Everyone seems to have announced a clearinghouse over the past few weeks. We did too. Ours is called Athena, and the main thing that sets it apart is that it was already real and running when we announced it — built quietly months earlier, heads down, taking findings and shippingRead More »Summer of Clearinghouses
Cybersecurity researchers have flagged a new ransomware family called GodDamn that employs the PoisonX kernel driver to neutralize security software as part of its defense evasion strategy. According to a new report published by the Threat Hunter Team from Symantec, the ransomware was first publicly spotted in the wild onRead More »GodDamn Ransomware Uses PoisonX Driver to Disable Endpoint Defenses
The privilege escalation vulnerability tracked as CVE-2026-50656 has been patched with a Microsoft Malware Protection Engine update. The post Microsoft Patches Defender ‘RoguePlanet’ Vulnerability appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Hackers accessed the institution’s internal network and deleted two drives containing employee, student, and university data. The post Mount Royal University Confirms Data Stolen in Ransomware Attack appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Wiz has disclosed the details of a new AI coding assistant attack method it has dubbed GhostApproval. The post AI Coding Tools Tricked Into Hacking Developer Machine via Decades-Old Technique appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Microsoft has released security updates for a Defender vulnerability known as RoguePlanet, nearly a month after details of the flaw became public. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-50656 (CVSS score: 7.8), is a privilege escalation issue in the Microsoft Malware Protection Engine (“mpengine.dll”), which provides scanning, detection, and cleaning capabilities forRead More »Microsoft Patches RoguePlanet Defender Flaw That Can Grant SYSTEM Privileges
The security refresh resolves 13 use-after-free bugs, including two critical-severity flaws found by Google. The post Chrome 150 Update Patches 27 Vulnerabilities appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Meta has announced that its new artificial intelligence (AI) model Muse Image lets people use public Instagram posts and reels to generate AI content, and it’s enabled by default. “You can also @-mention Instagram accounts in the Meta AI app to bring specific Instagram profiles right into your images,” theRead More »Meta’s New AI Image Tool Lets Others Use Your Public Instagram Photos in AI Images
The Spanish startup has closed an extended pre-seed funding round two months after launching its digital identity protection platform. The post 8Layers Raises $2.9 Million for Identity Security Platform appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Ask an AI coding agent to scan open-source code for security holes, and it might run the attacker’s code on your own machine instead. That is the finding in a proof-of-concept published Wednesday by the AI Now Institute, an attack it calls “Friendly Fire.” It works against Anthropic’s Claude Code and OpenAI’sRead More »Top AI Agents Built to Catch Malicious Code Can Be Tricked Into Running It
