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Any other browser extension that can run a script on claude.ai can still trigger Claude for Chrome tasks that read your Gmail, open your latest Google Doc and its comments, and scan your Calendar. Anthropic restricted the arbitrary-prompt path in May as part of its response to the  ClaudeBleed  flaw, but  Manifold Security  says the gap is still open in v1.0.80, the current release, eight versions later. If you run Claude for Chrome and any other extension that can touch claude.ai, you are in scope. In the default "ask before acting" mode, the forged task still hits an approval box you have to click. If you switched on "Act without asking," the hands-off automation mode, it runs with no prompt at all. The quickest guard is to turn "Act without asking" off and review any extension with permission to read or change data on claude.ai. That restores the approval step but does not remove the forged-click path, and there is no patch as of July 14. The H...

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of two access control-related flaws impacting the RabbitMQ message broker service that could allow attackers to leak OAuth client secrets, expose enterprise messaging infrastructure to takeover risks, and bypass tenant boundaries. Miggo's security team, which discovered and reported the flaws, said one "leaks the broker's confidential OAuth secret to an unauthenticated attacker in a single request, a direct path to full broker takeover in the configurations that use that secret." The second vulnerability allows any logged-in user to silently read other tenants' data. Both shortcomings are said to have been present in the codebase since early 2024, impacting RabbitMQ release lines from 3.13.0 and later. They have been addressed in versions 4.3.0, 4.2.6, 4.1.11, 4.0.20, and 3.13.15. There is no evidence of active exploitation of either of the vulnerabilities prior to the public disclosure. A brief description ...

Give an AI assistant a memory and access to your inbox, and you hand an attacker a way to rewrite what it thinks it knows about you. A single email can trick that agent into saving a false "fact" about the user, hide the change, and quietly steer its answers in later sessions. When it works, the person reads an ordinary-looking reply and never learns their assistant was tampered with. The researchers named the attack  stealth memory injection  and built a tool that writes the emails automatically. The paper, "When Claws Remember but Do Not Tell,"  landed on arXiv on 6 July 2026 . First, what these assistants do A personal agent is an AI assistant that sticks around. Instead of forgetting everything when a chat ends, it keeps notes about you in files: your preferences, your contacts, and what you asked it to do. It reads those notes at the start of every new session, which is why it feels like it knows you. Many of these agents can also act for you, readin...

Zimbra is urging customers to apply updates to address a critical security vulnerability impacting the Classic Web Client that could result in arbitrary code execution. The vulnerability has been described as a case of stored cross-site scripting (XSS) that could allow specially crafted emails to execute malicious scripts in a user's session. It has yet to be assigned a CVE identifier. "The update fixes a security issue in the Classic Web Client where a specially crafted email could run malicious code when the email is opened," Zimbra said . "If exploited, it could allow access to mailbox information, session data, or account settings." XSS vulnerabilities occur when an application includes untrusted data in a web page without proper validation or escaping. This allows attackers to inject and execute malicious JavaScript in victims' browsers, which can result in session hijacking, credential theft, and account compromise. Stored XSS, or persistent ...

Details have emerged about three now-patched security flaws in the OpenClaw personal artificial intelligence (AI) assistant that, if successfully exploited, could enable credential theft, privilege escalation, and arbitrary code execution on the host. A brief description of the high-severity vulnerabilities is as follows - GHSA-hjr6-g723-hmfm (CVSS score: 8.8) - An operating system command injection and an incomplete list of disallowed inputs vulnerability impacting the host execution environment filtering mechanism that could allow for executing or persist actions beyond the caller's intended authorization. GHSA-9969-8g9h-rxwm (CVSS score: 8.8) - An operating system command injection and an incomplete list of disallowed inputs vulnerability impacting the host execution environment filtering mechanism that could allow for executing or persist actions beyond the caller's intended authorization. GHSA-575v-8hfq-m3mc (CVSS score: 8.4) - A path traversal and link f...

