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…
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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…
Ubiquiti Patches Critical UniFi Flaws Across Connect, Talk, Access, Protect, and OS
Ravie LakshmananJul 08, 2026Vulnerability / Network Security Ubiquiti has shipped updates to address multiple critical security flaws impacting UniFi Connect, UniFi Talk, UniFi Access, UniFi…
China-Linked UAT-7810 Expands ORB Network With New LONGLEASH Malware
Ravie LakshmananJul 08, 2026Malware / Network Security A Chinese threat actor tracked as UAT-7810 is actively refining its bespoke malware to expand its Operational Relay…
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…
Rogue Agent Flaw Could Have Let Attackers Hijack Google Dialogflow CX Chatbots
A critical flaw in Google’s Dialogflow CX could have let an attacker with edit rights on one Code Block-enabled agent compromise other Code Block-enabled agents…
RedWing MaaS Packages Android Bank Fraud as a Telegram Rental Service
Swati KhandelwalJul 07, 2026Malware / Mobile Security A new Android malware operation called RedWing is being rented out on Telegram as a ready-made bank-fraud service.…
Public GitHub Issue Could Trick GitHub Agentic Workflows Into Leaking Private Repo Data
A public issue can trick GitHub Agentic Workflows into leaking the contents of an organization’s private repositories, researchers at Noma Security have shown. The attacker…
Suspected China-Aligned Hackers Exploit Roundcube Flaws Against Universities
A suspected China-aligned threat activity cluster has been observed exploiting Roundcube webmail software belonging to physics and engineering departments of U.S. and Canadian universities as…
Threat Actors Probe Gitea Docker Flaw CVE-2026-20896 13 Days After Disclosure
Ravie LakshmananJul 06, 2026Vulnerability / DevOps Threat actors have been observed attempting to exploit a recently patched critical security flaw in Gitea Docker images, according…
16-Year-Old Linux KVM Flaw Lets Guest VMs Escape to Host on Intel and AMD x86 Systems
A use-after-free bug in Linux’s KVM hypervisor can be triggered from a guest virtual machine to corrupt the shadow-page state of the host kernel that…
Iran-Linked Hackers Use New Cavern C2 Framework to Target Israeli Organizations
An Iranian hacking group affiliated with Iran’s Ministry of Intelligence and Security (MOIS) has been wielding a previously undocumented modular command-and-control (C2) framework dubbed Cavern…