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NVIDIA Forms 37-Member Open Secure AI Alliance and Open-Sources NOOA Framework https://thehackernews.com/2026/07/nvidia-forms-37-member-open-secure-ai.html NVIDIA and 36 other organizations have formed the Open Secure AI Alliance to develop and share open technologies, techniques, and tools for securing software and artificial intelligence (AI) agents. The 37-member group spans cloud, security, enterprise software, and AI companies, including Microsoft, Cisco, Cloudflare, CrowdStrike, Hugging Face, IBM, Palo Alto Networks, Red Hat, and the Linux

Dysphoria IoT Botnet Adds Blockchain C2 and Victim Relays After JackSkid Disruption https://thehackernews.com/2026/07/dysphoria-iot-botnet-adds-blockchain-c2.html Dysphoria, an Internet of Things (IoT) botnet line tracked by CNCERT and XLab, has adopted blockchain-based name services and infected-device relays after a March law-enforcement operation against JackSkid infrastructure. The researchers say the design makes the botnet harder to disrupt. CNCERT, China's national computer emergency response team, and XLab, the threat-intelligence lab of Chinese

Public Exploit Released for Patched vBulletin Pre-Auth Code Execution Flaw https://thehackernews.com/2026/07/public-exploit-released-for-patched.html Public exploit details released on July 27 show how an unauthenticated request can reach PHP's eval() function inside vBulletin and execute code on an unpatched forum server. The attack requires no account, administrative access, or interaction from another user. SSD Secure Disclosure lists vBulletin 6.2.1 and earlier, and 6.1.6 and earlier, as affected, but does not give a lower version

⚡ Weekly Recap: Rogue AI Agents, Check Point Exploit, Slopsquatting, ClickFix Lures and More https://thehackernews.com/2026/07/weekly-recap-rogue-ai-agents-check.html Monday starts with the usual promise that everything is under control. Then the logs wake up. This week, trusted tools crossed lines, old flaws found new work, exposed systems stayed exposed, and attackers kept hiding inside normal-looking services. Nothing looked strange at first. That helped. That is the mood. Here is the full recap. ⚡ Threat of the Week OpenAI Says Its AI Agent Went Rogue

n8n Sandbox Escape Lets Workflow Editors Run OS Commands as the n8n Process https://thehackernews.com/2026/07/n8n-sandbox-escape-lets-workflow.html n8n has patched a high-severity expression-sandbox escape that could let an authenticated workflow editor execute operating-system commands on the server running the automation platform. Security Joes found the flaw while probing n8n's February fix for CVE-2026-27577 for another bypass. The affected ranges are =2.32.0,<2.32.1. n8n fixed the flaw in versions 2.31.5 and

Operation BlueDash Deploys Level RMM and ScreenConnect via Fake Teams Update https://thehackernews.com/2026/07/operation-bluedash-deploys-level-rmm.html Cybersecurity researchers have flagged a Microsoft Teams-themed phishing campaign that employs "secure document" lures to deliver legitimate remote monitoring and management (RMM) tools. "The victim was directed through compromised web infrastructure to a counterfeit Microsoft Store page claiming that Microsoft Teams had to be updated before the shared document could be opened," ZeroBEC said in

Cruciferra Crypter Uses BYOVD and Process Ghosting to Hide Windows Malware https://thehackernews.com/2026/07/cruciferra-crypter-uses-byovd-and.html The China-linked cybercrime group behind the use of income tax-related phishing lures targeting Indian taxpayers, tax professionals, and corporate finance teams has been observed using a sophisticated crypter service called Cruciferra. According to a new analysis by Proofpoint, Cruciferra has been utilized by various unrelated cybercriminal threat clusters to deliver a wide array of remote

TELESHIM Abuses Telegram for C2 in Attacks Against Middle East Governments https://thehackernews.com/2026/07/teleshim-abuses-telegram-for-c2-in.html Cybersecurity researchers have flagged fresh malicious cyber activity by a threat actor with ties to East Asia targeting government entities in the Middle East. The intrusions have resulted in the deployment of previously unreported malware families dubbed TELESHIM, MIXEDKEY, and BINDCLOAK, according to Zscaler ThreatLabz. The cybersecurity firm said it detected the campaign earlier this month.

GitHub Adds 3-Day Dependabot Cooldown to Limit Poisoned Package Adoption https://thehackernews.com/2026/07/github-adds-3-day-dependabot-cooldown.html GitHub has announced a new cooldown mechanism in Dependabot, allowing the tool to wait at least three days after a release is published before opening a pull request. "The cooldown configuration option in the dependabot.yml still controls the behavior, though, so you can choose a different cooldown parameter that fits your project," the Microsoft-owned subsidiary said. According to GitHub, the

Malvertising Sends Malware in Pieces, Then Makes the Browser Build the Executable https://thehackernews.com/2026/07/malvertising-sends-malware-in-pieces.html A malvertising operation dubbed SourTrade is making victims' browsers build the final Windows executable themselves, using a legitimate Bun runtime as its base instead of serving one complete malicious file from a fixed URL. Confiant, which detailed the campaign on July 23, 2026, said it has operated since late 2024 and impersonated TradingView, Solana, and Luno to target retail traders and

