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SAP has rolled out updates to address multiple vulnerabilities as part of its July 2026 security updates, including a critical flaw in SAP NetWeaver Application Server ABAP. The vulnerability in question is CVE-2026-44747 (CVSS score: 9.9), an out-of-bounds write flaw that allows an authenticated attacker to leverage logical errors in memory management to cause a memory corruption that could lead to unauthorized data access, modification, or system unavailability. "As a temporary workaround the note proposes to disable all ICF nodes with a specific property in transaction SICF," SAP security firm Onapsis said . "Since the workaround will disable opening transactions in SAP GUI for HTML, it is not an option for all customers and it is strongly recommended to install the patching ABAP Kernel version." Also addressed by SAP are two other critical vulnerabilities - CVE-2026-27690 (CVSS score: 9.1) - An HTTP request/response smuggling flaw in SAP Approuter...

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 ...

AI security agents are starting to influence real security decisions. They summarize findings, prioritize remediation, recommend next steps, and help teams move faster. But most still rely on fragmented risk signals: scanner output, severity scores, threat intelligence, configuration findings, and exposure data. That fragmentation matters because attackers do not move through environments one tool category at a time. They chain exposures across identities, networks, cloud assets, applications, and security controls. If the AI workflow only sees isolated findings, it cannot understand whether those findings create a real attack path. As AI-powered attackers accelerate exploitation, security teams need more than faster AI-assisted workflows. They need workflows grounded in evidence that can prove which risks are exploitable. These systems can correlate information and identify patterns, but without validation, they cannot answer the question security teams ultimately care about: C...

xAI's Grok Build coding CLI was uploading entire Git repositories, full commit history and all, to a Google Cloud Storage bucket run by xAI, not just the files a coding task needed. A researcher publishing as cereblab , testing version 0.2.93 , captured one of those uploads, cloned the git bundle out of the intercepted request, and pulled back a file the agent had been told in plain terms not to open. The upload rode a separate channel from the model itself, and the byte split is hard to argue with. On a 12 GB repo of files the model never read, model-turn traffic to /v1/responses came to about 192 KB while the storage channel to /v1/storage moved 5.10 GiB, a roughly 27,800x gap between what the model needed and what left the machine. That storage upload ran as 73 chunks of about 75 MB, every one returning HTTP 200, and across the researcher's size sweep the volume tracked total repo size. The destination bucket, grok-code-session-traces , is named in the binary and ...

A few days ago, I was sitting with the CISO of a Fortune 50 company, walking through how his security team was thinking about AI agents in the SOC. Smart team. Serious program. They had already connected Claude to a few detection tools and were seeing real value in specific investigations. But as we mapped out the broader architecture, something kept nagging at me. The design they were building was going to work beautifully for a tiny percentage of alerts that genuinely needed deep human judgment. It was going to completely ignore the rest. On the flight home, I picked up a book I had not touched in a few years. Daniel Kahneman's Thinking, Fast and Slow. Kahneman is one of the rare people who genuinely changed how we understand human decision-making. He spent his career as a psychologist studying how people actually think, as opposed to how economists assumed they did. In 2002, he won the Nobel Prize in Economics, which tells you something about how far his work traveled beyond ...

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 ...

Progress Software has told ShareFile customers to shut down the Windows servers running their Storage Zone Controllers, confirming to The Hacker News that it is responding to a "credible external security threat." The company has temporarily disabled access to the affected accounts, a step it says it took "out of an abundance of caution" while it works with internal and external security experts. It says it has no indication of unauthorized access to any ShareFile accounts or data, and that it notified customers after learning of the threat. What Progress has not said is what the threat is or who is behind it. The order became public when a customer posted the company's email to Reddit's  r/sysadmin  on July 10. Progress  confirmed the disruption on its status page, listing Storage Zone Controller customers as "not operational" and the incident as under investigation as of a 12:12 p.m. EDT update. Only the Storage Zone Controller is af...

