As of Wednesday, July 8, 2026, the AI cybersecurity threat landscape is showing elevated activity across 139 tracked stories. The dominant themes today are AI & LLM Threats (37 stories), Vulnerabilities & CVEs (34 stories), and Nation-State / APT (15 stories). AI and LLM-based threats are particularly active with 37 stories covering topics such as prompt injection, model exploitation, deepfake campaigns, and AI-assisted attack tooling. 18 CVEs are being tracked across today's stories, including CVE-2026-50746, CVE-2026-55255, CVE-2026-20896, CVE-2026-46242 and 14 more. Each CVE badge below links directly to the NVD advisory. ⚠️ 22 stories involve critical severity, active exploitation, or zero-day conditions. Security teams should prioritize review of flagged items and verify patch status immediately.
Sophos looked at a week of its own endpoint data and found that AI coding agents such as Claude Code, Cursor, and OpenAI Codex are setting off detection rules written to catch human intruders. The agents are not malicious. They just do a lot of things that,…
A company based in Taiwan was leasing out accounts on the popular LINE messaging app to Chinese spies, according to prosecutors, who charged two men in the alleged scheme.
The professional services giant says it contained the incident, remediated its source, and experienced no operational or service delivery impact. The post Accenture Confirms Data Breach After Hacker Claims Source Code Theft appeared first on SecurityWeek .
Cisco says the threat actor behind the LapDogs campaign has expanded its SOHO router malware toolkit with LongLeash, DogLeash, and JarLeash backdoors. The post China-Linked APT Expands Arsenal With New ‘Leash’ Backdoors appeared first on SecurityWeek .
AI coding assistants have a habit of making things up. Ask one to fetch a popular tool, and it will sometimes hand back a real-sounding name for a project that does not exist. New research, which its authors call HalluSquatting, turns that habit into an…
Ubiquiti has shipped updates to address multiple critical security flaws impacting UniFi Connect, UniFi Talk, UniFi Access, UniFi Protect, and UniFi OS that could result in privilege escalation and arbitrary command execution. The list of vulnerabilities is…
Cisco Talos said China-linked APT UAT-7810 is growing its proxy relay network with new malware
The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) is warning about yet another Langflow vulnerability (CVE-2026-55255) leveraged by attackers in the wild. The flaw was added to the agency’s Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog on Tuesday, July…
Blackpoint Cyber has unveiled the generally available autonomous response capability, Blackpoint AI SOC Agent for identity threat detection and response (ITDR). Using an AI + human hybrid model, the AI SOC Agent acts on high-confidence threats targeting…
First Recon AI has announced the public launch and general availability of First Recon’s AI Security Runtime, a security platform that both governs and secures how enterprises use artificial intelligence across an organization. First Recon’s runtime inspects…
Join the webinar as we break down why email-layer defenses alone can’t keep pace with the modern phishing ecosystem. The post Webinar Today: Why Email Security Keeps Failing appeared first on SecurityWeek .
The communication, adopted in Strasbourg on July 7, is built around three pillars: making frontier AI “safe, accessible and deployable” for European cybersecurity, preparing the EU’s cyber ecosystem and scaling European AI capabilities.
