As of Thursday, July 2, 2026, the AI cybersecurity threat landscape is showing elevated activity across 147 tracked stories. The dominant themes today are Vulnerabilities & CVEs (41 stories), AI & LLM Threats (39 stories), and Data Breaches (20 stories). AI and LLM-based threats are particularly active with 39 stories covering topics such as prompt injection, model exploitation, deepfake campaigns, and AI-assisted attack tooling. 20 CVEs are being tracked across today's stories, including CVE-2026-45659, CVE-2026-46817, CVE-2026-50548, CVE-2026-50549 and 16 more. Each CVE badge below links directly to the NVD advisory. ⚠️ 27 stories involve critical severity, active exploitation, or zero-day conditions. Security teams should prioritize review of flagged items and verify patch status immediately.
Researchers say credentials harvested from hundreds of thousands of FortiGate firewalls are being used to facilitate ransomware attacks by the INC and Lynx operations. The post FortiBleed Campaign Linked to INC, Lynx Ransomware Attacks appeared first on…
Cloudflare introduced new controls that let website owners manage AI traffic across three categories: Search, Agent, and Training. The feature is available to all Cloudflare customers, including those on the Free plan, and gives website owners more control…
Microsoft has fixed a known issue causing the Copilot Chat or Copilot buttons in Classic Outlook to disappear for Windows users with the Copilot Chat (Basic) license. [...]
Bitdefender researchers warned of curious ransomware campaign which has targeted businesses around the world
Cisco confirmed that attackers are now exploiting a Unified Communications Manager (Unified CM) vulnerability patched in early June. [...]
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…
Anthropic said Tuesday night that its AI model called Claude Fable 5 is now widely available. The post Trump Administration Lifts Restrictions on Anthropic’s Claude Models After Cybersecurity Alarm appeared first on SecurityWeek .
CISA warned on Wednesday that attackers have begun exploiting a high-severity Microsoft SharePoint remote code execution vulnerability patched in May. [...]
A PoC exploit has been available since public disclosure, and the first exploitation attempts were observed last week. The post Cisco Confirms In-the-Wild Exploitation of Unified CM Vulnerability appeared first on SecurityWeek .
Researchers show how context manipulation can cause agentic browsers to abandon safety guardrails and exfiltrate sensitive credentials. The post ‘BioShocking’ Attack Tricks AI Browsers Into Stealing Credentials appeared first on SecurityWeek .
FortiBleed exposed 430,000 FortiGate firewalls, linked to INC Ransom and Lynx, enabling domain compromise and at least 12 ransomware attacks. SOCRadar’s Threat Research Unit has connected FortiBleed, a large-scale campaign that harvested credentials from over…
CISA says threat actors are exploiting a recently patched SharePoint remote code execution vulnerability (CVE-2026-45659). The post CISA Warns of Actively Exploited Microsoft SharePoint Vulnerability appeared first on SecurityWeek .
Adobe fixed multiple critical flaws, including max severity bugs in ColdFusion and Campaign Classic that could lead to remote code execution Adobe has released security updates for ColdFusion and Campaign Classic, fixing multiple critical vulnerabilities,…
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 recently discovered financially-motivated FortiBleed campaign has been attributed to INC and Lynx ransomware operations, indicating that the verified, stolen credentials were intended for follow-on intrusions. "An operator tied to FortiBleed's…
Opera has launched Paste Protect, a clipboard protection feature designed to prevent clipboard-based attacks such as hijacking and pastejacking. Paste Protect includes built-in protection and warnings against ClickFix-based cyberattacks, which accounted for…
Attackers are hiding a data-stealing trojan inside fake exploit code aimed at the people who hunt bugs for a living. The malware, called ChocoPoC, travels in Python proof-of-concept (PoC) repositories on GitHub that claim to exploit hot new CVEs. Run one, and…
In this interview with Help Net Security, IGEL CTO Matthias Haas explains why backups alone do not equal recovery. He makes the case that endpoint recovery is often overlooked, leaving organizations exposed when thousands of devices go down at once. Haas…
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Wednesday added a high-severity flaw impacting Microsoft SharePoint Server to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, citing evidence of active exploitation. The vulnerability,…
Hacking gear that once sat in well-funded labs now ships to anyone with a credit card and a video tutorial. Frank Riccardi builds his consumer guide, CTRL+ALT+PWN: The Hacker’s Playbook (And How to Beat It), on that one condition. He spent twenty-five years…
Open-source maintainers are receiving more vulnerability reports than they can act on, and a rising share now comes from an AI system working at machine speed. Over roughly two months this spring, Anthropic’s Claude Mythos Preview combed through more than…
Healthcare device firm Medtronic is notifying affected customers about a data breach that exposed their personal data to an unauthorized third party. [...]
A complaint unsealed this week accuses a 19-year-old of participating in incidents including a breach of a "luxury-jewelry retailer" in 2025.
Oracle E-Business Suite flaw CVE-2026-46817 is under active attack, with about 950 vulnerable internet-facing instances still exposed. This week, Defused Cyber researchers warned that a critical vulnerability in Oracle E-Business Suite, tracked as…
Microsoft's new Teams admin policy requires organizer approval for external AI bots, giving organizations greater visibility and control over automated participants in sensitive meetings. The post Microsoft Adds New Teams Controls to Block Unauthorized AI…
Modern phishing, business email compromise, and account takeover attacks increasingly exploit trusted identities and legitimate business workflows, making them harder for traditional email defenses to detect. This webinar explores how behavioral AI can help…
Two flaws in Cursor, an AI code editor, could let a single, ordinary-looking prompt break out of the editor's safety sandbox and run any command on a developer's computer. There is no click to fall for and no approval box to ignore. Cato AI Labs found the…
Securonix said the Veil#Drop campaign abuses Google Blogspot to deliver PureLog Stealer in memory
FortiGuard says the Brazilian banking trojan Ousaban is targeting Spain and Portugal via phishing
Anthropic said export controls on certain models had been lifted after the company came to a series of agreements with the government.
