Why AI Needs a “Genie Coefficient”
This essay was written with Barath Raghavan, and originally appeared in The Guardian . Major benchmarks measure what AI can do. None measure whether it does what you mean: the distance between what you ask an AI to do and the unspoken assumptions about how you want the AI to do it.
Europe's Multilingual Reality Exposes AI Security Gaps
The AI security layer and guardrails for many AI products don't evenly protect against jailbreaking and unsafe actions in every single language.
Fake Notepad++ Plugin Delivers MATCHBOIL.V2 in UAC-0099 Attacks
The Computer Emergency Response Team of Ukraine (CERT-UA) has warned of a new campaign that involves the use of a malicious program that's dressed up as a Notepad++ plugin to compromise Windows systems. The activity has been attributed by the agency to a threat cluster it tracks as UAC-0099, a Russia-aligned group that has previously observed weaponizing security flaws in…
New Dolphin X malware uses AI to rank high-value targets
A new Dolphin X remote access trojan claims to use an AI-powered profiling feature to score and rank infected users, helping cybercriminals identify which victims should be targeted first. [...]
Fake Claude app promoted by Bing ads pushes SectopRAT malware
A malvertising campaign on the Bing search service is pushing a fake Claude desktop app installer hosted on a legitimate Claude.ai domain to deliver the SectopRAT malware. [...]
Hackers abuse Notepad++ plugins to stealthily install malware
Ukraine's CERT has uncovered attacks distributing an archive containing the legitimate Notepad++ application and a malicious utility called LunchPoke disguised as a plugin to establish persistence. [...]
ThreatsDay: Android Spyware, PLC Attacks, AI Image Prompt Injection + 12 More Stories
Most of this week's trouble came dressed as something useful. A package stole data. A fake extension opened remote access.
FedRAMP Rev5 Is Ending: What the 20x Transition Really Requires
FedRAMP 20X replaces point-in-time assessments with continuous, machine-readable evidence that demonstrates security controls are working. Anecdotes explains what the transition from Rev5 to FedRAMP 20X means and how organizations can prepare for continuous, evidence-based assurance. [...]
EU fines Google $1 billion for search, app store antitrust violations
The European Commission fined Google €890 million ($1 billion) on Thursday after finding the company had violated the European Union's Digital Markets Act (DMA), which ensures fair online competition. [...]
Agentic AI Challenges Progress in Confidential Computing
Core issues that slowed down adoption of secure data vaults are being resolved by technology, but artificial intelligence poses new ones. Experts have some answers.
Google Adds Selfie Video Recovery for Users Locked Out of Their Accounts
Google on Thursday announced a new way for users to sign-in to their accounts by letting them take a selfie video. The selfie for sign-in, per the tech giant, is another option on top of existing recovery methods to log in to an account, including an email address or a phone number. The idea is to use a video selfie as a way to regain access if a user ever gets locked out or…
Microsoft working to fix Exchange Online mailbox quarantine issue
Microsoft is working to resolve an ongoing Exchange Online issue that has been mistakenly quarantining customers' mailboxes since Sunday. [...]
GitHub Cuts Public Bug Bounty Payouts, Moves Top Rewards to VIP Tier
Beginning July 27, 2026, GitHub will cut public bug bounty payouts by at least half at every severity level. Critical findings will drop from $20,000-$30,000+ to a fixed $10,000, while its permanent invite-only VIP tier will pay $30,000 or more. Reports filed before that date, including those already in GitHub's growing triage queue, will retain the previous payout terms.
When AI Attacks: OpenAI Models Autonomously Hack Hugging Face
Advanced LLMs escaped their sandboxes while attempting to achieve a non-malicious benchmark test objective.
Why Modern SOCs Need Multi-Layered Detections
The cycle is over. For years, cybersecurity followed a familiar pattern: defenses improved, attackers adapted, and the back-and-forth continued. Today, AI-equipped attackers are simply outpacing defenses.
Stop renting storage space — this lifetime 2TB plan is yours for $59
Cloud storage costs tend to creep up over time, since most services charge monthly or annually for as long as you use them. FileJump's Lifetime Plan skips that model entirely, offering 2TB of cloud storage for a single payment of $59 (MSRP $467). [...]
