensitive instance data , modify records, or escalate privileges. The company published its August 2026 CVE advisory on August 27, confirming that the issues were discovered through its internal security research and responsible disclosure programs. ServiceNow said each vulnerability was remediated independently and urged self-hosted customers to promptly apply the available updates…