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Cybersecurity

The Stop Rogue AI Act Would Make Companies Inventory Their AI Agents. It Is Voluntary for Almost Everyone.

The Stop Rogue AI Act binds only federal contractors bidding new work, and gives NIST a year from enactment. It also asks operators to inventory their own agents — and the agent that breached Hugging Face belonged to somebody else.

5 Sep 2026 · 7 min read
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Cybersecurity

CISA Added Seven Exploited Flaws. Five Due in Three Days, Two in Fourteen.

Five carry a three-day federal clock, two carry fourteen days, in a single batch. Three of the seven sit in AI and build infrastructure: LiteLLM, Kestra and Artifactory.

4 Sep 2026 · 6 min read
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Cybersecurity

CrowdStrike Built an Offensive AI Model and Named It Red Tempest

CrowdStrike has shipped two models built with Nvidia: one that attacks a replica of your network, one that defends it. Admission to a programme is what gates the attacker.

3 Sep 2026 · 6 min read
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Cybersecurity

PaperCut's First Emergency Patch Was Bypassable. Here Is the Second One.

PaperCut has shipped a second emergency patch after researchers walked around the first. A vendor under active exploitation ships something today, which usually blocks a request pattern rather than the logic underneath.

1 Sep 2026 · 7 min read
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Cybersecurity

TerminalFix Hides Malware in PNGs. It Still Needs You to Paste the Command.

An executable in one image and a DLL split across two more. Every clever stage is post-compromise; the entry point is a fake bot check and a clipboard.

1 Sep 2026 · 7 min read
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Cybersecurity

PaperCut Was Being Exploited for a Day Before It Had a CVE Number

The 27 August advisory confirmed active exploitation while carrying no identifier, no severity score and no vulnerability class, which is a day in which most scanning and ticketing tooling could not see it at all.

30 Aug 2026 · 7 min read
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Cybersecurity

Signed Is Not the Same as Traceable

Every package npm serves carries a registry signature, so 100% of our dependencies look verified. Only 10.8% of the ones that ship to users can prove which commit they were built from — and our development tools, which never leave a laptop, score 57.9%.

19 Aug 2026 · 6 min read
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Cybersecurity

Most of an AI Attack Is an Ordinary Attack

MITRE's AI threat matrix, ATLAS, shares 13 of its 16 tactics with classical ATT&CK. Only two are genuinely new — and just 12.4% of its techniques sit under them. Seven-eighths of your AI security problem is the security problem you already had.

19 Aug 2026 · 6 min read
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Cybersecurity

China Opened a Formal Review of Palo Alto. It Had Already Banned the Products.

China's Cybersecurity Review Office opened a formal review into Palo Alto Networks products on 6 August — seven months after Chinese organisations were told to stop using them, and after the transition deadline had passed. A review that arrives once the using has stopped is doing something other than deciding.

9 Aug 2026 · 7 min read
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Cybersecurity

A Researcher Found a Way to Switch Off a Singapore-Built Security Product

Three flaws in CatchPulse, the worst letting an unprivileged local user bypass policy enforcement. Reported 26 June, patched 28 July, published 6 August.

7 Aug 2026 · 8 min read
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