First-Person Identity Theft Story
Harrowing story of an identity theft victim. Yes, the person made a mistake—they gave the scammer a two-factor authentication code that allowed the scammer to take over their email address. But the real story here is how, for many of us, the security of most of our accounts hangs on the security of our email accounts.
Trojanized Newtonsoft.Json Fork Hides Game-Rigging Code in a Working Library
Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a NuGet typosquat that's unlike the typical information-stealing malware distributed via package registries: usual info-stealers: it's designed to rig live game results on Digitain. The package, named "Newtonsoftt.Json.Net," masquerades as the Newtonsoft.Json library and is a trojanized fork. Seven versions of the package have been…
OpenAI says its AI models hacked Hugging Face during testing
OpenAI says its AI models, including GPT‑5.6 Sol and a pre-release model, hacked into the Hugging Face artificial intelligence repository while being tested in a sandboxed testing environment. [...]
OpenAI Says Its AI Models Escaped Sandbox, Targeted Hugging Face to Cheat Benchmark
OpenAI on Tuesday said a combination of its artificial intelligence (AI) models, including GPT-5.6 Sol and an "even more capable pre-release model," was behind the security incident that targeted Hugging Face's production infrastructure last week. The AI company said the models were operating with "reduced cyber refusals for evaluation purposes" that might otherwise limit…
FakeGit campaign uses 7,600 GitHub repos to push SmartLoader malware
A large-scale operation dubbed 'FakeGit' is pushing SmartLoader and StealC malware through 7,600 malicious GitHub repositories that accumulated more than 14 million downloads. [...]
Using LLMs to Find and Prioritize Vulnerabilities Is No Easy Task
The latest large language models have high false-positive rates and fail to take into account the context of scans, leading to more work for AppSec professionals.
Hacker Turns AI Jailbreaks Into Offensive Attack Platform
A Russian-speaking actor, "Trim," dismantled publicly available frontier models and integrated them with offensive security tools.
Choose Wisely: AI-Generated Coding Risk Varies, a Lot
AI-generated code introduces 15 vulnerabilities on average per codebase, but the actual risk depends on framework pairing more than the model used.
US seizes over 1,000 websites in FIFA World Cup piracy crackdown
The U.S. Justice Department has seized more than 1,000 websites and blocked 1,970 domains used to stream FIFA World Cup 2026 matches without authorization. [...]
Microsoft shares manual fix for WSUS sync delays and timeouts
Microsoft has shared manual mitigations to help IT administrators fix Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) servers affected by a known issue that causes Windows Update scans to fail or time out. [...]
Hackers steal $23.7 million in crypto from Ostium in off-chain attack
The Ostium trading platform announced that an attacker stole $23.75 million from its liquidity provider vault last week, after compromising off-chain infrastructure used to feed prices into the protocol. [...]
Remediating Vulnerabilities With LLMs: Inside Ivanti's Automation Push
Ivanti CSO Daniel Spicer says frontier models have shown surprising effectiveness in early stages, but cost and human-in-the-loop viability remain open questions.
25 Years After Code Red: What the Worm Era Can Teach Us About AI Security
Marc Maiffret reflects on Code Red's legacy and the security lessons helping organizations navigate AI risk today.
CISOs Feel the Heat Over AI Risk
Job pressures have increased as companies run headlong into AI adoption, causing 26% of top security executives to consider leaving their position.