The China-linked cybercrime group known as Silver Fox has been attributed to a new Rust-based remote access trojan (RAR) called MODBEACON . Chinese cybersecurity company QiAnXin said that while the threat cluster may appear like a low-sophistication, high-activity operation that propagates malware via counterfeit installers using SEO poisoning techniques, it belies their true organizational structure , which compromises multiple distributors. "These distributors conduct activities across Asia using counterfeit software installers distributed through SEO campaigns, leveraging variants of Gh0st RAT and WinOS (ValleyRAT) trojan families," QiAnXin said . One such campaign observed in mid-June 2026 involved a distributor delivering a previously undocumented modular RAT targeting technology, education, and state-owned enterprises in the country. MODBEACON's requested command-and-control (C2) infrastructure is hosted on Amazon and Cloudflare's Content Delivery Networ...

A threat actor has been targeting organizations spanning multiple sectors with voice-based fake security requests that prompt Microsoft 365 users to enroll a new Entra passkey with an aim to carry out data extortion attacks. The threat actor, tracked by Okta under the moniker O-UNC-066 , has deployed a panel-controlled phishing kit that's capable of targeting the passkey enrollment process . The activity has singled out food and beverage, technology, healthcare, automotive, construction, and aviation industries. "The threat actor registers domains that incorporate the word passkey as part of a voice-enabled phishing ('vishing') scheme," Okta researcher Houssem Eddine Bordjiba said . "The threat actor then calls targeted users on the phone in an attempt to persuade them that they need to register a new passkey." Users are then directed to a phishing kit that's identical to the Microsoft passkey enrollment process, giving the impression that th...

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...

BeyondTrust has released updates to address two critical security flaws affecting Remote Support (RS) and Privileged Remote Access (PRA) products that, if successfully exploited, could allow unauthenticated attackers to take control of susceptible devices. The vulnerabilities are listed below - CVE-2026-40138 (CVSS score: 9.2) - A pre-authentication vulnerability exists in the authentication subsystem of BeyondTrust Remote Support and Privileged Remote Access stemming from improper validation of authentication data that could allow a network-positioned attacker to bypass access controls and gain unauthorized access to the appliance, including accounts with elevated privileges. CVE-2026-40139 (CVSS score: 9.2) - A pre-authentication vulnerability exists in the authentication subsystem of BeyondTrust Remote Support stemming from improper processing of authentication requests that could allow an unauthenticated remote attacker to bypass access controls and gain unauthorized ...

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 AIR built a fake AI agent skill, pushed it through a popular skill marketplace and an Instagram ad, and says it reached roughly 26,000 agents, including some on corporate accounts. Every skill security scanner the firm tested it against marked it safe. The payload was harmless by design: it collected the user's email address and did nothing else. The point was to show that none of the signals people lean on to trust a skill caught it: not the scanners, not the GitHub stars, not the open-source reputation. A skill is a bundle of instructions an agent loads into its own context and follows with roughly the authority of a user prompt. That trust is the whole problem, and it is the reason skill-scanning tools exist in the first place. The skill, named  brand-landingpage , claimed to build a landing page using Google's Stitch design tool, aimed squarely at non-technical users. To make it look credible, AIR went after two trust signals: GitHub stars an...

Introduction The average enterprise security team has 40 or more security tools, giving a lot of visibility into internal telemetry and asset data. But often, these tools are working in siloes, generating (overlapping) alerts and data. And yet, breach dwell times remain stubbornly long (~43 days), response windows keep closing before teams can act, and analysts burn out triaging noise instead of stopping threats. The problem isn't effort. It's architecture. Security programs were built for a world where threats moved slowly enough for humans to coordinate responses manually. That world no longer exists. With the way AI capabilities are getting developed and used, especially with frontier AI tools, a much more proactive stance to security is needed as well as machine speed response to combat fast moving adversaries. Gartner's Continuous Threat Exposure Management (CTEM) framework helps this shift from reactive, point-in-time assessments to a continuous, iterative cycl...

