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AI-found bugs are expected to rise, and OpenAI has a five-stage response plan

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AI-found bugs are expected to rise, and OpenAI has a five-stage response plan 2026-10-22 at 10:35 By Mirko Zorz OpenAI has proposed a five-stage process for handling critical vulnerabilities in widely used software. The process grew out of a two-month response to flaws in PHP, the open-source language that runs websites and web applications. Calif […]

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Google quadruples Chrome bug bounty base pay, offers up to $20,000 for sandbox escapes

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Google quadruples Chrome bug bounty base pay, offers up to $20,000 for sandbox escapes 2026-10-14 at 07:00 By Anamarija Pogorelec Google is updating its Chrome Vulnerability Rewards Program (Chrome VRP), increasing payments for memory corruption vulnerabilities and expanding rewards for other security flaws, fixes and research tools. “A primary goal of the Chrome VRP has […]

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npm Trusted Publishing flaw exposed 1,500+ npm packages to takeover

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npm Trusted Publishing flaw exposed 1,500+ npm packages to takeover 2026-10-13 at 12:00 By Mirko Zorz Bloom Security researchers found that npm’s Trusted Publishing feature let an attacker push new versions of someone else’s package without stealing a credential. The attacker only needed to register a GitHub repository name the maintainer had left behind. Bloom […]

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16-year-old researcher breaks into Microsoft analytics service with access to 17 trillion rows of data

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16-year-old researcher breaks into Microsoft analytics service with access to 17 trillion rows of data 2026-09-28 at 16:50 By Sinisa Markovic A flaw in Titan, an internal Microsoft analytics service, could have let an attacker read employee records and Bing search analytics, a 16-year-old security researcher has disclosed. The researcher, who goes by Faav, found […]

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National Life Group CISO expects more vulnerabilities in six months than in thirty years

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National Life Group CISO expects more vulnerabilities in six months than in thirty years 2026-09-02 at 09:00 By Mirko Zorz In this Help Net Security interview, Becky Palmer is VP and CISO at National Life Group, answers five questions about defending against AI-driven attacks. The discussion covers why patch cycles built for human speed cannot […]

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Critical Microsoft Entra ID vulnerability exploited in the wild (CVE-2026-69836)

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Critical Microsoft Entra ID vulnerability exploited in the wild (CVE-2026-69836) 2026-08-21 at 15:20 By Sinisa Markovic Microsoft has patched a critical remote code execution vulnerability (CVE-2026-69836) in Entra ID, reportedly exploited in the wild. Entra ID is Microsoft’s cloud identity service, formerly Azure Active Directory, that verifies logins and controls access to Microsoft 365, Azure, […]

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AI-generated reports push GNOME to shorten its disclosure window

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AI-generated reports push GNOME to shorten its disclosure window 2026-07-21 at 06:53 By Anamarija Pogorelec Volunteer maintainers of open source projects now receive a steady flow of security vulnerability reports produced with AI tools. Many arrive with no mention that a language model helped write them. The volume has grown enough that GNOME is revising […]

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CISA folds its own hard-won lessons into coordinated vulnerability disclosure guidance

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CISA folds its own hard-won lessons into coordinated vulnerability disclosure guidance 2026-07-16 at 16:23 By Zeljka Zorz On Wednesday, the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and four allied cyber authorities published a guide telling software vendors how to build a coordinated vulnerability disclosure (CVD) program. Six days earlier, CISA published a blog post […]

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Microsoft releases fix for RoguePlanet Defender flaw (CVE-2026-50656)

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Microsoft releases fix for RoguePlanet Defender flaw (CVE-2026-50656) 2026-07-09 at 15:14 By Zeljka Zorz Microsoft has finally released a security update for its Microsoft Malware Protection Engine, which fixes CVE-2026-50656, the Windows Defender local privilege escalation vulnerability triggered by the RoguePlanet exploit. The vulnerability and the fix CVE-2026-50656 is due to improper link resolution before […]

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Microsoft working on patch for RoguePlanet Defender zero-day (CVE-2026-50656)

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Microsoft working on patch for RoguePlanet Defender zero-day (CVE-2026-50656) 2026-06-17 at 14:26 By Zeljka Zorz Microsoft has acknowledged the local elevation of privilege issue in Microsoft Defender that can be triggered via the “RoguePlanet” exploit, and is “working to provide a high quality security update that addresses this vulnerability.” The vulnerability, which has been assigned […]

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Mythos Preview can weaponize N-day vulnerabilities in hours