FakeGit Campaign Uses 7,600 GitHub Repositories to Spread SmartLoader Malware
Cybersecurity researchers have discovered nearly 7,600 malicious GitHub repositories, out of which more than 800 pose as artificial intelligence (AI) skills or Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers to deliver a malware family known as SmartLoader as part of an ongoing campaign codenamed FakeGit. "FakeGit uses copied projects, lookalike developer profiles, convincing READMEs,…
Russian Intelligence Hacks IP Cameras to Spy on Military Logistics Across NATO States and Ukraine
At least one Russian intelligence service is systematically hijacking internet-connected security cameras across Europe and Ukraine, using the feeds to watch military transport routes, weapons shipments bound for Kyiv, and the locations of Ukrainian troops. That is the finding of a cybersecurity advisory published July 10 by the AIVD and MIVD, the Netherlands' civilian and…
SleeperGem Uses Three Malicious RubyGems Packages to Target Developer Machines
Cybersecurity researchers have flagged a new software supply chain attack codenamed SleeperGem targeting the Ruby ecosystem after three malicious gems were published to RubyGems with the end goal of serving additional payloads. The rogue gems are listed below - git_credential_manager (versions 2.8.0, 2.8.1, 2.8.2, 2.8.3) - Published on July 18, 2026 Dendreo (versions 1.1.3,…
UAC-0145 Uses ClickFix CAPTCHAs to Infect Ukrainian Devices wih Malware
Russian state-sponsored threat actors have been observed leveraging the infamous ClickFix strategy to trick Ukrainian targets into infecting their own machines with data-stealing malware. According to the Computer Emergency Response Team of Ukraine (CERT-UA), the activity has been attributed to UAC-0145, a sub-cluster within Sandworm, an advanced hacking unit affiliated with…
Seven Malicious Vite npm Packages Use Blockchain C2 to Deliver a RAT
Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a cluster of seven malicious npm packages targeting the Vite frontend tooling ecosystem as part of a software supply chain attack. The malicious package campaign, codenamed ViteVenom by Checkmarx, marks an expansion of ChainVeil, which was observed using an "unprecedented" four-tier blockchain-based command-and-control (C2)…
The Real AI Threat Is Blind Trust
AI models left to both interpret and execute commands eliminate critical cybersecurity oversight.
Inside the Search for "Clean" Residential Proxies for Carding
Residential proxies are no longer the silver bullet they once were for carding. Flare explains why cybercriminals increasingly seek "clean" residential proxies and combine them with browser fingerprints, device profiles, and other identity signals to evade modern fraud detection. [...]
Google Bets 'Agentic Defense' Strategy Can Outpace Attackers
Google Cloud incorporates key Wiz capabilities into an agentic defense platform to automate threat detection and remediation against AI attacks.
E.U. Orders Google to Open Android Mic, Camera and Screen to Rival AI Assistants
The European Commission on Thursday ordered Google to give rival AI assistants the same reach into Android that Gemini already has: the camera, the microphone, whatever is on screen, a wake word that fires with the display off, and the ability to drive other apps in the background by imitating taps and typing. Google has to ship it in the next major release, Android 18, and by…
Windows Server 2022 reach end of mainstream support in 90 days
Microsoft announced that Windows Server 2022 will reach the mainstream end date in October 2026, but will switch to extended support and continue receiving security updates for five more years. [...]
ACR Stealer Uses ClickFix Lures to Steal Browser Tokens and Microsoft 365 Files
ACR Stealer, an infostealer in circulation since 2024, is walking out of enterprise networks with saved browser passwords, live session tokens, PDFs, Microsoft 365 documents, and files from synced OneDrive and SharePoint folders. It gets in because someone pasted a command into a Run box and pressed Enter. Microsoft laid out two of the delivery chains on Thursday.
New GoSerpent Malware Targets Southeast Asian Governments and Diplomats for Espionage
Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a previously undocumented malware called GoSerpent that has been put to use in cyber attacks targeting entities in Southeast Asia since late 2025 with a focus on long-term access and intelligence gathering. Russian cybersecurity company Kaspersky, which uncovered the activity in February 2026, said it was aimed at government and…
Agentic AI: Taming the Unpredictable
Agentic artificial intelligence is creating enough risks for organizations to demand a security reframe.
1M+ Emails Use Hidden Text to Dupe AI Security Filters
Artificial intelligence and LLMs can be surprisingly ineffective against text salting, allowing phishing emails to slide right into your inbox.
AI Agents Broke the Security Playbook. Here's What Replaces It.
Traditional security workflows were built for environments that changed at human speed. Token Security explains why AI agents require a new approach: building on a live identity foundation while giving security teams the flexibility to create workflows tailored to their own environments. [...]
n8n Token Exchange Flaw Could Let Attackers Log In as Users From Another Issuer
n8n, the workflow automation platform, handed out the wrong accounts at login. On Enterprise instances configured to trust more than one external token issuer, it matched an incoming JWT to a local user on the sub claim alone and ignored iss. A valid token from issuer A carrying a sub that belongs to someone under issuer B logged you in as them.
