Security Issues, Vulnerabilities, Exploits & Government Alerts
Ravie LakshmananSep 18, 2026Vulnerability / Cloud Security Microsoft has released fixes for a maximum-severity security flaw in Azure AI Foundry that could be exploited to achieve privilege escalation. No customer action is required. The vulnerability,…
Washington, DC – The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) hosted Cyber Storm X this week, a four-day national cybersecurity exercise designed to test and ultimately strengthen the nation’s resilience. This year’s exercise included 2,000…
In July 2025, someone registered a domain that used to belong to a content delivery network. The CDN had been wound down years earlier, and the domain it served assets from was allowed to expire.…
A flaw in four widely used AI coding agents lets someone who controls a plugin’s code repository swap the plugin an agent installs for a malicious one, even when the agent locked that plugin to…
Ravie LakshmananSep 18, 2026Malware / Web Security Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a cluster of 13 npm packages that have been found to deliver a previously undocumented JavaScript stealer codenamed WeaselBiscuit. The new malware family, per…
Ravie LakshmananSep 18, 2026Malware / Cybercrime A financially motivated threat actor has been linked to the development and distribution of a JavaScript (JS)-based information stealer known as PhantomRaven via the npm package registry. “The developer…
Ravie LakshmananSep 18, 2026Mobile Security / Malware Cybersecurity researchers have flagged a new Android malware called RatHat that’s assessed to be operated by China-based threat actors and features an artificial intelligence (AI)-powered system to navigate…
A critical vulnerability in Check Point’s Security Management and Log Servers could allow an attacker without login credentials to run code as root on those servers over the network. The Security Management Server is the…
Ravie LakshmananSep 17, 2026Hacking News / Cybersecurity News Attackers keep finding new keys. The funny part is that defenders keep inventing where to store them. This week, those keys sit in AI tools, exposed services,…
Swati KhandelwalSep 17, 2026Vulnerability / Artificial Intelligence Malicious code running inside a Docker Sandboxes virtual machine on macOS could escape the project directory shared into it and read or change files anywhere else on the…