Security Saturday — the vulnerabilities, advisories, and incidents from the past week worth knowing about.
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- Berlin Refuses to Pay Hackers Who Stole Data From the City's State Network (The Hacker News)
Berlin's state government has confirmed that it is the target of an extortion attempt following the August compromise of the city's state administrative network, and said it will not meet the extortionists' demands. The same statement discl - Friday Squid Blogging: Truckload of Squid Spills in Rhode Island (Schneier on Security)
Ugh : A tractor-trailer rollover sent a truckload of squid spilling into a Rhode Island roadway, leaving a stench as they sat in the road for hours in the summer heat. Local authorities have dubbed it the “Squidpocalypse of ’26.” That would - Cosmos EVM Flaw Exploited After Cosmos Labs Knew Every Blockchain Running It Was Vulnerable (The Hacker News)
Cosmos Labs has warned that a critical balance-handling flaw in the shared Cosmos EVM module was exploited to drain funds from six blockchains between August 20 and August 25, 2026. The vulnerability, designated GHSA-7g4w-cg88-2cq2, is rate - AI Doesn’t Mean the End of Mathematics—at Least Not Yet (Schneier on Security)
This essay was written with Kasra Rafi, and originally appeared in The Guardian. Earlier this month, about 40 top mathematicians gathered at OpenAI’s offices to discuss the future of their profession. The meeting was off-the-record, but if - Two Alleged ‘TeamPCP’ Hackers Arrested in Australia (KrebsOnSecurity)
Authorities in Australia have arrested two men believed to be members of TeamPCP, a prolific cybercrime and data extortion group blamed for perpetrating the longest running spree of software supply chain attacks ever. In a statement release
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