2026-08-21 18:53 UTC
Security Journalism
The Hacker News · info@thehackernews.com (The Hacker News) · indexed 2026-08-21 20:30 UTC
Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a set of trojanized npm packages that masquerade as working calendar and streak utilities but are engineered to stealthily deliver an artificial intelligence (AI)-powered Linux implant dubbed RedC2 4.0. "When the module loads, it locates the bundled binary, marks it executable, and launches it as a detached background process," TrendAI, Trend Micro's
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2026-08-21 13:30 UTC
Security Journalism
Dark Reading · Alexander Culafi · indexed 2026-08-21 13:35 UTC
The new AI security controls follow the Hugging Face incident last month, though many of these additions perhaps should have been in place prior to the frontier models escaping.
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2026-08-21 11:21 UTC
Security Journalism
The Hacker News · info@thehackernews.com (The Hacker News) · indexed 2026-08-21 12:35 UTC
Artificial Intelligence (AI) has become one of this decade's defining technologies. From healthcare and finance to manufacturing and education, organizations increasingly rely on AI to automate repetitive tasks, uncover patterns hidden within large datasets, and support faster decision-making. Cybersecurity has experienced a similar transformation. While attackers employ AI to automate
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2026-08-20 21:35 UTC
Vendor Research
AWS Security Bulletins · aws@amazon.com · indexed 2026-08-15 18:58 UTC
Bulletin ID: 2026-056-AWS Scope: AWS Content Type: Important (requires attention) Publication Date: 07/15/2026 11:30 AM PDT Description: Strands Agents is an open-source Python SDK for building and running AI agents. The strands-agents-tools package provides pre-built tools for use with the SDK, including the elasticsearch_memory tool for agent memory storage. We identified CVE-2026-15746, a server-side request forgery (SSRF) issue in the elasticsearch_memory tool. The tool exposed its connecti…
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2026-08-20 21:35 UTC
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AWS Security Bulletins · aws@amazon.com · indexed 2026-08-15 18:58 UTC
Bulletin ID: 2026-058-AWS Scope: AWS Content Type: Important (requires attention) Publication Date: 07/16/2026 10:15 AM PDT Description: Bedrock AgentCore Python SDK (bedrock-agentcore) is an open-source Python library that provides client tools for building AI agents on the Amazon Bedrock AgentCore platform. We identified CVE-2026-15737 in the OpenTelemetry instrumentation of the SDK. Affected versions wrote raw user prompts and complete agent responses into OpenTelemetry span attributes on ev…
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2026-08-20 21:35 UTC
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AWS Security Bulletins · aws@amazon.com · indexed 2026-08-15 18:58 UTC
Bulletin ID: 2026-069-AWS Scope: AWS Content Type: Important (requires attention) Publication Date: 07/31/2026 12:30 PM PDT Description: Strands Agents is an open-source SDK for building AI agents. The strands-agents-tools package provides pre-built tools for use with the SDK, including the http_request tool for making HTTP API requests. We identified CVE-2026-18394, an incorrect authorization issue in the http_request tool. Operators can use the HTTP_REQUEST_TOKEN_CONFIG allowlist to bind a cr…
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2026-08-20 21:35 UTC
Vendor Research
AWS Security Bulletins · aws@amazon.com · indexed 2026-08-15 18:58 UTC
Bulletin ID: 2026-052-AWS Scope: AWS Content Type: Important (requires attention) Publication Date: 07/06/2026 13:45 PM PDT Description: Amazon mcp-gateway-registry is an open-source gateway and registry for Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers, providing centralized discovery, authentication/authorization, and proxying of MCP tools for AI agents. We identified CVE-2026-14471, an issue in the metrics-service retention policy management component where a caller-supplied table_name value is inter…
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2026-08-20 21:35 UTC
Vendor Research
AWS Security Bulletins · aws@amazon.com · indexed 2026-08-15 18:58 UTC
Bulletin ID: 2026-065-AWS Scope: AWS Content Type: Important (requires attention) Publication Date: 07/23/2026 13:00 PM PDT Description: The AWS Bedrock AgentCore Python SDK (bedrock-agentcore) provides tools for building AI agents, including a Code Interpreter client that installs Python packages into a managed sandbox. We identified CVE-2026-16796, an improper neutralization of argument delimiters in the install_packages() method that might allow a remote authenticated user to execute arbitra…
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2026-08-20 21:35 UTC
Vendor Research
AWS Security Bulletins · aws@amazon.com · indexed 2026-08-15 18:58 UTC
Bulletin ID: 2026-045-AWS Scope: AWS Content Type: Important (requires attention) Publication Date: 06/15/2026 11:45 AM PDT Description: Kiro IDE is an agentic development environment that makes it easy for developers to ship real engineering work with the help of AI agents. We identified CVE-2026-11931, where incorrect default permissions in Kiro IDE on macOS and Linux before version 0.11.133 could expose the authentication token cache file to other local users or processes via world-readable …
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2026-08-20 21:35 UTC
Vendor Research
AWS Security Bulletins · aws@amazon.com · indexed 2026-08-15 18:58 UTC
Bulletin ID: 2026-077-AWS Scope: AWS Content Type: Important (requires attention) Publication Date: 08/06/2026 11:00 AM PDT Description: Strands Agents is an open-source SDK for building AI agents. The strands-agents-tools package provides pre-built tools for use with the SDK, including the mongodb_memory, elasticsearch_memory, and mem0_memory tools for storing and retrieving agent memories. We identified CVE-2026-19111, an insecure direct object reference (IDOR) issue in the mongodb_memory, el…
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2026-08-20 21:35 UTC
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AWS Security Bulletins · aws@amazon.com · indexed 2026-08-15 18:58 UTC
