As of Tuesday, June 16, 2026, the AI cybersecurity threat landscape is showing elevated activity across 144 tracked stories. The dominant themes today are AI & LLM Threats (39 stories), Vulnerabilities & CVEs (39 stories), and Data Breaches (18 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. 17 CVEs are being tracked across today's stories, including CVE-2026-20262, CVE-2026-54420, CVE-2026-5027, CVE-2021-22681 and 13 more. Each CVE badge below links directly to the NVD advisory. ⚠️ 25 stories involve critical severity, active exploitation, or zero-day conditions. Security teams should prioritize review of flagged items and verify patch status immediately.
Cyberattacks against hospitality, travel, and recreation organizations rose 24% year over year, reaching an average of 2,291 incidents per organization each week in May 2026, according to Check Point. (Source: Check Point) “The sector has more than doubled…
The North Korean state-sponsored hacking group known as ScarCruft (aka APT37) has been observed using spear-phishing messages impersonating Microsoft Account security notifications to deliver malware called NarwhalRAT. "The attack email contained a message…
China’s UNC6508 hid in North American medical research networks for 2 years, stealing credentials and forwarding emails to Gmail Google’s Threat Intelligence Group published a report this week on UNC6508, a China-linked cyberespionage group that breached…
Digital healthcare company iRhythm Holdings has disclosed a data breach after hackers stole patients' personal and health information stored on third-party-hosted business applications. [...]
Cisco recently became aware of the exploitation of CVE-2026-20262, a Catalyst SD-WAN Manager zero-day that allows arbitrary file write. The post Cisco Patches Another SD-WAN Zero-Day Exploited in Attacks appeared first on SecurityWeek .
Cisco has released security updates for a medium-severity security flaw in Catalyst SD-WAN Manager that has come under active exploitation in the wild. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-20262, carries a CVSS score of 6.5 out of 10.0. "A vulnerability in…
In this interview with Help Net Security, Oscar Andersson, CTO at Oplane, explains why most scanning tools fail. They cry wolf, flagging threats that cannot run in real code. The argument centers on reachability. A finding counts only when someone walks the…
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has added a security flaw impacting LiteSpeed cPanel Plugin to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, requiring Federal Civilian Executive Branch (FCEB) agencies to apply the fixes…
Over recent years we’ve witnessed the EU becoming increasingly serious about cybersecurity. After years of watching high profile breaches, many resulting from supply chain attacks targeting our critical infrastructure, that seriousness is welcome. But good…
In the latest episode of Identity Insider, I sat down with Chris Hughes, a cybersecurity expert who’s involved in OWASP’s work on non-human and machine identity security. Unsurprisingly, our discussion centered on the rapidly changing cybersecurity landscape,…
Across large enterprises, a single question keeps surfacing when teams want to put customer data to work. Can this record be used for a given purpose, and does the consent behind it still hold? The data sits in warehouses and customer databases, and the…
Android Vulnerability Researcher Byteria | USA | Remote – View job details As an Android Vulnerability Researcher, you will analyze the Android attack surface, including the Linux kernel, system services, drivers, firmware, applications, and Trusted Execution…
The U.S. Department of Justice announced Friday that it has seized the CFAKE.com and SOCFAKE.com websites, which allegedly hosted nonconsensual AI-generated nude images and videos of women, in what appears to be the first publicly announced domain seizure…
A vulnerability in the SimpleHelp remote management software allows unauthenticated attackers to create privileged technician accounts on servers using the OpenID Connect (OIDC) authentication protocol. [...]
Mackay Sugar, Australia’s second-largest sugar producer, disclosed a cyberattack on June 10, potentially affecting key processing operations. Mackay Sugar is one of Australia’s largest sugar producers and the country’s second-largest sugar manufacturer. The…
Maine is still allowing companies to report breaches, but won’t make the portal easily available to the public until after it completes an audit of its procedures to stop such incidents, according to a press release from the Maine attorney general’s office.
Cisco has released security updates to address a vulnerability in the Catalyst SD-WAN Manager, tracked as CVE-2026-20262, that was exploited in attacks to escalate to root privileges. [...]
Tampered OptinMonster and sister plugins plant hidden backdoors on 1.2 million WordPress sites
A default low-privilege account on a LiteLLM proxy can climb to full admin and run code on the server by chaining three vulnerabilities, researchers at Obsidian Security disclosed LiteLLM is a widely deployed open-source AI gateway that brokers calls to more…
How the Anubis ransomware group stole and leaked an Italian Adriatic port authority's data
Mackay Sugar was targeted in a cyberattack carried out by a threat group known as The Gentlemen. The post Ransomware Attack Shuts Down Mills of Australia’s Second-Largest Sugar Producer appeared first on SecurityWeek .
