As of Saturday, June 13, 2026, the AI cybersecurity threat landscape is showing elevated activity across 141 tracked stories. The dominant themes today are AI & LLM Threats (41 stories), Vulnerabilities & CVEs (38 stories), and Data Breaches (15 stories). AI and LLM-based threats are particularly active with 41 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-2026-20253, CVE-2026-35273, CVE-2026-10520, CVE-2026-50751 and 16 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.
By default, npm install will no longer execute scripts from dependencies, unless explicitly allowed. The post NPM 12 Will Change Script Execution Behavior to Prevent Supply Chain Attacks appeared first on SecurityWeek .
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…
Splunk has released security updates to address a critical security flaw in Splunk Enterprise that could be exploited to conduct unauthenticated file operations and even remote code execution. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-20253, is rated 9.8 on the…
Plus: AI bug hunting fuels Microsoft’s biggest-ever Patch Tuesday, ShinyHunters ransomware gang exploits an Oracle zero-day, and more.
The US government has ordered Anthropic to block all foreign nationals from accessing Fable 5 and Mythos 5, forcing the company to suspend both models worldwide. Anthropic is complying but disputes the basis, calling the cited jailbreak narrow and the…
U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) adds Oracle PeopleSoft Enterprise PeopleTools flaw to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) added Oracle PeopleSoft Enterprise…
Anthropic takes Fable 5 and Mythos 5 offline to comply with a directive from the Trump administration to prevent use by foreign nationals. The post Anthropic Says It Has Taken Its Latest AI Models Offline to Comply With New Export Controls appeared first on…
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…
Pro-Iran group Handala breached Cal Water via an exposed GPS tool, reaching billing data for 2M customers. 5GB leaked. On June 11, 2026, the Iran-linked threat group Handala posted a claim on its blog that it had compromised California Water Service, known as…
Maine has taken its public data breach reporting portal offline after fraudulent breach disclosures were published on the state's website, prompting a review of procedures to prevent abuse in the future. [...]
Attackers took over more than 400 packages in the Arch User Repository (AUR) this week and rewrote their build scripts to install a credential stealer on any machine that built them. The malware is a Rust binary built to harvest developer secrets. When it…
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…
U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) adds Ivanti Sentry flaw to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) added Ivanti Sentry flaw, tracked as CVE-2026-10520 (CVSS…
A 10-year-old authentication bypass vulnerability discovered in the phpBB forum software allows an attacker to log in as any user, including administrators. [...]
Instead of hiding on the laptops and servers defenders watch most closely, a China-nexus group spent close to a decade hidden inside the Linux login system itself. Sygnia, which tracks the group as Velvet Ant, says it backdoored the PAM and OpenSSH components…
A Ukrainian national extradited from Ireland to the United States last year has pleaded guilty to conspiracy charges tied to the Conti ransomware operation. [...]
About 7 million customers of the genetics testing company had their data stolen by hackers starting in April 2023, and many had their information posted on the dark web.
Other noteworthy stories that might have slipped under the radar: ICS device exposure remains flat as attack surface widens, Microsoft issues incident response playbook for AI, IBM and AT&T accused of hack cover-ups. The post In Other News: Google Security…
The penalty is the largest ever issued by the commission for a personal data breach, surpassing the record 134.8 billion won ($88.8 million) fine levied against SK Telecom earlier this year.
Domain of dark web money laundering platform AudiA6 seized and suspects arrested in joint operation by the FBI, Europol and others
NPM, part of GitHub, announced a new version of the npm package manager with several security improvements, including disabling install scripts
Google has filed a lawsuit against Outsider Enterprise, a China-based cybercrime network for using AI tools, including Gemini, to build phishing websites and scam infrastructure. The company said the operation has affected “hundreds of thousands of victims,”…
Industry professionals comment on various aspects of Fable 5, including dual-use capabilities, safeguards, and tiered access. The post Industry Reactions to Claude Fable 5: Feedback Friday appeared first on SecurityWeek .
WatchTowr researchers have disclosed a technical analysis and a “Detection Artefact Generator” for CVE-2026-50751, an authentication bypass flaw in Check Point’s Remote Access VPN and Mobile Access, which the vendor confirmed to be actively exploited. The…
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…
The hackers published 5GB of data, including customer personal information and credentials for the RTKBase platform. The post Iranian Cyber Group Handala Claims Cal Water Hack appeared first on SecurityWeek .
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…
Phishing activity declined by roughly 20% in both 2024 and 2025, according to research from Zscaler’s ThreatLabz team. The drop followed years of growth that pushed phishing activity above 2 billion hits in 2023. “Phishing volume measured by blocked emails is…
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…
An AI hacker claims to have achieved a prompt-based jailbreak shortly after Fable 5’s launch, but Anthropic says it’s not a real jailbreak. The post Anthropic Disputes Fable 5 AI Jailbreak appeared first on SecurityWeek .
An international law enforcement operation has dismantled a cryptocurrency laundering service linked to ransomware groups and other cybercriminals that processed more than €336 million in illicit funds. The domain seizure notice (Source: Europol) Europol said…
Security leaders no longer need convincing that AI agents introduce risk. What’s missing is how to govern them once they move into production and begin operating autonomously across enterprise environments. AI agents already read sensitive documents, invoke…
ZeroFox launched ZeroFox AI Analytics, a new platform capability that gives security teams real-time visibility into the signals, patterns, and trends shaping their external threat landscape. ZeroFox AI Analytics gives security teams the ability to move…
Data centers built for frontier AI draw hundreds of megawatts of electricity and large volumes of cooling water from fixed locations with known addresses. Each one concentrates tens of thousands of graphics processors, liquid cooling systems, and high-density…
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…
An amendment by Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) to the chamber’s fiscal 2027 national defense authorization bill that would have created the digital-focused service was defeated 14-13 when the Senate Armed Services Committee took up the nearly $1.2 trillion…
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…
New revelations by Group-IB expose the full scale of the decade-old SniperDz phishing operation
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…
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Monday added a high-severity flaw impacting BerriAI LiteLLM to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, citing evidence of active exploitation. The vulnerability, tracked as…
This diary continues the Internet Storm Center&#;x26;#;39;s tracking of the TeamPCP supply chain campaign, first documented in the SANS white paper When the Security Scanner Became the Weapon and most recently in the handler diary…
OpenAI brings Lockdown Mode and Active Sessions to ChatGPT to curb prompt injection data theft
Phishing has always been a numbers game. AI has turned it into a volume machine. Attackers can now create convincing emails, fake login pages, and tailored lures in minutes. Every polished message adds another case for Tier 1 to review, another link to…
Monday again. The weekend was meant to be quiet. It wasn't. Last week had poisoned packages, a broken AI helper, and a worm tearing through repos. The ugly part: basic tricks still worked. A chatbot got fooled. A bot token got leaked inside the malware. The…
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
OpenAI has begun rolling out a new Lockdown Mode to ChatGPT for eligible personal accounts to reduce the risk of data exfiltration arising from prompt injection attacks. The feature is primarily designed for people and organizations that handle sensitive data…
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.
A researcher has reverse-engineered the iOS SDK that Bright Data embeds in consumer apps and documented how it turns devices, including always-on smart TVs, into exit nodes that relay web-scraping traffic for a data business Bright Data markets heavily to the…
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
GrafanaGhost chains AI prompt injection and URL flaws to exfiltrate sensitive Grafana data
Cryptocurrency scams alone cost victims over $7 billion, while AI-enabled fraud threats are on the rise, says FBI
<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.