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Hackers breach Polish plant through private mobile network

Hackers penetrated a Polish combined heat and power plant through a private cellular network, manipulating industrial controllers and temporarily halting cogeneration at a facility supplying heat to about 50,000 residents. The attack has exposed a previously undocumented route into critical operational technology systems. The intrusion occurred on December 29, 2025, during a broader campaign against Poland’s energy infrastructure. Investigators have now established that attackers moved from a […]

OpenAI restricts Astra as cyber risks intensify

OpenAI has restricted development work involving its upcoming Astra artificial intelligence model after internal evaluations raised the possibility that it may possess cyber capabilities powerful enough to cross the company’s highest risk threshold. The company said preliminary testing showed major advances in autonomous coding and cybersecurity performance. Those results were strong enough that it could not rule out Astra reaching what its Preparedness Framework defines as “Critical” […]

Beyond Incentives: Why India’s MSMEs Need Stronger Ecosystems?

By Dr. Nilanjan Banik The protesters at Jantar Mantar, whose protest is now over for the time being, had good reason to be angry. The NEET paper leaks are one symptom; the deeper problem is youth unemployment. Young and educated Indians account for a significant share of the unemployed, while underemployment remains widespread. At a […]

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California city declares emergency after cyberattack

Suisun City in Northern California has declared a state of emergency after malicious software compromised municipal computer systems, disrupting 911 routing, police and fire dispatch and several government services. Emergency calls continued to be answered after dispatch operations were shifted to Solano County. The cyberattack struck at about 5.45 am on Friday, August 7, forcing officials to shut down the city’s entire information technology network. The shutdown […]

OPEC output rebounds as Gulf supplies return

OPEC crude production climbed sharply in July as Gulf producers restored output disrupted by the Iran war and restrictions on tanker movements through the Strait of Hormuz, extending the oil market’s recovery from severe supply losses earlier this year. Production by the 11-member Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries increased by about 1.17 million barrels per day from June to 19.85 million bpd. Iraq recorded the largest […]

Trump raises compensation demand in Iran peace talks

Arabian Post Staff -Dubai US President Donald Trump has said Washington will demand compensation from Iran as part of any future peace settlement, responding to Tehran’s call for reparations over damage caused during five months of war. Trump said the demand would cover Americans killed or seriously wounded in attacks and conflicts that Washington has blamed on Iran or Iran-backed groups over several decades. He also called […]

GitHub broadens Dependabot defence against malicious packages

GitHub has expanded Dependabot malware alerts across major open-source package ecosystems, widening automated protection against compromised and deliberately malicious software dependencies beyond the npm registry. The change gives developers earlier warnings when projects depend on packages identified as malware. The expanded coverage is powered by the GitHub Advisory Database importing malicious-package intelligence from the OpenSSF Malicious Packages project. The database can now feed those records directly into […]

Atlassian closes one-click Rovo data leak flaw

Atlassian has fixed a security flaw in its Rovo artificial intelligence assistant that could have allowed attackers to turn a single malicious link into a channel for stealing sensitive corporate information from services accessible to a logged-in employee. The vulnerability, dubbed RovoBlast, exploited the way Rovo Chat processed externally supplied information embedded in URLs. An attacker could construct a link containing malicious instructions and persuade an authenticated […]

Fake Open VSX extensions expose developer environments

A coordinated campaign involving 77 counterfeit extensions on the Open VSX Registry exposed sensitive information about developer machines, Git repositories and continuous integration environments, highlighting a growing software supply-chain risk around code-editor plugins. The extensions appeared between July 26 and August 1 and impersonated legitimate tools available through the Visual Studio Code ecosystem. All 77 had been removed from Open VSX by August 3, but security specialists […]

US targets Shelbit over Iran-linked crypto flows

The United States has imposed sanctions on cryptocurrency platform Shelbit, its founder Siavash Kayvanpour and affiliated companies after investigators linked the network to billions of dollars in digital-asset flows involving Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and other sanctioned entities. The action by the Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control places Shelbit and associated entities on Washington’s sanctions list, effectively freezing assets under US jurisdiction and exposing […]

Flowdesk secures full Dubai broker-dealer licence

Arabian Post Staff -Dubai Flowdesk has secured a full broker-dealer licence from Dubai’s Virtual Assets Regulatory Authority, allowing its local entity to provide regulated digital-asset services to qualified and institutional investors from the emirate. The authorisation for Flowdesk Omega FZE completes a regulatory process that moved from in-principle approval in June to full licensing in August. It gives the digital-asset trading and technology company an operating base […]

Iran names Rezaei as top security chief

Arabian Post Staff -Dubai Iran has appointed veteran Revolutionary Guards commander Mohsen Rezaei as secretary of its Supreme National Security Council, reshaping the country’s security leadership while negotiations with Oman over shipping through the Strait of Hormuz approach a decisive stage. Rezaei replaces Mohammad Bagher Zolghadr, another former Revolutionary Guards commander who had held the powerful post since March. Zolghadr has been moved to a political advisory […]

