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Microsoft’s July 2026 Patch Tuesday fixes 622 CVEs, including exploited AD FS and SharePoint flaws, plus the disclosed BitLocker bypass requiring urgent action.

Security researcher Chaotic Eclipse (aka Nightmare-Eclipse) has released a new proof-of-concept (PoC) exploit called LegacyHive. It has been described as a Windows User Profile Service arbitrary hive load elevation of privileges vulnerability. The Windows User Profile Service, also referred to as ProfSvc, is a core system component that manages user accounts and environments. "The PoC requires

SonicWall has warned of active exploitation of two zero-day vulnerabilities impacting Secure Mobile Access (SMA) 1000 series appliances, one of which could be exploited to achieve arbitrary command execution. The vulnerabilities are listed below - CVE-2026-15409 (CVSS score: 10.0) - A Server-side request forgery (SSRF) vulnerability that a remote unauthenticated attacker could exploit to

SonicWall warns that threat actors have been exploiting two SMA1000 vulnerabilities, tracked as CVE-2026-15409 and CVE-2026-15410, in zero-day attacks and urges customers to install the newly released security updates. [...]

Today is Microsoft's July 2026 Patch Tuesday, and with it comes security updates for a record-breaking 570 flaws, including two zero-day vulnerabilities exploited in attacks and one publicly disclosed. [...]

Any other browser extension that can run a script on claude.ai can still trigger Claude for Chrome tasks aimed at your Gmail, your latest Google Doc and its comments, and your Calendar. Both this and ClaudeBleed need a rogue extension that can already run a script on claude.ai; the difference is scope. Anthropic restricted the arbitrary-prompt path in May as part of its response to the

Progress Software has confirmed that a high-severity zero-day vulnerability is behind the emergency shutdown of ShareFile Storage Zone Controllers last week and has released security updates to patch the flaw. [...]

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has added two maximum-severity security flaws impacting iCagenda and Balbooa extensions for Joomla to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, following reports of zero-day exploitation in the wild. The vulnerabilities, both rated 10.0 on the CVSS scoring system, are below - CVE-2026-48939 - A vulnerability in the

Details have emerged about three now-patched security flaws in the OpenClaw personal artificial intelligence (AI) assistant that, if successfully exploited, could enable credential theft, privilege escalation, and arbitrary code execution on the host. A brief description of the high-severity vulnerabilities is as follows - GHSA-hjr6-g723-hmfm (CVSS score: 8.8) - An operating system

Researchers at the AI Now Institute developed a proof-of-concept exploit showing common AI tools used for security could backfire

Microsoft says Windows users should expect to see an increase in security updates as the company increasingly relies on artificial intelligence to discover vulnerabilities in its codebase. [...]

Microsoft has released a security patch to address a Defender zero-day vulnerability known as "RoguePlanet," disclosed after the June 2026 Patch Tuesday. [...]

Infosecurity spoke with the researcher who dumped over 30 proof-of-concept exploits without disclosing the vulnerabilities first

Attackers are hiding a data-stealing trojan inside fake exploit code aimed at the people who hunt bugs for a living. The malware, called ChocoPoC, travels in Python proof-of-concept (PoC) repositories on GitHub that claim to exploit hot new CVEs. Run one, and it quietly lifts your saved passwords, browser cookies, and files, then hands the attacker a shell on your machine. YesWeHack and

Apple on Monday released security updates for iOS, macOS, and the Safari web browser to address over three dozen flaws, including four vulnerabilities in WebKit that were discovered using artificial intelligence (AI) tools like Anthropic Claude and OpenAI Codex Security. The WebKit vulnerabilities are listed below - CVE-2026-43707 - A memory corruption issue that could result in an

Cobalt study finds 20-percentage-point drop in number of organizations relying solely on AI automation for testing

An unknown threat actor exploited a recently disclosed high-severity security flaw impacting Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN as a zero-day at least two months before it was publicly disclosed, according to new findings from Google-owned Mandiant. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-20245 (CVSS score: 7.8), allows an authenticated, local attacker to execute arbitrary commands with elevated privileges

New details have been revealed on how hackers exploited a Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN vulnerability tracked as CVE-2026-20245 in zero-day attacks to create rogue root accounts on targeted devices. [...]

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of four vulnerabilities in Dify, an open-source agentic workflow platform with more than 146,000 GitHub stars, that could allow attackers to stealthily read artificial intelligence (AI) conversions from other customers' applications without requiring authentication. The vulnerabilities have been collectively codenamed DifyTap by Zafran Security.

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