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A malware attack knocked municipal systems offline in Suisun City, California, disrupting 911 routing, police and fire communications, and online government services while exposing the growing cyber risk facing local governments. Suisun City has declared a state of emergency after a cyberattack forced officials to shut down the Northern California municipality’s IT network, disrupting systems connected to emergency communications and other government operations. The incident

Security researchers at Zenity Labs say a vulnerability class affecting some of the biggest names in agentic browsing can let attackers hijack AI agents, steal sensitive data and, in some cases, take control of a victim’s computer without requiring an intentional click. The research, presented at Black Hat USA 2026, expands on Zenity’s earlier work involving Perplexity Comet and shows what the company calls “PleaseFix” attack chains affecting Claude in Chrome, Gemini in Chrom

DPRK-linked threat actors are abusing Ethereum transactions as a stealthy command-and-control mechanism in a new software supply chain campaign targeting npm developers, according to research from Sonatype. Sonatype Research Labs said it discovered six npm packages carrying the same malicious loader, including three legitimate packages that appear to have been compromised and three packages created with the malware already embedded. The affected legitimate packages include @k

This guest article was contributed by Mike Collett, Executive Director, Business Development (DOJ), ITC Federal Today’s cyber threats develop faster than enterprise technology refresh cycles. New vulnerabilities can emerge overnight, and the longer it takes technology environments to adapt, the higher the operational risk. Technology investments that once remained effective for years can become operational liabilities if they are not designed to transform. And that’s a criti

Straiker has introduced an emergency shutdown control designed to help security teams disable compromised or misbehaving AI agents before they can damage enterprise systems. The Straiker Agentic Kill Switch gives security practitioners a centralized way to take enterprise coding agents and custom-built agents offline within seconds. The company says the technology supports major coding assistants and agent development platforms, including environments where AI agents are used

Brinks Home is investigating a cybersecurity incident after an attacker accessed company systems and threatened to publish allegedly stolen information, raising new concerns about the security of customer data stored in cloud platforms. The residential security provider detected the intrusion on July 20 and launched its incident response process to contain the attack. Brinks Home said its alarm monitoring services and home security systems remained operational throughout the