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• 338 million attack simulations reveal the state of enterprise defense
• Ready-made $500 kit puts a crypto scam within anyone’s reach
• AI deployments are stretching enterprise security to its limits
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• Cursor Security Bug Allowed Repositories to Execute Commands Before Trust Verification
• Malicious SIMs can hijack smartphones, steal files, and lock them onto 2G
• Suisan City, California, Responds to Cyber Incident Amid Wave of US Local Government Attacks
• OpenAI Launches Two-Tier Security Access Program Alongside GPT 5.6 Cyber
• Logistics Giant Ceva Suffers Data Breach Impacting European Clients
• Ransomware gangs don’t need control system access to disrupt industrial production
• Locking your ssh-agent exposed local-only keys until OpenSSH 10.5
• OpenAI Pauses Some Development of Astra Model on Security Concerns
• Only Half of UK Manufacturers Have a Cyber Incident Response Plan
• Researchers Uncover RovoBlast Vulnerability in Atlassian AI Assistant
• WordPress Plugins Compromised Without a Single File Change
• “Ghostjacking” Exploits AI Agents’ Trusted Access to Evade Firewall Controls
• Go-Based macOS Malware Steals Crypto and Secrets
• US Sanctions Iranian $6bn Crypto “Exchange” Shelbit
• Healthcare and Victim Support Charities Affected by Beacon Cyber Incident
• Google Links Redact Extortion Group to BlackFile Rebrand
• Ransomware Surges in July After Q2 Lull

In this Help Net Security interview, Christopher Smith, CEO of Quantus, discusses what cryptographic inventories turn up in banks and hospitals, including default passwords and admin keys still held by former employees. He explains where post-quantum key sizes break old size assumptions in IPsec, SSH, TLS and libp2p, why migrating user keys makes blockchains hard to upgrade, and what a silent quantum break would look like from outside. He also gives the argument for funding …