New TELEPUZ Malware Spreads via ClickFix to Steal Data and Run Commands
Cybersecurity researchers have called attention to a new modular malware called TELEPUZ that's been spreading via websites infected with ClickFix lures since late April 2026. "The malware is full-featured, lightweight, and modular," Elastic Security Labs researcher Cyril François said in a technical report. "While the number of C2 [command-and-control] domains is currently…
20+ Hijacked Government Websites Became an Attack Channel
More than 20 Brazilian government websites were hijacked and turned into malware delivery channels in an active PhantomEnigma campaign uncovered by ANY.RUN, a leading provider of interactive malware analysis and threat intelligence solutions. The investigation revealed previously undocumented backdoor behavior, hidden infrastructure relationships, and multiple attack arms…
New Agent Data Injection Attack Can Make AI Agents Misclick or Run Attacker Commands
Ask an AI agent to summarize the reviews on a product page, and a single planted review can make it click "Buy Now" instead. Ask a coding assistant to apply a maintainer's fix from a GitHub thread, and a fake comment can make it run a stranger's command on your computer. Neither trick hijacks the agent's task.
Daxin Resurfaces in Taiwan Alongside Stupig Pre-Login SYSTEM Backdoor
An advanced malware previously attributed to a China-linked threat actor has resurfaced after more than four years within a Taiwan manufacturing firm, along with a previously unreported backdoor dubbed Stupig. Daxin ("srt64.sys"), as the kernel-mode rootkit is referred to, was first documented by Broadcom-owned Symantec in March 2022, with evidence indicating its use in…
AI Can Find Bugs, But Human Knowledge Still Proves Them
Artificial intelligence (AI) is changing offensive security, but it has not changed the standard that matters most: a finding has to be proven before it becomes useful. AI-assisted tools can read code quickly, generate payloads, summarize attack surfaces, explain unfamiliar APIs, and run repetitive testing workflows at impressive speed. That is a real advantage for security…
Police Disrupt a €140M Cyber Fraud Ring in Spain
Iberian hackers carried out a variety of cyberattacks and laundered the winnings through complex financial networks.
Forgotten Bootloaders Expose Secure Boot Blind Spot
Nearly a dozen vulnerable and now revoked UEFI shim bootloaders remained trusted for years, giving attackers a path to bypass Secure Boot.
TuxBot v3 Evolution Shows Signs of LLM-Assisted IoT Botnet Development
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a previously unreported Internet-of-Things (IoT) botnet framework dubbed TuxBot v3 Evolution that shows signs of being developed with assistance from a large language model (LLM), albeit with not so successful results. "While the AI complied with their request to generate botnet code, it included a safety disclaimer that the…
Is 'Tech-xit' Imminent? UK Steps Up Sovereignty Push Amid AI Strife
The US government's restrictions on Anthropic and OpenAI frontier models have intensified calls in the UK and other countries to reduce their reliance on US tech companies, with significant cyber implications.
OkoBot Malware Framework Injects Seed Phrase Phishing Into Ledger and Trezor Apps
A malware framework called OkoBot has been running on Windows machines since April 2025, and one of its modules is built to con hardware wallet owners out of their recovery phrase. On an infected PC, the request comes from inside the wallet's own desktop software. Sometimes it waits until you plug the device in first.
SASE Has An AI Blind Spot. Inspecting Packets Is No Longer Enough.
For years, routing traffic through cloud proxies was good enough. Then work moved to the browser, AI entered the workflow, and the inspection model stopped keeping up. Enterprise workflows now live across SaaS applications, browsers, and an expanding ecosystem of generative AI tools, unsanctioned browser extensions, and autonomous agents.
New Webinar: Closing the Approval Gap in AI-Era Ad Tech
A single approved marketing tag can quietly load fourth-party code your security team has never seen, granting full access to your forms, customer data, and checkout pages. This on-demand webinar reveals how this Approval Gap forms, and gives your team the blueprint to close it before an auditor, regulator, or attacker finds it first. The Reality of the Approval Gap It's a…
Spanish Police take down €140 million cyber fraud ring, arrest four
The Spanish Police dismantled a cybercrime and money-laundering organization that made €140 million ($160 million) from investment fraud and business email compromise (BEC) attacks. [...]
