Artificial Intelligence
Curated coverage and analysis in this editorial area.
Metasploit Arms FlowiseAI and macOS: Two Exploits Land in the Framework
Metasploit has merged exploit modules for CVE-2026-41264, an unauthenticated RCE in FlowiseAI's CSV Agent, and CVE-2024-27822, a local…
Friendly Fire: Defensive AI Agents Turn into RCE Attack Vectors
The AI Now Institute's Friendly Fire report, published July 8, 2026, demonstrates that Anthropic's Claude Code and OpenAI's Codex — to…
Microsoft: AI Will Make Patch Tuesday Permanently More Demanding
Microsoft EVP Pavan Davuluri confirmed on July 9, 2026 that AI will permanently increase the volume of security updates in each Patch…
AI-Generated Malware Maps Active Directory: How It Was Caught
On June 3, 2026, Huntress detected an attack using an AI-generated PowerShell script created via vibe coding. Behavioral detection suc…
Agentic AI: A Lone Attacker Compromises Enterprise AWS in 72 Hours
Sygnia documents the first operational case of a lone threat actor using AI-assisted workflows to compress an enterprise AWS attack fr…
Ollama Zero-Day DoS: downloadBlob Bug Puts Local AI Servers at Risk
ZDI has disclosed a zero-day vulnerability in Ollama enabling unauthenticated remote denial-of-service attacks via the downloadBlob fu…
HalluSquatting Turns AI Assistants' Predictable Hallucinations into a Botnet Installation Vector
Researchers from Tel Aviv University, Technion, and Intuit demonstrated that nine AI coding tools install botnet malware when asked fo…
Malicious AI Skills: 3,000 Evade Scanning, Enterprises Exposed
ESET detected over 3,000 malicious skills among nearly 900,000 analyzed. The SkillCloak technique bypasses static scanners in more tha…
GhostLock: 15-Year Linux Kernel Bug Now Publicly Exploitable, Guarantees Root
CVE-2026-43499 enables root escalation and container escape on nearly every Linux distribution since 2011. Nebula Security published t…
Elastic Automates CVE Advisory Writing with RAG on MITRE Data
Elastic Security Labs has put into production an AI pipeline that generates complete CVE advisory drafts with CWE, CAPEC, and CVSS, gr…
SkillCloak: 90% of AI Agent Skill Scanners Fail Against Obfuscated Skills
HKUST researchers demonstrate that static scanners on AI skill marketplaces systematically fail against active evasion techniques. The…
Apple Compresses Patch Cycle After AI Uncovers Four WebKit Flaws
On June 29, 2026, Apple released iOS 26.5.2, iPadOS 26.5.2, macOS Tahoe 26.5.2, and Safari 26.5.2, addressing over 30 vulnerabilities.…