A single wrong variable on one line in XQUIC, Alibaba's QUIC and HTTP/3 library, lets any remote client crash the server with a short burst of completely legal traffic. There is no patch. FoxIO researcher Sébastien Féry  disclosed the flaw on July 8  and nicknamed it XRING. He says it needs no login and no malformed packets: about 260 bytes of ordinary QPACK traffic takes the server process down. XQUIC is open-source, so the risk is not Alibaba's alone: any server that embeds it and serves HTTP/3 with the default QPACK settings is exposed. That includes Tengine, Alibaba's Nginx-based web server, which FoxIO says fronts the company's cloud and CDN on sites including Taobao and Alipay. Every release through v1.9.4, the latest, is affected. There is no fixed release and no CVE as of July 10. Until a fix ships, operators can set SETTINGS_QPACK_MAX_TABLE_CAPACITY to 0, which turns off QPACK's dynamic table, or drop HTTP/3 support entirely. The bug lives in how H...

Everyone seems to have announced a clearinghouse over the past few weeks. We did too. Ours is called Athena , and the main thing that sets it apart is that it was already real and running when we announced it — built quietly months earlier, heads down, taking findings and shipping fixes, because customers kept asking us to. We only announced it now because everyone else started announcing theirs, and staying quiet started to look like something it wasn't. The others arrived louder and, as far as anyone outside the press releases could tell, didn't exist yet. Here's the part none of those announcements will tell you: the clearinghouse is the least important thing to build. When a project we'd deliberately kept private, a  five-billion-dollar press release , and  the White House all reach for the same word inside a few weeks, that's not a trend. Trends are optional. This is the shape of a problem changing under everyone at once. So let me explain why these thin...

An AI coding assistant that refuses to answer a dangerous request in its chat box can answer it anyway if the same request is broken into small, ordinary-looking steps inside a code editor. That is the finding of a  new study of GitHub Copilot  by researchers Abhishek Kumar and Carsten Maple. The models they tested through Copilot, Claude from Anthropic, and Gemini from Google, refused almost every harmful request when asked directly. Reframed as steps in a normal coding task, they produced the harmful answers in all 816 of the study's workflow runs. What makes this different from a typical jailbreak: no one asks for the harmful thing directly, and the model is not tricked into running someone else's code. It writes the banned content itself, as a side effect of a coding task it was told to improve. How it works The researchers call the method workflow-level jailbreak construction . Instead of a single blunt prompt, they asked Copilot to build an everyday piece of s...

A critical flaw in Google's Dialogflow CX could have let an attacker with edit rights on one Code Block-enabled agent compromise other Code Block-enabled agents in the same Google Cloud project. From there, they could read live conversations, steal the data users shared, and make the bots send attacker-written messages, including requests to re-enter a password. Security firm Varonis found it and named it Rogue Agent. The flaw affected only organizations that built agents with Dialogflow's Playbooks and custom Code Blocks, which let developers add their own Python. And it was not a remote, unauthenticated attack. Pulling it off needed the dialogflow.playbooks.update permission on one such agent, which limits the realistic attacker to a malicious insider or a compromised developer account, not a stranger on the internet. From that one foothold, though, the reach extended to every agent in the project. Google has fixed it, and both Varonis and Google say there is no sig...

Software supply chain security was hard enough. Then AI joined the build pipeline. For five years, "software supply chain security" meant one question: what's in your code? Which open-source packages, which versions, which transitive dependencies three layers deep that nobody chose on purpose? SolarWinds, Log4Shell, and XZ Utils all taught the same lesson: the risk lives less in the code a team writes and more in everything that produces it. Shai-Hulud, the self-propagating malicious package campaign that spread through developer toolchains this year, taught the next one: knowing what's in your code is still necessary, but it's no longer sufficient. In the roughly 20 months since the Model Context Protocol launched, AI tools, models, and the infrastructure around them have become load-bearing parts of how software gets built, deployed, and run. Code is written by agents. Packages are pulled in by autonomous tools that decide they are needed. Prompts have...

