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Many companies are showcasing their cybersecurity products and services this week at the 2026 edition of the Black Hat conference in Las Vegas. To help cut through the clutter, the SecurityWeek team is publishing a digest summarizing vendor announcements at Black Hat USA 2026, including new products and services, updates to existing offerings, reports, and other initiatives.  The first part of this roundup was published on August 3. Astelia unveils agentic AI exposure management capabilities Astelia launched its new agentic AI capabilities for its exposure management platform, automating reachability analysis and remediation workflows across the entire vulnerability lifecycle. By adding…

In brief Hashdex will close and liquidate its Bitcoin ETF, which manages about $14.7 million. Trading ends Aug. 17, with cash distributions expected around Aug. 28. The closure follows more than two years of fierce competition in the U.S. spot Bitcoin ETF market. Hashdex is shutting down its U.S. spot Bitcoin exchange-traded fund after it amassed just $14.7 million in assets under management.According to a filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on Monday, the crypto asset manager’s Hashdex Bitcoin ETF (NYSE Arca: DEFI) will stop trading after the market closes on Aug. 17 before being delisted. Shareholders who…

Scientists have discovered the earliest known evidence of the structures that eventually became spider fangs in a fossil dating back 518 million years. The finding was made by researchers from Yunnan University and the University of Leicester. Whether associated with the deadly reputation of the Black Widow or the fictional bite that transformed Spider-Man, fangs have become one of the most recognizable features of spiders. Their evolutionary story, however, began long before modern spiders appeared. A new study published in Nature traces the origins of this powerful hunting tool to Urokodia, a small marine creature that lived during the early…

Federal prosecutors are suing the Brazilian mining agency for failing to monitor wildcat gold mines in the Brazilian Amazon.Illegal miners take advantage of the agency’s lack of oversight and name small areas as the origins of tons of gold that have actually been taken from protected areas.Measures implemented in the past few years have contributed to a sharp decrease in gold laundering in Brazil, but illegal metal is now being smuggled out of the country.ANM’s top officials are also under investigation for receiving bribes to favor mining companies.See All Key Ideas Federal prosecutors in Amazonas state are suing…

Brazil’s state-owned energy giant Petrobras has added to South America’s energy riches with a fresh gas discovery off the coast of Colombia. Noble Discoverer rig; Source: Noble A new gas discovery has been made in the Sandia-1 exploratory well in Block GUA-OFF-O in deep waters offshore Colombia. This well is located approximately 42 kilometers from the coast, at a water depth of 1,251 meters, and 18 kilometers from the Sirius-1 discovery and Sirius-2 appraisal wells and 9 kilometers from the Copoazu-1 discovery. Petrobras, through its subsidiary, Petrobras International Braspetro B.V – Colombia Branch (PIB-COL), acts as the operator of the consortium (44.44%),…

On June 30, Nadiem Makarim, a prominent Indonesian tech entrepreneur, was sentenced to 10 years in prison on corruption charges stemming from his time as Indonesia’s education minister. Makarim’s case is the highest profile in a string of investigations under President Prabowo Subianto, who made tackling corruption a centerpiece of his populist election campaign and his presidency since 2024. He pledged to recover stolen assets, strengthen law enforcement, and take down those he deems to be part of the corrupt elite, regardless of status or political standing. Other high-profile investigations during Prabowo’s term have involved politically connected businessmen, state-owned enterprises,…

Oil prices fell to a three-week low on Tuesday as senior US officials raised hopes of a deal with Iran to reopen the key Strait of Hormuz waterway.US Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent both announced talks had progressed to allow shipments to potentially resume as soon as this week.The cost of a barrel of brent crude, the global benchmark for oil prices, fell by almost 5% to under $80 on the news of supply disruptions potentially being eased.But the failure of previous negotiations in recent months to de-escalate the conflict between the US and Iran…

Washington State’s primary elections on Tuesday offer a significant test of political polarization and President Trump’s influence.In the Third Congressional District, Representative Marie Gluesenkamp Perez — a moderate Democrat who has regularly broken with her party to work across the aisle — is fighting off challengers from both the right and left to defend a rural swing district that voted three times for Mr. Trump. At the same time, in the conservative Fourth District in Central Washington, the retirement of Representative Dan Newhouse, a Republican, has touched off a scramble among G.O.P. contenders.Under Washington’s nonpartisan primary system, all candidates appear…

They stuffed a real-life ray gun into a 747 to shoot down ballistic missiles and stuck a laser on top of a Humvee to zap roadside bombs. For more than 50 years, the United States military and its researchers have tried to develop laser weapons. None of them panned out.But now, the US Army is about to make a working laser weapon an official part of its arsenal. The Pentagon is poised to sign a contract to acquire and rapidly deploy what’s called an Enduring High Energy Laser in and around bases across the world to defend them from drone…

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of an active, multi-wave campaign that employs social engineering lures themed around Adobe and Zoom software updates, business document reviews, and system maintenance utilities to stealthily deploy Remote Monitoring and Management (RMM) programs like ConnectWise ScreenConnect. The campaign has been codenamed SMOKE#SCREEN by Securonix Threat Research. “The campaign relies on a toolkit of VBScript droppers, batch file loaders, compiled .NET executables and an HTML phishing page, all ultimately pointing to a live WsgiDAV-based staging server at 207.174.0[.]143:8080,” researchers Shikha Sangwan, Akshay Gaikwad, and Aaron Beardslee said in a report shared with The Hacker News. Successful…