DAILYBRIEF

Your Wednesday intelligence

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22 July 2026
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SITE
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jazzmanhomelab.site

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CYBER
SECURITY

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Security 21 Jul 2026

Police dismantle Kratos phishing platform, arrest developer

Authorities in Germany and the U.S. dismantled the central infrastructure of Kratos, a phishing-as-a-service (PhaaS) platform with global reach, and its developer was arrested in Indonesia. [...]

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Security 21 Jul 2026

FakeGit campaign uses 7,600 GitHub repos to push SmartLoader malware

A large-scale operation dubbed 'FakeGit' is pushing SmartLoader and StealC malware through 7,600 malicious GitHub repositories that accumulated more than 14 million downloads. [...]

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Security 21 Jul 2026

Critical SharePoint RCE flaw exploited to steal machine keys

Hackers are actively exploiting the critical CVE-2026-50522 vulnerability in Microsoft SharePoint to steal machine keys and maintain access even after affected servers are patched. [...]

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Security 21 Jul 2026

Anubis ransomware claims Coca-Cola Fairlife attack, threatens data leak

The Anubis ransomware gang has claimed responsibility for the cyberattack on Coca-Cola's Fairlife dairy subsidiary, threatening to publish allegedly stolen corporate data unless the company pays a ransom. [...]

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AI
NEWS

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AI 21 Jul 2026

Neill Blomkamp’s new zombie AI ‘film’ is just slop warmed over

On Monday, District 9 and Gran Turismo director Neill Blomkamp unveiled his latest project: a 13-minute sci-fi short titled Nightborne that's loosely based on Peter Watts' 2014 novel Echopraxia. The short comes from Blomkamp's new AI startu

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AI 21 Jul 2026

OpenAI says it accidentally hacked Hugging Face with a new AI system

OpenAI says its AI models mistakenly breached open-source AI platform Hugging Face during internal testing. In a blog post on Tuesday, OpenAI writes that GPT-5.6 Sol and "an even more capable pre-release model" discovered vulnerabilities wi

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AI 21 Jul 2026

Substack adds an AI detector to help spot blogs written by no one

Substack will now help users determine whether what they're reading may have been written by AI. A new tool coming to the platform can scan posts, notes, replies, and comments to provide an estimate of how much text could be AI-generated or

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AI 21 Jul 2026

Anthropic’s $1.5 billion book piracy settlement approved by judge

A federal judge has signed off on Anthropic's $1.5 billion class action settlement with authors who accused the company of training its AI models on copyrighted books, as reported earlier by Reuters. In an order on Monday, Judge Araceli Mar

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GLOBAL TECH
NEWS

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Tech 20 Jul 2026

Samsung Galaxy Unpacked July 2026: How to watch

Samsung's next Galaxy Unpacked event is just around the corner, and the company is expected to take the wraps off a bunch of new devices. Based on the rumors and leaks we've seen so far, Samsung's next generation of foldables will likely be

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Tech 21 Jul 2026

Peak Design’s modular Field Bracket has a finder tag built-in

I am a very clumsy man. So clumsy, that I have AirTags hanging off practically every camera I own. Have I left my camera in an Uber? Yes. Have I left it on an airplane? Also yes. For me, finder tags are essential for my cameras. The problem

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Tech 21 Jul 2026

Nearly every Kindle is steeply discounted at Best Buy

If you’ve been thinking about picking up a Kindle before school starts, or for your next vacation, now’s a good time to do it. As part of its Black Friday in July sale, Best Buy has brought the Kindle Paperwhite back down to its all-time lo

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SA TECH
NEWS

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SA Tech 21 Jul 2026

Minister rejects allegation that firm with access to 500 government computers poses cyberespionage threat

An Umkhonto Wesizwe MP has questioned whether the Department of Forestry, Fisheries, and the Environment conducted national security assessments before granting a firm with "known cyberespionage capabilities" access to South African systems

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SA Tech 20 Jul 2026

One threat that infiltrated the ANC, Anglo American, Mediclinic, South African Airways, and Pick n Pay

Ransomware Live data showed that since 2025, there have been at least 21 notable cyberattacks against South African organisations.

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SA Tech 20 Jul 2026

South African industrial giant that makes chemicals targeted by one of the world’s most notorious ransomware groups

DragonForce, one of the world's most notorious ransomware groups, claimed to have attacked a major South African chemicals manufacturer, but the company said it found no evidence of a breach.

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SA Tech 19 Jul 2026

One of South Africa’s largest technology distributors suffers crippling network outage allegedly due to cyberattack

Rectron experienced a network outage that caused it to close all of its offices nationwide.

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GAUTENG
TECH EVENTS

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Meetup Browse

Meetup.com — JHB & PTA Tech

AWS user groups, cybersecurity circles, Microsoft tech communities and dev meetups across Johannesburg and Pretoria.

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Conference Browse

Quicket — Gauteng Tech Events

Tech conferences, IT seminars, startup pitch nights and innovation events happening across Gauteng.

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Community Browse

Eventbrite — Gauteng IT & Cyber

Workshops, webinars and in-person networking events for IT professionals in the Gauteng region.

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