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A critical security vulnerability has been disclosed in SGLang that, if successfully exploited, could result in remote code execution on susceptible systems. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-5760 , carries a CVSS score of 9.8 out of 10.0. It has been described as a case of command injection leading to the execution of arbitrary code. SGLang is a high-performance, open-source serving framework for large language models and multimodal models. The official GitHub project has been forked over 5,500 times and starred 26,100 times.  According to the CERT Coordination Center (CERT/CC), the vulnerability impacts the reranking endpoint "/v1/rerank," allowing an attacker to achieve arbitrary code execution in the context of the SGLang service by means of a specially crafted GPT-Generated Unified Format ( GGUF ) model file. "An attacker exploits this vulnerability by creating a malicious GPT Generated Unified Format (GGUF) model file with a crafted tokenizer.chat_temp...

Monday’s recap shows the same pattern in different places. A third-party tool becomes a way in, then leads to internal access. A trusted download path is briefly swapped to deliver malware. Browser extensions act normally while pulling data and running code. Even update channels are used to push payloads. It’s not breaking systems—it’s bending trust. There’s also a shift in how attacks run. Slower check-ins, multi-stage payloads, andmore code kept in memory. Attackers lean on real tools and normal workflows instead of custom builds. Some cases hint at supply-chain spread, where one weak link reaches further than expected. Go through the whole recap. The pattern across access, execution, and control only shows up when you see it all together. ⚡ Threat of the Week Vercel Discloses Data Breach —Web infrastructure provider Vercel has disclosed a security breach that allows bad actors to gain unauthorized access to "certain" internal Vercel systems. The incident originated f...

The fastest way to fall in love with an AI tool is to watch the demo. Everything moves quickly. Prompts land cleanly. The system produces impressive outputs in seconds. It feels like the beginning of a new era for your team. But most AI initiatives don't fail because of bad technology. They stall because what worked in the demo doesn't survive contact with real operations. The gap between a controlled demonstration and day-to-day reality is where teams run into trouble. Most AI product demos are built to highlight potential, not friction. They use clean data, predictable inputs, carefully crafted prompts, and well-understood use cases. Production environments don't look like that. In real operations, data is messy, inputs are inconsistent, systems are fragmented, and context is incomplete. Latency matters. Edge cases quickly outnumber ideal ones. This is why teams often see an initial burst of enthusiasm followed by a slowdown once they try to deploy AI more broadly. W...

Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a critical "by design" weakness in the Model Context Protocol's ( MCP ) architecture that could pave the way for remote code execution and have a cascading effect on the artificial intelligence (AI) supply chain. "This flaw enables Arbitrary Command Execution (RCE) on any system running a vulnerable MCP implementation, granting attackers direct access to sensitive user data, internal databases, API keys, and chat histories," OX Security researchers Moshe Siman Tov Bustan, Mustafa Naamnih, Nir Zadok, and Roni Bar said in an analysis published last week. The cybersecurity company said the systemic vulnerability is baked into Anthropic's official MCP software development kit (SDK) across any supported language, including Python, TypeScript, Java, and Rust. In all, it affects more than 7,000 publicly accessible servers and software packages totaling more than 150 million downloads. At issue are unsafe defaults in...

Cybersecurity researchers have flagged a new malware called ZionSiphon that appears to be specifically designed to target Israeli water treatment and desalination systems. The malware has been codenamed ZionSiphon by Darktrace, highlighting its ability to set up persistence, tamper with local configuration files, and scan for operational technology (OT)-relevant services on the local subnet. According to details on VirusTotal, the sample was first detected in the wild on June 29, 2025, right after the Twelve-Day War between Iran and Israel that took place between June 13 and 24. "The malware combines privilege escalation, persistence, USB propagation, and ICS scanning with sabotage capabilities aimed at chlorine and pressure controls, highlighting growing experimentation with politically motivated critical infrastructure attacks against industrial operational technologies globally," the company said . ZionSiphon, currently in an unfinished state, is characterized by it...

Web infrastructure provider Vercel has disclosed a security breach that allows bad actors to gain unauthorized access to "certain" internal Vercel systems. The incident stemmed from the compromise of Context.ai, a third-party artificial intelligence (AI) tool, that was used by an employee at the company. "The attacker used that access to take over the employee's Vercel Google Workspace account, which enabled them to gain access to some Vercel environments and environment variables that were not marked as 'sensitive,'" the company said in a bulletin. Vercel said environment variables marked as "sensitive" are stored in an encrypted manner that prevents them from being read, and that there is currently no evidence suggesting that those values were accessed by the attacker. It described the threat actor behind the incident as "sophisticated" based on their "operational velocity and detailed understanding of Vercel's syste...

