Thursday · July 9, 2026 Vol. I · No. 189
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Knicks re-sign Jordan Clarkson 'Solo agers' are a growing group. Changes that would help them could help everyone Oxford placed under summer transfer embargo by EFL Benoit Saint-Denis Won’t Look Past Paddy Pimblett Ahead of UFC 329 Is UFC 329 Conor McGregor’s farewell? “The Notorious” gives his answer Brentford sign Wilson after West Ham exit Red Sox Place Ranger Suárez On Injured List Free MLB home run odds, picks for July 9: Fernando Tatis Jr. among expert's best Thursday HR player… Knicks re-sign Jordan Clarkson 'Solo agers' are a growing group. Changes that would help them could help everyone Oxford placed under summer transfer embargo by EFL Benoit Saint-Denis Won’t Look Past Paddy Pimblett Ahead of UFC 329 Is UFC 329 Conor McGregor’s farewell? “The Notorious” gives his answer Brentford sign Wilson after West Ham exit Red Sox Place Ranger Suárez On Injured List Free MLB home run odds, picks for July 9: Fernando Tatis Jr. among expert's best Thursday HR player…

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AI Attacks Move in Minutes. Join This Webinar on Building a Defense That Keeps Up

AI has changed how fast attacks move. Work that once took an attacker days now takes minutes. Using models like Mythos, attackers write tailored bait, pick targets, test what land…

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Summer of Clearinghouses

Everyone seems to have announced a clearinghouse over the past few weeks. We did too. Ours is called Athena, and the main thing that sets it apart is that it was already real and …

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GodDamn Ransomware Uses PoisonX Driver to Disable Endpoint Defenses

Cybersecurity researchers have flagged a new ransomware family called GodDamn that employs the PoisonX kernel driver to neutralize security software as part of its defense evasion…

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Microsoft Patches RoguePlanet Defender Flaw That Can Grant SYSTEM Privileges

Microsoft has released security updates for a Defender vulnerability known as RoguePlanet, nearly a month after details of the flaw became public. The vulnerability, tracked as CV…

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Meta's New AI Image Tool Lets Others Use Your Public Instagram Photos in AI Images

Meta has announced that its new artificial intelligence (AI) model Muse Image lets people use public Instagram posts and reels to generate AI content, and it's enabled by default.…

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Top AI Agents Built to Catch Malicious Code Can Be Tricked Into Running It

Ask an AI coding agent to scan open-source code for security holes, and it might run the attacker's code on your own machine instead. That is the finding in a proof-of-concept pub…

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GhostApproval Symlink Flaws Could Let Malicious Repos Run Code in AI Coding Agents

Researchers at Wiz found that a flaw in six popular AI coding assistants lets a booby-trapped code project quietly take control of a developer's computer. The assistant asks permi…

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Fake 7-Zip Installers Turn Devices Into Residential Proxy Nodes

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a new threat actor dubbed Lurking Lizard that has been operating an end-to-end malicious residential proxy business using an in…

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AI Coding Agents Found Triggering Endpoint Security Rules Built to Catch Attackers

Sophos looked at a week of its own endpoint data and found that AI coding agents such as Claude Code, Cursor, and OpenAI Codex are setting off detection rules written to catch hum…

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New HalluSquatting Attack Could Trick AI Coding Assistants Into Installing Botnet Malware

AI coding assistants have a habit of making things up. Ask one to fetch a popular tool, and it will sometimes hand back a real-sounding name for a project that does not exist. New…

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Ubiquiti Patches Critical UniFi Flaws Across Connect, Talk, Access, Protect, and OS

Ubiquiti has shipped updates to address multiple critical security flaws impacting UniFi Connect, UniFi Talk, UniFi Access, UniFi Protect, and UniFi OS that could result in privil…

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New Ghost Phishing Wave Is Breaking Traditional Email Security

A recent EvilTokens campaign targeting businesses across the US and Europe is exposing a new email security blind spot. This “ghost phishing” technique keeps the malicious page hi…

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SCMBANKER Malware Uses ClickFix Lures to Target Mexican Banking Users

A new banking fraudulent operation is targeting customers of Mexican banks, fintech, payment processors, and cryptocurrency exchanges using ClickFix lures. The activity cluster, t…

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GitHub 'Verified' Commits Can Be Rewritten Into New Hashes Without Breaking Signatures

New research shows that a signed Git commit's hash is not the one-of-a-kind name that much of the software world assumes it to be. Given any signed commit, someone without the sig…

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The Verification Step Is the New ATO Battleground in 2026

For years, account takeover (ATO) followed a predictable script. Attackers bought stolen credentials in bulk, ran them through automated tools, and waited for matches. Credential …

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GitHub Copilot Refuses Harmful Requests in Chat, Then Writes Them in Code

An AI coding assistant that refuses to answer a dangerous request in its chat box can answer it anyway if the same request is broken into small, ordinary-looking steps inside a co…

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China-Linked UAT-7810 Expands ORB Network With New LONGLEASH Malware

A Chinese threat actor tracked as UAT-7810 is actively refining its bespoke malware to expand its Operational Relay Box (ORB) network by breaking into internet-facing networking d…

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15-Year-Old GhostLock Flaw Enables Root and Container Escape on Most Linux Distros

Researchers at Nebula Security have disclosed GhostLock (CVE-2026-43499), a 15-year-old Linux kernel flaw that lets any logged-in user take full root control of a machine that has…

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CISA Adds 4 Actively Exploited Adobe, Joomla, and Langflow Flaws to KEV

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Tuesday added four security flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, citing evidence of acti…

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RedWing MaaS Packages Android Bank Fraud as a Telegram Rental Service

A new Android malware operation called RedWing is being rented out on Telegram as a ready-made bank-fraud service. It lets even low-skill criminals take over a victim's phone, ste…

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Rogue Agent Flaw Could Have Let Attackers Hijack Google Dialogflow CX Chatbots

A critical flaw in Google's Dialogflow CX could have let an attacker with edit rights on one Code Block-enabled agent compromise other Code Block-enabled agents in the same Google…

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DEBULL Tooling Abuses Microsoft Device-Code Flow to Target M365 Accounts

A Microsoft 365 device code phishing campaign has been observed leveraging collaboration-themed lures to take control of victim accounts between the last week of June 2026 and int…

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Public GitHub Issue Could Trick GitHub Agentic Workflows Into Leaking Private Repo Data

A public issue can trick GitHub Agentic Workflows into leaking the contents of an organization's private repositories, researchers at Noma Security have shown. The attacker needs …

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Court Filing Reveals Windows Device ID Helped FBI Trace Alleged Scattered Spider Hacker

U.S. prosecutors linked an alleged Scattered Spider hacker to a break-in at a luxury jewelry retailer using a persistent Windows device ID, according to a newly unsealed federal c…