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China-Linked UAT-7810 Expands ORB Network With New LONGLEASH Malware

China-Linked UAT-7810 Expands ORB Network With New LONGLEASH Malware

Ravie LakshmananJul 08, 2026Malware / Network Security A Chinese threat actor tracked as UAT-7810 is actively refining its bespoke malware to expand its Operational Relay Box (ORB) network by breaking into internet-facing networking devices. According… 

15-Year-Old GhostLock Flaw Enables Root and Container Escape on Most Linux Distros

15-Year-Old GhostLock Flaw Enables Root and Container Escape on Most Linux Distros

Researchers at Nebula Security have disclosed GhostLock (CVE-2026-43499), a 15-year-old Linux kernel flaw that lets any logged-in user take full root control of a machine that has not been patched. The vulnerable code has shipped by default in essentially… 

CISA Adds 4 Actively Exploited Adobe, Joomla, and Langflow Flaws to KEV

CISA Adds 4 Actively Exploited Adobe, Joomla, and Langflow Flaws to KEV

Ravie LakshmananJul 08, 2026AI Security / Vulnerability The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Tuesday added four security flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, citing evidence of active exploitation. The vulnerabilities… 

Public GitHub Issue Could Trick GitHub Agentic Workflows Into Leaking Private Repo Data

Public GitHub Issue Could Trick GitHub Agentic Workflows Into Leaking Private Repo Data

A public issue can trick GitHub Agentic Workflows into leaking the contents of an organization’s private repositories, researchers at Noma Security have shown. The attacker needs only to open a normal-looking issue on a public… 

Court Filing Reveals Windows Device ID Helped FBI Trace Alleged Scattered Spider Hacker

Court Filing Reveals Windows Device ID Helped FBI Trace Alleged Scattered Spider Hacker

U.S. prosecutors linked an alleged Scattered Spider hacker to a break-in at a luxury jewelry retailer using a persistent Windows device ID, according to a newly unsealed federal complaint. Microsoft records tied that ID first… 

Writer AI Flaw Could Let Agent Previews Leak Session Tokens Across Tenants

Writer AI Flaw Could Let Agent Previews Leak Session Tokens Across Tenants

Ravie LakshmananJul 07, 2026AI Security / Vulnerability Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a now-patched critical session isolation vulnerability in Writer, an enterprise generative artificial intelligence (AI) platform, that could result in cross-tenant compromise. The… 

What Changes When Your Software Supply Chain Includes AI Writing Your Code?

What Changes When Your Software Supply Chain Includes AI Writing Your Code?

The Hacker NewsJul 07, 2026AI Security / Software Supply Chain Software supply chain security was hard enough. Then AI joined the build pipeline. For five years, “software supply chain security” meant one question: what’s in…