In 2024, compromised service accounts and forgotten API keys were behind 68% of cloud breaches. Not phishing. Not weak passwords. Unmanaged non-human identities that nobody was watching. For every employee in your org, there are 40 to 50 automated credentials: service accounts, API tokens, AI agent connections, and OAuth grants. When projects end or employees leave, most of these stay active. Fully privileged. Completely unmonitored. Attackers don't need to break in. They just pick up the keys you left out. Join our upcoming webinar where we’ll show you how to find and eliminate these "Ghost Identities" before they become a back door for hackers. AI agents and automated workflows are multiplying these credentials at a pace security teams can't manually track. Many carry admin-level access they never needed. One compromised token can give an attacker lateral movement across your entire environment, and the average dwell time fo...

Grinex, a Kyrgyzstan-incorporated cryptocurrency exchange sanctioned by the U.K. and the U.S. last year, said it's suspending operations after it blamed Western intelligence agencies for a $13.74 million hack. The exchange said it fell victim to what it described as a large-scale cyber attack that bore hallmarks of foreign intelligence agency involvement. This attack led to the theft of over 1 billion rubles in user funds. "Digital forensic evidence and the nature of the attack point to an unprecedented level of resources and technological sophistication – capabilities typically available exclusively to the agencies of hostile states," the company said in a statement posted on its website. "Preliminary findings suggest the attack was coordinated with the specific objective of inflicting direct damage upon Russia's financial sovereignty." A spokesperson for the company went on to state that the exchange's infrastructure had been under attack since ...

Threat actors are exploiting security flaws in TBK DVR and end‑of‑life (EoL) TP-Link Wi-Fi routers to deploy Mirai -botnet variants on compromised devices, according to findings from Fortinet FortiGuard Labs and Palo Alto Networks Unit 42. The attack targeting TBK DVR devices has been found to exploit CVE-2024-3721 (CVSS score: 6.3), a medium-severity command injection vulnerability affecting TBK DVR-4104 and DVR-4216 digital video recording devices, to deliver a Mirai variant called Nexcorium . "IoT devices are increasingly prime targets for large-scale attacks due to their widespread use, lack of patching, and often weak security settings," security researcher Vincent Li said . "Threat actors continue exploiting known vulnerabilities to gain initial access and deploy malware that can persist, spread, and cause distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks." This is not the first time the vulnerability has been exploited in the wild. Over the past year, the ...

Huntress is warning that threat actors are exploiting three recently disclosed security flaws in Microsoft Defender to gain elevated privileges in compromised systems. The activity involves  the exploitation of three vulnerabilities that are codenamed BlueHammer (requires GitHub sign-in), RedSun , and UnDefend , all of which were released as zero-days by a researcher known as Chaotic Eclipse (aka Nightmare-Eclipse) in response to Microsoft's handling of the vulnerability disclosure process. While both BlueHammer and RedSun are local privilege escalation (LPE) flaws impacting Microsoft Defender, UnDefend can be used to trigger a denial-of-service (DoS) condition and effectively block definition updates. Microsoft moved to address BlueHammer as part of its Patch Tuesday updates released earlier this week. The vulnerability is being tracked under the CVE identifier CVE-2026-33825 . However, the other flaws do not have a fix as of writing. In a series of posts shared on X, Hunt...

Google this week announced a new set of Play policy updates to strengthen user privacy and protect businesses against fraud, even as it revealed it blocked or removed over 8.3 billion ads globally and suspended 24.9 million accounts in 2025. The new policy updates relate to contact and location permissions in Android, allowing third-party apps to access the contact lists and a user's location in a more privacy-friendly manner. This includes a new Contact Picker, which offers a standardized, secure, and searchable interface for contact selection. "This feature allows users to grant apps access only to the specific contacts they choose, aligning with Android's commitment to data transparency and minimized permission footprints," Google said . Previously, apps requiring access to a specific user's contacts relied on READ_CONTACTS, an overly broad permission that granted apps the ability to access all contacts and their associated information. With the latest cha...

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has announced changes to the way it handles cybersecurity vulnerabilities and exposures (CVEs) listed in its National Vulnerability Database (NVD), stating it will only enrich those that fulfil certain conditions owing to an explosion in CVE submissions. "CVEs that do not meet those criteria will still be listed in the NVD but will not automatically be enriched by NIST ," it said . "This change is driven by a surge in CVE submissions, which increased 263% between 2020 and 2025. We don’t expect this trend to let up anytime soon." The prioritization criteria outlined by NIST, which went into effect on April 15, 2026, are as follows - CVEs appearing in the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency's (CISA) Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. CVEs for software used within the federal government. CVEs for critical software as defined by Executive Order 14028: this includes soft...