Month: July 2026

A crafted SVG submitted to Bing’s image search ran commands as NT AUTHORITYSYSTEM on Microsoft’s production image-processing workers, and as root on the Linux machines in the same fleet.

XBOW’s testing got the same result on workers across different hosts and network ranges, so the problem sat in Bing’s image tier, not on one bad machine. Microsoft issued two critical CVEs, CVE-2026-32194 and

AI agent security is moving through a familiar maturity curve: adoption, then visibility, and finally, control. But what we’ve collectively discovered is that enforcing least privilege for AI agents is harder than we ever imagined. This is why there are so many approaches, from prompt filtering to identity-layer access controls. Where we’ve collectively landed is that understanding the intent of

Someone installed a popular AI assistant on a rented server, switched off the setting that makes it ask permission before running risky commands, and pointed it at Thailand’s Ministry of Finance, which runs the country’s treasury and tax collection.

The agent then worked through the ministry’s network on its own, checking hosts for ways to gain root access, hunting through file systems, and

The threat actors behind the Golden Chickens malware-as-a-service (MaaS) ecosystem have resurfaced with four new malware families, indicating that the operators are showing no signs of stopping despite extensive public disclosures into their inner workings.

The malware families in question are: TinyEgg, ChonkyChicken, a modularized variant of ChonkyChicken, and a modified web browser credential

Eight security flaws in NodeBB went public on Wednesday, along with the code to exploit them. Aikido Security rates all eight as high severity and says its AI pentest agents found them in a six-hour review of the forum software’s source code.

Every version before 4.14.0 is affected. NodeBB has fixed them all, and administrators should be on 4.14.2.

The simplest one takes a settings change. A

Redis shipped seven security releases on July 23 after researchers published authenticated RCE PoCs for stock Redis 6.2.22, 7.4.9, 8.6.4, and 8.8.0.

All four chains require RESTORE. The Streams chains also need EVAL and XGROUP; the 8.8.0 chain needs EVAL and the bundled RedisBloom module. Redis says the underlying memory flaws may lead to remote code execution.

Redis 6.2.23, 7.2.15, and 7.4.10

The Computer Emergency Response Team of Ukraine (CERT-UA) has warned of a new campaign that involves the use of a malicious program that’s dressed up as a Notepad++ plugin to compromise Windows systems.

The activity has been attributed by the agency to a threat cluster it tracks as UAC-0099, a Russia-aligned group that has previously observed weaponizing security flaws in WinRAR software to