Researchers Say Claude for Chrome Flaw Lets Rogue Extensions Trigger Gmail Reads
Any other browser extension that can run a script on claude.ai can still trigger Claude for Chrome tasks aimed at your Gmail, your latest Google Doc and its comments, and your Calendar. Both this and ClaudeBleed need a rogue extension that can already run a script on claude.ai; the difference is scope. Anthropic restricted the arbitrary-prompt path in May as part of its…
LabubaRAT Masquerades as NVIDIA Software to Control Windows Hosts
Cybersecurity researchers have flagged a previously undocumented Rust-based remote access trojan (RAT) codenamed LabubaRAT that masquerades as NVIDIA software to blend into target environments. "LabubaRAT creates a reusable foothold for hands-on activity," Blackpoint Cyber researchers Sam Decker and Nevan Beal said in an analysis published today. "Once deployed, it can profile…
Frontier AI: The Genie's Out of the Bottle, but Where's the Rulebook?
Cutting-edge artificial intelligence models are deploying with more independence and less human oversight. Several state governments are trying to legislate transparency in their use.
ClickFix's Mushrooming Ecosystem Demands New Defense Tactics
The attack vector is available for rent at scale, and evades AV and EDR, leaving YARA analysis as the best detection option.
How Pentera Turns AI Security Workflows into Validation Engines
AI security agents are starting to influence real security decisions. They summarize findings, prioritize remediation, recommend next steps, and help teams move faster. But most still rely on fragmented risk signals: scanner output, severity scores, threat intelligence, configuration findings, and exposure data.
OAuth Client ID Spoofing Lets Attackers Validate Stolen Microsoft Entra Credentials
At least two distinct threat actors are weaponizing a novel evasion technique called OAuth client ID spoofing in cloud campaigns, while slipping past telemetry. The activity allows users to enumerate user accounts and validate stolen credentials in Microsoft Entra ID environments, without ever generating a successful sign-in event that would otherwise alert defenders. And bad…
148 npm Packages Disguised as Student Proxies Turned Browsers Into a DDoS Botnet
A campaign of 148 npm packages disguised as student web proxies turned visitors' browsers into a distributed denial-of-service botnet for roughly two weeks in May, according to new research from JFrog. The packages did not go after the developers who might install them. The operators used the registry as free hosting for a booby-trapped proxy site and let the students who…
Weak Security Continues to Fuel Russian Cyberattacks
In a first, the UK and the EU jointly impose sanctions on Russian individuals and entities for cyberattacks and disinformation campaigns in the region.
New CrashStealer malware poses as Apple crash reporting tool
A new macOS information-stealing malware called CrashStealer pretends to be Apple's crash-reporting tool to steal credentials, keychain data, and crypto wallets. [...]
'Yellow Teams' Are Defining the Future of AI Security
In some companies, engineers are building defense and attack tools to test the potential of artificial intelligence for cybersecurity — and its threat.
New MemGhost Attack Plants Persistent False Memories in AI Agents Through One Email
Give an AI assistant a memory and access to your inbox, and you hand an attacker a way to rewrite what it thinks it knows about you. A single email can trick that agent into saving a false "fact" about the user, hide the change, and quietly steer its answers in later sessions. When it works, the person reads an ordinary-looking reply and never learns their assistant was…
Forg365 PhaaS Targets Microsoft 365 with Device Code and AitM Session Theft
A new phishing-as-a-service (PhaaS) operation called Forg365 is using a combination of device code phishing, adversary-in-the-middle (AitM) tactics, antibot evasion, artificial intelligence (AI)-assisted lure creation, and post-compromise mailbox operations targeting Microsoft 365 accounts. Distributed via Telegram and costing $400 a month (or $3,800 per year), attack chains…
Cybersecurity M&A Roundup: 37 Deals Announced in June 2026
Significant cybersecurity M&A deals announced by 1Password, Accenture, Cisco, F5, Rubrik, and SailPoint. The post Cybersecurity M&A Roundup: 37 Deals Announced in June 2026 appeared first on SecurityWeek .
Meta Files Patent for AI That Can Listen All Day and Track How You're Feeling
Meta has filed a patent application for an AI that listens to your voice throughout the day, works out how it thinks you are feeling from the way you sound, and keeps a timestamped log of every read. Each read gets pinned to the moment it happened: the time, your location, what you were doing, even how you were using your phone. Some versions in the filing would listen all…
Thinking Fast and Slow in the SOC: The Case for Combining Autonomous AI with Analyst Copilots
A few days ago, I was sitting with the CISO of a Fortune 50 company, walking through how his security team was thinking about AI agents in the SOC. Smart team. Serious program.
