Cyber Security News The Cyber Security category covers threats and defenses at the intersection of robotics, AI, and connected systems, including vulnerabilities in industrial robots, autonomous vehicles, drones, and IoT devices. Readers will find reporting on ransomware and supply-chain attacks affecting automation, AI-driven security tools, research disclosures, and regulatory developments. Coverage also includes vendor patches, incident analyses, and standards shaping the security of robotic and machine-learning systems.
Amazon Kiro Flaw Turns Poisoned Repos Into Silent Data Exfiltration — Aug 27, 2026 — Mindgard says a prompt-injection flaw in Amazon Kiro let attacker-controlled repos coerce the agentic IDE into leaking local secrets - fixed in 0.8.14...Critical GitLab GraphQL Flaw CVE-2026-19478 Under Active Exploit Within Days Of Disclosure — Aug 26, 2026 — A newly patched code-injection flaw in GitLab's GraphQL API tracked as CVE-2026-19478 (CVSS 9.4) came under active exploitation within days of public...CISA, NSA And FBI Warn Of AI-Generated Attacks On Siemens S7 PLCs — Aug 24, 2026 — Five U.S. agencies issued a joint advisory warning that threat actors are using AI-generated scripts to target internet-exposed Siemens S7 programmabl...FCC Adds Chinese Humanoid And Quadruped Robots To Covered List — Aug 24, 2026 — The Federal Communications Commission has moved to block new equipment authorizations for foreign-made humanoid and quadruped robots, citing supply-ch...Iran-Linked Hackers Shut Down UK Power Plant For Four Days, Report Says — Aug 24, 2026 — A suspected Iranian intrusion knocked a small British power-generating facility offline for four days, the first known cyberattack to bring a UK plant...Supermicro Board Probe Clears Management in $2.5B Nvidia Chip-Smuggling Case — Aug 23, 2026 — Super Micro Computer said an independent board investigation found no evidence that its CEO or current senior management knew about an alleged scheme...Crypto4A's QASM Becomes First Quantum-Safe HSM Validated To FIPS 140-3 Level 3 — Aug 23, 2026 — Ottawa-based Crypto4A said on August 20, 2026 that its patented QASM cryptographic module has become the world's first quantum-safe hardware security...Cisco Patches 9 Crosswork And Secure Workload Bugs, Five CVSS 10.0 — Aug 23, 2026 — Cisco has released hardening updates for its Crosswork and Secure Workload platforms that fix nine vulnerabilities, including five with a maximum CVSS...Shell Investigates Cl0p Data Theft Claim Of 89 GB Corporate Files — Aug 23, 2026 — Shell has activated cyber incident-response procedures after the Cl0p ransomware crew added the oil major to its leak site, alleging it exfiltrated ro...ShinyHunters Leaks 7.1 Million Baxter International Records In Salesforce Extortion — Aug 22, 2026 — Extortion crew ShinyHunters posted what it claims are 7.1 million Salesforce records stolen from medical-device maker Baxter International, expanding...Microsoft Patches Max-Severity Entra ID Flaw CVE-2026-69836 — Aug 22, 2026 — Microsoft on Aug 21, 2026 disclosed CVE-2026-69836, a CVSS-10.0 deserialisation flaw in Entra ID that allowed unauthenticated remote code execution; t...Microsoft patches 421 CVEs in August 2026 Patch Tuesday, including exploited afd.sys zero-day — Aug 20, 2026 — Microsoft's August 2026 Patch Tuesday resolves 421 CVEs, including CVE-2026-68820, an actively exploited use-after-free in afd.sys that grants SYSTEM...Microsoft Patches CoSnitch, a One-Click Data Theft Flaw in Copilot — Aug 19, 2026 — Varonis Threat Labs disclosed CoSnitch, a chain of three Copilot Personal flaws that turn a single crafted link into silent data exfiltration and pers...Universal Robots Patches Critical PolyScope Flaw CVE-2026-8153 — Aug 19, 2026 — Universal Robots patched CVE-2026-8153 (CVSS 9.8) in PolyScope 5.25.1 after Claroty's Team82 found an unauthenticated RCE flaw in the Dashboard Server...CISA Adds Ray CVE-2025-62593 to KEV as Browser Attack Chain Hits Devs — Aug 19, 2026 — CISA gave federal agencies until August 20 to patch a critical Ray flaw after Oligo confirmed DNS-rebinding attacks are pushing browser-based RCE onto...GE And Philips Investigate Clop Ransomware Claims As PTC Flaw Bites — Aug 18, 2026 — General Electric and Philips are investigating claims by the Clop ransomware gang that it stole data via a zero-day in PTC's Windchill and FlexPLM pla...French Tax Authority Confirms 2 Million-Record Data Heist — Aug 14, 2026 — France's DGFiP confirms an attacker used stolen credentials and an MFA bypass to extract taxpayer data in June, with a hacker now advertising 2 millio...Z.ai Ships GLM-5.3 With Cyber Powers It Didn't Plan — Aug 14, 2026 — Z.ai's GLM-5.3 hits 84.5% on CyberGym vulnerability detection, beating Claude Mythos 5 and GPT-5.6 Sol, with weights coming after a two-week safety-ha...Mindgard Bags $30M Series A To Red-Team AI At Runtime — Aug 14, 2026 — Mindgard has raised $30M Series A led by Album VC to scale its automated AI red-teaming and runtime protection platform after uncovering 150+ AI vulne...Cytix Raises €6M To Wrangle AI-Speed Software Change Risk — Aug 14, 2026 — Cytix has closed a €6 million Series A led by Northern Gritstone to scale its change risk management platform, targeting enterprises drowning in AI-as...