‘Dangerous’ AI Models Are Coming No Matter What

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.

India temporarily blocks Telegram over medical exam cheating fears

Authorities said scammers previously exploited the feature by posting fake exam questions before the test and later replacing them with the real questions, making it look like they had leaked the exam in advance.

Attackers are exploiting FortiSandbox vulnerabilities

Attackers have been spotted exploiting three vulnerabilities (CVE-2026-39813, CVE-2026-39808, CVE-2026-25089) in FortiSandbox, a platform that other Fortinet security products depend on for threat verdicts to enforce blocking decisions and trigger automated…

iRhythm Confirms Data Stolen in Hack

The digital health company said it learned of the breach on June 8 and the attackers demanded a ransom. The post iRhythm Confirms Data Stolen in Hack appeared first on SecurityWeek .

UK to require ID or face scan before you can make social media accounts

Opening a new social media account in the UK will soon mean proving you're over 16 with an ID upload or a facial age scan, under a government ban on under-16s taking effect in spring 2027. Security experts warn the age checks are easy to circumvent and create…

SprySOCKS Backdoor Expands From Linux to Windows

China-linked SprySOCKS backdoor gains stealthy Windows variants and 30-plus C2 commands

Cybercriminals mask malicious communications through Microsoft Teams relays

The DragonForce ransomware group used a custom malware called Backdoor.Turn to hide command-and-control traffic inside Microsoft Teams relay infrastructure during an intrusion at a U.S. services company, according to Symantec. DragonForce is a…

Fortinet Warned as Three Critical FortiSandbox Bugs Come Under Attack

Three FortiSandbox flaws, including one patched last week, are being actively exploited, highlighting the shrinking window for defenders. Cybersecurity firm Defused Cyber confirmed it’s seen active exploitation of three vulnerabilities in Fortinet…

GhostTree Attack Abused Recursive Windows Junctions to Hide Malware

GhostTree uses recursive NTFS junctions to generate vast numbers of valid Windows file paths. Varonis explains how the technique could cause Microsoft Defender folder scans to never complete, leaving malware undetected. [...]

TekStream launches Proactive Cyber Defense to counter AI-driven threats

TekStream has announced the launch of TekStream Proactive Cyber Defense, a new expert-operated security service powered by Cosmos, the company’s cyber defense intelligence platform. The launch comes as organizations face a rapidly changing threat landscape…

Magnitude Emerges From Stealth Mode With $10 Million in Funding

The company is enhancing third-party risk management (TPRM) through autonomous AI agents. The post Magnitude Emerges From Stealth Mode With $10 Million in Funding appeared first on SecurityWeek .

SimpleHelp RMM flaw could give attackers full access to managed endpoints (CVE-2026-48558)

A critical vulnerability (CVE-2026-48558) in SimpleHelp, a popular remote monitoring and management (RMM) tool, can be exploited remotely by unauthenticated attackers to create a new “Technician” account and use it to remote into managed endpoints, execute…

AI and Cybersecurity – Everything You Wanted to Know, But Were Afraid to Ask

From defending networks to enabling attacks, artificial intelligence is changing every aspect of cybersecurity. Here's what dozens of experts say security leaders need to understand now. The post AI and Cybersecurity – Everything You Wanted to Know, But Were…

New Rokarolla Android Malware Steals PINs, SMS Codes, and Crypto Wallet Funds

Security researchers at Zimperium's zLabs have documented a new Android banking trojan, Rokarolla, that targets 217 banking and cryptocurrency apps and packs 137 remote commands. Together, they give an operator near-total control of an infected phone: it…

AppViewX extends machine identity security to AI agents and post-quantum environments

AppViewX has announced Agent Identity Security, a new product within the AppViewX platform that discovers, governs, secures, and monitors AI agents across the entire enterprise. Agent Identity Security extends AppViewX’s platform, built on a decade of machine…

Teleport adds LLM Proxy and Delegated Identity to secure AI agent actions and access