Fastjson 1.x RCE Vulnerability Targeted in Attacks With No Patched Available https://thehackernews.com/2026/07/fastjson-1x-rce-vulnerability-targeted.html Security firms ThreatBook and Imperva say attackers are targeting a critical flaw in Fastjson, Alibaba's JSON library for Java. In affected Spring Boot applications, a malicious JSON request can execute code without authentication, with the privileges of the Java process. Tracked as CVE-2026-16723, the vulnerability carries an Alibaba-assigned CVSS score of 9.0. The confirmed chain requires

Researcher Publishes GitLab RCE PoC Letting Authenticated Users Run Commands as Git https://thehackernews.com/2026/07/researcher-publishes-gitlab-rce-poc.html Security researcher Yuhang Wu at depthfirst has published a working proof-of-concept (PoC) exploit that executes commands as git on an unpatched self-managed GitLab 18.11.3 server. An ordinary authenticated user triggers it by committing two crafted Jupyter notebooks and requesting their diff. The chain needs no administrator rights, continuous integration (CI) runner access, victim interaction

BlueNoroff Zoom Phishing Kit Profiles Crypto Wallets Before Malware Delivery https://thehackernews.com/2026/07/bluenoroff-zoom-phishing-kit-profiles.html The North Korean threat actors behind the ClickFix-style campaigns that employ typosquatted Zoom and Microsoft Teams domains have been found to operate an active phishing kit to impersonate the videoconferencing platforms in social engineering campaigns designed to deliver malware. "BlueNoroff has operationalised trust abuse by combining compromised industry contacts, social engineering, wallet

Certighost Exploit Lets Low-Privileged Active Directory Users Impersonate a Domain Controller https://thehackernews.com/2026/07/certighost-exploit-lets-low-privileged.html Researchers H0j3n and Aniq Fakhrul published a working exploit on July 24 that lets a low-privileged Active Directory user obtain a certificate for a Domain Controller and authenticate as that machine. They codenamed the flaw Certighost. Because Domain Controller accounts carry directory replication rights, the resulting Kerberos credential can retrieve the krbtgt secret through DCSync.

ChatGPT AgentForger Flaw Could Deploy Rogue Workspace Agents via a Phishing Link https://thehackernews.com/2026/07/chatgpt-agentforger-flaw-could-deploy.html Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed a critical vulnerability in OpenAI's ChatGPT Workspace Agents that could have allowed a single phishing link to stealthily build, authorize, and deploy an autonomous artificial intelligence (AI) agent inside a victim's organization. The vulnerability has been codenamed AgentForger by Zenity Labs. The issue has since been addressed by OpenAI as of June 8,

Bing Images Flaws Let Crafted SVGs Run Commands as SYSTEM on Microsoft's Servers https://thehackernews.com/2026/07/bing-images-flaws-let-crafted-svgs-run.html A crafted SVG submitted to Bing's image search ran commands as NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM on Microsoft's production image-processing workers, and as root on the Linux machines in the same fleet. XBOW's testing got the same result on workers across different hosts and network ranges, so the problem sat in Bing's image tier, not on one bad machine. Microsoft issued two critical CVEs, CVE-2026-32194 and

Seeing AI Agents Is Not Enough. Security Teams Must Enforce What They Can Do https://thehackernews.com/2026/07/seeing-ai-agents-is-not-enough-security.html AI agent security is moving through a familiar maturity curve: adoption, then visibility, and finally, control. But what we've collectively discovered is that enforcing least privilege for AI agents is harder than we ever imagined. This is why there are so many approaches, from prompt filtering to identity-layer access controls. Where we've collectively landed is that understanding the intent of

Hacker Runs Hermes AI Agent Unattended for Post-Exploitation at Thai Finance Ministry https://thehackernews.com/2026/07/hacker-runs-hermes-ai-agent-unattended.html Someone installed a popular AI assistant on a rented server, switched off the setting that makes it ask permission before running risky commands, and pointed it at Thailand's Ministry of Finance, which runs the country's treasury and tax collection. The agent then worked through the ministry's network on its own, checking hosts for ways to gain root access, hunting through file systems, and

Golden Chickens Resurfaces With Four New Malware Families and Modular Implants https://thehackernews.com/2026/07/golden-chickens-resurfaces-with-four.html The threat actors behind the Golden Chickens malware-as-a-service (MaaS) ecosystem have resurfaced with four new malware families, indicating that the operators are showing no signs of stopping despite extensive public disclosures into their inner workings. The malware families in question are: TinyEgg, ChonkyChicken, a modularized variant of ChonkyChicken, and a modified web browser credential

NodeBB Patches Eight AI-Found Flaws Exposing Admin Access and Private Chats https://thehackernews.com/2026/07/nodebb-patches-eight-ai-found-flaws.html Eight security flaws in NodeBB went public on Wednesday, along with the code to exploit them. Aikido Security rates all eight as high severity and says its AI pentest agents found them in a six-hour review of the forum software's source code. Every version before 4.14.0 is affected. NodeBB has fixed them all, and administrators should be on 4.14.2. The simplest one takes a settings change. A