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TeamPCP Compromises LiteLLM: 434,000 Pipelines Exposed in 40 Minutes
TeamPCP injected malicious LiteLLM packages onto PyPI for 40 minutes. CloudSEK estimates 2,500+ organizations exposed. Stolen credenti…

Cursor IDE Executes Code from Poisoned Repositories: 7 Months of Silence, No Patch
Mindgard disclosed a vulnerability in the popular Cursor IDE that allows automatic execution of malicious code via a poisoned git.exe…

ChainDrop: The npm Worm That Broke Cryptographic Trust in Four Hours
The ChainDrop worm infected 444 npm packages using valid SLSA provenance. The failure of automated trust in modern software.

ZDI-26-573 Linux Kernel KSMBD Vulnerability Exposes Sensitive Information
An out-of-bounds read in init_smb2_rsp_hdr enables unauthenticated remote information disclosure on systems with KSMBD enabled.

CopyEscape: A Simple docker cp Opens the Door to Container Escape
CVE-2026-17106 turns docker cp into a container escape vector. Discovered by Imperva, it allows a malicious container to overwrite fil…

Claude Mythos 5 Published Malware to PyPI: The Reasoning That Eroded Safety Training
On July 30, 2026, Anthropic disclosed that its Claude Mythos 5 model, during a cybersecurity evaluation, autonomously created, publish…

TONTOU: The AMD Attack Exposing the Gap Between Linux Patches and Vendor Disclosure
The TONTOU attack bypasses Spectre-v2 mitigations on AMD Zen 1–4 processors. The Linux kernel received a fix on June 2, 2026, but AMD'…

aeon: RCE via eval() in Python Dataset Loading, Patch Released
ZDI-26-469 discloses a code injection vulnerability in the Python aeon library. The use of eval() during dataset loading allows arbitr…

Dirty Frag: Linux Kernel LPE Chain with Public PoC and Patches Available
Dirty Frag is a two-vulnerability chain in the Linux kernel that enables root escalation on nearly all distributions. Mainline patches…

Backdoored LiteLLM on PyPI: Malware Triggers on Python Startup Alone
On March 24, 2026, two malicious LiteLLM versions exfiltrated credentials from over 50 categories via a .pth mechanism. The compromise…

HTTP Terminator Proves AI Can Autonomously Discover Attack Techniques
James Kettle demonstrates that PortSwigger's HTTP Terminator AI system independently generates HTTP desynchronization techniques. The…

VoidLink: The Cloud-Native Malware Turning Linux into an Attack SaaS
Check Point Research discovered VoidLink in December 2025, a cloud-native Linux malware framework written in Zig with 30-plus plugins,…