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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...

A Microsoft 365 device code phishing campaign has been observed leveraging collaboration-themed lures to take control of victim accounts between the last week of June 2026 and into early July, per findings from ZeroBEC. "The campaign did not depend on a fake Microsoft password page. It used a malicious collaboration-style lure to push users into the legitimate Microsoft device login experience, while a backend broker generated and polled Microsoft Authentication Broker device-code tokens," the email security company said in a report shared with The Hacker News. The activity is assessed to share "strong" overlaps with a campaign documented by Microsoft in February 2025 under the moniker Storm-2372 , including the use of messaging or Teams-style lures to trick unsuspecting victims into entering an attacker-provided device code, along with their credentials, effectively allowing the threat actor to recover the token and hijack their account. Despite these simi...

A public issue can trick GitHub Agentic Workflows into leaking the contents of an organization's private repositories, researchers at Noma Security have shown. The attacker needs only to open a normal-looking issue on a public repository, with no stolen credentials and no access to the organization. If that organization has given the agent read access across its repositories, private ones included, the issue can steer it into pulling private contents into a public comment. Noma calls the technique GitLost . The target is GitHub Agentic Workflows , a feature now in public preview that GitHub launched in February. Instead of writing automation scripts, you write instructions to an AI agent in plain English in a Markdown file. The agent reads issues and pull requests, runs tools, and replies on its own. It can be powered by GitHub Copilot, Anthropic's Claude, Google Gemini, or OpenAI Codex. Workflows are read-only by default, but an organization can hand one a token with...

U.S. prosecutors linked an alleged Scattered Spider hacker to a break-in at a luxury jewelry retailer using a persistent Windows device ID, according to a newly unsealed federal complaint . Microsoft records tied that ID first to the account the attackers used to keep access during the May 2025 intrusion, then to online accounts prosecutors say belong to 19-year-old Peter Stokes. Stokes is charged with conspiracy, computer intrusion, and fraud. A dual U.S.-Estonian citizen known online as "Bouquet," he was extradited from Finland and made his first court appearance in Chicago on June 30, as THN reported . He is presumed innocent pending trial. How the break-in worked Between May 12 and 15, 2025, attackers phoned the retailer's IT help desk from Google Voice numbers, posed as locked-out employees, and got staff to reset employees' passwords and the mobile devices tied to their multifactor authentication. Within a few hours, they controlled three accounts, t...

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a now-patched critical session isolation vulnerability in Writer , an enterprise generative artificial intelligence (AI) platform, that could result in cross-tenant compromise. The one-click vulnerability has been codenamed WriteOut by the Sand Security Research team. "An outsider could go from having no access to taking over any Writer AI organization inside industry-leading enterprises, with nothing more than a link," the cybersecurity company said in a report shared with The Hacker News. Put differently, the shortcoming could be abused to take over a victim's Writer account, and use it to access private chats, documents, and other sensitive data related to agents, configurations, private models, connectors, and large language model (LLM) credentials. Even worse, it could be abused to seize administrative control depending on the victim's role. An important aspect of the flaw is that the attacker and the...

A use-after-free bug in Linux's KVM hypervisor can be triggered from a guest virtual machine to corrupt the shadow-page state of the host kernel that runs it. Dubbed ' Januscape ' and tracked as  CVE-2026-53359 , the flaw sits in the shadow MMU code that KVM shares across both Intel and AMD. The public proof-of-concept panics the host; the researcher claims that a separate, unreleased exploit turns the same bug into full host code execution. Security researcher  Hyunwoo Kim (@v4bel) found and reported the bug. He described Januscape as the first guest-to-host exploit triggerable on both Intel and AMD, to the best of public knowledge. The flaw went unnoticed for roughly 16 years. According to Kim, the exploit was used as a zero-day submission in  Google's kvmCTF , the controlled KVM vulnerability reward program that offers up to $250,000 for full guest-to-host escapes. How It Works To run a virtual machine, KVM keeps its own private set of page tables that mi...

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 could...

