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Google DeepMind Researchers Map Web Attacks Against AI Agents

A vulnerability named ‘AI Agent Traps’ allows attackers to manipulate, deceive, and exploit visiting agents via malicious web content. The post Google DeepMind Researchers Map Web Attacks Against AI Agents appeared first on SecurityWeek.

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Fortinet Rushes Emergency Fixes for Exploited Zero-Day

The improper access control bug in FortiClient EMS allows unauthenticated attackers to execute arbitrary code remotely. The post Fortinet Rushes Emergency Fixes for Exploited Zero-Day appeared first on SecurityWeek.

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BKA Identifies REvil Leaders Behind 130 German Ransomware Attacks

Germany's Federal Criminal Police Office (aka BKA or the Bundeskriminalamt) has unmasked the real identity of the main threat actors associated with the now-defunct REvil (aka Sodinokibi) ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) operation. The threat actor, who went by the alias UNKN, functioned as a representative of the group, advertising the ransomware in June 2019 on the XSS cybercrime forum. He 

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Fortinet Patches Actively Exploited CVE-2026-35616 in FortiClient EMS

Fortinet has released out-of-band patches for a critical security flaw impacting FortiClient EMS that it said has been exploited in the wild. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-35616 (CVSS score: 9.1), has been described as a pre-authentication API access bypass leading to privilege escalation. "An improper access control vulnerability [CWE-284] in FortiClient EMS may allow an

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TrueConf Zero-Day Exploited in Asian Government Attacks

A Chinese threat actor exploited the video conferencing platform to perform reconnaissance, escalate privileges, and execute additional payloads. The post TrueConf Zero-Day Exploited in Asian Government Attacks appeared first on SecurityWeek.

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In Other News: ChatGPT Data Leak, Android Rootkit, Water Facility Hit by Ransomware

Other noteworthy stories that might have slipped under the radar: Symantec vulnerability, anti-ClickFix mechanism added to macOS, FBI hack classified as major incident. The post In Other News: ChatGPT Data Leak, Android Rootkit, Water Facility Hit by Ransomware appeared first on SecurityWeek.

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Mobile Attack Surface Expands as Enterprises Lose Control

Shadow AI embedded in everyday apps, combined with outdated mobile devices and zero-click exploits, is creating a new and largely unseen mobile risk. The post Mobile Attack Surface Expands as Enterprises Lose Control appeared first on SecurityWeek.

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React2Shell Exploited in Large-Scale Credential Harvesting Campaign

Using automated scanning and the Nexus Listener collection framework, the hackers compromised over 750 systems. The post React2Shell Exploited in Large-Scale Credential Harvesting Campaign appeared first on SecurityWeek.

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Hackers Exploit CVE-2025-55182 to Breach 766 Next.js Hosts, Steal Credentials

A large-scale credential harvesting operation has been observed exploiting the React2Shell vulnerability as an initial infection vector to steal database credentials, SSH private keys, Amazon Web Services (AWS) secrets, shell command history, Stripe API keys, and GitHub tokens at scale. Cisco Talos has attributed the operation to a threat cluster it tracks as

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Critical Vulnerability in Claude Code Emerges Days After Source Leak

Within days of each other, Anthropic first leaked the source code to Claude Code, and then a critical vulnerability was found by Adversa AI. The post Critical Vulnerability in Claude Code Emerges Days After Source Leak appeared first on SecurityWeek.

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Cisco Patches 9.8 CVSS IMC and SSM Flaws Allowing Remote System Compromise

Cisco has released updates to address a critical security flaw in the Integrated Management Controller (IMC) that, if successfully exploited, could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to bypass authentication and gain access to the system with elevated privileges. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-20093, carries a CVSS score of 9.8 out of a maximum of 10.0. "This

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Exploited Zero-Day Among 21 Vulnerabilities Patched in Chrome

Google has announced fixes for CVE-2026-5281, a zero-day affecting Chrome’s Dawn component.  The post Exploited Zero-Day Among 21 Vulnerabilities Patched in Chrome appeared first on SecurityWeek.

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New Chrome Zero-Day CVE-2026-5281 Under Active Exploitation — Patch Released

Google on Thursday released security updates for its Chrome web browser to address 21 vulnerabilities, including a zero-day flaw that it said has been exploited in the wild. The high-severity vulnerability, CVE-2026-5281 (CVSS score: N/A), concerns a use-after-free bug in Dawn, an open-source and cross-platform implementation of the WebGPU standard. "Use-after-free in Dawn in Google Chrome prior

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Claude Code Source Leaked via npm Packaging Error, Anthropic Confirms

Anthropic on Tuesday confirmed that internal code for its popular artificial intelligence (AI) coding assistant, Claude Code, had been inadvertently released due to a human error. "No sensitive customer data or credentials were involved or exposed," an Anthropic spokesperson said in a statement shared with CNBC News. "This was a release packaging issue caused by human error, not a security

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TrueConf Zero-Day Exploited in Attacks on Southeast Asian Government Networks

A high-severity security flaw in the TrueConf client video conferencing software has been exploited in the wild as a zero-day as part of a campaign targeting government entities in Southeast Asia dubbed TrueChaos. The vulnerability in question is CVE-2026-3502 (CVSS score: 7.8), a lack of integrity check when fetching application update code, allowing an attacker to distribute a tampered update,

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Vertex AI Vulnerability Exposes Google Cloud Data and Private Artifacts

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed a security "blind spot" in Google Cloud's Vertex AI platform that could allow artificial intelligence (AI) agents to be weaponized by an attacker to gain unauthorized access to sensitive data and compromise an organization's cloud environment. According to Palo Alto Networks Unit 42, the issue relates to how the Vertex AI permission model can be misused

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Exploitation of Critical Fortinet FortiClient EMS Flaw Begins

The SQL injection vulnerability allows unauthenticated attackers to execute arbitrary code remotely, via crafted HTTP requests. The post Exploitation of Critical Fortinet FortiClient EMS Flaw Begins appeared first on SecurityWeek.

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StrongSwan Flaw Allows Unauthenticated Attackers to Crash VPNs

Remotely exploitable, the integer underflow vulnerability impacts StrongSwan releases spanning 15 years. The post StrongSwan Flaw Allows Unauthenticated Attackers to Crash VPNs appeared first on SecurityWeek.

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Critical Vulnerability in OpenAI Codex Allowed GitHub Token Compromise 

Researchers found an OpenAI Codex vulnerability that could have been exploited to compromise GitHub tokens. The post Critical Vulnerability in OpenAI Codex Allowed GitHub Token Compromise  appeared first on SecurityWeek.

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OpenAI Patches ChatGPT Data Exfiltration Flaw and Codex GitHub Token Vulnerability

A previously unknown vulnerability in OpenAI ChatGPT allowed sensitive conversation data to be exfiltrated without user knowledge or consent, according to new findings from Check Point. "A single malicious prompt could turn an otherwise ordinary conversation into a covert exfiltration channel, leaking user messages, uploaded files, and other sensitive content," the cybersecurity company said in