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Russian-Speaking Hacker Uses Google Gemini CLI to Control Botnet of Eight Dental Clinic PCs

A solo Russian-speaking threat actor known as “bandcampro” outsourced a chunk of their operations to Google’s open-source Gemini CLI artificial intelligence (AI) and commandeered a live botnet. The findings come from an analysis of 200…

World’s Largest AI Model Repository Hugging Face Breached by Autonomous AI Agent

Ravie LakshmananJul 20, 2026AI Security / Vulnerability In an ironic twist, open-source artificial intelligence (AI) platform Hugging Face revealed that it was the victim of a hack perpetrated by an autonomous AI agent system. The…

SleeperGem Uses Three Malicious RubyGems Packages to Target Developer Machines

Cybersecurity researchers have flagged a new software supply chain attack codenamed SleeperGem targeting the Ruby ecosystem after three malicious gems were published to RubyGems with the end goal of serving additional payloads. The rogue gems…

Critical NGINX Vulnerability Can Crash Workers and May Allow Remote Code Execution

F5 has shipped fixes for a critical nginx flaw that lets a remote, unauthenticated attacker trigger a heap buffer overflow in the worker process with crafted HTTP requests. CVE-2026-42533 was patched on July 15 in…

UAC-0145 Uses ClickFix CAPTCHAs to Infect Ukrainian Devices wih Malware

Ravie LakshmananJul 19, 2026Malware / Cyber Warfare Russian state-sponsored threat actors have been observed leveraging the infamous ClickFix strategy to trick Ukrainian targets into infecting their own machines with data-stealing malware. According to the Computer…

SonicWall SMA Zero-Days Exploited Before Disclosure to Gain Root Access

Ravie LakshmananJul 19, 2026Vulnerability / Network Security A previously undocumented threat actor has been attributed to the exploitation of recently disclosed SonicWall Secure Mobile Access (SMA) 1000 series VPN appliances as zero-days prior their public…