Bulletin ID: 2026-070-AWS Scope: AWS Content Type: Important (requires attention) Publication Date: 08/03/2026 12:00 PM PDT Description: AWS Amazon MQ MCP Server (awslabs.amazon-mq-mcp-server) is a Model Context Protocol server that enables AI assistants to interact with Amazon MQ message brokers. We identified CVE-2026-18655, an improper restriction of intended endpoints in the RabbitMQ broker connection tools of the Amazon MQ MCP Server (awslabs.amazon-mq-mcp-server) before 2.0.24 that may al…
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2026-08-20 21:35 UTC
Vendor Research
AWS Security Bulletins · aws@amazon.com · indexed 2026-08-15 18:58 UTC
Bulletin ID: 2026-012-AWS Scope: AWS Content Type: Important (requires attention) Publication Date: 2026/04/02 11:30 AM PDT Description: Kiro IDE is an agentic development environment that makes it easy for developers to ship real engineering work with the help of AI agents. We identified CVE-2026-5429, where unsanitized input during web page generation in the Kiro Agent webview in Kiro IDE before version 0.8.140 allows a remote unauthenticated threat actor to execute arbitrary code via a malic…
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2026-08-20 21:35 UTC
Vendor Research
AWS Security Bulletins · aws@amazon.com · indexed 2026-08-15 18:58 UTC
Bulletin ID: 2026-072-AWS Scope: AWS Content Type: Important (requires attention) Publication Date: 08/03/2026 13:30 PM PDT Description: Strands Agents is an open-source SDK for building AI agents. The strands-agents-tools package provides pre-built tools for use with the SDK, including the shell tool for executing operating system commands on the agent's host. We identified CVE-2026-18733. The shell tool includes a human consent gate that prompts the operator to approve commands before they ru…
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2026-08-20 20:42 UTC
Security Journalism
Dark Reading · indexed 2026-08-20 21:30 UTC
Enterprise cybersecurity expert Jake Williams joins the Dark Reading News Desk to explain why he decided to release his new agentic AI framework in the wake of the OpenAI attacks on Hugging Face.
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2026-08-20 19:30 UTC
Security Journalism
The Record · indexed 2026-08-20 19:45 UTC
Suspected military-grade hackers based in China used artificial intelligence to develop malware in a campaign to penetrate Central Asian governments.
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2026-08-20 16:59 UTC
Security Journalism
The Hacker News · info@thehackernews.com (The Hacker News) · indexed 2026-08-20 17:25 UTC
The U.S. government on Wednesday warned of an "active threat" targeting critical infrastructure organizations in the country using artificial intelligence (AI)-generated exploit scripts. The activity is targeting Siemens S7 SeriesProgrammable Logic Controllers (PLCs) to conduct reconnaissance and capability development using AI-generated scripts disguised as legitimate monitoring tools. That
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2026-08-20 14:36 UTC
Security Journalism
The Hacker News · info@thehackernews.com (The Hacker News) · indexed 2026-08-20 16:10 UTC
Adversa AI has disclosed an attack technique that it says can cause xAI's Grok chatbot to send a user's name, approximate location, subscription tier, and the prompts from the ongoing conversation to an attacker-controlled server after the user asks it to summarize an ordinary web page. The AI security company, which has codenamed the technique "Cryptographic Context Injection," said the
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2026-08-20 11:45 UTC
Security Journalism
The Hacker News · info@thehackernews.com (The Hacker News) · indexed 2026-08-20 13:15 UTC
In March 2026, an internal AI agent at Meta triggered a “Sev 1” incident after sensitive company and user data was exposed to employees who weren’t authorized to access it. The incident began when a Meta employee posted a technical question on an internal forum. An engineer used an approved AI agent to analyze it, but the agent posted its response publicly without approval. The employee
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2026-08-19 18:06 UTC
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The Hacker News · info@thehackernews.com (The Hacker News) · indexed 2026-08-19 19:55 UTC
OpenAI on Tuesday revealed that it paused reinforcement learning (RL) training for its latest artificial intelligence (AI) models for two weeks while it shored up additional defenses and increased the scope of its monitoring to avert another Hugging Face-like incident. "As models become more capable, the risks associated with developing and testing them internally also grow," the AI company
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2026-08-19 17:24 UTC
Vendor Research
AWS Security Blog · Anshu Bathla · indexed 2026-08-19 17:35 UTC
Many teams now deploy AI agents that pull from Amazon DynamoDB tables, document repositories, software as a service (SaaS) platforms, and internal knowledge bases to answer questions and automate workflows. A key risk in these deployments is that the agent has no awareness of who’s asking, so it might return data the user shouldn’t see. […]
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2026-08-18 20:46 UTC
Vendor Research
AWS Security Blog · Nishant Mainro · indexed 2026-08-18 21:00 UTC
When deploying AI agents with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, organizations benefit from built-in modern support for OAuth 2.0, AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM), and API key authentication through Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Gateway. However, some enterprise environments still use legacy authentication mechanisms such as HTTP Basic Authentication (Basic Auth) (RFC 7617). The extensible architecture of AgentCore […]
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2026-08-18 19:09 UTC
Security Journalism
Dark Reading · indexed 2026-08-19 19:45 UTC
Rich Mogull, chief analyst with the Cloud Security Alliance, joins the Dark Reading News Desk with what defenders need to take away from AI agents escaping their environments to launch attacks.