A single click on a trusted Microsoft link could have let an attacker pull emails, calendar details, and indexed files out of Microsoft 365 Copilot Enterprise Search. Researchers at Varonis Threat Labs chained three bugs into a one-click exfiltration path…
According to customer complaints, the disruption affected a range of services used by businesses, leading to interruptions in cash register operations, difficulties selling certain regulated goods, loss of access to customer portals and corporate email and…
Delinea and Cyera announced a product integration that connects privileged access to sensitive data exposure, automatically correlating identities with the data they can access. Together, Delinea and Cyera help security teams identify, prioritize, and…
Google’s Threat Intelligence Group has been tracking the cyberespionage group as UNC6508 since early 2025. The post Chinese Hackers Target Medical, Military, and AI Research in North America appeared first on SecurityWeek .
Employees are increasingly building automations, agents, and apps with AI tools outside traditional security oversight. Tines explores how CISOs are handling AI-driven code sprawl, shadow tooling, and governance challenges. [...]
Stuff broke again. Not in a movie way. An old tool was left exposed. An abandoned package was abused. A deprecated feature was still running in prod. This week is the same lesson in a new form: phishing kits are easier to rent, AI names are useful bait, old…
Novo Nordisk suffered a cyberattack where clinical trial data was copied. The breach is confirmed, but no threat actor has claimed responsibility. The Danish pharmaceutical giant Novo Nordisk disclosed a cybersecurity breach that resulted in unauthorized…
A critical vulnerability chain dubbed SearchLeak in Microsoft 365 Copilot Enterprise could allow attackers to steal sensitive data from a target's mailbox, OneDrive, or SharePoint account through a specially crafted URL. [...]
The startup has built a security-first identity platform to protect humans, machines, and AI agents. The post NewCore Emerges From Stealth Mode With $66 Million in Funding appeared first on SecurityWeek .
According to the company, the directive cited national security authorities. It appears to be the first time such authorities have been used to curtail the export of AI models rather than chips or hardware.
Modern phishing, BEC, and account takeover attacks increasingly bypass traditional email defenses and create operational strain for security teams. This webinar explores how behavioral AI can help automate detection, investigation, and remediation to reduce…
Oleksii Oleksiyovych Lytvynenko admitted to working on the development of a loader for the Conti gang. The post Ukrainian Man Pleads Guilty in US to Conti Ransomware Charges appeared first on SecurityWeek .
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
The Office of the Maine Attorney General has suspended its breach reporting portal
The Gentlemen ransomware used infostealer credentials, AI tools, and affiliates to hit 483 victims across 66 countries in under a year. The Gentlemen surfaced as a ransomware operation in September 2025 and by June 13, 2026 had listed 483 victims on their…
In a coordinated effort, the FBI, working with Google and Black Lotus Labs, has dismantled a massive Chinese phishing-as-a-service operation called Outsider Enterprise with thousands of phishing websites used to steal credit card data and passwords. [...]
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Anthropic disputes restrictions on Mythos 5 and Fable 5, arguing the decision lacks transparency and isn’t based on clear technical evidence. On Friday June 12 at 5:21pm ET, Anthropic received a letter from the US Commerce Department, signed by Commerce…
Plus: AI bug hunting fuels Microsoft’s biggest-ever Patch Tuesday, ShinyHunters ransomware gang exploits an Oracle zero-day, and more.
Anthropic said on Friday it will "abruptly disable" its most advanced artificial intelligence (AI) models, Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5, for all users after the U.S. government ordered it to suspend access to the models for foreign nationals, whether inside or…
Google on Friday said it's pursuing legal action against a Chinese cybercrime network, accusing it of using its Gemini artificial intelligence (AI) agent to send phishing text messages targeting Americans. The network is said to be behind the development and…
Cybersecurity researchers have described what they say is a new class of attack that can trick artificial intelligence (AI) coding agents into running arbitrary code on developer machines. Called Agentjacking by Tenet Security, the attack can be triggered by…
For most of the past decade, managed detection and response was the answer to a real problem. Security teams couldn't staff around the clock, couldn't hire enough analysts, and needed someone else to handle the alert queue. MDR stepped in. It worked well…
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of three now-patched security flaws impacting LangGraph, including a critical vulnerability chain that could result in remote code execution. LangGraph is an open-source framework created by LangChain to build…
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.
