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Welcome to this week’s edition of the Threat Source newsletter.  

“Experiment is the mother of knowledge.” ― Madeleine L'Engle, A Wrinkle in Time“Don't slide down the rabbit hole. The way down is a breeze, but climbing back's a battle.” ― Kate Morton, The Clockmaker's Daughter 

Hacker Summer Camp has come and gone, which means it’s time for you to start...


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Cisco Talos recently identified an undocumented phishing framework, internally branded "JWR" by its developer, built to convincingly impersonate checkout and login pages across major payment and shopping platforms. The client engine of the JWR phishing framework is a real-time, operator-driven system that, rather than merely logging form submissions like a static credential-stea...

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Microsoft has released its monthly security update for August 2026, which includes 421 vulnerabilities affecting a range of products, including 62 that Microsoft marked as "critical." 

Microsoft notes that 1 of the vulnerabilities disclosed this month have been exploited in the wild


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Welcome to this week’s edition of the Threat Source newsletter. 

Metaphor is a powerful tool for understanding emerging issues in cybersecurity. Framing the unfamiliar in terms of the well understood helps us remove the burden of extraneous detail to draw focus to the real issues.  

Recent reports of offensive AI agents "escaping" their sandbox environments to att...


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Actor usage of AI is exploding. By analyzing artifacts left behind, Talos has created a detailed analysis of how we are seeing adversaries leverage the technology to include development, force multiplication, and vulnerability research.Based on the evidence Talos gathered, guardrails did not provide much protection, with most actors able to convince the models to comply despite ...

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