⚡ Weekly Recap: Rogue AI Agents, WeChat Worm, PaperCut Attacks, AI Espionage, and Rootkits
Ravie LakshmananSep 14, 2026Cybersecurity / Hacking AI keeps showing up in the wrong places. Attackers are using it to speed...
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AI Changed the Exposure Problem. Validation Needs to Change With It.
There's a lot of noise around AI and cybersecurity right now. What’s actually important is far simpler, if often lost...
Malicious Twitch Browser Extension Leaks OAuth Tokens From Nearly 31,000 Users
Ravie LakshmananSep 14, 2026Malware / Browser Security A malicious cross-store Twitch browser extension has leaked OAuth tokens associated with nearly...
Attackers Use Passkey Phishing to Hijack Microsoft Cloud Accounts and Exfiltrate Data
Microsoft has disclosed details of two campaigns in which threat actors are abusing third-party email delivery infrastructure to blast financial...
CISA Adds 5 Actively Exploited Artifactory, ScreenConnect, and RouterOS Flaws to KEV
Ravie LakshmananSep 12, 2026Vulnerability / Enterprise Security The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has added five security flaws...
When the Whole Company Adopts AI: What It Does to Your SOC
Over the past year, we watched a new class of alert appear in enterprise security operations centers and grow faster...
OpenAI Agents Linked to RubyGems Campaign That Gained RCE on RubyDoc Servers
The "major malicious attack" that targeted RubyGems in May 2026 was the work of a swarm of OpenAI agents, according...
GitLab CVSS 10 File-Read Flaw Draws In-the-Wild Probes After Disclosure
Ravie LakshmananSep 11, 2026Vulnerability / Web Security GitLab has released patches to address multiple flaws, including a maximum-severity security vulnerability...
Anthropic Says Seven China-Based AI Labs Ran Industrial-Scale Claude Distillation Attacks
Ravie LakshmananSep 11, 2026Artificial Intelligence / Cybercrime Anthropic on Thursday said it identified and disrupted industrial-scale illicit distillation attacks against...
Claude Used to Automate Exploitation and Data Theft Across Multiple Victims
Ravie LakshmananSep 11, 2026Artificial Intelligence / Cyber Operations Anthropic has warned that cybercriminals and state-sponsored hackers alike are using its...
Russian State-Sponsored Hackers Use Claude to Rebuild Malware After Detection
Anthropic on Thursday revealed it disrupted a campaign mounted by a Russian state-sponsored threat actor that abused Claude for developing...
Your Critical Vulnerabilities Might Not Be Your Biggest Risk
Security teams have become exceptionally talented at finding vulnerabilities. Now, it’s time to turn our attention to optimizing the process...
Attackers Chain JFrog Artifactory Flaws to Gain Admin Control and Plant Backdoors
Attackers have chained two flaws in JFrog Artifactory, the repository that software build pipelines pull from, to take administrator control...
China-Linked UNC3569 Exploited Sogou Input Method Flaw to Deploy GRAYRABBIT Backdoor
A China-linked hacking group exploited a flaw in Sogou Input Method, one of the most widely used tools for typing...
PaperCut Replaces Emergency Patches With Fixes for Two Actively Exploited Flaws
Ravie LakshmananSep 11, 2026Vulnerability / Cyber Attack PaperCut on Thursday released a new security maintenance release that replaces all previously...