Teleport has announced the debut of two foundational capabilities of its Agentic Identity Framework in the public beta of Beams: LLM Proxy and Delegated Identity. These capabilities address a critical gap in how organizations deploy AI agents: the lack of…

Radware AI Xploit Shield delivers virtual patching for newly identified application and API flaws

Radware has announced AI Xploit Shield, a new service that provides organizations with protection for their applications and APIs from exploitation of newly discovered vulnerabilities. As emerging frontier AI models like Mythos from Anthropic accelerate…

Survey: 94% of Incidents Involve Anonymized Infrastructure. Teams Are Still Reactive

Security teams have never had more IP data at their disposal. Every day, analysts ingest enrichment feeds, geolocation data, reputation scores, telemetry, and threat intelligence from a growing ecosystem of vendors and platforms. Yet despite this abundance of…

DragonForce Ransomware Exploited Microsoft Teams to Hide in Attack Against Major Company

Command and control traffic exploited a Teams visitor token to make malicious activity look legitimate to defenders

Chainguard, JPMorgan, BNY Team Up to Secure Open Source from AI Threats

Athena is a new an industry coalition to fix the vulnerabilities frontier AI models find before attackers can exploit them

CVE-2026-20262: CISCO Catalyst SD-WAN Flaw Under Active Targeted Exploitation

Cisco warned that CVE-2026-20262, a Catalyst SD-WAN Manager vulnerability allowing arbitrary file writes, is being actively exploited. Cisco confirmed active exploitation of CVE-2026-20262, an arbitrary file write vulnerability affecting Catalyst SD-WAN…

Atomic Arch Supply Chain Attack Hits 1,500 AUR Packages

Arch Linux suspended account registrations in response to the wave of malicious packages being uploaded to AUR. The post Atomic Arch Supply Chain Attack Hits 1,500 AUR Packages appeared first on SecurityWeek .

CISA warns of another cPanel plugin flaw exploited in attacks

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has given U.S. government agencies three days to secure their servers against an actively exploited vulnerability (CVE-2026-54420) in the LiteSpeed cPanel user-end plugin. [...]

Attackers Exploit Three Fortinet FortiSandbox Flaws, One Patched Last Week

Bad actors are exploiting multiple security vulnerabilities in Fortinet FortiSandbox, according to threat intelligence firm Defused Cyber. In a post shared on X, the company said it has observed exploitation of CVE-2026-39813, CVE-2026-39808, and…

U.S. CISA adds Cisco Catalyst and LiteSpeed cPanel plugin flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog

U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) adds Cisco Catalyst and LiteSpeed cPanel plugin flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) added Cisco Catalyst and…

DOJ seizes CFAKE, SOCFAKE deepfake nude sites under TAKE IT DOWN Act

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…

Maine closes data breach portal to the public after fake reports

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.

Attackers Hijack Popular WordPress Plugins to Deploy Backdoors

Tampered OptinMonster and sister plugins plant hidden backdoors on 1.2 million WordPress sites

LiteLLM Vulnerability Chain Lets Low-Privilege Users Take Over AI Gateway Servers

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…

One-Click Microsoft 365 Copilot Flaw Could Have Let Attackers Steal Emails, Files, and MFA Codes

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…

Cyberattack on Russian tech firm Astral disrupts business, government services for week

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…

Vibe coders are gonna vibe code: How CISOs are tackling code sprawl

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. [...]

