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A financially motivated threat actor exploited various commercial generative AI services to compromise over 600 FortiGate devices across more than 55 countries between January 11 and February 18, 2026. The campaign marks a defining demonstration of how AI is lowering the technical entry barrier to offensive cyber operations, enabling a low- to medium-skilled individual or small group to execute...

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This CVE was assigned by Chrome. Microsoft Edge (Chromium-based) ingests Chromium, which addresses this vulnerability. Please see (https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2024 ) for more information. - Read more

A new security bypass has users installing AI agent OpenClaw — whether they intended to or not. Researchers have discovered that a compromised npm publish token pushed an update for the widely-used Cline command line interface (CLI) containing a malicious postinstall script. That script installs the wildly popular, but increasingly condemned, agentic application OpenClaw on...

PayPal disclosed a software error in its Working Capital platform that exposed sensitive customer data, including Social Security numbers, for months in 2025. The post PayPal Flaw Exposed Email Addresses, Social Security Numbers for 6 Months appeared first on TechRepublic. - Read more

Hacking Churches and Backdooring EmacsThis release packs some solid exploit module additions! Two new unauthenticated RCE modules are a major win: the StoryChief WordPress plugin exploit (CVE-2025-7441) targets a webhook validation flaw allowing arbitrary file uploads, while the ChurchCRM exploit (CVE-2025-62521) abuses the installation wizard to inject PHP code for persistent access. Both establish Meterpreter sessions. On the persistence front, there's a creative Emacs...

Commercial AI services are enabling even unsophisticated threat actors to conduct cyberattacks at scale—a trend Amazon Threat Intelligence has been tracking closely. A recent investigation illustrates this shift: Amazon Threat Intelligence observed a Russian-speaking financially motivated threat actor leveraging multiple commercial generative AI services to compromise over 600 FortiGate devices across more than 55 countries from January...