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DEF CON – Tenet security researchers have demonstrated a novel AI hijacking attack that relies on tools trusted by the agent to deliver malicious instructions. The Israeli cybersecurity startup, which emerged from stealth mode in June to protect organizations from rogue agents, previously demonstrated how threat actors can poison data fed to AI agents to manipulate their behavior, an action it calls ‘Agentjacking’. Dubbed Ghostjacking, the newly demonstrated attack builds on the same assumption: an external threat actor is able to plant instructions as text in logs or alerts to turn AI agents rogue. The underlying issue, it says, is…

Grayscale has formalized a mandatory minimum cadence for converting staking rewards from three crypto exchange-traded products into cash and paying the net proceeds to shareholders.Trust amendments executed Aug. 6 for the Grayscale Ethereum Staking ETF (ETHE), Grayscale Solana Staking ETF (GSOL) and Grayscale Avalanche Staking ETF (GAVA) require each product to reduce “Staking Consideration” to cash no less often than quarterly. Net proceeds must then be distributed promptly after applicable fees and trust expenses.The three trusts currently intend to make distributions monthly, according to Form 8-K filings submitted Aug. 7, but the binding floor is quarterly.As the trusts receive staking…

Researchers have discovered for the first time that the same silver (Ag) nanocatalyst can operate at different reaction sites depending on whether a solid oxide cell is producing electricity or generating hydrogen. The finding points to a new way of designing these next-generation energy devices for better performance. The work was led by Professors WooChul Jung and Jeong Woo Han of the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Seoul National University (SNU), together with Professor Sang Ouk Kim’s team at KAIST and Dr. Beomgyun Jeong’s team at the Korea Basic Science Institute (KBSI). Their results clarify how silver nanocatalysts…

It is not yet clear to what extent Meta’s new smart glasses will live up to the nickname of “pervert glasses” – bestowed in recognition of the obvious appeal of wearable cameras to voyeurs. The past week has seen rising criticism of the devices, which in the UK have been banned by the pub chain Wetherspoons and the theatre group ATG, as well as restaurants, schools and members’ clubs. These organisations deserve praise for standing up for privacy. By contrast, regulators appear once again to be on the back foot.There have, inevitably, already been reports of women being mistreated. Earlier this…

The day so far At least 111 have died and 87 people injured after dozens of buildings collapsed following a 7.4 magnitude earthquake that struck western Colombia on Monday morning – the largest to hit the country so far this century. After declaring a state of national disaster, Colombia’s new president, Abelardo de la Espriella, said in an address to the nation that his government had deployed all of its capabilities “to protect lives, assist affected ‌communities and deliver aid wherever it is needed”. “The first priority is rescuing the people trapped under the rubble,” he said after around 1,600…

Top White House and administration officials engaged in an elaborate ruse to spirit President Trump out of Turkey during the NATO summit there last month, transporting him in a catering cart to a military jet because of a credible threat against him and Air Force One from Iran, a senior U.S. official said Monday.Mr. Trump had traveled to Turkey aboard a 747-8 donated by Qatar, which is far more luxurious than the older Boeing jets used for Air Force One, and which the U.S. government worked quickly to retrofit for presidential travel. Mr. Trump announced he would not take that…

But shortly afterward, his Patreon account was taken down too. In an email statement, a spokesperson for the platform said: “Patreon prohibits works that provide instructions around the creation of controlled substances or other recreational drugs. We take violations of our policies seriously, and after an internal investigation, we have removed the creator’s account.”Myco hopes to successfully appeal the Patreon decision, as he pays his team through the funds accrued from his subscribers. “I know I’m a renegade, but I don’t promote the use [of drugs],” he says. “It’s all scientific. It’s all education, in the hopes to promote harm…

Cisco on Friday warned that its Secure Endpoint Connector products on Windows, macOS, and Linux are affected by seven ClamAV vulnerabilities that could lead to denial-of-service (DoS) conditions, including two with public proof-of-concept (PoC) code. ClamAV (Clam AntiVirus) is an open source, cross-platform malware detection engine that provides a multi-threaded virtual scanner, email filtering, and automatic database updates. The security defects, tracked as CVE-2026-20337 to CVE-2026-20339 and CVE-2026-20345 to CVE-2026-20348, were discovered in ClamAV’s parsers for ZIP, GPT, PESpin, PDF, Mach-O, and XAR file formats. Patches for the bugs were included in ClamAV version 1.5.4, which also includes the patch…

With the Digital Asset Market Clarity (CLARITY) Act now set for a cloture vote in September, many advocates and industry leaders are frustrated and disappointed at lawmakers’ failure to act before the US Senate broke for a month-long recess.On Saturday, the Senate Daily Press reported that Majority Leader John Thune filed cloture on a motion for the CLARITY Act to go to the chamber floor for consideration, ending speculation that lawmakers would address the bill more than a year after it was passed by the House of Representatives. The CLARITY vote is now expected when the Senate reconvenes in mid-September,…

Hepatitis C is spread through contact with blood infected with the virus, such as by sharing needles with someone who has it.Donor blood is already screened for it. It is a silent disease, meaning people often have no symptoms until much later.Untreated, it can cause serious and potentially life-threatening liver damage.NHS England says that since 2015, more than 100,000 people have been diagnosed and treated for hepatitis C, meaning the country is already meeting that target.Another goal – a 65% reduction in hepatitis C-related mortality compared with 2015 levels – has yet to be met, but might be before the…