Aflac's Tokyo arm and brewer Sapporo are among the major Japanese companies to recently notify the public about data breaches.
Cybersecurity researchers have flagged a new malware artifact generated using DeepSeek that constructed a novel attack path combining "unrealistic browser-malware concepts with a real browser capability" to turn it into a working ransomware technique that…
Netzilo has announced expanded AI agent governance and runtime enforcement capabilities for Amazon Bedrock AgentCore and other major AI agent harnesses. As enterprises move AI agents from experimentation into production, agents are becoming a new enterprise…
The new classifier in Fable 5 blocks the jailbreak technique that prompted the US export controls “in over 99% of cases”
From model selection and automation to validation and measurable results, the right questions can help enterprises separate genuine AI capabilities from marketing hype. The post Frontier AI: Six Questions Every Enterprise Should Ask Security Vendors appeared…
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.
Researchers found a shell injection flaw in 10 of 11 popular open-source AI agents, allowing attackers to bypass command filters. Adversa AI just published a survey, titled “GuardFall: a universal shell injection vulnerability in open-source AI agents,” of…
Large language models keep inventing web addresses that do not exist. Attackers have started buying those made-up domains before anyone else can, then hosting phishing pages on them to catch traffic that AI tools point their way. Palo Alto Networks' Unit 42…
Anthropic is putting Claude Fable 5 back online worldwide. On June 30, the U.S. Commerce Department lifted the export controls it had imposed on Fable and its more tightly controlled sibling Mythos 5 about two and a half weeks earlier. Fable 5 returns to…
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…
CIA Director John Ratcliffe said artificial intelligence capabilities are "akin to digital nuclear weapons.”
New Microsoft research shows how attackers can hijack AI agents that act on a user's behalf, using nothing more than a poisoned tool description to make the agent quietly hand over company data to an outsider. The trick is that the agent never breaks a rule.…
Threat actors are continuing to exploit a critical Langflow vulnerability as part of fresh attacks designed to deliver a Monero cryptocurrency miner. The activity has been found to weaponize CVE-2026-33017 (CVSS score: 9.3), an unauthenticated remote code…
The safety check that is supposed to stop an AI coding agent from running a dangerous command can be walked straight past using a shell trick that has been public for decades. New research from Adversa AI, which is named the bypass GuardFall, found it works…
Researchers tested 444 AI chatbot apps for iPhone and found that 282 of them, nearly two-thirds, exposed paid AI access through their network traffic. In many cases, the path in was visible just by watching what the app sent: a plaintext API key, a reusable…
Convince an AI browser that it is playing a game, and it can hand over your login details. That is the finding behind BioShocking, a technique from security firm LayerX that tricked six AI browsers and assistants into copying a user's credentials and sending…
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.
Microsoft has found a malicious Chrome extension that posed as the AI search engine Perplexity and quietly logged what people searched for. It routed every query and every character typed into the address bar through an attacker-controlled server before…
Apple on Monday released security updates for iOS, macOS, and the Safari web browser to address over three dozen flaws, including four vulnerabilities in WebKit that were discovered using artificial intelligence (AI) tools like Anthropic Claude and OpenAI…
OpenAI is previewing its GPT-5.6 Sol model to a vetted few at the US government's request
This week was a reminder that attackers do not always need big tricks. One small mistake, one old access path, one missed patch, and suddenly the door is open. The noise is not all noise, either. Forums are talking, researchers are finding easy cracks, and…
Experts warn the Jaguar Land Rover breach bears hallmarks of Kremlin-backed hackers, citing novel ransomware, strategic timing and efforts to obscure attribution
OpenAI on Friday released three versions of GPT-5.6, called Sol, Terra, and Luna, as a limited preview to a small number of companies as part of an ongoing engagement with the U.S. government. While Sol is the latest flagship model and the most powerful,…
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
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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
The US government crackdown on Anthropic’s Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5 hides a glaring truth: AI models with advanced hacking capabilities will soon be the norm.
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
Plus: AI bug hunting fuels Microsoft’s biggest-ever Patch Tuesday, ShinyHunters ransomware gang exploits an Oracle zero-day, and more.
A WIRED investigation found dozens of “nudified” deepfake images and videos on Grok's website, including nonconsensual depictions of celebrities and at least one prominent US politician.
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
A cybercrime group known as The Gentlemen has emerged as the second most active ransomware gang by victim count, rapidly attracting a talented pool of hackers through an aggressive recruitment strategy that promises affiliates 90 percent of any ransom paid by…
Anthropic unveils Claude Mythos 5 and Fable 5, a restricted-access frontier AI model and guardrailed version for everyone to use
Microsoft today released software updates to plug nearly 200 security holes across its Windows operating systems and supported software, a record number of fixes for the company's monthly Patch Tuesday cycle. Nearly three dozen of those bugs earned…
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
Artificial intelligence platforms may be just as susceptible to social engineering as human beings, but they are proving remarkably good at finding security vulnerabilities in human-made computer code. That reality is on full display this month with some of…
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
Marsh’s 2026 People Risks survey finds cyber‑related challenges dominate, as cyber‑threat literacy tops risks and cyber and AI skills shortages rise
Researchers uncover a malicious npm dependency linked to an AI‑assisted code commit that steals sensitive data and exposes crypto wallets
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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.