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2026-08-18 17:44 UTC
Security Journalism
The Hacker News · info@thehackernews.com (The Hacker News) · indexed 2026-08-18 18:35 UTC
Two critical vulnerabilities impacting MLflow, an open-source artificial intelligence (AI) platform, and FUXA, an open-source, web-based SCADA / HMI software built for operational technology (OT) and industrial automation, are witnessing malicious scanning and exploitation efforts. According to independent reports from watchTowr and VulnCheck, the vulnerabilities in question are as follows -
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2026-08-18 14:00 UTC
Vendor Research
Google Threat Intelligence / Mandiant · Mandiant · indexed 2026-08-18 15:55 UTC
Written by: Alex Tselevich, Michael Maturi Introduction Adversarial misuse of AI has increased the risk of data theft and extortion events, because when proprietary source code is exposed, defenders must scramble to identify and patch vulnerabilities while attackers deploy machine-speed AI tools against them. By structuring the analysis process, enforcing skeptical validation steps, and injecting domain-specific human expertise directly into the pipeline, we’ve achieved a leap in efficacy. Comb…
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2026-08-18 12:38 UTC
Security Journalism
The Hacker News · info@thehackernews.com (The Hacker News) · indexed 2026-08-18 13:05 UTC
Security researchers at Anthropic and Switzerland's EPFL have demonstrated that self-propagating payloads can spread from one artificial intelligence (AI) agent to the next through the editable system prompt files that autonomous agent harnesses use to carry state between sessions. The work, released as a preprint on August 10, 2026, tests the technique in a simulated six-agent coding
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2026-08-18 06:34 UTC
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The Hacker News · info@thehackernews.com (The Hacker News) · indexed 2026-08-18 07:15 UTC
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Monday added a critical flaw impacting Ray to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, citing evidence of active exploitation. Ray is an open-source, Python-native distributed computing framework designed to scale artificial intelligence and machine learning workloads. As of writing, the GitHub project has more than
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2026-08-17 19:22 UTC
Security Journalism
Dark Reading · indexed 2026-08-17 19:55 UTC
Adam Shostack, president of Shostack & Associates and an affiliate professor at the University of Washington, talks with the Dark Reading News Desk about why he was "blown away" by OpenAI's revelations regarding the Hugging Face attack.
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2026-08-17 11:58 UTC
Security Journalism
The Hacker News · info@thehackernews.com (The Hacker News) · indexed 2026-08-17 12:35 UTC
MCP servers can expose enterprise secrets through plaintext configuration files, over-permissioned access and prompt injection, often before security teams even know the server is running. As more organizations adopt AI agents into their systems, that exposure can silently become a major gap in MCP server security. The Model Context Protocol (MCP) allows AI agents to reach the tools and data,
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2026-08-17 11:29 UTC
Vendor Research
Rapid7 · Anna Širokova · indexed 2026-08-18 15:35 UTC
Operation ASTERIX overviewRapid7 researchers identified an exposed web directory on infrastructure used to support a cryptocurrency fraud operation. The server contained raw phone-number datasets, account-validation tools, enriched lead records, phishing panels, voice-dialing scripts, fake wallet applications, persistence mechanisms, and Telegram exfiltration code. Among the artifacts was evidence that the operator relied on AI coding assistants throughout the campaign's development; recovered …
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2026-08-17 08:41 UTC
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Security Affairs · Pierluigi Paganini · indexed 2026-08-17 09:40 UTC
A litigant hid AI prompt injections in a court filing to influence a ruling. The judge caught it and banned him from electronic filing. A man suing the New York Bariatric Group reportedly hid AI prompt in a court filing, instructing any AI system that read it to rule in his favor. The July 26 […]
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