Threat actors have been observed attempting to exploit a recently patched critical security flaw in Gitea Docker images, according to Sysdig . The vulnerability in question is CVE-2026-20896 (CVSS score: 9.8), a vulnerability that stems from the DevOps platform trusting the "X-WEBAUTH-USER" header from any source IP address, effectively allowing an unauthenticated internet client to get elevated access. In a statement shared with The Hacker News via email, security researcher Ali Mustafa (@rz1027), who is credited with discovering and reporting the flaw, said the Gitea Docker images shipped an "app.ini" template that hard-codes "REVERSE_PROXY_TRUSTED_PROXIES = *" by default. The " app.ini " file is a core configuration file for managing server parameters, database connections, security behavior, and application settings. "With reverse-proxy login enabled, that wildcard trusts every source IP, so anyone who could reach the port coul...

Researchers tested 444 AI chatbot apps for iPhone and found that 282 of them, nearly two-thirds, exposed paid AI access through their network traffic. In many cases, the path in was visible just by watching what the app sent: a plaintext API key, a reusable token, or a backend server that accepted requests with no key at all. Whoever grabs it can send model requests on the developer's account, and the developer pays the bill. Three months after the researchers warned the developers, only 28% had fixed it. The work, from researchers at Wake Forest University, is the  first in-depth study of the problem on iOS . It is striking partly because of how little effort the snooping took. The team used a tool they built, LLMKeyLens , that watches an app's traffic and pulls out the credentials as they go by. No jailbreaking, no cracking the app open. The key is the secret that lets the app call a service like OpenAI or Google Gemini. Embed it in the app, and it is exposed with ev...

Cybersecurity researchers have described what they say is a new class of attack that can trick artificial intelligence (AI) coding agents into running arbitrary code on developer machines. Called Agentjacking by Tenet Security, the attack can be triggered by means of a fake error report crafted using Sentry, an open-source error-tracking and performance-monitoring platform. "The attack exploits a critical architectural flaw at the intersection of Sentry's event ingestion (which accepts arbitrary payloads from anyone with the DSN) and the Sentry MCP server (which returns this data to AI agents as trusted system output)," security researchers Ron Bobrov, Barak Sternberg, and Nevo Poran said . The idea is to inject crafted input into Sentry error events, which are then interpreted by coding agents like Claude Code and Cursor as legitimate diagnostic resolution steps and run attacker-controlled code. A successful attack of this kind can expose sensitive data, includ...

Redis has patched a use-after-free in its blocking-client code that lets an authenticated user run arbitrary OS commands on the machine hosting the database. The flaw was found by an autonomous AI tool built to hunt bugs in large codebases. Tracked as CVE-2026-23479 , the flaw was introduced in Redis 7.2.0 and remained in every stable branch until the May 5 fixes, unnoticed for over two years. NVD rates it 8.8 under CVSS 3.1; Redis lists it as 7.7 under CVSS 4.0. It was reported by Team Xint Code, and a complete technical  write-up is now public. The cloud footprint makes this worse. Wiz's analysis, published with the exploit writeup, puts Redis in a large majority of cloud environments, with most of those instances running without a password. The exploit needs an authenticated session, but in a default deployment, the default user already holds every privilege the chain requires. The flaw lives in unblockClientOnKey() in src/blocked.c , which fires when a key event wakes ...

Shadow AI used to mean employees pasting things they shouldn't into ChatGPT. It now means something bigger: employees building full applications with AI, wiring them into production systems, and publishing them on the open internet. Without Security or IT in the loop. The artifact moved from a prompt to a product. The risk surface moved with it. In The Shadow Builders report ( get it here ), a new category-level investigation covered in May by Axios, WIRED, and VentureBeat, Red Access identified more than 380,000 publicly accessible web assets across the leading vibe-coding platforms. Roughly 5,000 looked corporate. More than 2,000 of those held sensitive corporate, operational, or personal data - sitting on the open web, deployed without basic access controls, often granting admin access by default to anyone who reached the URL. Six continents. Every industry is examined. No exploitation required. Inside organizations, passing their audits while these exposures were live...

