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Tropical Storm Isaias intensified into a hurricane in the Gulf as of Wednesday evening, prompting Alabama and Florida to declare states of emergency on Thursday. Several live tracking tools are now available online to follow the storm's projected path toward the Gulf Coast.
Hurricane Isaias is forecasted to produce a storm surge of up to seven feet along the Gulf Coast, accompanied by strong winds and heavy rains. Authorities warn residents of potential flooding, tornadoes, and dangerous conditions in the affected areas.
Tropical Storm Isaias, currently near hurricane strength with 65 mph winds, is moving in the Gulf of Mexico and is forecast to intensify into a hurricane before landfall between Mississippi and Florida. The US National Hurricane Center has issued hurricane watches for parts of Mississippi, Alabama, and the Florida Panhandle, warning of heavy rain, storm surge, and possible tornadoes.
Meteorologists say Tropical Storm Isaias is tracking toward the Gulf Coast and could strengthen into a hurricane before making landfall this weekend. Forecasters warn the storm may bring dangerous storm surge, flash flooding, and high winds to affected areas.
A low pressure system in the western Gulf of Mexico is forecast to strengthen into a tropical storm, with forecast models giving it a decent chance of reaching hurricane strength. No hurricane has formed in the Atlantic yet this season, which would be unprecedented in the modern record dating to World War II, when aircraft and satellite monitoring began.
A developing storm in the Gulf of Mexico has a high probability of intensifying into a hurricane within the next two days, according to weather models. Forecasters indicate it is likely to make landfall along the U.S. coast.
A Tom's Hardware reader, Anthony DeMarco, says the 12V-2x6 power connector on his $5,245 Digital Storm Corsa prebuilt melted weeks after he began using it, despite the PC having sat boxed and unused for roughly a year after purchase. The system, built around an Nvidia RTX 5090 and a 1,000-watt Digital Storm power supply, reportedly suffered the worst damage at the PSU itself, with cables fused into the connector.
Symantec and Carbon Black researchers say the China-linked Warlock group, also tracked as Longlegs, has compromised a water utility, a telecom provider, a regional government body and a university by exploiting on-premises SharePoint vulnerabilities, including the ToolShell exploit chain. In one July 22 intrusion, the attacker disabled security software on roughly 40 hosts within two hours and deployed Warlock ransomware to at least 33 machines, using a signed but vulnerable driver to kill endpoint defenses.
Symantec reports that the Warlock ransomware group, also tracked as Longlegs or Storm-2603, has recently focused attacks on organizations in Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking countries. Over the past two months the group hit four high-value targets: a water utility, a telecom provider, a regional government body, and a university, gaining initial access via Microsoft SharePoint vulnerabilities including the ToolShell exploit chain.
Microsoft Threat Intelligence disclosed a previously unknown modular backdoor called NeedyMantis, active since at least October 2025, used in targeted intrusions against telecoms, universities, medical nonprofits, intergovernmental bodies and government contractors. The malware was found while investigating the DAEMON Tools supply chain compromise reported by Kaspersky in May, and Microsoft has linked some activity to a China-based actor it tracks as Storm-3069, though not all deployments are attributed to that group.
Microsoft Security Research reported that a threat actor it tracks as Storm-3168, also known as JadePuffer, compromised two legitimate Azure service principals belonging to one tenant and used them to map the victim's environment before launching an automated destruction campaign against storage, applications, databases and backup controls. The attack, which occurred in early June, involved one account spending over 15 hours on reconnaissance while a second executed rapid, wide-ranging discovery and destructive operations within seconds. Microsoft said the pattern matches ransomware or extortion tactics but noted it did not observe a ransom note or confirm data theft.
Microsoft Security Research documented two June attacks by a threat actor it tracks as Storm-3168, using compromised service principals to map Azure resources, steal storage account keys, and delete over 100 storage accounts along with Key Vaults, Function Apps, Virtual Machines and App Services within a seven-minute destructive phase. Some accounts survived due to Azure resource locks and storage-level protections, and attempts to delete Azure SQL databases failed. The attacker also removed Azure Site Recovery locks that normally protect backup and recovery capabilities.