⚡ Weekly Recap: Chrome 0-Day, UniFi Exploits, macOS Stealers, VPN Flaw and More

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…

Cybersecurity Experts Urge US to Lift Ban on Anthropic's Frontier AI Models

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

UK Government Finds 400+ Vulnerabilities in AI Hackathons

Government departments find hundreds of vulnerabilities after testing frontier models

Infostealers, AI, and a 90% Affiliate Cut Fuel The Gentlemen group’s Rise

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…

SECURITY AFFAIRS MALWARE NEWSLETTER ROUND 101

Security Affairs Malware newsletter includes a collection of the best articles and research on malware in the international landscape Malware Newsletter IronWorm: Shai-Hulud’s rustier cousin Trojanized ai-sdk-ollama Delivers Miasma, a Self-Replicating npm…

The FCC Wants to Kill Burner Phones

Plus: AI bug hunting fuels Microsoft’s biggest-ever Patch Tuesday, ShinyHunters ransomware gang exploits an Oracle zero-day, and more.

U.S. Orders Anthropic to Suspend Fable 5 and Mythos 5 Access for Foreign Nationals

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 Sues Chinese Smishing Network Accused of Using Gemini AI in Phishing

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…

Agentjacking Attack Tricks AI Coding Agents Into Running Malicious Code

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…

Rethinking MDR as Attackers and Defenders Embrace AI

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…

LangGraph Flaw Chain Exposes Self-Hosted AI Agents to Remote Code Execution

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…

Grok Is Still Hosting Sexualized Deepfakes of Famous Women

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.

New Attacks Trick OpenClaw AI Agent Into Running Code and Leaking Secrets

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…

Cybercriminals Use Fake AI Guides and Dev Tools to Spread AsyncRAT Malware

Fake AI guides hide a multi-stage chain that drops AsyncRAT, with signs of AI-assisted coding

ThreatsDay Bulletin: Worm Code Leaked, AI Agent Phished, Claude Code Patch + 28 New Stories

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…

Most Cybersecurity Teams Struggle to Find Time for Training on New Cyber Threats

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

Signal Alums Reveal ‘Encrypted Spaces,’ a System for Making Private Collaboration Apps

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.

AI Broke Vulnerability Management. That's Why CISOs Are Moving Budget to BAS.

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 “Agentjacking” Attacks Could Hijack AI Coding Agents

Tenet Security researchers reveal how new “agentjacking” attacks could trick coding agents into executing arbitrary code

CISA Tells US Agencies to Fix Security Bugs in as Little as 3 Days Thanks to AI Threats

“Defenders cannot afford to take weeks to patch,” one Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency official warned on Wednesday.

Langflow Vulnerability CVE-2026-5027 Exploited for Unauthenticated RCE

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…

Who Runs the Ransomware Group ‘The Gentlemen?’

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…

New Fable 5 Is a "Mythos-Class" LLM Available to All, Anthropic Announces

Anthropic unveils Claude Mythos 5 and Fable 5, a restricted-access frontier AI model and guardrailed version for everyone to use

Anthropic Releases Claude Fable 5, Its Most Powerful AI Yet, With Cyber Safeguards

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…

A Record-Breaking Patch Tuesday for June 2026

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 June 2026 Patch Tuesday, (Tue, Jun 9th)

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 to Use Off-Site Business Data for Feed and AI Personalization

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 Offers Mythos Upgrade for Cyber Partners and a ‘Safe’ Version for the Rest of You

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.

AI Coding Adoption Hits 97% but Governance Lags Behind

Most dev teams use AI coding assistants but only 30% have full governance in place

OpenAI Unveils ChatGPT Account Security Controls

OpenAI brings Lockdown Mode and Active Sessions to ChatGPT to curb prompt injection data theft

Infosecurity Europe: Prompt Injection Remains Unsolved, OWASP Researcher Warns

At Infosecurity Europe 2026, OWASP’s Ariel Fogel warned that prompt injection remains an “unresolved problem” within generative AI architecture

Meta AI Bug Exposes Over 20,000 Instagram Accounts

Meta confirms an AI tool vulnerability led to unauthorized access to Instagram accounts after a failure in email verification during password reset

Crypto-Funded Chinese Peptide Labs Are Booming

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.

