Rapid7 warns that traditional patch cycles cannot keep pace with soaring vulnerability disclosures and faster exploitation, forcing defenders to prioritize exposure over severity scores. The post AI-Driven Vulnerability Surge Breaks the Traditional Patching Model appeared first on SecurityWeek.

The Python-based malware framework takes living-off-the-land tactics to a new heights of stealth, with a modular implant that steals credentials and achieves persistence.

Security researchers at Anthropic and Switzerland's EPFL have demonstrated that self-propagating payloads can spread from one artificial intelligence (AI) agent to the next through the editable system prompt files that autonomous agent harnesses use to carry state between sessions. The work, released as a preprint on August 10, 2026, tests the technique in a simulated six-agent coding

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a previously undocumented Python implant framework dubbed TWINLOOT. "TWINLOOT is a modular, PyArmor-hardened Python implant designed to operate its entire command-and-control infrastructure inside trusted Microsoft services," Ontinue said in a technical report shared with The Hacker News. "Tasking flows through SharePoint Online file

Xpander’s platform uses a universal agent harness that executes AI agents as portable workloads and securely renders interfaces on demand. The post Xpander Raises $7.5 Million for AI Management and Governance appeared first on SecurityWeek.

Fortinet will use Virtue AI technology to enhance its AI security portfolio, including for AI models, applications, and agentic systems. The post Fortinet Acquires AI Security Company Virtue AI appeared first on SecurityWeek.

View CSAF Summary Simcenter Nastran is affected by a stack overflow vulnerability that could be triggered when an application binary reads arbitrary string as a file argument. If a user is tricked to run one of the impacted application binary with a malicious string, an attacker could leverage the vulnerability to perform remote code execution in the context of the current process. Siemens has released new versions for the affected products and recommends to update to the latest versions. The fo

View CSAF Summary Simcenter Nastran is affected by a stack overflow vulnerability that could be triggered when an application binary reads arbitrary string as a file argument. If a user is tricked to run one of the impacted application binary with a malicious string, an attacker could leverage the vulnerability to perform remote code execution in the context of the current process. Siemens has released new versions for the affected products and recommends to update to the latest versions. The fo

View CSAF Summary Successful exploitation of these vulnerabilities could allow an attacker to cause a denial-of-service condition or execute arbitrary code. The following versions of CISA Malcolm are affected: Malcolm <26.06.1 (CVE-2026-55676) Malcolm <26.07.0 (CVE-2026-63133, CVE-2026-63134, CVE-2026-63177) Malcolm <=26.07.1 (CVE-2026-19670, CVE-2026-19671) CVSS Vendor Equipment Vulnerabilities v3 8.8 CISA CISA Malcolm Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling, Improper Lim

CISA has added four new vulnerabilities to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) Catalog, based on evidence of active exploitation.   CVE-2026-33824 Microsoft Internet Key Exchange (IKE) Service Extensions Double Free Vulnerability CVE-2026-55040 Microsoft SharePoint Weak Authentication Vulnerability CVE-2026-59310 Broadcom VMware vCenter Path Traversal Vulnerability   CVE-2026-65400 Apple macOS Improper Authentication Vulnerability These types of vulnerabilities are a frequent attack vect

Cybersecurity researchers have flagged a new typosquatting campaign targeting RubyGems users with a Windows-based information stealer. OpenSourceMalware, which discovered the activity on August 15, 2026, is tracking the threat under the moniker StubMaker. The complete list of packages published as part of the campaign is below - ubnuler ubnlder ri18nr reaker rakier orakw joxn

A single piece of infrastructure has been pulling records out of Salesforce and ServiceNow customer portals across multiple industries for more than a year, according to research published this week by agent security platform Reco. The activity, which Reco has named the City Forum campaign after a domain tied to the attacker's IP address, traces back to one server: 158.220.87.79, hosted on a

Microsoft has started testing a faster File Explorer and a less cluttered and more customizable context menu in Windows 11 preview builds rolling out to Insiders this week. [...]

Tracked as CVE-2026-15748, the arbitrary file upload bug allows unauthenticated attackers to upload executable files. The post 300,000 WordPress Sites Potentially Exposed to Hacking Due to Form Plugin Flaw appeared first on SecurityWeek.

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has confirmed that ransomware gangs are also exploiting a high-severity Windows Task Host vulnerability that was flagged as actively exploited in April. [...]

Microsoft says some users are experiencing issues searching in Microsoft 365 apps, including Outlook on the web, Outlook desktop, SharePoint Online, and OneDrive. [...]

Hackers stole names, addresses, phone numbers, Social Security numbers, and financial information from a third-party platform. The post Heights Finance Data Breach Impacts at Least 1.2 Million Individuals appeared first on SecurityWeek.

SafePal has disclosed that an authorization flaw in an order-tracking plug-in exposed the names, email addresses, shipping addresses, phone numbers, and purchase details of approximately 39,798 customers. The hardware wallet maker said all affected customers were notified individually by email on August 16 from security@safepal.com, with the subject line "[Important] Your SafePal Order

The security defect allows unauthenticated attackers to modify or delete user data and public projects. The post GitLab Patches Critical Code Injection Vulnerability appeared first on SecurityWeek.

Microsoft announced that it removed the Windows Management Instrumentation Command-line (WMIC) tool from Windows 11 24H2 and 25H2, as well as from Windows 11 beta builds released this week. [...]

The bugs could be exploited to crash Safari, corrupt memory, leak sensitive data, escape the sandbox, and exfiltrate data. The post Dozens of WebKit Vulnerabilities Patched With Fresh macOS, iOS Security Updates appeared first on SecurityWeek.

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Monday added a critical flaw impacting Ray to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, citing evidence of active exploitation. Ray is an open-source, Python-native distributed computing framework designed to scale artificial intelligence and machine learning workloads. As of writing, the GitHub project has more than

Researchers found that by combining two vulnerabilities, they could take over an Android device by delivering a payload and getting the victim to answer their phone.

GitLab has released security updates to address a critical vulnerability impacting its Community Edition (CE) and Enterprise Edition (EE) software that, under certain conditions, could allow an unauthenticated attacker to remotely modify or delete public projects and user data. The flaw, tracked as CVE-2026-19478, has been rated Critical by GitLab and assigned a CVSS score of 9.4. Released on

Three testing models with the same goal but different directives engaged in "increasingly aggressive" territorial attacks on one another, according to Anthropic.

A threat actor is selling employee databases allegedly stolen from the Microsoft Azure infrastructure of multiple Fortune 500 companies after gaining access using compromised credentials. [...]

World-class threat modeler Adam Shostack shared he was "blown away" by OpenAI's revelations about the Hugging Face attack, and explains why his new threat model for LLMs is both "lightweight yet still usable."

Pokémon Center is notifying customers in the United Kingdom and Germany that it suffered a third-party data breach after hackers stole customer personal and order information from third-party logistics provider CEVA Logistics. [...]

Cybersecurity researchers at Wiz have disclosed a new GitHub Actions workflow injection vulnerability in Snowflake's public snowflakedb/snowflake-connector-net repository that it said could be exploited through a crafted GitHub issue to execute commands in a workflow containing internal Jira credentials. The issue was present in .github/workflows/jira_issue.yml, which ran when a

A critical security flaw has been disclosed in Forminator Forms, a WordPress plugin with more than 600,000 active installations, that could be exploited to achieve arbitrary code execution on susceptible sites. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-15748, is rated 9.8 out of 10.0 on the CVSS scoring system. It was discovered and reported by a security researcher who goes by the online alias "