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Mythos Preview can weaponize N-day vulnerabilities in hours 2026-06-09 at 13:39 By Sinisa Markovic Mythos Preview can develop working exploits from newly disclosed software vulnerabilities in hours, cutting down a process that has historically taken days or weeks, according to Anthropic. Anthropic’s recent cybersecurity research has largely focused on zero-days, vulnerabilities unknown to software vendors. […]

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Anthropic expands Project Glasswing to 150 organizations in more than 15 countries

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Anthropic expands Project Glasswing to 150 organizations in more than 15 countries 2026-06-03 at 11:23 By Sinisa Markovic Anthropic is expanding Project Glasswing, its cybersecurity initiative built around the Claude Mythos Preview model, by adding about 150 organizations following several weeks of work with its initial group of partners, security firms, open-source maintainers, and government […]

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Anthropic: Claude Mythos identified 10,000+ software flaws

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Anthropic: Claude Mythos identified 10,000+ software flaws 2026-05-26 at 17:30 By Anamarija Pogorelec Anthropic and its Project Glasswing partners have identified more than 10,000 high- or critical-severity vulnerabilities in critical software systems, the company announced in an update on the project’s progress. Mythos identifies thousands of high-severity vulnerabilities In April 2026, Anthropic introduced Claude Mythos […]

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Microsoft Defender vulnerabilities exploited in the wild (CVE-2026-41091, CVE-2026-45498)

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Microsoft Defender vulnerabilities exploited in the wild (CVE-2026-41091, CVE-2026-45498) 2026-05-21 at 14:22 By Zeljka Zorz Attackers are exploiting two Microsoft Defender vulnerabilities (CVE-2026-41091 and CVE-2026-45498), Microsoft acknowledged and CISA confirmed by adding them to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. The vulnerabilities CVE-2026-41091 allows for local privilege elevation (LPE), and is caused by the Microsoft Malware […]

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Verizon DBIR: Vulnerability exploitation is the dominant initial access vector

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Verizon DBIR: Vulnerability exploitation is the dominant initial access vector 2026-05-20 at 17:16 By Zeljka Zorz Vulnerability exploitation has overtaken stolen credentials as the most common way attackers gain initial access to target networks, according to the 2026 Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report. This is the first time credential theft has been knocked off the […]

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Microsoft provides mitigation for “YellowKey” BitLocker bypass flaw (CVE-2026-45585)

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Microsoft provides mitigation for “YellowKey” BitLocker bypass flaw (CVE-2026-45585) 2026-05-20 at 11:49 By Zeljka Zorz Microsoft is working on a fix for CVE-2026-45585 (aka “Yellowkey”), a vulnerability that can be used by attackers to bypass protections offered by BitLocker, the full-disk encryption feature built into Windows, and access users’ data. In the meantime, the company […]

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AI is drowning software maintainers in junk security reports

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AI is drowning software maintainers in junk security reports 2026-05-18 at 21:32 By Zeljka Zorz AI-assisted vulnerability research has exploded, unleashing a firehose of low-quality reports on overworked software maintainers who are wasting hours sifting through noise instead of fixing real problems. Linus Torvalds, the Linux kernel’s creator, says the flood has made the project’s […]

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Amazon Quick authorization bypass let users reach blocked AI chat agents

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Amazon Quick authorization bypass let users reach blocked AI chat agents 2026-05-12 at 20:12 By Mirko Zorz Enterprises running Amazon Quick, the AWS business intelligence and agentic AI service, rely on a feature called custom permissions to restrict who inside an account can use AI chat agents. Fog Security founder Jason Kao discovered that those […]

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Linux developers weigh emergency “killswitch” for vulnerable kernel functions

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Linux developers weigh emergency “killswitch” for vulnerable kernel functions 2026-05-11 at 16:48 By Zeljka Zorz Linux kernel developers are reviewing a proposal for an emergency risk mitigation mechanism (“Killswitch”) that would allow administrators to disable vulnerable kernel functions at runtime. The proposal, submitted by Linux kernel developer/maintainer Sasha Levin, arrives in the wake of the […]

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Meta and PortSwigger drive offensive security further to find what others miss

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Meta and PortSwigger drive offensive security further to find what others miss 2026-04-20 at 11:16 By Anamarija Pogorelec Meta Bug Bounty and PortSwigger have formed a partnership to help security researchers sharpen their skills, collaborate more closely, and improve vulnerability discovery. The initiative combines Meta’s bug bounty program with PortSwigger’s Burp Suite, reflecting a shared […]

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