Infosecurity Europe: Practical Lessons From Lloyds' Agentic AI Security Playbook

Lloyds Banking Group shared its approach for securing agentic AI workflows, with a mix of hands on experimentation and cross functional governance

Infosecurity Europe: OWASP Introduces Agentic AI Security Maturity Framework

The OWASP agentic AI security framework helps organizations assess governance maturity vs adoption and adjust governance as needed

Infosecurity Europe: AI Coding Tools Need Built-In Security for Agentic Development Era

Ox Security field CTO, Boaz Barzel, makes the case for vibe security to tackle AI agent coding risks

Infosecurity Europe: AI Adoption Creates New Opportunities for Attackers to Distribute Malware, Microsoft Warns

Microsoft Detection and Response Team (DART) details how it has uncovered malicious AI applications as cyber criminals manipulate organizations adopting AI tools

Infosecurity Europe: Mythos Outperforms GPT5.5 on Google Chrome Vulnerability Exploits, Says New Benchmark

A Bugcrowd researcher has unveiled ExploitBench, an independent benchmark of AI models for vulnerability exploitation

Infosecurity Europe: How Proton Fights Against Cybercriminals Using Its Services

Proton uses machine learning models to detect abuse of its services – especially email addresses used by cybercriminals

xAI Asks Court to Strip Alleged Grok Deepfake Nudes Victims of Anonymity

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.

Infosecurity Europe: Vulnerability Management Innovator Konvu Wins Cyber Startup Award

Inaugural Infosecurity Europe Cyber Startup Award Winner Impresses Panel with Ability Help Prioritize Vulnerabilities in AI era

Trump Signs Order Inviting Voluntary Review of Frontier AI Models

Trump's executive order invites voluntary pre-release review of frontier AI models

Anthropic Expands Mythos Access to 150 More Organizations

Anthropic widens Project Glasswing access to 150 more firms as patching becomes the bottleneck

Infosecurity Europe: Patch Responsibility Remains Up for Grabs as AI Unearths Decades of Flaws

The emergence of AI models capable to autonomously find and fix vulnerabilities at scale is having a significant impact on patching management, experts say

Infosecurity Europe: AI-Powered Cybercrime Tools Surge on Dark Web

Halcyon’s Cynthia Kaiser lifts the lid on the dark web market for AI cybercrime tools

Infosecurity Europe: Cybersecurity Teams Which Don’t Leverage AI are "Doomed to Fail"

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

Infosecurity Europe: Bayer Reinvents Security Awareness Training to Counter AI Threats

Bayer’s security awareness training now focuses on psychological approaches rather than technical methods for detecting social engineering

Threat Actor Uses AI to Build EDR Evasion Tools

A threat actor used AI coding tools to build and test EDR evasion malware, Sophos finds

Infosecurity Europe: UK Firms Prioritize AI Threat Preparedness as Cyber Risks Evolve

UK organizations are prioritizing AI-driven cybersecurity as 43% cite AI-powered attacks as their top risk, prompting significant investment in advanced threat defense

Hackers Used Meta’s AI Support Bot to Seize Instagram Accounts

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…

Infosecurity Europe: AI SOCs Will Still Need SOC Analysts, Security Vendors Say

Top cybersecurity vendors said AI won't replace entry-level – only routine ticket-taking and triage

Attackers Abuse Shared Content for ChatGPT Phishing Campaign

Push Security says threat actors are delivering malware hosted on chatgpt.com/s/ domain

Infosecurity Europe: OWASP Forms New Agentic Research Council

OWASP’s new Agentic Research Council will aim to connect academic work to operational realities on agentic AI security

AI-Generated npm Malware Leaks Its Own GitHub Token

Sloppy AI-generated npm infostealer leaked its own GitHub token, exposing the operator

GCHQ Chief Urges Action as AI Reshapes Cyber Threats

GCHQ director urges urgent business cyber action as AI and quantum reshape the threat