A recent EvilTokens campaign targeting businesses across the US and Europe is exposing a new email security blind spot. This “ghost phishing” technique keeps the malicious page hidden until it decrypts and comes to life inside the victim’s browser. For…
A new banking fraudulent operation is targeting customers of Mexican banks, fintech, payment processors, and cryptocurrency exchanges using ClickFix lures. The activity cluster, tracked by Elastic Security Labs under the moniker REF6045, involves infecting…
A cybersecurity startup dangling millions of dollars to acquire zero-day security vulnerabilities in popular software is run by a pair of far-right conspiracy theorists and convicted felons whose most recent ventures included fake intelligence companies and a…
Sygnia report details how agentic AI accelerated weeks-long attack to just 72 hours
Attestiv announced the launch of DeepScan, a new platform built to help organizations automatically validate submitted files before they drive critical business decisions. DeepScan represents a major architectural shift for Attestiv and its customers: moving…
The "Rogue Agent" vulnerability could have enabled attackers to silently manipulate AI conversations, exfiltrate data, and compromise every Dialogflow CX agent within the same Google Cloud project. The post Google Dialogflow CX Bug Allowed Attackers to Hijack…
Accenture appears to have suffered a data breach, the extent of which is currently unknown. On Monday, a threat actor going by the handle “888” posted on the cybercrime forum PwnForums, claiming to have breached the technology consulting company and stolen…
An AI coding assistant that refuses to answer a dangerous request in its chat box can answer it anyway if the same request is broken into small, ordinary-looking steps inside a code editor. That is the finding of a new study of GitHub Copilot by researchers…
RedWing: The Android Banking Trojan You Can Rent on Telegram for Less Than a Coffee Subscription Zimperium’s zLabs team has uncovered RedWing, an Android spyware operation sold as a subscription service through Telegram, with links to Russian threat actors…
Cyber threat actors are infecting victims with the Vidar stealer and the XMRig cryptocurrency miner in a new malicious campaign
Researchers show how attackers can use a crafted public GitHub Issue to trick AI-powered workflows into exposing data from private repositories without authentication. The post Critical Vulnerability Exposes GitHub Agentic Workflows to Prompt Injection…
Crusoe has announced Serverless Fine-Tuning and Self-Serve Deployments in Crusoe Intelligence Foundry, the managed AI platform for Crusoe Cloud. These capabilities give data scientists and ML engineers a complete path from proprietary data to production-ready…
Automox has released Automox MCP Server 2.2, adding interactive review surfaces, first-class Patch by Severity policy creation, and live capability discovery to its governed agentic interface for endpoint operations. The release advances Automox MCP beyond…
U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) adds Adobe ColdFusion, Joomlack Page Builder, Langflow, and JoomShaper SP Page Builder flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency…
The National Cyber Security Centre wants to work with AI partners to build a new “Cyber Shield” to defend the UK
CISA is using Anthropic’s Mythos AI to scan federal code for vulnerabilities, aiming to find flaws before hackers and foreign intelligence services. Three sources familiar with the matter told Reuters that CISA, the U.S. government’s civilian cyber defense…
Attackers are exploiting a critical Gitea flaw (CVE-2026-20896) that bypasses authentication with a single HTTP header, exposing repositories and sensitive data. Sysdig researchers warn that attackers are actively exploiting a critical authentication bypass…
A suspected Chinese threat cluster is exploiting Roundcube vulnerabilities to compromise university networks in the US and Canada and harvest user credentials
A public issue can trick GitHub Agentic Workflows into leaking the contents of an organization's private repositories, researchers at Noma Security have shown. The attacker needs only to open a normal-looking issue on a public repository, with no stolen…
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a now-patched critical session isolation vulnerability in Writer, an enterprise generative artificial intelligence (AI) platform, that could result in cross-tenant compromise. The one-click vulnerability has…
The audits are reportedly being spearheaded by CISA’s Attack Surface Evaluation team, a specialized unit tasked with conducting digital defense assessments and simulated hacking exercises. The post CISA Reportedly Using Anthropic’s Mythos to Scan Government…
Software supply chain security was hard enough. Then AI joined the build pipeline. For five years, "software supply chain security" meant one question: what's in your code? Which open-source packages, which versions, which transitive dependencies three layers…
Armored Likho APT uses AI-generated malware, phishing, and BusySnake Stealer to target governments and power grids in Russia, Kazakhstan, and Brazil. Kaspersky’s threat research team has documented a previously unknown APT group they’re calling Armored Likho,…
Zscaler found sites hiding prompt-injection text to manipulate AI agents into crypto payments
Hidden prompts on malicious websites trick AI agents into making payments or trusting fake sites, exposing new risks for autonomous AI workflows. Zscaler ThreatLabz documented two active campaigns that embed hidden instructions in web pages to manipulate AI…
A streaming box should not need a threat model. Neither should a username field, a demo repo, a reset flow, or a browser permission prompt. That is the irritating part this week: the risky pieces were ordinary. Home devices became a routing cover. Clean code…
Building a shortlist for an AI SOC evaluation can be tough. SIEM, SOAR, and pureplay AI SOC vendors are all saying the same thing. But behind the identical label sit very different products, from chat assistants bolted onto a legacy SIEM to agent platforms…
The Office of Professional Responsibility has opened more than 100 cases over what ICE officials call “incidents of doxing and threats” against ICE employees.
