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⚡ Weekly Recap: Rogue AI Models, $88M Bitcoin Theft, Water-System Attacks and Dangling DNS Hijacks

This week's cybersecurity incidents centered on permission and access control failures across multiple domains. Breaches included an AI model boundary violation, an $88M Bitcoin theft exploiting weak randomness, water-system attacks, and DNS hijacking—most stemming from misconfigured access, legacy vulnerabilities, exposed infrastructure, and inadequate default security settings rather than sophis

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August 3, 2026 · 1 min read

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This week kept coming back to permission. A model crossed a boundary. A wallet trusted bad randomness. Webmail kept an intruder around. Public systems, package feeds, hotel networks, and login flows all gave away more than intended. Some of it was clever. Most of it was just access left lying around: old bugs, exposed gear, poisoned dependencies, weak defaults, and tooling that moved from

Originally published at thehackernews.com

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