The first wave of enterprise AI concern was straightforward. It was simply employees pasting sensitive data into public AI tools. Security teams responded with usage policies, domain blocks, and data loss prevention rules. That response made sense at the time. It doesn't fit the problem anymore. Shadow AI has shifted from a data leakage concern to an access control problem. The threat isn't about what employees type into AI tools. It's about which AI agents are running inside the organization, what enterprise systems they're connected to, and what actions they're authorized,or not, to take. From passive tools to active actors Employees and business units are building AI agents at a pace most security teams can't keep track of. Custom assistants, coding agents, workflow automations, and agentic applications are being created across departments with some in sanctioned platforms, but many through browser extensions, SaaS-native features, developer tools, M...

Cybersecurity researchers have charted the evolution of INC from an nascent ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) operation to one of the most prolific cybercrime groups in 2026, claiming no less than 830 victims since August 2023. "The disruption of LockBit and the shutdown of BlackCat created opportunities for INC to expand as affiliates migrated to alternative ransomware operations," Acronis researcher Darrel Virtusio said . "United States organizations account for more than 65% of listed victims, with legal services, manufacturing, construction, technology and health care among the most targeted sectors." INC's Windows and Linux/ESXi encryptors have also been rewritten in Rust to facilitate easier cross-platform development and better resist reverse engineering efforts. Attacks deploying the ransomware are characterized by the use of an updated credential dumper capable of targeting newer Veeam backup deployments that use the salted DPAPI credential encryp...

A single click on a trusted Microsoft link could have let an attacker pull emails, calendar details, and indexed files out of Microsoft 365 Copilot Enterprise Search. Researchers at Varonis Threat Labs chained three bugs into a one-click exfiltration path they call SearchLeak . Because the link pointed to a real microsoft.com domain, traditional anti-phishing and URL filtering tools were unlikely to flag it. No prompt, no password, no second click. Microsoft assigned CVE-2026-42824 and marked it critical; the CVSS scores ran lower and disagreed, 6.5 from Microsoft and 7.5 from the National Vulnerability Database . The company mitigated the flaw on its backend, so customers have nothing to worry about, and Varonis presented a proof-of-concept, not observed exploitation. Three bugs, one click Microsoft's advisory describes the flaw as a command injection that can expose information over a network. In practice, SearchLeak stacks one AI-specific weakness on two old web bugs, ...

The Fragmented State of Modern Enterprise Identity Enterprise IAM is approaching a breaking point. As organizations scale, identity becomes increasingly fragmented across thousands of applications, decentralized teams, machine identities, and autonomous systems. The result is Identity Dark Matter: identity activity that sits outside the visibility of centralized IAM and beyond the reach of security teams. According to Orchid Security 's analysis , 46% of enterprise identity activity occurs outside centralized IAM visibility. In other words, nearly half of the enterprise identity surface may be operating unseen. This hidden layer includes unmanaged applications, local accounts, opaque authentication flows, and over-permissioned non-human identities. It is further amplified by disconnected tools, siloed ownership, and the rapid rise of Agentic AI. The consequence is a widening gap between what the security organizations think they have and the access that actually exists. Th...

AI-driven exploitation timelines are rapidly shrinking, and they are not going to stop shrinking. Vulnerabilities are being discovered, reproduced, and weaponized faster than ever in the history of enterprise security. As a result, the window between a vulnerability being disclosed and indiscriminate exploitation observed across the internet is now measured in hours, not days. The industry's main answer has largely been: patch faster. Regulators say it, boards expect it, and executives demand it. But for most enterprises, it is not a button defenders can press. Patching is a controlled process shaped by uptime requirements, stability testing, change windows, business approvals, compliance obligations, and the reality that production systems cannot be broken in the name of urgency. While patching is still essential, patching alone or even faster patching is no longer a complete answer to this "new normal" and influx of disclosed vulnerabilities. Anthropic's Proj...

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...