Attackers Weaponize GitHub Actions Runners to Target cPanel and WHM Servers

Cybersecurity researchers have shed light on a large-scale campaign that has turned compromised GitHub repositories into distributed attack infrastructure designed to target cPanel and WebHost Manager WHM instances. The activity involves malicious Packagist development versions spanning 10 packag...

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 t...

Nine-Year-Old RefluXFS Linux Flaw Gives Local Users Root on Default RHEL Installs

RefluXFS, a Linux kernel flaw disclosed on July 22 and tracked as CVE-2026-64600, lets an unprivileged local user overwrite root-owned files on an XFS filesystem and gain persistent root access. Qualys said default installations of Red Hat Enterprise Linux and its derivatives, Fedora Server, and...

Check Point Patches Exploited SmartConsole Flaw Allowing Full Admin Access

Check Point has released security updates to address multiple vulnerabilities impacting Security Management and Multi-Domain Management MDSM products, including a critical flaw that has come under active exploitation in the wild. The security flaw, tracked as CVE-2026-16232 CVSS score: 9.3, is an...

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...

Ubuntu snap-confine Flaw Could Give Local Users Root on Default Desktop Installs

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a new local privilege escalation LPE vulnerability in snap-confine that an unprivileged user can trigger to obtain root access and gain complete control of a target environment. The high-severity flaw, tracked as CVE-2026-8933 CVSS score: 7.8,...

Adobe Acrobat Extension Flaw Let Malicious Sites Read WhatsApp Web Data

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a now-patched vulnerability chain in the Adobe Acrobat Chrome extension that has over 314 million users, which, if exploited, could facilitate a silent hijack of a user's WhatsApp data. The shortcoming has been codenamed HermeticReader by Guardi...

Hackers Exploit Windmill Flaw to Read Arbitrary Server Files Without Authentication

A high-severity security flaw impacting open-source developer platform Windmill has come under active exploitation in the wild, per VulnCheck. The vulnerability in question is CVE-2026-29059 CVSS score: 7.5, a case of unauthenticated path traversal impacting Windmill's "getlogfile" endpoint...

The Fastest Path to AI Adoption Runs Through Security

Security leaders who build fast, visible paths to AI adoption are becoming the most valued partners in their organizations. AI governance done right gives security teams the visibility they need, employees the tools they want, and CISOs the strategic influence they have earned. According to...

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...

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. Most intrusions now bypass endpoint and malware-based detection entirely. The CrowdStrike...

Police Dismantle Kratos Phishing Kit Built to Steal Microsoft 365 Sessions and Bypass MFA

German and US law enforcement have taken down the core infrastructure of Kratos , described by German investigators as one of the world's most widely used criminal phishing kits, and Indonesian authorities arrested the man they say developed and ran it. In a joint announcement on Monday, the...

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...

Microsoft Azure DevOps MCP Flaw Lets Hidden PR Comments Hijack AI Review Agents

A single invisible comment in an Azure DevOps pull request can turn a reviewer's own AI coding agent against them, driving it into projects the attacker has no rights to reach and quietly leaking what it finds. The flaw is in Microsoft's official Azure DevOps MCP server, and it works because one ...

Apple Fixes Hide My Email Bug That Exposed Real Addresses in Mail Logs

Apple has moved to address a security flaw in its Hide My Email service that enabled users' real email addresses to be unmasked, effectively undermining the feature's privacy guarantees. 404 Media reported Tuesday that a fix for the issue was deployed by Apple on July 3, 2026, after more than a...

AWS Kiro Flaw Let a Poisoned Web Page Rewrite Its Config and Run Code

Hidden text on a web page was enough to make Kiro, AWS's agentic coding IDE, rewrite its own configuration file and run an attacker's code on a developer's machine, with no approval step able to stop it. Intezer, in research with Kodem Security, found that a request as ordinary as asking Kiro to...

Google Launches Gemini 3.5 Flash Cyber AI to Find and Fix Software Vulnerabilities

Google's DeepMind on Tuesday announced the release of Gemini 3.5 Flash Cyber , a specialized artificial intelligence AI model built atop 3.5 Flash that's designed to discover, validate, and patch vulnerabilities quickly and efficiently. According to the tech giant, the model will be exclusively...

Critical SharePoint RCE CVE-2026-50522 Under Active Exploitation After Public PoC

A third SharePoint Server flaw patched by Microsoft as part of its Patch Tuesday update for July 2026 has come under active exploitation, per watchTowr. The vulnerability in question is CVE-2026-50522 CVSS score: 9.8, a critical deserialization of untrusted data in Microsoft Office SharePoint tha...

