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New Agent Data Injection Attack Can Make AI Agents Misclick or Run Attacker Commands 2026-07-16 at 16:41 By Ask an AI agent to summarize the reviews on a product page, and a single planted review can make it click “Buy Now” instead. Ask a coding assistant to apply a maintainer’s fix from a GitHub thread, […]

20+ Hijacked Government Websites Became
an Attack Channel 2026-07-16 at 16:41 By More than 20 Brazilian government websites were hijacked and turned into malware delivery channels in an active PhantomEnigma campaign uncovered by ANY.RUN, a leading provider of interactive malware analysis and threat intelligence solutions. The investigation revealed previously undocumented backdoor behavior, hidden infrastructure relationships, and […]

Daxin Resurfaces in Taiwan Alongside Stupig Pre-Login SYSTEM Backdoor 2026-07-16 at 16:41 By An advanced malware previously attributed to a China-linked threat actor has resurfaced after more than four years within a Taiwan manufacturing firm, along with a previously unreported backdoor dubbed Stupig. Daxin (“srt64.sys”), as the kernel-mode rootkit is referred to, was first documented […]

New TELEPUZ Malware Spreads via ClickFix to Steal Data and Run Commands 2026-07-16 at 15:50 By Cybersecurity researchers have called attention to a new modular malware called TELEPUZ that’s been spreading via websites infected with ClickFix lures since late April 2026. “The malware is full-featured, lightweight, and modular,” Elastic Security Labs researcher Cyril François said […]

New ClickLock macOS Stealer Kills Apps Every 210ms Until Victims Type Their Password 2026-07-16 at 15:33 By ClickLock Stealer, a new macOS infostealer, answers a victim’s refusal by killing their apps on a loop until they hand over the login password. It arrives as a command pasted into Terminal, asks for the password behind a […]

Unpatched Shark Vacuum Flaw Could Let Attackers Control Other Vacuums Region-Wide 2026-07-16 at 14:05 By Pull the certificate off the flash of a Shark RV2320EDUS robot vacuum, and you can run root commands on other people’s Shark vacuums across the same AWS region: watch the camera, drive the robot, read the map of the house, […]

AI Can Find Bugs, But Human Knowledge Still Proves Them 2026-07-16 at 13:10 By Artificial intelligence (AI) is changing offensive security, but it has not changed the standard that matters most: a finding has to be proven before it becomes useful. AI-assisted tools can read code quickly, generate payloads, summarize attack surfaces, explain unfamiliar APIs, […]

Spirals: New Stealthy Ransomware Deployed Against Asian IT Company 2026-07-16 at 13:00 By Threat Hunter Team Attack using previously unseen ransomware payload occurred in June 2026. The skill of its operators suggests wider campaigns may follow. This article is an excerpt from SECURITY.COM View Original Source

OpenAI’s GPT-Red Automates Prompt Injection Testing to Harden GPT-5.6 Sol 2026-07-16 at 12:29 By OpenAI has disclosed details of GPT-Red, an internal automated red-teaming model that scales prompt injection vulnerability discovery with an aim to fix issues before the tools are deployed widely. “GPT‑Red is a strong red-teamer, and our previous models are highly vulnerable […]

Hazel Cerra — Women in Security 2026 2026-07-16 at 12:00 By Hazel Cerra shares the valuable lessons learned from her decades-long career with the U.S. Secret Service. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

Zoom Patches Critical Windows Flaw That Could Enable Account Takeover 2026-07-16 at 11:36 By Zoom has released security updates for a critical security flaw impacting Zoom Workplace for Windows that could facilitate account takeover. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-53412 (CVSS score: 9.8), affects Zoom Desktop Client for Windows, Zoom VDI Client for Windows, and Zoom […]

You Can’t Secure a Ship Like a Laptop 2026-07-16 at 10:00 By Modern cargo vessels are becoming floating distributed data centers.  This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

OkoBot Malware Framework Injects Seed Phrase Phishing Into Ledger and Trezor Apps 2026-07-16 at 05:06 By A malware framework called OkoBot has been running on Windows machines since April 2025, and one of its modules is built to con hardware wallet owners out of their recovery phrase. On an infected PC, the request comes from […]

TuxBot v3 Evolution Shows Signs of LLM-Assisted IoT Botnet Development 2026-07-16 at 05:06 By Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a previously unreported Internet-of-Things (IoT) botnet framework dubbed TuxBot v3 Evolution that shows signs of being developed with assistance from a large language model (LLM), albeit with not so successful results. “While the AI complied […]

SASE Has An AI Blind Spot. Inspecting Packets Is No Longer Enough. 2026-07-16 at 05:06 By For years, routing traffic through cloud proxies was good enough. Then work moved to the browser, AI entered the workflow, and the inspection model stopped keeping up. Enterprise workflows now live across SaaS applications, browsers, and an expanding ecosystem […]

Firefox, Chrome, Adobe, and VMware Updates Fix Multiple Critical Security Flaws 2026-07-16 at 05:06 By Mozilla has released updates to address two critical flaws in Firefox for which it warned that exploit code has been published. The vulnerabilities are listed below – CVE-2026-15718, an invalid pointer in the JavaScript: WebAssembly component CVE-2026-15719, a site isolation […]

Researcher Drops New Windows Zero-Day PoC Hours After Microsoft Patch Tuesday 2026-07-16 at 05:06 By Security researcher Chaotic Eclipse (aka Nightmare-Eclipse) has released a new proof-of-concept (PoC) exploit called LegacyHive. It has been described as a Windows User Profile Service arbitrary hive load elevation of privileges vulnerability. The Windows User Profile Service, also referred to […]

TuxBot v3 Evolution Shows Signs of LLM-Assisted IoT Botnet Development 2026-07-15 at 21:43 By Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a previously unreported Internet-of-Things (IoT) botnet framework dubbed TuxBot v3 Evolution that shows signs of being developed with assistance from a large language model (LLM), albeit with not so successful results. “While the AI complied […]

Elon Musk’s xAI sues Grok user for allegedly creating sexually explicit deepfakes of adults, minors 2026-07-15 at 21:24 By Reuters The case is one of the first brought by an AI company against one of its users for allegedly using an AI system to generate explicit material. This article is an excerpt from Latest Technology […]

Google’s AI search engine poses ‘unacceptable risks for kids,’ bombshell report finds 2026-07-15 at 20:04 By Thomas Barrabi Features of Google’s AI-powered search engine “create unacceptable risks for kids” – including failing to detect when they are showing signs of eating disorders or suicide, according to a bombshell investigation. This article is an excerpt from […]