Friday Squid Blogging: Squid on a Stick at the New York State Fair
Looks tasty. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven’t covered. Blog moderation policy.
Using a VM to Contain an AI Agent
It won’t work: My suspicion was that GPT 5.6-Cyber would succeed, but the frequency and manner of its success removed all doubt. We have to reassess sandboxing quality for capable AI agents, and in general the software stack with which they interact. An off-the-shelf VM is not enough to containRead More »Using a VM to Contain an AI Agent
In Other News: Microsoft’s Cloud Patches, Hacked Dropbox Accounts, Guardio’s $1.1B Valuation
Noteworthy stories that might have slipped under the radar: Microsoft rolled out patches for cloud services, hackers compromised 5,000 Dropbox accounts, and Guardio is now valued at $1.1 billion. The post In Other News: Microsoft’s Cloud Patches, Hacked Dropbox Accounts, Guardio’s $1.1B Valuation appeared first on SecurityWeek.
HPE Patches Critical RCE Vulnerabilities in AOS-CX
Nearly two dozen issues, tracked collectively as CVE-2026-73749 (CVSS score of 9.8), were addressed with the updates. The post HPE Patches Critical RCE Vulnerabilities in AOS-CX appeared first on SecurityWeek.
OpenAI Pledges $1 Billion to Bring Frontier AI to Critical Infrastructure Defenders
The Daybreak initiative will provide subsidized AI cyber capabilities, training and technical assistance, though OpenAI has disclosed few details about costs and eligibility. The post OpenAI Pledges $1 Billion to Bring Frontier AI to Critical Infrastructure Defenders appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Phishing Campaign Sends Millions of Emails Using Invisible Unicode to Evade Filters
Microsoft is alerting of a “high-volume phishing campaign” that’s using invisible Unicode tag characters to bypass email filters. “Instead of using these characters to hide instructions from people while exposing them to AI models, the attacker used them to split financial lure words such as ‘funding’ to prevent email filtersRead More »Phishing Campaign Sends Millions of Emails Using Invisible Unicode to Evade Filters
PostgreSQL Fixes 12-Year-Old Logical Decoding Flaw Enabling Replication-Role Code Execution
PostgreSQL has released updates to address a security flaw that allows an account with the REPLICATION attribute to run arbitrary code as the operating-system user running the database server. The flaw, tracked as CVE-2026-6471 (CVSS score: 7.2), has been present since logical decoding was introduced in PostgreSQL 9.4 in 2014.Read More »PostgreSQL Fixes 12-Year-Old Logical Decoding Flaw Enabling Replication-Role Code Execution
New Ted Backdoor Hides Inside Victims’ Own HAProxy Builds to Intercept Web Traffic
A previously undocumented Linux toolkit has been found compiled directly into the trojanized HAProxy load balancers of two South Korean organizations, where it intercepted web traffic and served altered pages to selected visitors. The attackers named the implant ted in debug strings left in the binary. It is not aRead More »New Ted Backdoor Hides Inside Victims’ Own HAProxy Builds to Intercept Web Traffic
Sangoma Switchvox Vulnerabilities Exploited in the Wild
Tracked as CVE-2026-9586, the unauthenticated SQL injection flaw can be exploited remotely for arbitrary code execution. The post Sangoma Switchvox Vulnerabilities Exploited in the Wild appeared first on SecurityWeek.
12-Year-Old PostgreSQL Vulnerability Enables Database, Server Takeover
Dubbed PostGREShell, CVE-2026-6471 turns low-level replication access into code execution, permanent superuser privileges and a persistent database backdoor. The post 12-Year-Old PostgreSQL Vulnerability Enables Database, Server Takeover appeared first on SecurityWeek.