Qilin Ransomware Attackers Exploit PAN-OS Authentication Bypass for Initial Access

Threat actors have been observed exploiting a now-patched high-severity Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS vulnerability as an entry point to deploy Qilin aka Agenda ransomware on victim environments. Arctic Wolf Labs said it investigated multiple intrusions in June 2026 that began with the exploitation o...

Zimbra Patches Critical SNMP Command Injection and Four XSS Vulnerabilities

Zimbra has rolled out fixes to address multiple critical security issues, including a command injection flaw in the Simple Network Management Protocol SNMP monitoring component. As many as nine security vulnerabilities have been patched in Zimbra 10.1.20. Topping the list is a command injection...

Open-Source Android AI Agents Could Let Invisible Screen Text Run Code on Host PCs

An Android app that can draw over other windows and write to shared storage can slip instructions to the AI agent driving that phone, in text no human eye will ever see. Two more steps, and the same app is running commands on the PC driving the agent. Researchers demonstrated that chain, plus six...

N-day is Becoming N-Hour. Patching Faster Won't Save You.

Every patch is a confession. The moment a vendor ships a security fix, the diff between the old code and the new code tells anyone watching exactly what was broken and where. Turn that diff back into a working exploit, and you can hit every system that hasn't updated yet. This is N-day...

New Bit2Watt Attack Could Let Cloud Tenants Disrupt Power Grids Without an Exploit

A cloud tenant using nothing but ordinary GPU access can push a data center's power draw up and down fast enough to threaten the grid it runs on, with no exploit and no break-in. That is the claim behind Bit2Watt , described by three Zhejiang University researchers in a paper accepted to CHES 202...

WordPress wp2shell Exploitation Grows as Public Exploit Fuels Mass Scanning

Attackers have begun to exploit two critical vulnerabilities in WordPress that, when combined together, enable unauthenticated remote code execution RCE and complete compromise of vulnerable websites. The two security flaws, tracked as CVE-2026-63030 and CVE-2026-60137, have been codenamed...

New ENCFORGE Ransomware Targets AI Model Files in Langflow RCE Attack

Researchers at Sysdig have linked a second attack on the same Langflow server to JADEPUFFER, the AI-agent-driven operator it first documented earlier this month. The same operator has now been spotted deploying ENCFORGE , a new compiled Go ransomware designed to encrypt model weights, vector...

Critical ServiceNow AI Platform Flaw Exploited for Unauthenticated Code Execution

Threat actors are now exploiting a recently disclosed critical security flaw impacting ServiceNow AI Platform, according to Defused Cyber. In a post shared on X, the threat intelligence firm said it's observing in-the-wild exploitation of CVE-2026-6875 CVSS score: 9.5, a sandbox escape...

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...

Exposed Server Reveals AI-Assisted Phishing Toolkit Behind WebDAV Malware Campaign

A malware operator left its delivery server wide open, and Rapid7 pulled down the whole toolkit: 1,048 files spanning lure templates, filename-spoofing tests, execution experiments, droppers, builder notes, and two campaign chains. One was already live against Windows users in Mexico, delivering ...

HollowGraph Malware Hides C2 and Stolen Files in Microsoft 365 Events Dated 2050

A newly discovered espionage implant has been using a hijacked Microsoft 365 calendar as its command channel, planting operator instructions and smuggling out stolen files as attachments on calendar events dated to the year 2050. Group-IB, which named the malware HollowGraph , says the approach...

⚡ Weekly Recap: WordPress RCE, SonicWall 0-Days, AI Service Attacks, SharePoint 0-Day and More

A single request should not be able to do this much. But this week, small inputs led to code execution, memory loss, stolen keys, and disabled security tools. The paths were often simple: exposed systems, weak checks, old drivers, fake prompts, and public code used for malware delivery. Some bugs...

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...

Mythos Didn't Break Your Security Program. Your Exposure Window Could.

The industry spent the initial months after Anthropic's April 7 Mythos reveal focused on volume. How many new CVEs would Mythos add to an already overloaded pipeline? How quickly would the flood of AI-driven discovery overwhelm triage capabilities? How long would it take adversaries to weaponize...