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed multiple security vulnerabilities impacting NGINX Plus and NGINX Open, including a critical flaw that remained undetected for 18 years. The vulnerability, discovered by depthfirst , is a heap buffer overflow issue impacting ngx_http_rewrite_module (CVE-2026-42945, CVSS v4 score: 9.2) that could allow an attacker to achieve remote code execution or cause a denial-of-service (DoS) with crafted requests. It has been codenamed NGINX Rift . "NGINX Plus and NGINX Open Source have a vulnerability in the ngx_http_rewrite_module module," F5 said in an advisory released Wednesday. "This vulnerability exists when the rewrite directive is followed by a rewrite, if, or set directive and an unnamed Perl-Compatible Regular Expression (PCRE) capture (for example, $1, $2) with a replacement string that includes a question mark (?)." "An unauthenticated attacker, along with conditions beyond its control, can exploit this vulnerabili...

TL;DR: Stop chasing thousands of "toast" alerts. Join experts from Wiz to learn how hackers connect tiny flaws to build a "Lethal Chain" to your data—and how to break it. Register for the Strategic Briefing Here . Most security tools work like a smoke alarm that goes off every time you burn a piece of toast. You get so many alerts that you eventually start to ignore them. The real danger? While your team is busy fixing 100 "toast" alerts, a sophisticated attacker is quietly building a Lethal Chain through your system. Hackers rarely look for one big "open door" anymore. Instead, they find a series of tiny, low-risk "cracks" that don't look scary on their own. By connecting these cracks—moving from a small coding bug to a cloud misconfiguration—they create a direct path to your most sensitive data. If your tools only look at code or cloud in isolation, you aren’t seeing the big picture. You’re flying blind. The Briefing: Sto...

Google has announced expanded Binary Transparency for Android as a way to safeguard the ecosystem from supply chain attacks. "This new public ledger ensures the Google apps on your device are exactly what we intended to build and distribute," Google's product and security teams said . The initiative builds upon the foundation of Pixel Binary Transparency , which Google introduced in October 2021 to bolster software integrity by ensuring that Pixel devices are only running verified operating system (OS) software by keeping a public, cryptographic log that records metadata about official factory images. The verifiable security infrastructure mirrors Certificate Transparency , an open framework that requires all issued SSL/TLS certificates to be recorded in public, append-only, and cryptographically verifiable logs to help detect mis-issued or malicious certificates. The move is aimed at countering the risks posed by binary supply chain attacks, which often deliver ...

Bitwarden CLI , the command-line interface for the password manager Bitwarden, has reportedly been compromised as part of a newly discovered and ongoing Checkmarx supply chain campaign , according to findings from JFrog and Socket. "The affected package version appears to be @bitwarden/cli@2026.4.0 , and the malicious code was published in 'bw1.js,' a file included in the package contents," the application security company said . "The attack appears to have leveraged a compromised GitHub Action in Bitwarden's CI/CD pipeline, consistent with the pattern seen across other affected repositories in this campaign." In a post on X, JFrog said the rogue version of the package "steals GitHub/npm tokens, .ssh, .env, shell history, GitHub Actions and cloud secrets, then exfiltrates the data to private domains and as GitHub commits." Specifically, the malicious code is executed by means of a preinstall hook, resulting in the theft of local, CI, Git...

Imagine a world where hackers don't sleep, don't take breaks, and find weak spots in your systems instantly. Well, that world is already here. Thanks to AI, attackers are now launching automated, large-scale exploits faster than ever before. The time you have to fix a vulnerability before it gets attacked is shrinking to zero. We call this the Collapsing Exploit Window , and it means your standard patching routine is officially too slow. If you are fighting AI-speed attacks with manual-speed defenses, your systems are at a breaking point. It’s time to rethink everything. Join our highly anticipated webinar featuring expert guest Ofer Gayer, Vice President of Product at Miggo Security, and learn how to beat the bots at their own game: Mythos and the Collapsing Exploit Window: Rethink Vulnerability Prioritization at AI Speed . Here is exactly what you will walk away with: The Truth About Mythos: We are cutting through the hype. Learn what Mythos actually represents and w...