A streaming box should not need a threat model. Neither should a username field, a demo repo, a reset flow, or a browser permission prompt. That is the irritating part this week: the risky pieces were ordinary. Home devices became a routing cover. Clean code pulled dirt from a dependency. Identity shortcuts aged badly. AI systems trusted the wrong instructions. Same soft spot throughout: trust placed one layer too early. Below is the full recap, since this is apparently what counted as a normal week. ⚡ Threat of the Week NetNut Residential Proxy Network Disrupted — Google, in collaboration with the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Lumen, and other partners, took action against the NetNut residential proxy network, also known as Popa, building upon its takedown of IPIDEA in January 2026. Google said it disabled Google accounts and associated Google services used by NetNut for malware command-and-control (C2) and updated Google Play Protect, in addition to disabling ...

Building a shortlist for an AI SOC evaluation can be tough. SIEM, SOAR, and pureplay AI SOC vendors are all saying the same thing. But behind the identical label sit very different products, from chat assistants bolted onto a legacy SIEM to agent platforms that run detection, triage, investigation, and response on their own data foundation. Whether a platform will materially change outcomes for your team matters more than what it is called. We can measure that in investigation time, false-positive volume, analyst hours returned, total cost of running your SOC and finally whether the architecture will hold up 2-3 years from now as the volume, speed and complexity of attacks keep increasing. What Is an AI SOC Platform? An AI SOC platform is a security operations platform where AI agents carry out the core work of the SOC (detection, triage, investigation, and response) by reasoning over correlated security data, under human oversight. It differs from bolt-on AI, which summarizes ...

Scanners meant to catch malicious add-on "skills" for AI coding agents can be fooled by a few simple changes that leave the malware working, according to a  new study  from researchers at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. Their strongest trick slipped past every scanner tested more than 90% of the time, and the same team built a runtime checker that catches most of the disguised skills the scanners miss. Skills are small packages, usually a Markdown instruction file plus a few scripts, that agents such as Claude Code, OpenAI Codex, and OpenClaw load to pick up a new capability. Because a skill is just a bundle of files, the same one can run across different agents. And it runs with the agent's own access: your files, your terminal, your saved passwords. A bad one can steal credentials, copy source code, or install a backdoor. Most of what a public marketplace lists is uploaded by strangers with little vetting. The main defense so far has been th...

This week’s security news is mostly about weak spots. Browsers, bots, sandboxes, AI systems, and email flows all show the same problem in different ways. Everything looks normal until someone tests a small gap and finds a way through. This is not one big break. It is small permissions, weak checks, open systems, and normal tools doing things they were allowed to do. That same pattern runs through the stories below.

Identity lifecycle management was architected around a person with an employment record, a manager, and a departure date. AI agents have none of those. As autonomous principals proliferate across enterprise environments, the governance model built for humans develops structural blind spots that traditional IGA tools weren't designed to detect. This guide covers where that model breaks, what it fails to govern, and what extending it to agents actually requires. What Identity Lifecycle Management Was Designed to Handle To understand why identity lifecycle management breaks down around AI agents, you need to understand what it was built to do well and who it was built for. The entire architecture rests on a single foundational assumption: every identity maps to a human being whose organizational status changes through documented, HR-driven events. The identity lifecycle management process governs access from an identity's first provisioning event through every modificatio...

Security firm Sysdig says it has found what it believes is the first ransomware attack run from start to finish by an AI agent. Its Threat Research Team calls the operator JADEPUFFER and says a large language model handled the whole job: breaking in, stealing credentials, moving deeper into the network, then encrypting and wiping a company's production database. Ransomware has always needed a skilled person somewhere in the loop, either at the keyboard or writing the script the malware follows. If a model can chain those steps on its own, the skill needed to run an attack drops to whatever it costs to rent an AI agent. The way in was an old, already-patched bug. JADEPUFFER exploited  CVE-2025-3248 , a missing-authentication flaw in  Langflow , an open-source tool for building AI apps and agent workflows. The flaw lets anyone who can reach the server run their own Python code on it, no login needed. Langflow boxes are a tempting target because they often sit ...

