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AI-Powered App Attacks Are Faster, More Frequent and Harder to Stop

Wed, 05/20/2026 - 10:37am

Digital.ai’s latest threat report warns that agentic AI has erased the distinction between emerging and primary targets, enabling attackers to strike mobile apps within hours of release across every industry.

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1Password Teams With OpenAI to Stop AI Coding Agents From Leaking Credentials

Wed, 05/20/2026 - 9:34am

1Password says AI coding agents should never hold persistent secrets, introducing a just-in-time credential model for OpenAI Codex designed to keep credentials out of prompts, code repositories, and model context.

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Anthropic Silently Patches Claude Code Sandbox Bypass

Wed, 05/20/2026 - 9:00am

The researcher who found it says the vulnerability could have been chained with a prompt injection to exfiltrate data.

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Over 320 NPM Packages Hit by Fresh Mini Shai-Hulud Supply Chain Attack

Wed, 05/20/2026 - 7:06am

A compromised maintainer account was used to publish malicious package versions across the @antv namespace.

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Caught Off Guard: Securing AI After It Hits Production

Wed, 05/20/2026 - 7:00am

As enterprises rush AI projects into production, security teams are increasingly being forced into reactive mode.

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Real-World ICS Security Tales From the Trenches

Wed, 05/20/2026 - 6:15am

SecurityWeek spoke with several ICS security experts and companies about their most memorable experiences in the field.

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Virtual Event Today: Threat Detection & Incident Response Summit

Wed, 05/20/2026 - 6:00am

Don't miss this virtual event as we explore how to cut through alert fatigue, leverage AI and unified platforms to accelerate investigations, and apply actionable threat intelligence.

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GitHub Confirms Hack Impacting 3,800 Internal Repositories

Wed, 05/20/2026 - 5:28am

The TeamPCP hacking group accessed the repositories after a GitHub employee installed a poisoned VS Code extension.

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Verizon DBIR 2026: Vulnerability Exploitation Overtakes Credential Theft as Top Breach Vector

Tue, 05/19/2026 - 8:04pm

Verizon’s 2026 DBIR finds vulnerability exploitation has overtaken credential abuse as the leading breach vector, as AI accelerates attacks, patching delays worsen, and ransomware and third-party compromises continue to surge.

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Drupal to Patch Highly Critical Vulnerability at Risk of Quick Exploitation

Tue, 05/19/2026 - 12:22pm

Drupal says attackers may develop an exploit for the vulnerability within hours or days.

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Microsoft Disrupts Malware-Signing Service Run by ‘Fox Tempest’ 

Tue, 05/19/2026 - 12:06pm

 Fox Tempest provides a service that cybercriminals use to distribute ransomware and other malware disguised as legitimate software.

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Legacy Windows Tool MSHTA Fuels Surge in Silent Malware Attacks

Tue, 05/19/2026 - 9:00am

Attackers are increasingly abusing Microsoft’s decades-old MSHTA utility to stealthily deliver stealers, loaders, and persistent malware through phishing, fake software downloads, and LOLBIN-based attack chains.

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Unpatched ChromaDB Vulnerability Can Lead to Server Takeover

Tue, 05/19/2026 - 8:54am

The security defect can be exploited remotely, without authentication, to execute arbitrary code and leak sensitive information.

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B1ack’s Stash Marketplace Gives Away 4.6 Million Stolen Credit Cards

Tue, 05/19/2026 - 7:59am

The stolen credit card data was released as a free download, allegedly in response to seller misconduct.

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Cyber Resilience is the New Business Continuity Plan

Tue, 05/19/2026 - 7:30am

The organizations best prepared to face disruption are those that align security, continuity and risk management around what the business cannot afford to lose.

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201 Arrested in Crackdown on Cybercrime in Middle East, North Africa

Tue, 05/19/2026 - 6:32am

The 13-country effort, named Operation Ramz, targeted cyber threats in the Middle East and North Africa region.

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PoC Released for DirtyDecrypt Linux Kernel Vulnerability

Tue, 05/19/2026 - 5:42am

Patched in April, the underlying vulnerability allows local attackers to elevate their privileges to root.

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Critical Vulnerability Exposes Industrial Robot Fleets to Hacking

Tue, 05/19/2026 - 2:18am

The vulnerability, CVE-2026-8153, affects Universal Robots PolyScope 5 and it can be exploited for OS command injection. 

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Millions Impacted Across Several US Healthcare Data Breaches

Mon, 05/18/2026 - 8:58am

Several healthcare data breaches impacting hundreds of thousands and even millions were added to the HHS tracker.

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‘Claw Chain’ OpenClaw Flaws Allow Sandbox Escape, Backdoor Delivery

Mon, 05/18/2026 - 8:14am

Four vulnerabilities in OpenClaw can be chained together to steal credentials, escape the sandbox, and plant persistent backdoors.

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