As of Wednesday, July 1, 2026, the AI cybersecurity threat landscape is showing elevated activity across 148 tracked stories. The dominant themes today are Vulnerabilities & CVEs (44 stories), AI & LLM Threats (38 stories), and Data Breaches (18 stories). AI and LLM-based threats are particularly active with 38 stories covering topics such as prompt injection, model exploitation, deepfake campaigns, and AI-assisted attack tooling. 22 CVEs are being tracked across today's stories, including CVE-2026-8451, CVE-2026-48558, CVE-2026-33017, CVE-2026-46817 and 18 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.
A new Microsoft Teams admin policy, Manage external bots and their access to meetings, gives organizations greater visibility and control over external bots in meetings. The policy identifies bots and applies safeguards before they are admitted. Microsoft…
Citrix on Tuesday released security updates to address multiple flaws in NetScaler ADC (formerly Citrix ADC) and NetScaler Gateway (formerly Citrix Gateway) that could be exploited by an attacker to facilitate arbitrary file reads or trigger a…
Anthropic has confirmed that the Department of Commerce has lifted export controls on Claude's two most powerful models, Fable 5 and Mythos 5. [...]
Anthropic is now rolling out Sonnet 5, and it's almost as good as the Opus range, but it is designed to be cheaper than the company's flagship model. [...]
Police arrested the alleged admin of XSS.is, a major cybercrime forum whose trusted escrow service helped power the underground economy. On 22 July 2025, French and Ukrainian police arrested a 38-year-old man in Kyiv and shut down XSS.is, the most influential…
Proton has unveiled Lumo 2.0, a major upgrade to its zero-access encrypted AI assistant. Built on a new architecture, the release brings the assistant closer to frontier AI models with new AI models, multimodal capabilities, Memory, improved web search, and…
A new prompt injection attack dubbed "BioShocking" could trick AI-powered browsers into treating real-world risky actions as part of a fictional scenario, causing them to ignore any safety guardrails. [...]
A campaign active since last November has been targeting Python developers building Telegram bots with trojanized Pyrogram forks that allow attackers to read arbitrary files on compromised servers. [...]
U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) adds a SimpleHelp flaw to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) added a SimpleHelp flaw, tracked as CVE-2026-48558 (CVSS score…
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.…
A new two-stage malware family called RustDuck is hijacking home routers, IP cameras, Android boxes, and poorly secured servers, then stitching them into a network built to knock websites and online services offline. Researchers at QiAnXin's XLab have tracked…
Nissan says employees' data was stolen via the Oracle PeopleSoft zero-day campaign
Hackers stole data from 4.38 million Aflac Japan customers after accessing its systems for 10 days before the breach was detected. Aflac Japan disclosed that hackers stole the personal information of 4.38 million customers and agents after gaining access to…
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…
A malicious extension in the Chrome Web Store is masquerading as the Perplexity AI answer engine, intercepting search traffic and collecting browsing information. [...]
Cybersecurity researchers have flagged an active browser extension campaign that is designed to steal cryptocurrency by stealthily replacing wallet addresses when unsuspecting users initiate a transaction. The cryptocurrency clipper activity has been…
Attackers exploited a critical SimpleHelp RMM bug to deploy TaskWeaver and Djinn Stealer malware
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…
Aikido Security has acquired Root, uniting behind a shared mission to make it easy for developers and agents to build with secure open source and tackle the growing threat of supply chain attacks. Open source is the foundation of almost every application in…
Exploitation attempts targeting a critical vulnerability (CVE-2026-46817) in Oracle Payments, the payment-processing module within Oracle’s E-Business Suite (EBS), have been spotted over the weekend, threat intelligence company Defused warned on Monday. The…
Cequence Security has announced general availability of Cequence Platform 9.0, an AI-native release that changes how users interact with API security tools. Platform 9.0 ships with a built-in AI Assistant, an open Model Context Protocol (MCP) server that…
The Microsoft Defender vulnerability CVE-2026-33825 was exploited in the wild as a zero-day before patches were released. The post BlueHammer Vulnerability Exploited in Ransomware Attacks appeared first on SecurityWeek .
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…
Jamf has announced general availability of AI Governance, a new capability within Jamf for Mac that enables IT and security teams to discover actively-used AI tools, enforce policy controls, and generate audit-ready reporting. Many organizations struggle to…
Digi International has announced the launch of DANI, the Digi Artificial Network Intelligence agent, a purpose-built AI network operations agent natively embedded in a networking device management platform, Digi Remote Manager (DRM). Embedded directly within…
OpenMatter Network has announced the launch of its cryptographically verifiable platform for secure collaboration and AI governance, built on a simple premise: Don’t Trust Data. Prove It. For decades, organizations have relied on trust-based assumptions to…
Decades-old Bash shell tricks can bypass safeguards in most open source AI coding agents, potentially turning malicious repositories into supply chain attack vectors. The post Decades-Old Bash Tricks Expose AI Coding Agents to Supply Chain Attacks appeared…
Hackers accessed the insurance giant’s policyholder portal multiple times between June 15 and June 25. The post Aflac Japan Data Breach Impacts 4.38 Million appeared first on SecurityWeek .
Chris Thompson's journey took him from hacking game controls as a teenager to founding IBM’s X-Force Red team. The post Hacker Conversations: Chris Thompson, Former Head of IBM X-Force Red, Co-Founder of RemoteThreat appeared first on SecurityWeek .
ReliaQuest report warns of a surge in ClickFix social engineering attacks against Windows and macOS users
Apple released updates for iOS, iPadOS, macOS, and Safari, fixing WebKit flaws, four of which were found using AI tools like Claude and Codex Apple pushed out security updates for iOS, iPadOS, macOS, and Safari on Monday, and this round comes with a twist…
American insurance giant Aflac has disclosed a new data breach after attackers breached its Japan subsidiary's systems and stole personal and bank account information. [...]
Attackers are exploiting CVE-2026-48558, a recently patched authentication bypass vulnerability in SimpleHelp RMM, to drop the novel Djinn Stealer malware on victim computers. The malware is capable of targeting Windows, macOS, and Linux systems, and…
As cybersecurity platforms embrace agentic AI, organizations must balance detection performance against the escalating costs of token consumption, deployment architecture, and AI credits. The post The AI Token Costs That Can Break Cybersecurity appeared first…
The Blackfield ransomware gang is asking for a $2 million ransom from Nidec Corporation, a large Japanese manufacturer of electronic components for automotive and computing applications. [...]
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,…
A high-severity flaw in Amazon Q Developer let a malicious repository run commands and steal a developer's cloud credentials. The path was short: a developer opens the repo, trusts the workspace, and Amazon Q does the rest. Amazon has patched it. Tracked as…
AI agents are moving through enterprise environments, inheriting permissions, traversing systems, and executing decisions at machine speed with minimal oversight. The identity infrastructure built to govern human access wasn't designed for autonomous actors,…
It’s dumb out there again. This week has the usual smell of prod on fire and nobody wanting to admit who left the door open — old creds still working, trusted apps doing sketchy crap, browser tricks jumping the fence, and “normal” workflows turning into…
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.
A previously undocumented Rust-based macOS implant and information stealer has been found to embed a prompt injection payload designed to trick a malware analyst's artificial intelligence (AI) tools and trick it into aborting or refusing an analysis of the…
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
We are standing at the end of an era we never thought to mourn: the era of human-speed threats. For years, cybersecurity moved to a rhythm organizations could follow. A researcher found a bug, a CVE was cataloged, a vendor navigated a patch cycle, and weeks…
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
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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
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.
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
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
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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.