IWF and NCA warn that growing numbers of images and videos are being manipulated into sexual abuse material
Researchers have revealed JadePuffer, the first agentic AI-powered ransomware campaign, highlighting how autonomous agents can automate cyber-attacks
Scanners meant to catch malicious add-on "skills" for AI coding agents can be fooled by a few simple changes that leave the malware working, according to a new study from researchers at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. Their strongest trick…
A newly disclosed Linux kernel flaw called Bad Epoll (CVE-2026-46242) lets an ordinary user with no special access take full control of a machine as root. It affects Linux desktops, servers, and Android, and a fix is out. Bad Epoll sits in the same small…
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) said today it worked with industry partners to seize hundreds of domains associated with NetNut, a sprawling residential proxy service operated by the publicly-traded Israeli company Alarum Technologies [NASDAQ:…
This week’s security news is mostly about weak spots. Browsers, bots, sandboxes, AI systems, and email flows all show the same problem in different ways. Everything looks normal until someone tests a small gap and finds a way through. This is not one big…
Identity lifecycle management was architected around a person with an employment record, a manager, and a departure date. AI agents have none of those. As autonomous principals proliferate across enterprise environments, the governance model built for humans…
Security firm Sysdig says it has found what it believes is the first ransomware attack run from start to finish by an AI agent. Its Threat Research Team calls the operator JADEPUFFER and says a large language model handled the whole job: breaking in, stealing…
The new classifier in Fable 5 blocks the jailbreak technique that prompted the US export controls “in over 99% of cases”
A researcher found that using Anthropic’s Claude Opus 4.7, he could break into the website of Front Gate—used by every festival from Lollapalooza to Bonnaroo—and freely issue any ticket he chose.
This morning, an interesting phishing email hit my mailbox. It targets Metamask[ 1 ], a cryptocurrency wallet, available as a browser extension and a mobile app, that lets users store, send, and receive crypto money. It's pretty popular, so a…
Hundreds of contractors working on a project for Meta pretended to be kids in order to see how other chatbots like Gemini and ChatGPT would respond to high-risk subjects, WIRED found.
OpenAI is previewing its GPT-5.6 Sol model to a vetted few at the US government's request
Experts warn the Jaguar Land Rover breach bears hallmarks of Kremlin-backed hackers, citing novel ransomware, strategic timing and efforts to obscure attribution
Cobalt study finds 20-percentage-point drop in number of organizations relying solely on AI automation for testing
As UK police embrace the AI revolution, a WIRED investigation reveals the messy inside story of one region’s experiment with predictive analytics.
LayerX tricked AI browsers including ChatGPT Atlas and Comet into bypassing their guardrails
SentinelLabs found a North Korea-linked macOS backdoor using prompt injection on AI triage tools
New ReliaQuest study reveals the six ways AI is practically being used in attacks today
The private events group, cofounded by Peter Thiel, says a “criminal” hacker is behind a breach that exposed members’ personal details. WIRED found no evidence a break-in was needed to access the files.
OpenAI expanded Daybreak with a full GPT-5.5-Cyber release to help defenders patch software flaws
The Five Eyes Alliance has published a rare call to action for organizations facing AI threats
Amid concerns about AI models’ cybersecurity capabilities, OpenAI revealed an improved version of GPT-5.5-Cyber and its “Patch the Planet” initiative to fix open-source software bugs.
North Korean threat actor Sapphire Sleet has been linked to a supply chain attack targeting Mastra, according to Microsoft security researchers
From fake tickets to cloned websites, AI is magnifying World Cup scams. Can fans distinguish between what’s real and what’s not?