All Major LLMs Exposed to Multi-Turn Manipulation, Warn Researchers

68% of UK Firms Plan to Increase Cyber Spending as AI Risks Rise

UK firms plan higher cyber spending as AI adoption raises security concerns

India's CERT-In Sets 12-Hour Patch Deadline for Exposed Flaws

CERT-In urges 12-hour patching of exposed flaws as AI compresses exploitation timelines

Netherlands Seizes 800 Servers, Arrests 2 for Aiding Cyberattacks

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…

Fake Gemini and Claude Code Sites Spread Infostealers Through SEO Poisoning

The infostealer payload in this campaign collect a vast amount of data, from collaboration authentication keys to cryptocurrency wallets

Three-Quarters of Firms Knowingly Ship Vulnerable Code

AI risks threaten to permeate supply chains through unvetted code and unaudited suppliers

AI Raises the Bar on Vulnerability Awareness and Secure-by-Design Software

AI-powered vulnerability scanning leaves no excuse for unpatched bugs as the EU Cyber Resilience Act pushes firms toward secure-by-design software

Agentic AI Accelerates Software Builds and Mobile App Attacks

Digital.ai data reveals 87% of apps were attacked over the past year

NCSC Publishes Guidance on Securing Agentic AI Use

The UK’s National Cyber Security Centre is helping organizations to understand agentic AI security risks

Bank of England, FCA and Treasury Raise Alarm Over Frontier AI

The UK’s financial authorities have set expectations for the sector on cybersecurity and operational resilience

Most Organizations Now Use AI Agents for Sensitive Security Tasks

Semperis study finds 74% of organizations believe AI will increase attacks on identity infrastructure

ICO Publishes Five-Step Plan to Counter Emerging AI-Powered Attacks

The Information Commissioner’s Office has released new guidance on how to mitigate the risk of AI-powered attacks

Global Cyber Agencies Issue New SBOMs for AI Guidance to Tackle AI Supply Chain Risks

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 Market Expands to £14.7bn with Strong Growth in AI Security Firms

UK cybersecurity sector reaches £14.7bn in revenue, driven by rapid growth in AI security firms, increased investment and rising employment across the industry

Patch Tuesday, May 2026 Edition

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…

OpenAI Launches 'Daybreak' to Help Build Secure By Design Software

With Daybreak, OpenAI wants its frontier AI models to be used to deploy secure by design software from the ground up

Malicious Hugging Face Repository Typosquats OpenAI

HiddenLayer reveals infostealer malware in a Hugging Face repository

Fake Claude Code Page Pushes PowerShell Stealer at Devs

Ontinue uncovers fake Claude Code installer pushing PowerShell stealer abusing Chrome's IElevator2

Hackers Observed Using AI to Develop Zero-Day for the First Time

Google Threat Intelligence Group details how cybercriminals attempted to launch a campaign based around an AI-developed Zero-Day targeting open-source software

Legacy Security Tools Failing Data Protection, Capital One Software Report Finds

Traditional network security tools are undermining data protection, with Forrester and Capital One Software research warning AI adoption is impossible without rethinking data security

Cline Kanban Flaw Lets Websites Hijack AI Coding Agents

Oasis Security finds critical Cline kanban WebSocket flaw exposing AI coding agents to hijack

OpenAI and Anthropic LLMs Used in Critical Infrastructure Cyber-Attack, Warns Dragos

Commercial AI models were used to help plan and conduct cyber-attack against operational technology of a water and drainage facility, say researchers

Fake Claude AI Site Drops Beagle Backdoor on Windows Users

Sophos finds fake Claude site spreading DonutLoader and a new Beagle backdoor via DLL sideloading

AI Adoption Outpaces Safety Policies, Leaving Organizations Exposed to Cyber Risk

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 To Extend Cyber Program to Government Agencies

OpenAI announced its intention to expand the Trusted Access for Cyber program for cyber defenders at the federal, state and local government levels

Anthropic Rolls Out Claude Security for AI Vulnerability Scanning

Claude Security enters public beta, giving enterprises AI driven code scanning with no API integration or custom agents required

