An automated roundup of 41 notable cybersecurity article(s) from the last 36 hours, aggregated from 4 source(s). Descriptions are pulled directly from each publisher's feed; follow the links for the full articles.
BleepingComputer
Critical SharePoint RCE flaw exploited to steal machine keys
Hackers are actively exploiting the critical CVE-2026-50522 vulnerability in Microsoft SharePoint to steal machine keys and maintain access even after affected servers are patched. [...]
Anubis ransomware claims Coca-Cola Fairlife attack, threatens data leak
The Anubis ransomware gang has claimed responsibility for the cyberattack on Coca-Cola's Fairlife dairy subsidiary, threatening to publish allegedly stolen corporate data unless the company pays a ransom. [...]
Critical wp2shell WordPress flaws exploited to install webshells
Hackers are exploiting the "wp2shell" critical vulnerability suite (CVE-2026-63030 and CVE-2026-60137) affecting WordPress Core to deploy persistent webshells and install malicious plugins on affected servers. [...]
Closing the Identity Gaps in Critical Infrastructure Security
Critical infrastructure attacks often begin with stolen credentials, compromised devices, or trusted accounts. Specops Software explains why Zero Trust should verify both user identities and device trust before granting access to critical systems. [...]
US seizes over 1,000 websites in FIFA World Cup piracy crackdown
The U.S. Justice Department has seized more than 1,000 websites and blocked 1,970 domains used to stream FIFA World Cup 2026 matches without authorization. [...]
Critical Palo Alto VPN bug now exploited by Qilin ransomware gang
The Qilin ransomware gang is exploiting a critical PAN-OS GlobalProtect authentication bypass flaw to breach victims' networks, according to cybersecurity company Arctic Wolf. [...]
Microsoft shares manual fix for WSUS sync delays and timeouts
Microsoft has shared manual mitigations to help IT administrators fix Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) servers affected by a known issue that causes Windows Update scans to fail or time out. [...]
Windows LegacyHive zero-day flaw gets free, unofficial patches
Free unofficial patches are available for a recently disclosed Windows zero-day flaw that allows attackers to escalate privileges on up-to-date Windows systems. [...]
Estée Lauder discloses data breach via Oracle E-Business flaw
Cosmetics giant Estée Lauder is notifying employees of a data breach after hackers exploited a flaw in Oracle E-Business Suite that the company used for human resources (HR) operations. [...]
SonicWall SMA1000 flaws exploited as zero-days to push custom malware
Two recently disclosed SonicWall SMA1000 vulnerabilities were exploited in zero-day attacks for weeks, allowing threat actors to install custom malware on vulnerable VPN appliances. [...]
Hackers steal $23.7 million in crypto from Ostium in off-chain attack
The Ostium trading platform announced that an attacker stole $23.75 million from its liquidity provider vault last week, after compromising off-chain infrastructure used to feed prices into the protocol. [...]
Cursor, Codex, Gemini CLI, Antigravity hit by sandbox escapes
Researchers escaped the sandboxes in Cursor, Codex, Gemini CLI and Antigravity by having the AI agent write files that trusted host tools later run. Multiple CVEs, patches, and Google downgrading two Antigravity findings. [...]
JadePuffer agentic attacks now target AI model data with ransomware
The JadePuffer autonomous AI agent has upgraded with custom malware called EncForge that focuses on encrypting AI assets, such as training datasets, vector databases, and model checkpoints. [...]
New HollowGraph malware uses Microsoft Graph for stealthy C2 comms
A malicious component dubbed HollowGraph uses the calendar feature in compromised Microsoft 365 mailboxes as a command-and-control channel to receive attacker commands and exfiltrate stolen data. [...]
An AI SOC Evaluation Guide for Security Leaders
Choosing an AI SOC platform requires understanding how it will perform in your own environment, not just during an evaluation. Prophet Security shares a practical framework for assessing AI SOC solutions, including how to validate accuracy, operating models, long-term…
The Hacker News
Apple Fixes Hide My Email Bug That Exposed Real Addresses in Mail Logs
Apple has moved to address a security flaw in its Hide My Email service that enabled users' real email addresses to be unmasked, effectively undermining the feature's privacy guarantees. 404 Media reported Tuesday that a fix for the issue was deployed by Apple on July 3, 2026,…
AWS Kiro Flaw Let a Poisoned Web Page Rewrite Its Config and Run Code
Hidden text on a web page was enough to make Kiro, AWS's agentic coding IDE, rewrite its own configuration file and run an attacker's code on a developer's machine, with no approval step able to stop it. Intezer, in research with Kodem Security, found that a request as ordinary…
Google Launches Gemini 3.5 Flash Cyber AI to Find and Fix Software Vulnerabilities
Google's DeepMind on Tuesday announced the release of Gemini 3.5 Flash Cyber, a specialized artificial intelligence (AI) model built atop 3.5 Flash that's designed to discover, validate, and patch vulnerabilities quickly and efficiently. According to the tech giant, the model…
Critical SharePoint RCE CVE-2026-50522 Under Active Exploitation After Public PoC
A third SharePoint Server flaw patched by Microsoft as part of its Patch Tuesday update for July 2026 has come under active exploitation, per watchTowr. The vulnerability in question is CVE-2026-50522 (CVSS score: 9.8), a critical deserialization of untrusted data in Microsoft…
Qilin Ransomware Attackers Exploit PAN-OS Authentication Bypass for Initial Access
Threat actors have been observed exploiting a now-patched high-severity Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS vulnerability as an entry point to deploy Qilin (aka Agenda) ransomware on victim environments. Arctic Wolf Labs said it investigated multiple intrusions in June 2026 that began…
Zimbra Patches Critical SNMP Command Injection and Four XSS Vulnerabilities
Zimbra has rolled out fixes to address multiple critical security issues, including a command injection flaw in the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) monitoring component. As many as nine security vulnerabilities have been patched in Zimbra 10.1.20. Topping the list is a…
Open-Source Android AI Agents Could Let Invisible Screen Text Run Code on Host PCs
An Android app that can draw over other windows and write to shared storage can slip instructions to the AI agent driving that phone, in text no human eye will ever see. Two more steps, and the same app is running commands on the PC driving the agent. Researchers demonstrated…
N-day is Becoming N-Hour. Patching Faster Won't Save You.