Cybersecurity researchers have warned of a "massive, ongoing, automated password spray attack" aimed at Microsoft's Azure command-line interface (CLI), compromising dozens of accounts in the process. The activity, per Huntress , originates from an IPv6 address range ( 2a0a:d683::/32 ) controlled by internet infrastructure provider LSHIY LLC (AS32167). "Between June 12 and June 26, the threat actor behind it made more than 81 million login attempts and successfully compromised at least 78 Microsoft accounts across 64 organizations," the company said in a statement. "The targeting of these attacks seems to be based entirely on password prevalence on compromised password combo lists, and is not specific to business type or industry." What makes the password spray attack noteworthy is not only the scale, but also the fact that many of the compromised organizations had Conditional Access policies enabled. Specifically, the campaign has been found to...

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...

The China-aligned espionage group  Mustang Panda  is running two campaigns against the Indian government and hydropower targets, deploying new malware and turning a legitimate cloud service into its command channel. Acronis Threat Research Unit  found active compromises inside Indian government networks, including machines used by senior administrative staff, and worked with  CERT-In  on notification and cleanup. The malware abuses  Zoho WorkDrive , a cloud storage platform common in India's government sector, to pass commands and exfiltrate data. That is the whole idea: the traffic looks like ordinary cloud activity, so it hides inside the network it is stealing from. Acronis names three new tools. SHARDLOADER is a loader that runs by sideloading a malicious DLL through a legitimately signed binary, a Solid PDF Creator executable in one campaign, and a Citrix Receiver binary in the other. It deploys one of two implants. MINIRECON is a rewor...

This week was a reminder that attackers do not always need big tricks. One small mistake, one old access path, one missed patch, and suddenly the door is open. The noise is not all noise, either. Forums are talking, researchers are finding easy cracks, and defenders have more cleanup waiting. Here’s the full Monday recap. ⚡ Threat of the Week New DirtyClone Linux Kernel Flaw Lets Local Users Gain Root via Cloned Packets — Cybersecurity researchers detailed a new variant of the Dirty Frag Linux kernel flaw. Called DirtyClone (aka CVE-2026-43503), it allows local users to gain root privileges via cloned packets. The exploit works successfully on Debian, Ubuntu, and Fedora systems with default namespace configurations. "Any local user on a server or device running a vulnerable kernel who holds or can acquire the CAP_NET_ADMIN capability (frequently obtainable via unprivileged user namespaces) [is exploitable]," JFrog said. "This poses the highest risk to multi-te...

A Russian advanced persistent threat (APT) group has continued to evolve and expand its malware arsenal as part of its ongoing cyber onslaught against Ukraine throughout 2025. Slovakian cybersecurity company ESET said it observed 35 distinct spear-phishing campaigns mounted by Gamaredon against new targets, with most of them taking place in the second half of the year. Primary targets of these efforts include Ukrainian governmental and military institutions. "Throughout 2025, Gamaredon stayed highly active and remained focused solely on Ukraine," ESET said . "The group's ultimate goal continues to be the exfiltration of sensitive information and other critical data that could be exploited to support Russian interests in the ongoing war in Ukraine." The spear-phishing campaigns make use of archive attachments or XHTML files that employ HTML smuggling to deliver malicious HTA downloaders that are responsible for dropping additional payloads, such as PteroS...

A high-severity flaw in Amazon Q Developer let a malicious repository run commands and steal a developer's cloud credentials. The path was short: a developer opens the repo, trusts the workspace, and Amazon Q does the rest. Amazon has patched it. Tracked as  CVE-2026-12957  (CVSS 8.5), the bug sat in how Amazon's AI coding assistant handled Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers. Wiz Research, which found and reported it, showed that a single config file dropped in a repo was enough to go from git clone to cloud compromise. How the attack worked Amazon Q read an MCP configuration file, .amazonq/mcp.json, from the open workspace and launched the servers it defined. MCP servers are local processes that an AI assistant can spawn to reach databases, APIs, or build tools, so starting one means running commands on the machine. Those processes inherited the developer's full environment. That usually means AWS keys, cloud CLI tokens, API secrets, and SSH agent sockets. ...

It’s dumb out there again. This week has the usual smell of prod on fire and nobody wanting to admit who left the door open — old creds still working, trusted apps doing sketchy crap, browser tricks jumping the fence, and “normal” workflows turning into phishing pipes because apparently email was not enough hell already. The worst part is how cheap some of it feels. Not elite. Not cinematic. Just stale secrets, fake updates, lazy trust, and random boxes quietly becoming someone else’s infrastructure. Same internet, fresh headache. Let’s get into it.