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A flaw in DeepSeek Harness , DeepSeek's open-source tool for running AI coding agents on a developer's machine, let a sandboxed agent turn off its own sandbox with a single command. The tool runs an agent's commands inside an operating-system sandbox, so that an agent working on untrusted files cannot write outside its workspace. The agent could remove that limit by calling the tool's own web interface on the same machine, and its commands would then run outside the sandbox without an approval prompt. It worked on a default installation until DeepSeek fixed the tool on August 27, and it required attacker-supplied text that the agent read to prompt it to make the call. The flaw is tracked as CVE-2026-82533 . VulnCheck, which assigned the identifier,  published the record  on September 8 and rated the flaw 9.4 out of 10. OX Research , the security firm that reported the flaw, said one shell command was enough. The command invoked the tool's local interface an...

Bitcoin wallet company Alby has  warned of a critical flaw  in Alby Hub that could have let an attacker take over a wallet and send its funds, but only where the owner had made the Hub reachable from the internet. Alby Hub is a self-hosted Lightning wallet, meaning the owner runs it on their own computer or server, and it holds their bitcoin. The flaw affects versions v1.7.0 through v1.18.5, all released before August 2025, and Alby said one user has been affected so far. Versions v1.19.0 and later do not have the flaw. The first release with that fix was published on August 29, 2025, so a Hub updated to any release published since then is not affected. Alby is telling anyone still on an older build to stop outside access to the Hub's management interface first, which is the web page used to control the wallet. The next step is to update to  v1.24.0 , the current release. The company has not said what the flaw is. It said it would publish full details later, in l...

Google on Thursday released updates to patch 230 security vulnerabilities, including one that has come under active exploitation in the wild. The medium-severity vulnerability, assigned the CVE identifier CVE-2026-87491 (CVSS score: N/A), has been described as an out-of-bounds bug in V8, Chrome's JavaScript and WebAssembly engine. "Out-of-bounds write in V8 in Google Chrome prior to 153.0.8010.36 allowed a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code inside the sandbox via a crafted HTML page," reads a description of the flaw on the NIST National Vulnerability Database (NVD). Security researcher Jihyeon Jeong of Compsec Lab, Seoul National University, has been acknowledged for discovering and reporting the flaw on August 6, 2026. The researcher received a $2,500 bug bounty reward for responsible disclosure. Google acknowledged it is "aware that an exploit for CVE-2026-87491 exists in the wild," but has not disclosed any additional specific information r...

cPanel has patched a flaw that it says lets a single hosting account take control of an entire server. An authenticated account holder with mail-related privileges can create files of their choosing on the server through EmailTrack and, from there, run code as the root user. cPanel published the  advisory on September 8  and says every supported version of cPanel and WHM is affected. The flaw is tracked as CVE-2026-67401 . cPanel's advisory calls it an SQL injection issue in EmailTrack, but does not say which cPanel feature or privilege an account needs. cPanel's developer documentation lists an EmailTrack module that tracks email statistics, and the advisory does not say whether that is the affected code. cPanel is web hosting control panel software. A customer manages one hosting account via cPanel, while the provider manages the entire machine via WHM as the root user. Attackers exploited  a different cPanel flaw in April . Taking over the panel is not the s...