Every patch is a confession. The moment a vendor ships a security fix, the diff between the old code and the new code tells anyone watching exactly what was broken and where. Turn that diff back into a working exploit, and you can hit every system that hasn't updated yet. This…
New Bit2Watt Attack Could Let Cloud Tenants Disrupt Power Grids Without an Exploit
A cloud tenant using nothing but ordinary GPU access can push a data center's power draw up and down fast enough to threaten the grid it runs on, with no exploit and no break-in. That is the claim behind Bit2Watt, described by three Zhejiang University researchers in a paper…
WordPress wp2shell Exploitation Grows as Public Exploit Fuels Mass Scanning
Attackers have begun to exploit two critical vulnerabilities in WordPress that, when combined together, enable unauthenticated remote code execution (RCE) and complete compromise of vulnerable websites. The two security flaws, tracked as CVE-2026-63030 and CVE-2026-60137, have…
New ENCFORGE Ransomware Targets AI Model Files in Langflow RCE Attack
Researchers at Sysdig have linked a second attack on the same Langflow server to JADEPUFFER, the AI-agent-driven operator it first documented earlier this month. The same operator has now been spotted deploying ENCFORGE, a new compiled Go ransomware designed to encrypt model…
Critical ServiceNow AI Platform Flaw Exploited for Unauthenticated Code Execution
Threat actors are now exploiting a recently disclosed critical security flaw impacting ServiceNow AI Platform, according to Defused Cyber. In a post shared on X, the threat intelligence firm said it's observing in-the-wild exploitation of CVE-2026-6875 (CVSS score: 9.5), a…
FakeGit Campaign Uses 7,600 GitHub Repositories to Spread SmartLoader Malware
Cybersecurity researchers have discovered nearly 7,600 malicious GitHub repositories, out of which more than 800 pose as artificial intelligence (AI) skills or Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers to deliver a malware family known as SmartLoader as part of an ongoing campaign…
Exposed Server Reveals AI-Assisted Phishing Toolkit Behind WebDAV Malware Campaign
A malware operator left its delivery server wide open, and Rapid7 pulled down the whole toolkit: 1,048 files spanning lure templates, filename-spoofing tests, execution experiments, droppers, builder notes, and two campaign chains. One was already live against Windows users in…
HollowGraph Malware Hides C2 and Stolen Files in Microsoft 365 Events Dated 2050
A newly discovered espionage implant has been using a hijacked Microsoft 365 calendar as its command channel, planting operator instructions and smuggling out stolen files as attachments on calendar events dated to the year 2050. Group-IB, which named the malware HollowGraph,…
Dark Reading
Hacker Turns AI Jailbreaks Into Offensive Attack Platform
A Russian-speaking actor, "Trim," dismantled publicly available frontier models and integrated them with offensive security tools.
Choose Wisely: AI-Generated Coding Risk Varies, a Lot
AI-generated code introduces 15 vulnerabilities on average per codebase, but the actual risk depends on framework pairing more than the model used.
'WP2Shell' Opens Millions of WordPress Sites to Remote Takeover
Barely three days after disclosure, attackers are widely chaining together CVE-2026-60137 and CVE-2026-63030 to lob exploit attempts against one of the largest attack surfaces on the Internet.
Remediating Vulnerabilities With LLMs: Inside Ivanti's Automation Push
Ivanti CSO Daniel Spicer says frontier models have shown surprising effectiveness in early stages, but cost and human-in-the-loop viability remain open questions.
25 Years After Code Red: What the Worm Era Can Teach Us About AI Security
Marc Maiffret reflects on Code Red's legacy and the security lessons helping organizations navigate AI risk today.
CISOs Feel the Heat Over AI Risk
Job pressures have increased as companies run headlong into AI adoption, causing 26% of top security executives to consider leaving their position.
Attackers Combo Up Evasion Tactics for BEC Phishing
"The TFF Trap" uses fileless techniques and loaders with low detection rates to deploy various RATs and stealers, including Agent Tesla, Remcos, XWorm, and Best Private Logger.
Cybersecurity Keeps Events 'Uneventful'
From the World Cup to the United States' 250th celebration, this year's event calendar has been packed with high-profile gatherings that drew global audiences, intense scrutiny, and enormous security demands.
SANS Internet Storm Center
Captive Portal Detection, (Tue, Jul 21st)
Not everything our honeypots detect is an attack. Sometimes it is just "odd traffic", and this is one example: Our "First Seen" list currently includes "http://detectportal.firefox.co
ISC Stormcast For Tuesday, July 21st, 2026 https://isc.sans.edu/podcastdetail/10016, (Tue, Jul 21st)
WordPress Exploitation Underway (CVE-2026-63030), (Mon, Jul 20th)
Last week, Searchlight Cyber released details about a vulnerability they are calling "wp2shell". The vulnerability was initially announced without a CVE number. But now has been assigned CVE-2026-63030. Many WordPress plugin vulnerabilities are never assigned CVE numbers. But…
Not included today: Krebs on Security (no articles in the last 36h)