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Week in review: GitHub breached via poisoned VS Code extension, critical NGINX flaw exploited

Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news, articles, interviews and videos: GitHub, Grafana Labs breaches traced back to TanStack supply chain compromise …

WordPress
$20 per zero-day is already the WordPress plugin reality

Vulnerability researchers have spent the past year arguing about whether AI agents can find real bugs at scale or whether they mostly generate noise. A pipeline built in three …

keys
Deleted Google API keys keep working for up to 23 minutes, researchers warn

Google API keys are credentials that let applications access Google services, from Maps to the Gemini AI. If a key is leaked, an attacker can use it to make API calls, rack up …

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Kore.ai unveils AI-native platform for enterprise multiagent systems

Kore.ai has launched the new-generation Kore.ai Agent Platform Artemis edition, the AI-programmable, AI-native foundation that builds, governs, and optimizes the agents, …

botnet
Suspected KimWolf botnet admin arrested over DDoS-for-hire operation

U.S. and Canadian authorities arrested and charged a Canadian man accused of operating the KimWolf DDoS botnet, a service linked to attacks that infected more than one million …

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Versa extends zero trust principles to AI agents and MCP workflows

Versa has introduced a patent-pending zero trust architecture for the Model Context Protocol (MCP), applying zero trust principles to AI execution. The company said every …

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GitLab 19.0 adds AI workflows, secrets management, and self-hosted model support

GitLab released GitLab 19.0 with expanded secrets management, agentic merge request workflows, improved CI pipeline visibility, support for self-hosted open-source models, and …

Proton Pass
Proton Pass adds monitored credential sharing for AI agents

Proton Pass, a secure, end-to-end encrypted password manager, added credential sharing through AI access tokens, allowing users to give AI agents access to selected items and …

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Keepnet contributes voice and SMS phishing data to the 2026 Verizon DBIR

Keepnet, an Extended Human Risk Management (xHRM) platform, today announced that its voice and SMS phishing simulation data contributed to the 2026 Verizon Data Breach …

CISA
CISA’s new KEV nomination form opens reporting to vendors and researchers

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency launched a new nomination form that lets researchers, vendors, and industry partners report known exploited …

Microsoft 365 phishing
Microsoft 365 users targeted by new phishing threat that bypasses MFA

Microsoft 365 access tokens are being targeted by an emerging Phishing-as-a-Service (PhaaS) platform called Kali365, the FBI is warning. First observed in April 2026, Kali365 …

Fractal
Meet Fractal, an OS made for microarchitecture reverse engineering

Probing how a CPU isolates user code from kernel code is messy work. Researchers patch kernels, write drivers, or boot stripped-down bare-metal programs, and any of those …

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