New 7-Zip Vulnerability Could Let Crafted XZ Archives Run Code During Extraction

Opening a crafted XZ archive in 7-Zip could let an attacker run code on the machine. The flaw, CVE-2026-14266, is a heap-based buffer overflow in how the archiver processes XZ chunked data, and Trend Micro's Zero Day Initiative ZDI detailed it on July 15. A fix shipped on June 25 in 7-Zip 26.02...

Russian-Speaking Hacker Uses Google Gemini CLI to Control Botnet of Eight Dental Clinic PCs

A solo Russian-speaking threat actor known as "bandcampro " outsourced a chunk of their operations to Google's open-source Gemini CLI artificial intelligence AI and commandeered a live botnet. The findings come from an analysis of 200 Gemini CLI session logs between March 19 and April 21, 2026,...

World's Largest AI Model Repository Hugging Face Breached by Autonomous AI Agent

In an ironic twist, open-source artificial intelligence AI platform Hugging Face revealed that it was the victim of a hack perpetrated by an autonomous AI agent system. The company said it detected and responded to the incident targeting its production infrastructure earlier last week. "We...

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 - gitcredentialmanager versions 2.8.0...

Critical NGINX Vulnerability Can Crash Workers and May Allow Remote Code Execution

F5 has shipped fixes for a critical nginx flaw that lets a remote, unauthenticated attacker trigger a heap buffer overflow in the worker process with crafted HTTP requests. CVE-2026-42533 was patched on July 15 in nginx 1.30.4 stable and 1.31.3 mainline, and in NGINX Plus 37.0.3.1; anyone on an...

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...

SonicWall SMA Zero-Days Exploited Before Disclosure to Gain Root Access

A previously undocumented threat actor has been attributed to the exploitation of recently disclosed SonicWall Secure Mobile Access SMA 1000 series VPN appliances as zero-days prior their public disclosure since June 22, 2026. Cybersecurity company Volexity is tracking the activity under the...

New wp2shell WordPress Core Flaw Lets Unauthenticated Attackers Run Code

Updated July 18, 2026: the two flaws now carry CVE IDs, the full mechanism has been published, a persistent-object-cache condition has surfaced, and a working proof-of-concept is public. The story below reflects all of it. An anonymous HTTP request can run code on a WordPress site. The bug is in...

OpenSSL HollowByte Flaw Could Freeze Server Memory with 11-Byte TLS Requests

Eleven bytes will make an unpatched OpenSSL server set aside up to 131 KB of memory for a message that never arrives. On the glibc systems Okta tested, that memory is gone until the process restarts. OpenSSL shipped the HollowByte fix in June with no CVE, no advisory, and no changelog entry...

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...

New NadMesh Botnet Hunts Exposed AI Services for Cloud Keys and Kubernetes Tokens

A Go botnet called NadMesh turned up in early July hunting exposed AI services, and the operator's own dashboard claims 3,811 unique AWS keys. A Shodan harvester keeps the scan queue stocked with ComfyUI, Ollama, n8n, Open WebUI, Langflow, and Gradio: the image generators, local model runners, an...

GoldenEyeDog Subgroup Linked to DigiCert Breach and Code-Signing Certificate Theft

Cybersecurity researchers have attributed the April 2026 DigiCert security incident to a threat activity cluster dubbed CylindricalCanine. Expel, which shared technical details of the event, described the threat actor as a sub-group of GoldenEyeDog aka APT-Q-27, Dragon Breath, and Miuuti Group, a...

Fake Coding Tests Deliver OtterCookie-Aligned Malware Hidden in SVG Flag Images

North Korean threat actors linked to the Contagious Interview campaign have been observed employing steganography in SVG image files to conceal malicious payloads as part of a campaign using fake job postings and coding challenges. "Any user who ran the project ended up with a four-stage payload...

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 ta...

The Race to Field Military Autonomy Is On, Can Trusted Information Infrastructure Keep Pace?

Military forces are under increasing pressure to field autonomous capabilities faster than ever before. Across the U.S., UK, and NATO, new investment, evolving defense strategies, and accelerated acquisition pathways are transforming how capability is delivered, rewarding programs that can move...

Armenia Detains Russian Tourist on U.S. Warrant for REvil Hacker, Lawyers Say Wrong Man

Armenia has held a Russian tourist named Aleksandr Ermakov in a detention center since June 28, on a U.S. extradition request for a REvil ransomware suspect named Aleksandr Ermakov. His wife, Maria Yurova, told REN TV that border officers pulled him out of the departure hall at Yerevan's Zvartnot...

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...

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...