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Hugging Face Hacked in Autonomous AI Attack

Targeting production infrastructure, the attack compromised internal datasets and service credentials. The post Hugging Face Hacked in Autonomous AI Attack appeared first on SecurityWeek.

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New 7-Zip Vulnerability Could Let Crafted XZ Archives Run Code During Extraction

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 25 in 7-Zip 26.02. The overflow lets an attacker "execute code in the context of the current process," per the

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Russian-Speaking Hacker Uses Google Gemini CLI to Control Botnet of Eight Dental Clinic PCs

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 threat actor using AI, among other things, to crack passwords, set up a residential

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Chrome 150 Update Patches Severe Memory Safety Bugs

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.

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World's Largest AI Model Repository Hugging Face Breached by Autonomous AI Agent

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 a limited set of internal datasets and to several credentials used by

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WP2Shell WordPress Vulnerabilities Exploited in the Wild

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.

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SleeperGem Uses Three Malicious RubyGems Packages to Target Developer Machines

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, 2026 Dendreo (versions 1.1.3, 1.1.4) -

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Critical NGINX Vulnerability Can Crash Workers and May Allow Remote Code Execution

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 earlier build should upgrade. Triggering it can crash or restart the worker, causing a denial of

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UAC-0145 Uses ClickFix CAPTCHAs to Infect Ukrainian Devices wih Malware

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 affiliated with GRU, Russia's

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SonicWall SMA Zero-Days Exploited Before Disclosure to Gain Root Access

A previously undocumented threat actor has been attributed to the exploitation of recently disclosed SonicWall Secure Mobile Access (SMA) 1000 series VPN appliances as zero-days prior their public disclosure since June 22, 2026. Cybersecurity company Volexity is tracking the activity under the moniker UTA0533. The discovery was made following an incident response investigation earlier this

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New wp2shell WordPress Core Flaw Lets Unauthenticated Attackers Run Code

An anonymous HTTP request can run code on a WordPress site. The bug is in core, so a bare install with zero plugins is exploitable. Every 6.9 and 7.0 site was in range until Friday, when WordPress shipped 6.9.5 and 7.0.2 and enabled what it calls forced updates through its auto-update system. Adam Kues at Assetnote, Searchlight Cyber's attack surface management arm, found the flaw and reported

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OpenSSL HollowByte Flaw Could Freeze Server Memory with 11-Byte TLS Requests

Eleven bytes will make an unpatched OpenSSL server set aside up to 131 KB of memory for a message that never arrives. On the glibc systems Okta tested, that memory is gone until the process restarts. OpenSSL shipped the HollowByte fix in June with no CVE, no advisory, and no changelog entry pointing at it. Okta's Red Team, which reported the denial-of-service bug and named it, published the

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Seven Malicious Vite npm Packages Use Blockchain C2 to Deliver a RAT

Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a cluster of seven malicious npm packages targeting the Vite frontend tooling ecosystem as part of a software supply chain attack. The malicious package campaign, codenamed ViteVenom by Checkmarx, marks an expansion of ChainVeil, which was observed using an "unprecedented" four-tier blockchain-based command-and-control (C2) infrastructure spanning Tron,

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New NadMesh Botnet Hunts Exposed AI Services for Cloud Keys and Kubernetes Tokens

A Go botnet called NadMesh turned up in early July hunting exposed AI services, and the operator's own dashboard claims 3,811 unique AWS keys. A Shodan harvester keeps the scan queue stocked with ComfyUI, Ollama, n8n, Open WebUI, Langflow, and Gradio: the image generators, local model runners, and workflow builders that teams stand up fast and firewall late. The intel feed behind that counter

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GoldenEyeDog Subgroup Linked to DigiCert Breach and Code-Signing Certificate Theft

Cybersecurity researchers have attributed the April 2026 DigiCert security incident to a threat activity cluster dubbed CylindricalCanine. Expel, which shared technical details of the event, described the threat actor as a sub-group of GoldenEyeDog (aka APT-Q-27, Dragon Breath, and Miuuti Group), a Chinese cybercrime group known for its targeting of the gambling and gaming sectors using

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In Other News: Iran Tracks US Military Phones, CrashStealer macOS Malware, CVD Blueprint

Noteworthy stories that might have slipped under the radar: OpenClaw AI agents exploited via WhatsApp, ransomware hits naval defense firm TKMS, Lidl discloses data breach. The post In Other News: Iran Tracks US Military Phones, CrashStealer macOS Malware, CVD Blueprint appeared first on SecurityWeek.

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Fake Coding Tests Deliver OtterCookie-Aligned Malware Hidden in SVG Flag Images

North Korean threat actors linked to the Contagious Interview campaign have been observed employing steganography in SVG image files to conceal malicious payloads as part of a campaign using fake job postings and coding challenges. "Any user who ran the project ended up with a four-stage payload aligned with OTTERCOOKIE: a browser credential and crypto wallet stealer, a file stealer, a

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Podcast: Broken Governance, Agentic AI, and the MindStone Agent Exclusive

(Video) Artificial intelligence is transforming cybersecurity, but are governance, compliance, and security practices evolving fast enough to keep up? The post Podcast: Broken Governance, Agentic AI, and the MindStone Agent Exclusive appeared first on SecurityWeek.

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E.U. Orders Google to Open Android Mic, Camera and Screen to Rival AI Assistants

The European Commission on Thursday ordered Google to give rival AI assistants the same reach into Android that Gemini already has: the camera, the microphone, whatever is on screen, a wake word that fires with the display off, and the ability to drive other apps in the background by imitating taps and typing. Google has to ship it in the next major release, Android 18, and by 1 August 2027 at

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Beacon Security Raises $13 Million for Security Data Platform

The startup helps organizations detect, hunt, and protect their assets across environments at machine speed. The post Beacon Security Raises $13 Million for Security Data Platform appeared first on SecurityWeek.