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Malicious MCP Servers Can Split Instructions to Make AI Coding Agents Exfiltrate Secrets
A malicious tool server connected to an AI coding assistant can quietly walk off with SSH keys, environment secrets, source code, and customer data…
Researchers Turn USB Auto-Install Into a Full SYSTEM Takeover on Windows 11
Windows Plug and Play can be abused to fetch signed vendor software for an emulated USB device and execute privileged installation components that…
Hackers Breach Polish Power Plant Controls via Private Cellular Network and Shut Turbine
Attackers shut down a steam turbine and the process-water treatment system at a Polish combined heat and power plant by coming in over the private…
BdThemes Supply Chain Attack Poisons JSON to Create Rogue WordPress Admins
Cybersecurity researchers have warned of a supply chain compromise impacting WordPress plugin vendor BdThemes, prompting the content management systems…
Attackers Exploit SharePoint Authentication Bypass After Public PoC Release
Threat actors have begun to exploit a newly disclosed Microsoft SharePoint vulnerability following the release of a proof-of-concept (PoC) code. The…
Kimsuky Builds Offline AI Stack to Boost Phishing and Automate Malware Development
North Korea’s state hackers are no longer content to type prompts into public chatbots. One of the country’s main espionage groups has begun running…
Shipping 10–50× More Code? Watch This Webinar on Securing AI-Speed Development
AI is helping development teams produce far more code, far faster. But security teams still have to review vulnerabilities, manage dependencies,…
TrueConf Server Flaws Exploited to Replace Client Installers with PhantomCore
The threat actor known as Head Mare has been observed weaponizing security flaws in unpatched TrueConf servers once again in attacks targeting Russian…
Lazarus Exploits Windows Zero-Day to Gain SYSTEM Access and Deploy Backdoor
The North Korean threat actor known as Lazarus Group has been attributed to the zero-day exploitation of a newly patched security flaw impacting Microsoft…
New Passkey Attacks Can Recover Synced Private Keys or Bypass Phishing-Resistant MFA
Three separate research efforts last week demonstrated ways to defeat passkey protections without breaking the cryptography they rest on. Passkeys are…
737 Chrome VPN Extensions Caught Routing Traffic Through Proxies. Check If You Have One
A massive set of 737 free VPN and proxy extensions have been found to mainly target Russian-speaking users seeking access to blocked services with an aim…
Solidity Pro VS Code Extensions Steal Crypto Wallets, API Keys, and Credentials
Cybersecurity researchers have flagged a malicious Microsoft Visual Studio Code (VS Code) extension named Solidity Pro (“solidity-pro”) that has been…
OpenAI’s Next AI Model Astra Shows Cyber Performance Strong Enough to Trigger Pause
OpenAI has announced that it’s pausing some “internal activities” involving its upcoming artificial intelligence (AI) model Astra after an internal…
Enterprise Defenses Recovered at the Edge and Collapsed Inside
Enterprise defenses are tuned to catch the attacks that make noise. This year’s data shows attackers winning by making none. According to Picus Labs’ new…
OpenAI, Anthropic, Google API Flaw Let Weaker AI Models Decode Stronger Models’ Reasoning
A newly disclosed flaw in the way OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google carried hidden AI reasoning between API calls let researchers recover internal reasoning…
Adobe Patches Three CVSS 10.0 ColdFusion and Campaign Classic Flaws
Adobe has shipped updates to address multiple critical security vulnerabilities impacting ColdFusion, Commerce, and Campaign Classic that, if successfully…
Gunra Ransomware Exploits Fortinet FortiOS, FortiProxy Flaws to Breach Networks
Cybersecurity and intelligence agencies from South Korea and the U.S. warned of Gunra ransomware attacks targeting critical infrastructure sectors and…
Attackers Exploit VMware vCenter Vulnerability to Gain Persistent Remote Access
Threat actors have begun to actively exploit a recently patched critical security flaw in Broadcom VMware vCenter, according to new findings from QUIRSO.…
Malicious LiteLLM Releases Tied to Trivy Hack May Have Exposed 2,100+ Organizations
Two malicious LiteLLM releases sat on PyPI for about 40 minutes in March carrying credential-stealing code capable of harvesting cloud keys, SSH keys,…