Author: HackWatchit

each day a little more while working with LangGraph. Let’s face it: since LangChain is one of the first frameworks to handle the integration with LLMs, it took off earlier and became kind of a go-to option when it comes to building production-ready agents, whether you like it or not. LangChain’s younger brother is LangGraph. This framework uses a graph notation with nodes and edges to build the applications, making them highly customizable and very robust. That is what I am enjoying so much. At first, some notations felt strange to me (maybe it’s just me!). But I kept digging…

In brief Ethereum hit a new all-time high on Friday, but Arthur Hayes thinks it is going much higher. The BitMEX founder upped his price prediction to $10,000-$20,000 this cycle. The prediction is fueled by his anticipation that Trump’s administration will adopt major quantitative easing. After setting a new all-time high price on Friday, Ethereum could still have a long way to run—at least, according to one of the crypto industry’s most outspoken backers.BitMEX founder Arthur Hayes has upped his Ethereum price target again, this time suggesting that the second largest crypto asset could jump to as high as $10,000…

Colt Discloses Breach After Warlock Ransomware Group Puts Files Up for Sale Pierluigi Paganini August 22, 2025 Colt Technology Services confirmed a data breach by the WarLock ransomware group; the company is working to restore disrupted systems. Colt Technology Services confirmed that threat actors breached its systems and stole some data. The telecoms company is working to restore disrupted systems. Colt, officially known as Colt Technology Services Group Limited, is a multinational telecommunications company headquartered in London, United Kingdom. It was founded in 1992 as City Of London Telecommunications and initially focused on building a telecoms network in London. Over time,…

Kidney dialysis firm DaVita has confirmed that a ransomware gang that breached its network stole the personal and health information of nearly 2.7 million individuals. DaVita serves over 265,400 patients across 3,113 outpatient dialysis centers, 2,660 in the United States, and 453 centers in 13 other countries worldwide. The company reported revenues of over $12 billion in 2024 and of $3.3 billion for the second quarter of 2025. In April, the healthcare provider revealed in a filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) that its operations were disrupted after attackers partially encrypted its network over the weekend. According…

Star Trek’s fictional Dr. “Bones” McCoy may have had a tricorder, but NASA astronauts could soon have something almost as futuristic and real: An artificial intelligence (AI)-powered medical assistant that can diagnose and help treat illnesses millions of miles from Earth. Google and NASA are testing the “Crew Medical Officer Digital Assistant,” an AI-powered system to help astronauts with their healthcare needs during extended space missions to the moon, Mars or even farther out, according to a Aug. 7 Google blog post. Such long-range missions can experience a lag in communications with those on Earth. “Currently, low Earth orbit missions…

feeling when everything seems to be working just fine, until you look under the hood and realize your system is burning 10× more fuel than it needs to? We had a client script firing off requests to validate our prompts, built with async Python code and running smoothly in a Jupyter notebook. Clean, simple, and fast. We ran it regularly to test our models and collect evaluation data. No red flags. No warnings. But beneath that polished surface, something was quietly going wrong. We weren’t seeing failures. We weren’t getting exceptions. We weren’t even noticing slowness. But our system was…

Claroty, a cyber-physical systems (CPS) protection company, announced the appointment of Gil Gur Arie as Chief Product Officer to lead the company’s product strategy and development, optimizing across the product, data, and R&D teams for execution at scale. Gur Arie joins Claroty after serving as Global Chief Data and Analytics Officer for Ford Motor Co., where he led large teams of data and AI experts, modernizing the operations of one of the world’s largest automotive manufacturers. Gur Arie brings vast experience in vision setting, strategy building, and execution across multiple domains, with hundreds of product deliveries and billions of dollars…

Fake CoinMarketCap journalist profiles used in spear-phishing target crypto execs via Zoom interviews, risking malware, data theft, and wallet loss. A new spear-phishing campaign is targeting executives in the crypto industry through fake interview requests. The attackers impersonate journalists affiliated with CoinMarketCap, using their active profiles on the company’s website to appear legitimate.  Real Identity, Real Risk   Threat intelligence analysts have identified a spear-phishing campaign aimed at executives in the crypto industry. The attacker uses the exact name and photo of a former CoinMarketCap contributor to establish trust. When contacted directly, the impersonated individual confirmed they are no longer affiliated with…

Here’s a look at the most interesting products from the past week, featuring releases from Doppel, Druva, LastPass, and StackHawk. StackHawk empowers security teams to expand their API testing coverage StackHawk releaseed LLM-Driven OpenAPI Specifications, a powerful new capability that creates API documentation directly from source code. With this new capability, StackHawk analyzes source code repositories, extracts API details using homegrown LLMs, and produces accurate OpenAPI specifications automatically. Doppel Simulation combats social engineering attacks Informed by real-world threats and built with autonomous AI phishing agents, Simulation generates customized, hyper-realistic scenarios tailored to each organization and employee role and behavior, making…