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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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Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a previously undocumented Python implant framework dubbed TWINLOOT. "TWINLOOT is a modular, PyArmor-hardened Python implant des…
Xpander’s platform uses a universal agent harness that executes AI agents as portable workloads and securely renders interfaces on demand. The post Xpander Raises $7.5 Million for …
Fortinet will use Virtue AI technology to enhance its AI security portfolio, including for AI models, applications, and agentic systems. The post Fortinet Acquires AI Security Comp…
Officials must wait a little longer before Live Captions tells it like it is
Cybersecurity researchers have flagged a new typosquatting campaign targeting RubyGems users with a Windows-based information stealer. OpenSourceMalware, which discovered the acti…
A single piece of infrastructure has been pulling records out of Salesforce and ServiceNow customer portals across multiple industries for more than a year, according to research p…
Papers please. Windows is watching
Microsoft has started testing a faster File Explorer and a less cluttered and more customizable context menu in Windows 11 preview builds rolling out to Insiders this week. [...]
Tracked as CVE-2026-15748, the arbitrary file upload bug allows unauthenticated attackers to upload executable files. The post 300,000 WordPress Sites Potentially Exposed to Hackin…
I have been thinking a lot about AI and integrity. Part of that is contextual integrity. I recently found two papers on the topic. “CIMemories: A Compositional Benchmark for Contex…
Kubuntu 26.04 gets three years of fixes for the desktop, frameworks, and apps
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has confirmed that ransomware gangs are also exploiting a high-severity Windows Task Host vulnerability that was fl…
Trial will test whether small route and altitude tweaks can reduce aviation's warming impact
Microsoft says some users are experiencing issues searching in Microsoft 365 apps, including Outlook on the web, Outlook desktop, SharePoint Online, and OneDrive. [...]
Hackers stole names, addresses, phone numbers, Social Security numbers, and financial information from a third-party platform. The post Heights Finance Data Breach Impacts at Least…
SafePal has disclosed that an authorization flaw in an order-tracking plug-in exposed the names, email addresses, shipping addresses, phone numbers, and purchase details of approxi…
Attributing diffusion model output to a specific input becomes more difficult with more training data
The security defect allows unauthenticated attackers to modify or delete user data and public projects. The post GitLab Patches Critical Code Injection Vulnerability appeared first…
Third consecutive annual decline adds to concerns about shortages of specialist skills
Microsoft announced that it removed the Windows Management Instrumentation Command-line (WMIC) tool from Windows 11 24H2 and 25H2, as well as from Windows 11 beta builds released t…
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The bugs could be exploited to crash Safari, corrupt memory, leak sensitive data, escape the sandbox, and exfiltrate data. The post Dozens of WebKit Vulnerabilities Patched With Fr…
$10 million buys over 100 million emails, 30 million recorded phone calls, reams of stuff from Teams, Oracle, and SAP
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…
If you’re still talking about ‘DirSync’ or ‘Active Directory’ instead of ‘Entra’, and need to explain why, this is the site for you
Boeing quietly joins FOSS hypervisor crew, as AMD and Renesas lead new effort to comply with formal standards
Researchers found that by combining two vulnerabilities, they could take over an Android device by delivering a payload and getting the victim to answer their phone.
Screen readers suffer as nearly 90% of top websites tested contain HTML spec violations