Working with frontier AI models, this new platform aims to help discovering, prioritizing, validating and remediating code vulnerabilities
For the past four years, a sprawling Android-based botnet called Popa has forced millions of consumer TV boxes to relay Internet traffic linked to advertising fraud, account takeovers, and mass data-scraping efforts. This week, researchers from multiple…
A Rust crypto clipper hides behind fake GitHub stars and AI-narrated YouTube videos
Analysis of chatter on underground forums by Sophos finds that hackers fear AI could take work away from them
Nisos infiltrated a North Korean IT-worker fraud cell running on AI interviews and a US laptop farm
The rise of AI-assistants and applications in the enterprise has seen a 93% increase in employees attempting to upload sensitive data, bringing security challenges
Filigran survey at Infosecurity Europe 2026 reveals AI-powered attacks as the top concern, with false positives, alert fatigue and manual processes draining security teams
SANS Institute study finds few SOCs have built AI into defined workflows, despite widespread adoption
Athena is a new an industry coalition to fix the vulnerabilities frontier AI models find before attackers can exploit them
Access to two Anthropic large language models, Mythos 5 and Fable 5, has effectively been banned to any non-US nationals by the Trump administration
Government departments find hundreds of vulnerabilities after testing frontier models
Fake AI guides hide a multi-stage chain that drops AsyncRAT, with signs of AI-assisted coding
Organizations are aware of the challenges that new technologies like AI bring: but cybersecurity staff struggle to make time for the required training during working hours
Tenet Security researchers reveal how new “agentjacking” attacks could trick coding agents into executing arbitrary code
Anthropic unveils Claude Mythos 5 and Fable 5, a restricted-access frontier AI model and guardrailed version for everyone to use
Most dev teams use AI coding assistants but only 30% have full governance in place
OpenAI brings Lockdown Mode and Active Sessions to ChatGPT to curb prompt injection data theft
At Infosecurity Europe 2026, OWASP’s Ariel Fogel warned that prompt injection remains an “unresolved problem” within generative AI architecture
Meta confirms an AI tool vulnerability led to unauthorized access to Instagram accounts after a failure in email verification during password reset
Lloyds Banking Group shared its approach for securing agentic AI workflows, with a mix of hands on experimentation and cross functional governance
The OWASP agentic AI security framework helps organizations assess governance maturity vs adoption and adjust governance as needed
Ox Security field CTO, Boaz Barzel, makes the case for vibe security to tackle AI agent coding risks
Microsoft Detection and Response Team (DART) details how it has uncovered malicious AI applications as cyber criminals manipulate organizations adopting AI tools
A Bugcrowd researcher has unveiled ExploitBench, an independent benchmark of AI models for vulnerability exploitation
Proton uses machine learning models to detect abuse of its services – especially email addresses used by cybercriminals
Inaugural Infosecurity Europe Cyber Startup Award Winner Impresses Panel with Ability Help Prioritize Vulnerabilities in AI era
Trump's executive order invites voluntary pre-release review of frontier AI models
Anthropic widens Project Glasswing access to 150 more firms as patching becomes the bottleneck
The emergence of AI models capable to autonomously find and fix vulnerabilities at scale is having a significant impact on patching management, experts say
Halcyon’s Cynthia Kaiser lifts the lid on the dark web market for AI cybercrime tools
Humans still need to be part of cyber defense, but refusing to deploy AI is no longer optional against AI-enhanced cyber threats, warns Dataminr’s Joe Slowik
Bayer’s security awareness training now focuses on psychological approaches rather than technical methods for detecting social engineering
A threat actor used AI coding tools to build and test EDR evasion malware, Sophos finds
UK organizations are prioritizing AI-driven cybersecurity as 43% cite AI-powered attacks as their top risk, prompting significant investment in advanced threat defense
The Instagram accounts for the Obama White House and the Chief Master Sergeant of the U.S. Space Force were briefly defaced with pro-Iranian images and messages over the weekend, after instructions began circulating on Telegram showing how to trick Meta's "AI…
Top cybersecurity vendors said AI won't replace entry-level – only routine ticket-taking and triage
Push Security says threat actors are delivering malware hosted on chatgpt.com/s/ domain
