The agentic security tool identifies potentially exploitable code flaws, traces attack paths, and recommends targeted remediations. The post Capital One Open Sources AI-Powered ‘VulnHunter’ Security Tool appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Targeting production infrastructure, the attack compromised internal datasets and service credentials. The post Hugging Face Hacked in Autonomous AI Attack appeared first on SecurityWeek.
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 25Read More »New 7-Zip Vulnerability Could Let Crafted XZ Archives Run Code During Extraction
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, which found the threatRead More »Russian-Speaking Hacker Uses Google Gemini CLI to Control Botnet of Eight Dental Clinic PCs
The fresh security update resolves six critical and high-severity use-after-free vulnerabilities. The post Chrome 150 Update Patches Severe Memory Safety Bugs appeared first on SecurityWeek.
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 identified unauthorized access to aRead More »World’s Largest AI Model Repository Hugging Face Breached by Autonomous AI Agent
Exploitation of the new WordPress vulnerabilities tracked as CVE-2026-60137 and CVE-2026-63030 started soon after disclosure. The post WP2Shell WordPress Vulnerabilities Exploited in the Wild appeared first on SecurityWeek.
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,Read More »SleeperGem Uses Three Malicious RubyGems Packages to Target Developer Machines
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 earlierRead More »Critical NGINX Vulnerability Can Crash Workers and May Allow Remote Code Execution
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 affiliatedRead More »UAC-0145 Uses ClickFix CAPTCHAs to Infect Ukrainian Devices wih Malware
