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The Federal Trade Commission closed the books on one of its highest-profile “AI washing” cases this week, finalizing consent orders that lock Cox Media Group and two smaller marketing firms into two decades of federal oversight over a fabricated AI advertising product. The order, issued August 26, 2026 and announced August 27, 2026, converts a…
McKesson Corporation, the Irving, Texas pharmaceutical distributor that moves roughly a third of the prescription drugs sold in the United States, has confirmed what the extortion group ShinyHunters spent the past week threatening to prove: its cloud systems were breached, and patient data went out the door. The confirmation, posted Friday, August 28, 2026, and…
The major healthcare sector vendor did not identify the attackers, but ShinyHunters, a prolific group increasingly targeting the sector, claimed responsibility. The post McKesson copes with fallout from data theft extortion attack appeared first on CyberScoop.
Cross-site scripting is still the most reported weakness class in the entire CVE database. A 2026 vulnerability statistics review put CWE-79 (XSS) at roughly 5,000-plus CVEs and a double-digit share of all disclosed flaws for the year, and a separate 2025 annual report counted more than 6,300 individual XSS-related CVEs. Output encoding and input sanitization…
A stolen laptop with an unencrypted drive hands over every file on it the moment someone pulls the SSD and plugs it into another machine. No password prompt, no login screen, nothing to bypass. Full-disk and file-level encryption close that gap, and in 2026 the tools to do it are free, built into every major…
OpenClaw shipped version 2026.8.1 on August 31, 2026, and the project is calling it OpenClaw 2.0 — the biggest single update since the open-source AI assistant exploded onto GitHub in 2024. The release closes out a development cycle of nearly two months, a sharp break from the project’s usual cadence of shipping a new build…
OpenClaw shipped version 2026.8.1 on August 31, 2026, and the project is calling it OpenClaw 2.0 — the biggest single update since the open-source AI assistant exploded onto GitHub in 2024. The release closes out a development cycle of nearly two months, a sharp break from the project’s usual cadence of shipping a new build…
Berlin’s state government has crossed a line it spent two weeks trying to avoid. On August 31, 2026, officials confirmed that data was actually stolen from the city-state’s administrative network during the Rhysida ransomware attack, moving the story from “hackers claim” to “government admits.” BleepingComputer reported that forensic investigators pinpointed a confirmed data-exfiltration window between…
This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. By now you’ve probably heard about last month’s major AI security incident, in which OpenAI agents escaped their sandbox and hacked into the AI platform Hugging Face while trying to cheat on…
The company, which distributes medicines and medical devices to hospitals and healthcare practices across the U.S., said it was hacked and expects intermittent service degradation.
