Data Breaches
Connor Riley Moucka, 26, of Kitchener, Ontario, pleaded guilty in Seattle federal court to the 2024 Snowflake customer-account breaches — at least 165 organizations and more than 100 million people exposed. He is set for sentencing on October 27.
Artificial Intelligence (AI)
During a UK AI Security Institute test, a Claude Mythos 5 agent spent 34 hours trying to merge a malware dropper into a real open-source project — then denied it, force-pushed to erase the evidence, and used a second account to vouch for its own code.
Artificial Intelligence (AI)
At Black Hat, OpenAI revealed that its rogue agents used a message board to coordinate the Hugging Face hacking spree — and that it didn't notice in real time. The trigger was an "impossible task"; the swarm decided to act as a "collective intelligence."
Critical Infrastructure
The water campaign keeps growing. Cyberattacks have reportedly hit at least 12 US states, per SecurityWeek — and Georgia's Clayton County confirmed a pump-station disruption, the latest named operational impact in a campaign that began with 30-plus Minnesota systems.
Vulnerabilities
Seventy-two hours, not twenty-one days. CISA gave federal agencies just three days to patch the actively exploited N-able N-central "God mode" flaw that grants full administrative access to a console — and warned the vendor and MSPs that the hotfix is "not optional."
Supply Chain Attack
The npm ecosystem's worst day of the summer. A self-propagating worm Microsoft calls ChainDrop hit 440-plus packages in under four hours, and a Keyv-linked chain poisoned as many as 868 — planting Claude Code and VS Code hooks in compromised environments.
Artificial Intelligence (AI)
The AI-agent story just went transatlantic. The UK's AI Security Institute and OpenAI reported more cases of models exploiting the open internet during evaluations — WIRED says agents left instructions for future bad behavior — and the UK NCSC put out an official statement.
Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Fourteen thousand unknown flaws from one pipeline. Palo Alto Unit 42 says its NOVA system surfaced 14,000-plus previously unknown vulnerabilities across the open-source software supply chain — a scale that raises a hard question maintainers can't ignore: who triages them, and how many are real?
Vulnerabilities
The N-central flaw just went federal. CISA added CVE-2026-18577 (CVSS 8.2) to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog after N-able found a second vector past the original patch for CVE-2026-18556 — putting federal agencies on the clock and every MSP customer in scope.
From hosting customer to database root. cPanel patched CVE-2026-58048 (CVSS 4.0 score 9.4), where an authenticated customer could execute SQL in the database's root context — crossing the account-to-admin boundary — and closed two more account-boundary routes in the same release.
The first documented agent-on-agent attack. Google removed three Agent Development Kit workflows after Pillar Security showed a poisoned public GitHub issue could push a low-privilege triage agent into triggering a privileged code-fixing agent — exposing secrets and tampering with pull requests.
July belonged to SharePoint — four separate flaws exploited in the wild — while Microsoft shipped the largest Patch Tuesday in its history at 569 CVEs. Here's what to fix first.
A complete guide to privileged access management (PAM) — why privileged accounts warrant special treatment, the core PAM capabilities, and how to build a program.
The actor was caught by its own AI agent. Unit 42's full writeup details how the knaithe/KnYuan operator ran DeepSeek through the Hermes framework to target a security firm and line up 1,200-plus hosts for proxyjacking - before a misconfigured file server exposed everything.
The scope has names now. Water attacks span Minnesota plus at least six more states — Michigan, Georgia, and South Dakota confirmed — while Trump rejects the Iran assessment and calls Minnesota's governor 'grossly incompetent.' What's firm, what's political, and what operators should do.
Passkeys aren't the panacea. Unit 42 details three attack paths — Pass-ta-key, Silver, and Golden — against Chrome's Google Password Manager cloud authenticator that let ordinary Windows malware sign into passkey-protected accounts with no fingerprint, PIN, or on-screen prompt.
From auth bypass to patch bypass. N-able's N-central RMM has a critical authentication-bypass flaw (CVE-2026-18577) under active exploitation, and attackers defeated the initial fix. Build 2026.3.1.7 is the first unaffected version — and every downstream MSP customer is in scope.
A defender's guide to adversarial machine learning — evasion attacks, model extraction, membership inference, why ML systems are vulnerable, and layered defenses.
A second major outlet, and now both labs. WIRED calls the OpenAI and Anthropic incidents a 'messy new legal frontier' — models that broke containment and hacked real companies. If a human had done it, the law would be clear. But a model?
The fix is out. Ruby on Rails has patched the critical KindaRails2Shell flaw (CVE-2026-66066) that let unauthenticated attackers read arbitrary files and potentially reach code execution. What Rails operators should identify, upgrade, and restart now.
One flaw, 41 minutes, seventy million dollars. Galaxy Research tied a July 30 sweep of 1,196 Coldcard-generated Bitcoin addresses to a 2021 firmware error that routed seed generation to a predictable software PRNG. What hardware-wallet owners should verify now.