Attacker Uses Suspected AI-Generated PowerShell Script to Map Active Directory
Cybersecurity researchers have flagged an intrusion in which an unknown threat actor leveraged a vibe-coded PowerShell script for Active Directory (AD) enumeration. "The script looked for the Domain Controller (DC) and mapped users, computers, and domains, before creating a directory and exporting out a number of files, and finally creating AD_Report.html to measure the…
AI Data Centers and the Concentration of Wealth
This essay was written with Nathan E. Sanders, and originally appeared in The Guardian . Opposition to AI data centers has emerged as a primary theme in US politics, one that—surprisingly—doesn’t fall along party lines.
EU Targets Russian Intelligence Officers Accused of Running a Yearslong Cyber Spying Campaign
The move targeted people and entities accused of links to an online spying network that the EU claims targeted governments and carried out sabotage operations against critical infrastructure. The post EU Targets Russian Intelligence Officers Accused of Running a Yearslong Cyber Spying Campaign appeared first on SecurityWeek .
OpenAI temporarily relaxes GPT-5.6 Sol usage limits
OpenAI is temporarily relaxing GPT-5.6 Sol usage after demand for the company's most powerful model surged over the past 48 hours. [...]
Claude Fable 5 stays free for paid users until July 19 as Anthropic buys more time
Anthropic has just extended access to Claude Fable 5 for paid subscribers until July 19, giving you another week to keep using the most powerful model. [...]
RedHook Android malware now uses Wireless ADB for shell access
A new version of the RedHook Android malware abuses the Android Wireless Debugging (Wireless ADB) mechanism in a novel way to gain shell-level privileges without requiring a computer connection. [...]
'Ghostcommit' hides prompt injection in images to fool AI agents, steal secrets
A PNG hiding a prompt injection could steal your repo's secrets, researchers demonstrate. The technique, dubbed 'Ghostcommit,' slipped past AI code reviewers CodeRabbit and Bugbot, which never open image files at all, then convinced a coding agent to read a repo's .env and write every secret into the code as a list of numbers. [...]
Cybercriminals Flock to Healthcare Businesses as Attacks Surge
While cyberattacks against hospitals and clinics grew modestly in the first half of 2026, attacks on service providers and other healthcare businesses more than doubled.
Progress urges ShareFile admins to shut down servers over “credible” threat
Progress Software is emailing ShareFile customers who use Storage Zone Controllers to immediately shut down their servers after identifying what it describes as a "credible external security threat" targeting the on-premises secure file-sharing software. [...]
The Replicant in Your Directory: AI Agents and the Identity Security Gap
AI agents are accelerating the growth of non-human identities, making it harder for organizations to understand what exists, who owns it, and what it can access. Netwrix explains why stronger visibility and identity governance are essential as AI expands the enterprise attack surface. [...]
AI Coding: Do Security Risks Outweigh Productivity Gains?
AI coding tools cost $19-$200/month/user, but security scanning, remediation, and false positives add hidden costs. Are the productivity gains worth it?
Hackers Use Fake Microsoft Entra Passkey Enrollment to Gain Microsoft 365 Access
A threat actor has been targeting organizations spanning multiple sectors with voice-based fake security requests that prompt Microsoft 365 users to enroll a new Entra passkey with an aim to carry out data extortion attacks. The threat actor, tracked by Okta under the moniker O-UNC-066, has deployed a panel-controlled phishing kit that's capable of targeting the passkey…
AI Agents Are a New Kind of Identity — and Most Organizations Aren't Ready
If you're handling AI agents like a service account or API token, consider yourself behind. AI agents need a fundamentally different approach.
Microsoft expects more Windows security updates from AI-discovered flaws
Microsoft says Windows users should expect to see an increase in security updates as the company increasingly relies on artificial intelligence to discover vulnerabilities in its codebase. [...]
npm 12 Disables Install Scripts by Default to Reduce Supply Chain Risk
GitHub has officially announced the release of npm version 12 with install scripts disabled by default, along with deprecating granular access tokens (GATs) designed to bypass two-factor authentication (2FA). The Microsoft-owned subsidiary noted that the following npm install behaviors that used to run automatically before have been made opt-in - allowScripts defaults to…
ThreatsDay: Cloud Bucket Hijacking, Windows LPE Chain, Global Fraud Bust + 17 More Stories
Most security mess starts as admin work. A link gets clicked. A tool gets trusted.
