The cycle is over. For years, cybersecurity followed a familiar pattern: defenses improved, attackers adapted, and the back-and-forth continued. Today, AI-equipped attackers are simply outpacing defenses. Most intrusions now bypass endpoint and malware-based detection entirely. The CrowdStrike Global Threat Report…
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Police Dismantle Kratos Phishing Kit Built to Steal Microsoft 365 Sessions and Bypass MFA
German and US law enforcement have taken down the core infrastructure of Kratos, described by German investigators as one of the world’s most widely used criminal phishing kits, and Indonesian authorities arrested the man they say developed and ran it.…
OpenAI Says Its AI Models Escaped Sandbox, Targeted Hugging Face to Cheat Benchmark
OpenAI on Tuesday said a combination of its artificial intelligence (AI) models, including GPT-5.6 Sol and an “even more capable pre-release model,” was behind the security incident that targeted Hugging Face’s production infrastructure last week. The AI company said the…
Microsoft Azure DevOps MCP Flaw Lets Hidden PR Comments Hijack AI Review Agents
A single invisible comment in an Azure DevOps pull request can turn a reviewer’s own AI coding agent against them, driving it into projects the attacker has no rights to reach and quietly leaking what it finds. The flaw is…
Trojanized Newtonsoft.Json Fork Hides Game-Rigging Code in a Working Library
Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a NuGet typosquat that’s unlike the typical information-stealing malware distributed via package registries: usual info-stealers: it’s designed to rig live game results on Digitain. The package, named “Newtonsoftt.Json.Net,” masquerades as the Newtonsoft.Json library and is a…
Apple Fixes Hide My Email Bug That Exposed Real Addresses in Mail Logs
Apple has moved to address a security flaw in its Hide My Email service that enabled users’ real email addresses to be unmasked, effectively undermining the feature’s privacy guarantees. 404 Media reported Tuesday that a fix for the issue was…
Google Launches Gemini 3.5 Flash Cyber AI to Find and Fix Software Vulnerabilities
Google’s DeepMind on Tuesday announced the release of Gemini 3.5 Flash Cyber, a specialized artificial intelligence (AI) model built atop 3.5 Flash that’s designed to discover, validate, and patch vulnerabilities quickly and efficiently. According to the tech giant, the model…
AWS Kiro Flaw Let a Poisoned Web Page Rewrite Its Config and Run Code
Hidden text on a web page was enough to make Kiro, AWS’s agentic coding IDE, rewrite its own configuration file and run an attacker’s code on a developer’s machine, with no approval step able to stop it. Intezer, in research…
Critical SharePoint RCE CVE-2026-50522 Under Active Exploitation After Public PoC
A third SharePoint Server flaw patched by Microsoft as part of its Patch Tuesday update for July 2026 has come under active exploitation, per watchTowr. The vulnerability in question is CVE-2026-50522 (CVSS score: 9.8), a critical deserialization of untrusted data…
Zimbra Patches Critical SNMP Command Injection and Four XSS Vulnerabilities
Zimbra has rolled out fixes to address multiple critical security issues, including a command injection flaw in the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) monitoring component. As many as nine security vulnerabilities have been patched in Zimbra 10.1.20. Topping the list…
Qilin Ransomware Attackers Exploit PAN-OS Authentication Bypass for Initial Access
Threat actors have been observed exploiting a now-patched high-severity Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS vulnerability as an entry point to deploy Qilin (aka Agenda) ransomware on victim environments. Arctic Wolf Labs said it investigated multiple intrusions in June 2026 that began…
New Bit2Watt Attack Could Let Cloud Tenants Disrupt Power Grids Without an Exploit
A cloud tenant using nothing but ordinary GPU access can push a data center’s power draw up and down fast enough to threaten the grid it runs on, with no exploit and no break-in. That is the claim behind Bit2Watt,…
N-day is Becoming N-Hour. Patching Faster Won’t Save You.
Every patch is a confession. The moment a vendor ships a security fix, the diff between the old code and the new code tells anyone watching exactly what was broken and where. Turn that diff back into a working exploit,…
Open-Source Android AI Agents Could Let Invisible Screen Text Run Code on Host PCs
An Android app that can draw over other windows and write to shared storage can slip instructions to the AI agent driving that phone, in text no human eye will ever see. Two more steps, and the same app is…
WordPress wp2shell Exploitation Grows as Public Exploit Fuels Mass Scanning
Attackers have begun to exploit two critical vulnerabilities in WordPress that, when combined together, enable unauthenticated remote code execution (RCE) and complete compromise of vulnerable websites. The two security flaws, tracked as CVE-2026-63030 and CVE-2026-60137, have been codenamed wp2shell. “By…
Critical ServiceNow AI Platform Flaw Exploited for Unauthenticated Code Execution
Threat actors are now exploiting a recently disclosed critical security flaw impacting ServiceNow AI Platform, according to Defused Cyber. In a post shared on X, the threat intelligence firm said it’s observing in-the-wild exploitation of CVE-2026-6875 (CVSS score: 9.5), a…
New ENCFORGE Ransomware Targets AI Model Files in Langflow RCE Attack
Researchers at Sysdig have linked a second attack on the same Langflow server to JADEPUFFER, the AI-agent-driven operator it first documented earlier this month. The same operator has now been spotted deploying ENCFORGE, a new compiled Go ransomware designed to…
FakeGit Campaign Uses 7,600 GitHub Repositories to Spread SmartLoader Malware
Cybersecurity researchers have discovered nearly 7,600 malicious GitHub repositories, out of which more than 800 pose as artificial intelligence (AI) skills or Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers to deliver a malware family known as SmartLoader as part of an ongoing…
Exposed Server Reveals AI-Assisted Phishing Toolkit Behind WebDAV Malware Campaign
A malware operator left its delivery server wide open, and Rapid7 pulled down the whole toolkit: 1,048 files spanning lure templates, filename-spoofing tests, execution experiments, droppers, builder notes, and two campaign chains. One was already live against Windows users in…
HollowGraph Malware Hides C2 and Stolen Files in Microsoft 365 Events Dated 2050
A newly discovered espionage implant has been using a hijacked Microsoft 365 calendar as its command channel, planting operator instructions and smuggling out stolen files as attachments on calendar events dated to the year 2050. Group-IB, which named the malware…