Two security teams have shown, in separate research published this week, that OpenClaw, the popular self-hosted AI agent, can be driven to run attacker-controlled code or hand over sensitive data through ordinary-looking inputs. Imperva buried instructions…
Fake AI guides hide a multi-stage chain that drops AsyncRAT, with signs of AI-assisted coding
It's been one of those weeks. You expect the usual noise: recycled malware, sloppy attacks, another easy target getting hit. Instead, there's a supply chain attack kit in a public repo, a $5,000-a-month RAT that clones browsers, and research showing AI agents…
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
The new open-source project could serve as the basis for a future of apps with features as complex as Slack, Discord, or Google Docs—but with added protection against surveillance.
For thirty years, vulnerability management ran on a buffer: the months between when a vulnerability was found and when someone could figure out how to weaponize it. The solution was straightforward enough; triage by severity, schedule the fix, validate, and…
Tenet Security researchers reveal how new “agentjacking” attacks could trick coding agents into executing arbitrary code
“Defenders cannot afford to take weeks to patch,” one Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency official warned on Wednesday.
A high-severity security flaw in Langflow, an open-source low-code platform to build artificial intelligence (AI) applications, has come under active exploitation in the wild, according to findings from VulnCheck. The vulnerability in question is…
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
On June 9, Anthropic released Claude Fable 5, the most capable model it has ever made, generally available. It also did something unusual: it shipped one model as two products, split not by capability but by a layer of safety classifiers. Fable 5 goes to the…
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…
Microsoft today released patches for 204 vulnerabilities. 38 of these vulnerabilities are considered critical, and three have been disclosed before today. Six of the vulnerabilities affect Microsoft cloud solutions and do not require any user action. In…
Meta on Tuesday announced that it will use information shared by other businesses to personalize users' feed and responses from its artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot, expanding its scope beyond targeted ads. "Businesses often share information about…
Anthropic is releasing Claude Mythos 5 to trusted organizations and Claude Fable 5 to the public, a version it says can’t be used for cyberattacks.
Most dev teams use AI coding assistants but only 30% have full governance in place
University of Toronto researchers have built and tested a proof-of-concept AI-driven computer worm that uses a locally hosted open-weight large language model to reason its way through a network, generate tailored attack strategies for each target it…
Organizations have more visibility than ever. Growing tech stacks provide greater coverage, and network security teams are increasingly adopting AI and automation to help with routine tasks and reduce manual effort. But the same challenges persist. Outages…
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
Plus: Hackers use Meta’s AI bots to hack Instagram accounts, Anthropic helps NSA hackers, a decades-long GPS satellite mystery may have been solved, and more.
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
Four people suing Elon Musk's AI firm under pseudonyms due to the risks of being identified may face a difficult choice: Reveal your real names, or drop the lawsuit.
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
Authorities in the Netherlands have arrested the co-owners of two related Internet hosting companies for operating IT infrastructure used by Russia to carry out cyberattacks, influence operations and disinformation campaigns inside the European Union. The two…
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
AI tools are not just creating new vulnerabilities, they are reviving old security failures, warned Jurgen Kutscher, VP of Mandiant Consulting
Google Cloud’s COO advocated for combining general-purpose frontier large language models with task-specific AI agents
Google Cloud will attribute a unique cryptographic ID every AI agent that will be tied to “traceable and auditable” authorization policies
Forcepoint has found 10 new indirect prompt injection attacks targeting AI agents
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Data exposure, operational disruption and financial losses among issues faced by businesses struggling with the rapid rise of AI agents, warns Cloud Security Alliance report
AI models are making rapid gains in vulnerability research and exploit development, raising new cybersecurity risks, a Forescout study finds
OpenAI’s new frontier model focused on cybersecurity comes following Anthropic’s launch of Claude Mythos Preview and Project Glasswing
At VulnCon, Lindsey Cerkovnik, head of vulnerability management at CISA, said AI companies should play a bigger role in vulnerability disclosures in the future
The AISI has issued its judgement on Anthropic’s Mythos Preview model
SANS Institute reveals that AI agents are behind a 76% surge in non-human identities
Google API key flaw exposes mobile apps to Gemini AI access, private files and billing risks
Anthropic launches Project Glasswing, using its Claude Mythos Preview AI to autonomously identify and fix undiscovered vulnerabilities in critical software
Anthropic’s Claude AI has helped researchers find a vulnerability in Apache ActiveMQ Classic
<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.