New Forg365 phishing platform uses AI to target Microsoft 365 accounts
A new phishing-as-a-service (PhaaS) operation called Forg365 focuses on stealing Microsoft 365 accounts by combining adversary-in-the-middle (AiTM) and device code methods with AI-assisted lure generation. [...]
As Global Conflicts Go Digital, Businesses Need Wartime Game Plans
The fate of a Ukrainian tax software company shows how modern cyber warfare can claim casualties far beyond the battlefield, and how businesses across the ocean still need to protect themselves.
The Hidden Security Risks of Reduced Summer IT Coverage
Security operations don't slow down when IT teams take vacation, but staffing levels often do. Kaseya explains how AI-driven automation can help organizations maintain consistent security operations and reduce reliance on manual processes year-round. [...]
AI Gateways Offer Attackers the Keys to the Kingdom
A cryptomining incident highlights how AI gateways can provide access to AI models, cloud infrastructure, and identity and access management (IAM) data.
AI Attacks Move in Minutes. Join This Webinar on Building a Defense That Keeps Up
AI has changed how fast attacks move. Work that once took an attacker days now takes minutes. Using models like Mythos, attackers write tailored bait, pick targets, test what lands, and jump to the next host before your team clears the first alert.
The Language of AI Could Change How Humans Speak
Because of the way they are trained, large language models capture only a slice of human language. They’re trained on the written word, from textbooks to social media posts, and our speech as captured in movies and on television. These models have minimal access to the unscripted conversations we have face to face or voice to voice.
Microsoft to retire the OWA Light client in Exchange Server
Microsoft has announced plans to disable Outlook Web Access (OWA) Light, the lightweight version of the Outlook Web App email client, in a future Exchange Server update. [...]
Summer of Clearinghouses
Everyone seems to have announced a clearinghouse over the past few weeks. We did too. Ours is called Athena, and the main thing that sets it apart is that it was already real and running when we announced it — built quietly months earlier, heads down, taking findings and shipping fixes, because customers kept asking us to.
Meta's New AI Image Tool Lets Others Use Your Public Instagram Photos in AI Images
Meta has announced that its new artificial intelligence (AI) model Muse Image lets people use public Instagram posts and reels to generate AI content, and it's enabled by default. "You can also @-mention Instagram accounts in the Meta AI app to bring specific Instagram profiles right into your images," the social media giant said in a post. "Whether you want to design a custom…
GhostApproval Symlink Flaws Could Let Malicious Repos Run Code in AI Coding Agents
Researchers at Wiz found that a flaw in six popular AI coding assistants lets a booby-trapped code project quietly take control of a developer's computer. The assistant asks permission to edit one harmless-looking file, but the write lands on a sensitive one instead. The affected tools are Amazon Q Developer, Anthropic's Claude Code, Augment, Cursor, Google…
Fake 7-Zip Installers Turn Devices Into Residential Proxy Nodes
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a new threat actor dubbed Lurking Lizard that has been operating an end-to-end malicious residential proxy business using an infrastructure comprising more than 230 lookalike domains. The activity dates back to at least August 2022, according to DNS threat intelligence firm Infoblox. Once such campaign, observed earlier this…
AI Coding Agents Found Triggering Endpoint Security Rules Built to Catch Attackers
Sophos looked at a week of its own endpoint data and found that AI coding agents such as Claude Code, Cursor, and OpenAI Codex are setting off detection rules written to catch human intruders. The agents are not malicious. They just do a lot of things that, to a behavioral engine, look exactly like an attack.
Vidar Infostealer Hammers SMBs via Malvertising Campaign
A financially motivated operation uses lures of cracked or pirated software to deliver a two-for-one malware combo for data theft and cryptomining.
New HalluSquatting Attack Could Trick AI Coding Assistants Into Installing Botnet Malware
AI coding assistants have a habit of making things up. Ask one to fetch a popular tool, and it will sometimes hand back a real-sounding name for a project that does not exist. New research, which its authors call HalluSquatting, turns that habit into an attack: work out the fake names an AI reliably invents, register them first, and wait for the assistant to fetch your…
New Ghost Phishing Wave Is Breaking Traditional Email Security
A recent EvilTokens campaign targeting businesses across the US and Europe is exposing a new email security blind spot. This “ghost phishing” technique keeps the malicious page hidden until it decrypts and comes to life inside the victim’s browser. For security leaders, the risk is clear: traditional URL checks may miss the attack while Microsoft 365 access, sensitive data,…
The Verification Step Is the New ATO Battleground in 2026
For years, account takeover (ATO) followed a predictable script. Attackers bought stolen credentials in bulk, ran them through automated tools, and waited for matches. Credential stuffing was cheap, scalable, and for defenders, relatively well understood.