Nine-Year-Old Zero-Day Flaw in Linux Kernel Discovered by AI-Equipped Security Researcher

A researcher from offensive security firm Theori has found a nine-year-old flaw in the Linux kernel with the help of AI

Cyber is the Number One Global “People Risk,” Says Marsh

Marsh’s 2026 People Risks survey finds cyber‑related challenges dominate, as cyber‑threat literacy tops risks and cyber and AI skills shortages rise

Malicious npm Dependency Linked to AI Assisted Commit Targets Crypto Wallets

Researchers uncover a malicious npm dependency linked to an AI‑assisted code commit that steals sensitive data and exposes crypto wallets

AI Rush is Reviving Old Cybersecurity Mistakes, Mandiant VP Warns

AI tools are not just creating new vulnerabilities, they are reviving old security failures, warned Jurgen Kutscher, VP of Mandiant Consulting

Google Favors General-Purpose Gemini Models Over Cybersecurity‑Specific AI

Google Cloud’s COO advocated for combining general-purpose frontier large language models with task-specific AI agents

Google Introduces Unique AI Agent Identities in New Gemini Enterprise Platform

Google Cloud will attribute a unique cryptographic ID every AI agent that will be tied to “traceable and auditable” authorization policies

Researchers Uncover 10 In-the-Wild Prompt Injection Payloads Targeting AI Agents

Forcepoint has found 10 new indirect prompt injection attacks targeting AI agents

Defending Against China-Nexus Covert Networks of Compromised Devices

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Unchecked AI Agents Cause Cybersecurity Incidents at Two Thirds of Firms

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

Commercial AI Models Show Rapid Gains in Vulnerability Research

AI models are making rapid gains in vulnerability research and exploit development, raising new cybersecurity risks, a Forescout study finds

OpenAI Unveils GPT-5.4-Cyber for Improving Cyber Defense With AI

OpenAI’s new frontier model focused on cybersecurity comes following Anthropic’s launch of Claude Mythos Preview and Project Glasswing

AI Companies to Play Bigger Role in CVE Program, Says CISA

At VulnCon, Lindsey Cerkovnik, head of vulnerability management at CISA, said AI companies should play a bigger role in vulnerability disclosures in the future

AI Security Institute Advocates Security Best Practices After Mythos Test

The AISI has issued its judgement on Anthropic’s Mythos Preview model

Governance Gaps Emerge as AI Agents Drive 76% Increase in NHIs

SANS Institute reveals that AI agents are behind a 76% surge in non-human identities

Google API Keys Quietly Gain Access to Gemini on Android Devices

Google API key flaw exposes mobile apps to Gemini AI access, private files and billing risks

Anthropic Launches Project Glasswing to Use AI to Find and Fix Critical Software Vulnerabilities

Anthropic launches Project Glasswing, using its Claude Mythos Preview AI to autonomously identify and fix undiscovered vulnerabilities in critical software

Iranian-Affiliated Cyber Actors Exploit Programmable Logic Controllers Across US Critical Infrastructure

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Pro-Russia Hacktivists Conduct Opportunistic Attacks Against US and Global Critical Infrastructure

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CISA Shares Lessons Learned from an Incident Response Engagement

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Countering Chinese State-Sponsored Actors Compromise of Networks Worldwide to Feed Global Espionage System

<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…

Russian GRU Targeting Western Logistics Entities and Technology Companies

<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,…

Student Loan Breach Exposes 2.5M Records

2.5 million people were affected, in a breach that could spell more trouble down the line.

Watering Hole Attacks Push ScanBox Keylogger

Researchers uncover a watering hole attack likely carried out by APT TA423, which attempts to plant the ScanBox JavaScript-based reconnaissance tool.

Tentacles of ‘0ktapus’ Threat Group Victimize 130 Firms

Over 130 companies tangled in sprawling phishing campaign that spoofed a multi-factor authentication system.