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A macOS infostealer gains real-time control of victims' browsers while distributed denial-of-service floods knock Threema offline and a major outage downs Anthropic's Claude.
Latest developments: AmnesiaStealer gained a streaming module that lets attackers interactively control a victim's web browser in real time, spreading through ClickFix social-engineering lures.
AmnesiaStealer is a Rust-based macOS infostealer that harvests passwords, keychain secrets, and browser data, and its new remote-control capability lets operators hijack authenticated sessions directly. macOS users should refuse ClickFix prompts that tell them to paste terminal commands.
Sources: BleepingComputer · ↑ top
Latest developments: Multiple large-scale distributed denial-of-service attacks hit the encrypted messenger Threema earlier this week, severely disrupting communications for its users.
Threema, the end-to-end encrypted messaging service, weathered repeated DDoS floods that degraded message delivery and connections. The attacks struck availability, leaving the app's encryption untouched while users saw delays and failures.
Sources: BleepingComputer · ↑ top
Latest developments: Anthropic confirmed a major outage on August 16, 2026, with users hitting login failures and degraded performance across multiple Claude services.
Anthropic's Claude assistant and related services went down, blocking logins and slowing responses for users worldwide. Anthropic acknowledged the disruption and has attributed no attack.
Sources: BleepingComputer · ↑ top
Latest developments: Wireshark shipped release 4.6.8 on August 16, 2026, fixing 28 vulnerabilities and 25 bugs in the packet analyzer.
Wireshark, the widely used open-source network protocol analyzer, released 4.6.8 to close 28 security flaws. Analysts and incident responders who run it should update to avoid exploitation through crafted capture files.
Sources: SANS Internet Storm Center · ↑ top
Latest developments: Trump on August 16 ordered the Pentagon to shrink planned joint military exercises with South Korea, tying the move to Seoul declining to help denuclearize Iran and to his rapport with North Korea's Kim Jong Un.
President Trump directed the Defense Department to reduce the long-running United States-South Korea joint exercises, calling them a hostile signal to Pyongyang; the pullback shifts Washington's posture toward a treaty ally while the Iran war continues.
Latest developments: Kyiv launched more than 600 drones at Moscow and Russian logistics on August 16, one of its largest assaults of the summer, killing at least six people in Russia.
Ukraine escalated its long-range drone campaign against the Russian capital and supply lines, deepening fears—underscored by NATO fighters downing a Russian drone over Romania—that the war could spill across Europe.
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Monday Night: Chance Showers And Thunderstorms then Patchy Fog, low 62F.
Latest developments: Kettle Cuisine LLC recalled its Marketside Tomato Bisque Soup Kit sold at Pennsylvania Walmart stores over possible Listeria monocytogenes contamination, the Food and Drug Administration announced.
Kettle Cuisine LLC pulled the Marketside-branded soup kit from Walmart shelves across Pennsylvania after tests flagged possible Listeria, a bacterium especially dangerous to pregnant women, older adults, and people with weakened immune systems.
Latest developments: The National Weather Service issued at least three tornado warnings across the Pittsburgh area on August 16 as severe thunderstorms knocked out power to thousands and flooded I-79 in Washington County.
Sunday storms swept Western Pennsylvania with damaging wind and downpours, driving West Penn Power outages, a flash flood warning for northern Washington County, and flooding along I-79; the weather service confirmed no tornado touchdowns as of Sunday evening.
Sources: KDKA · WTAE · WTAE · ↑ top
Latest developments: Tarentum closed its spray park until further notice after a vehicle crashed into the park's electrical panel and fencing, the borough announced August 16.
A vehicle struck and damaged the electrical panel and fencing at the Tarentum borough spray park in Allegheny County, forcing an indefinite closure at the height of summer.
Sources: TribLive · WTAE · ↑ top
Latest developments: The Greensburg Salem School District set its annual Back to School Bash for Tuesday, August 18, where families can meet the district's new superintendent.
Greensburg Salem in Westmoreland County will hold its Back to School Bash on Tuesday, August 18, giving students and parents a chance to meet the new superintendent before classes resume.
Latest developments: General manager Ben Cherington called Paul Skenes' 2026 an 'excellent year' even as the ace works through the worst stretch of his career, days after the Pirates pushed his next start to Wednesday for extra rest.
The Post-Gazette reported that Pirates GM Ben Cherington publicly defended Paul Skenes' season despite recent struggles, as the club manages the All-Star's workload and awaits the returns of Oneil Cruz and Griffin.
Sources: Post-Gazette Pirates · ↑ top
Latest developments: The Post-Gazette graded Mike McCarthy's first turn calling plays as Steelers head coach 'pretty impressive,' spotlighting the quarterbacks and running backs in his new offense.
In his preseason debut running the offense, Steelers head coach Mike McCarthy earned praise from the Post-Gazette for a scheme that opened cleaner looks for the passers and backs.
Sources: Post-Gazette Steelers · ↑ top
Latest developments: The Post-Gazette reported that linebacker Elandon Roberts, reunited with coordinator Patrick Graham, has energized the Steelers' run defense, and his edge helped spark the camp's most physical practice on August 16.
Veteran linebacker Elandon Roberts, back with defensive coordinator Patrick Graham, is toughening Pittsburgh's run defense at Latrobe; Sunday's session turned into training camp's most physical, with tempers flaring.
Sources: Post-Gazette Steelers · Post-Gazette Steelers · ↑ top
Latest developments: The United States men repeated as flag football world champions on August 16, while the U.S. women lost the final to Canada; Mexico's women and Canada's men clinched berths for the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics.
At the flag football world championships, the United States men successfully defended their title and the U.S. women fell to Canada, as the sport handed out its first LA28 Olympic qualifying spots to Mexico's women and Canada's men.
Sources: ESPN Olympics · ↑ top
Latest developments: The 1996 United States women's Olympic basketball team entered the Hall of Fame on August 15, three decades after its gold-medal run in Atlanta helped launch the WNBA.
The 1996 U.S. women's Olympic team, whose home-soil gold gave momentum to the new WNBA and revived American dominance in the sport, was inducted into the Hall of Fame.
Sources: Guardian Olympics · ↑ top
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