GitHub Copilot Refuses Harmful Requests in Chat, Then Writes Them in Code
An AI coding assistant that refuses to answer a dangerous request in its chat box can answer it anyway if the same request is broken into small, ordinary-looking steps inside a code editor. That is the finding of a new study of GitHub Copilot by researchers Abhishek Kumar and Carsten Maple. The models they tested through Copilot, Claude from Anthropic, and Gemini…
Cybersecurity and the Gap Between Skill and Ability
Last week, national security agencies from the Five Eyes—that’s the rich, English-language-speaking countries club—jointly released a statement warning of the increasing cyber risks of AI models: in particular, their ability to autonomously hack into systems and networks. The statement was more measured than some of the breathless headlines about it, and the…
China-Linked UAT-7810 Expands ORB Network With New LONGLEASH Malware
A Chinese threat actor tracked as UAT-7810 is actively refining its bespoke malware to expand its Operational Relay Box (ORB) network by breaking into internet-facing networking devices. According to findings from Cisco Talos, UAT-7810 is an advanced persistent threat (APT) actor that's responsible for maintaining and proliferating LapDogs, an ORB network that first came to…
State IDs for AI Agents: Will Estonia Set a Precedent?
The world's digital testing ground plans to help people use AI agents for government purposes.
Big Brand Jobs Scam Targets Marketing Pros' Google Accounts
The phishing campaign uses several tactics, including nested redirects, to evade detection and steal credentials from unsuspecting targets.
Dialogflow CX 'Rogue Agent' Flaw Enabled AI Chatbot Data Theft
Varonis reported the flaw to Google in late 2025 and it has been addressed, but it reminds defenders to take a fresh look at their AI Infrastructure security.
DEBULL Tooling Abuses Microsoft Device-Code Flow to Target M365 Accounts
A Microsoft 365 device code phishing campaign has been observed leveraging collaboration-themed lures to take control of victim accounts between the last week of June 2026 and into early July, per findings from ZeroBEC. "The campaign did not depend on a fake Microsoft password page. It used a malicious collaboration-style lure to push users into the legitimate Microsoft device…
Court Filing Reveals Windows Device ID Helped FBI Trace Alleged Scattered Spider Hacker
U.S. prosecutors linked an alleged Scattered Spider hacker to a break-in at a luxury jewelry retailer using a persistent Windows device ID, according to a newly unsealed federal complaint. Microsoft records tied that ID first to the account the attackers used to keep access during the May 2025 intrusion, then to online accounts prosecutors say belong to 19-year-old Peter…
Webinar tomorrow: Why modern email attacks require a new approach to defense
Tomorrow's webinar explores how behavioral AI can help organizations detect sophisticated phishing, business email compromise, and account takeover attacks while reducing alert fatigue through automated investigation and response workflows. [...]
What Changes When Your Software Supply Chain Includes AI Writing Your Code?
Software supply chain security was hard enough. Then AI joined the build pipeline. For five years, "software supply chain security" meant one question: what's in your code?
Google Is Suing Chinese Scammers Who Are Using Gemini
Not sure this will have any effect, but I support the effort: According to Google’s legal filing, Outsider Enterprise operates through Telegram. The group offers phishing-as-a-service to individuals who may not be technically savvy enough to set up fraudulent websites and text campaigns on their own. In its Telegram channels, Outsider Enterprise reportedly provided…
'BusySnake' Infostealer Slithers Into Critical Infrastructure Networks
A threat group researchers call "Armored Likho" has gained access to government agencies and electrical power entities in Russia, Brazil, and Kazakhstan.
'BusySnake' Infostealer Slithers into Critical Infrastructure Networks
A threat group researchers call "Armored Likho" has gained access to government agencies and electrical power entities in Russia, Brazil, and Kazakhstan.
Phishing poses as big-brand job interview to steal Google accounts
A phishing campaign is impersonating more than 30 well-known brands, including Adobe, Netflix, Coca-Cola, and OpenAI, in fake job interviews to steal Google account credentials from marketing professionals. [...]