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OpenSSL Patches 16 Flaws Including Heap Use-After-Free RCE Risk
OpenSSL released 16 security fixes, led by CVE-2026-45447, a HIGH severity heap use-after-free in PKCS7_verify() that may enable RCE via crafted S/MIME messages.
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Shai-Hulud Hades Wave Poisons 29 Bioinformatics PyPI Packages
The Shai-Hulud Hades variant targeted ~29 bioinformatics and ML PyPI packages in a second wave, introducing a loader-payload split and bringing the campaign past 100 ...
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Microsoft Patches Exploited Exchange XSS as Secure Boot Deadline Looms
Microsoft's June Patch Tuesday closes the actively exploited Exchange Server CVE-2026-42897 and sets a 17-day countdown to a critical Secure Boot deadline.
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WhatsApp Files Contempt Motion Over New NSO Group Spyware Activity
WhatsApp detected new NSO Group activity violating a permanent court injunction and filed a federal contempt motion against the Israeli surveillance firm.
Gogs 0.14.3 Patches Critical RCE Zero-Day After 10 Days Without Fix
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Gogs 0.14.3 Patches Critical RCE Zero-Day After 10 Days Without Fix
Gogs version 0.14.3 patches a critical CVSSv4 9.4 RCE zero-day that had exposed 2,300 internet-facing servers for ten days with a public Metasploit exploit.
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AI Agent Finds 21 FFmpeg Zero-Days Including Unauthenticated RCE
Depthfirst's autonomous AI security agent spent $1,000 to find 21 zero-days in FFmpeg, including an unauthenticated RCE triggered by a 183-byte packet.
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Anthropic Engineers Deploy Inside NSA to Run Mythos Cyber AI
Anthropic has deployed six engineers inside NSA to operate Mythos, an AI reported capable of zero-day exploitation across major operating systems and browsers.
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Claude Opus Finds 4-Year Zcash Flaw Enabling Silent Coin Forgery
Researcher Taylor Hornby used Claude Opus 4.8 to uncover a four-year-old Zcash Orchard flaw that could have enabled undetectable counterfeit ZEC creation.
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VerdantBamboo PLENET Backdoor Sustained 18-Month M365 Intrusion
Volexity found Chinese APT VerdantBamboo used new PLENET and AGENTPSD malware to maintain 18 months of undetected Microsoft 365 access via MSP compromise.
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IronWorm Rust Malware Hits 36 npm Packages in Supply Chain Attack
JFrog researchers discovered IronWorm, a Rust-based infostealer with an eBPF rootkit, injected into 36 npm packages to steal AI API keys and self-propagate.