OWASP’s new Agentic Research Council will aim to connect academic work to operational realities on agentic AI security
Sloppy AI-generated npm infostealer leaked its own GitHub token, exposing the operator
GCHQ director urges urgent business cyber action as AI and quantum reshape the threat
UK firms plan higher cyber spending as AI adoption raises security concerns
CERT-In urges 12-hour patching of exposed flaws as AI compresses exploitation timelines
The infostealer payload in this campaign collect a vast amount of data, from collaboration authentication keys to cryptocurrency wallets
AI risks threaten to permeate supply chains through unvetted code and unaudited suppliers
AI-powered vulnerability scanning leaves no excuse for unpatched bugs as the EU Cyber Resilience Act pushes firms toward secure-by-design software
Digital.ai data reveals 87% of apps were attacked over the past year
The UK’s National Cyber Security Centre is helping organizations to understand agentic AI security risks
The UK’s financial authorities have set expectations for the sector on cybersecurity and operational resilience
Semperis study finds 74% of organizations believe AI will increase attacks on identity infrastructure
The Information Commissioner’s Office has released new guidance on how to mitigate the risk of AI-powered attacks
The G7 Cybersecurity Working Group releases new SBOM for AI guidance, outlining seven key data clusters to boost transparency and security across AI supply chains
UK cybersecurity sector reaches £14.7bn in revenue, driven by rapid growth in AI security firms, increased investment and rising employment across the industry
With Daybreak, OpenAI wants its frontier AI models to be used to deploy secure by design software from the ground up
HiddenLayer reveals infostealer malware in a Hugging Face repository
Ontinue uncovers fake Claude Code installer pushing PowerShell stealer abusing Chrome's IElevator2
Google Threat Intelligence Group details how cybercriminals attempted to launch a campaign based around an AI-developed Zero-Day targeting open-source software
Traditional network security tools are undermining data protection, with Forrester and Capital One Software research warning AI adoption is impossible without rethinking data security
Oasis Security finds critical Cline kanban WebSocket flaw exposing AI coding agents to hijack
Commercial AI models were used to help plan and conduct cyber-attack against operational technology of a water and drainage facility, say researchers
Sophos finds fake Claude site spreading DonutLoader and a new Beagle backdoor via DLL sideloading
ISACA report warns that while AI has become the norm, many organizations are yet to formally apply safety or security policies around its use
OpenAI announced its intention to expand the Trusted Access for Cyber program for cyber defenders at the federal, state and local government levels
Claude Security enters public beta, giving enterprises AI driven code scanning with no API integration or custom agents required
A researcher from offensive security firm Theori has found a nine-year-old flaw in the Linux kernel with the help of AI
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<h2><strong>Advisory at a Glance</strong></h2> <table> <tbody> <tr> <th>Title</th> <td>Iranian-Affiliated Cyber Actors Exploit Programmable Logic Controllers Across US Critical Infrastructure</td> </tr> <tr> <th>Original Publication</th> <td>April 7,…
<h2><strong>Summary</strong></h2> <p><strong>Note:</strong> This joint Cybersecurity Advisory is being published as an addition to the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) May 6, 2025, joint fact sheet <a…
<h2><strong>Advisory at a Glance</strong></h2> <table> <tbody> <tr> <td>Executive Summary</td> <td>CISA began incident response efforts at a U.S. federal civilian executive branch (FCEB) agency following the detection of potential malicious activity…
<h2><strong>Executive summary</strong></h2> <p>People’s Republic of China (PRC) state-sponsored cyber threat actors are targeting networks globally, including, but not limited to, telecommunications, government, transportation, lodging, and military…
<h2><strong>Executive Summary</strong></h2> <p>This joint cybersecurity advisory (CSA) highlights a Russian state-sponsored cyber campaign targeting Western logistics entities and technology companies. This includes those involved in the coordination,…
2.5 million people were affected, in a breach that could spell more trouble down the line.
Researchers uncover a watering hole attack likely carried out by APT TA423, which attempts to plant the ScanBox JavaScript-based reconnaissance tool.
Over 130 companies tangled in sprawling phishing campaign that spoofed a multi-factor authentication system.