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.
Vulnerabilities
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.
Artificial Intelligence (AI)
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.
CVE Watch
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.
Cybersecurity 101
A complete guide to privileged access management (PAM) — why privileged accounts warrant special treatment, the core PAM capabilities, and how to build a program.
Artificial Intelligence (AI)
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.