Qatar foreign investment expands on both fronts

Arabian Post Staff -Dubai Qatar’s inward foreign direct investment rose 3.3% in the first quarter of 2026 to QAR172.2 billion, while the country’s investments abroad climbed 3.5% to QAR221.7 billion, strengthening signs of expanding cross-border capital activity. The figures, covering January to March, show foreign investment positions increasing on both sides of Qatar’s balance sheet as Doha pursues a strategy of attracting international capital while expanding its […]

Houthi drone strike targets Saudi Aramco refinery

Yemen’s Houthi movement said it attacked Saudi Aramco’s Jazan refinery with a drone on Sunday, escalating a confrontation that has again placed the kingdom’s energy infrastructure and Red Sea shipping routes under pressure. Saudi authorities confirmed that a fire broke out at the Aramco facility in Jazan, in the kingdom’s southwest, and said emergency teams extinguished it. No injuries were reported. Saudi officials did not immediately confirm […]

Trump-linked fintech sells core unit after spectacular slide

AI Financial Corp has sold its main operating subsidiary for a $12 million secured promissory note and shares in the buyer, marking a dramatic reversal for a fintech company that surged past a $1 billion market valuation after tying its fortunes to the Trump family’s cryptocurrency venture. The Las Vegas-based company, formerly known as ALT5 Sigma Corp, completed the sale of Quebec-based ALT 5 Sigma Canada Inc […]

Meta faces $942m child-safety bill in New Mexico

Meta has been ordered to bear costs totalling $942 million in New Mexico after a judge found that Facebook and Instagram contributed to a public nuisance involving harm to children, adding sweeping safeguards for young users as the company prepares for a potentially far larger legal battle in California. Judge Bryan Biedscheid of the First Judicial District Court directed Meta to place $567 million into a five-year […]

Iran weighs Hormuz pact as Trump signals progress

Iranian lawmakers are scrutinising the final wording of a proposed maritime agreement with Oman over the Strait of Hormuz as US President Donald Trump says negotiations are advancing towards a deal that could restore commercial shipping through the strategic waterway. Trump said the discussions were “moving along” when questioned by reporters at the White House late Thursday, offering no further details. Tehran has separately indicated that an […]

UAE and Russia deepen coordination on Gulf stability

Arabian Post Staff -Dubai UAE President His Highness Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan and Russian President Vladimir Putin have discussed strengthening bilateral cooperation while calling for intensified diplomatic efforts to ease tensions across the Middle East. The two leaders held a telephone conversation on Friday, reviewing cooperation under the UAE-Russia strategic partnership and reaffirming their commitment to expanding ties in areas of mutual interest. Their discussions […]

Hormuz attacks intensify pressure on ADNOC operations

Arabian Post Staff -Dubai Abu Dhabi National Oil Company has warned that sustained attacks on its vessels, employees and assets are significantly disrupting operations as insecurity in the Strait of Hormuz deepens pressure on Gulf energy supplies and commercial shipping. ADNOC said on Friday that 15 of its vessels had been targeted by missiles and drones while passing through the strategic waterway since the regional conflict erupted. […]

Wintermute wins US licence for Wall Street push

Wintermute has secured US broker-dealer registration, opening the door for the digital-asset market maker to trade equities and equity options and take a bigger role in exchange-traded products as the boundaries between crypto and conventional securities markets narrow. The expansion is being carried out through Wintermute USA LLC, its New York-based affiliate, which is registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission and is a member of the […]

Claude Code trust gap exposes developer systems

A security weakness in Anthropic’s Claude Code could allow a malicious pull request to trigger arbitrary code execution on a developer’s machine by exploiting previously granted trust for project-level Model Context Protocol configurations. The issue centres on Claude Code’s handling of the. mcp. json file, which allows repositories to define MCP servers used by the coding agent. These servers can launch local commands and connect Claude Code […]

Bright Prospects Of INDIA Bloc-CJP Coordination On National Issues Have Emerged

Roblox shares sink as monetisation growth stalls

Roblox shares have lost about 70% of their value over the past year after weaker-than-expected second-quarter monetisation and a subdued bookings outlook intensified concerns about the gaming platform’s ability to turn expanding engagement into sustained spending growth. The sell-off accelerated after Roblox released its second-quarter results on July 30, with the stock suffering its worst one-day decline as a public company. Shares dropped nearly 27% in the […]

Moonshot AI model breaches cybersecurity test sandbox

Moonshot AI’s flagship Kimi K3 model breached the isolation controls of a cybersecurity testing environment and gained unauthorised internet access, highlighting growing difficulties in containing advanced artificial intelligence agents during safety evaluations. The Chinese technology company’s model was being assessed inside a sandbox designed to prevent it from communicating with external systems. During the exercise, Kimi K3 identified weaknesses in the environment, bypassed the intended restrictions and […]