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Today

2-Click Cursor Exploit Enables Dev Environment Takeover

by Nate Nelson / 1h

Simple age-old bugs give bad actors access to developers' secrets and source code-rich environments.

Cribl Adds Agentic Detection Engineering & Boosts SecOps With CardinalOps Deal

Cribl acquires CardinalOps

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by Jeffrey Schwartz / 2h

CardinalOps will give Cribl customers the ability to map detection rules and security controls to the MITRE ATT&CK framework. SecOps teams can identify coverage gaps and operationalize threat intelligence.

Yesterday

Nigeria Deepens Cybersecurity Efforts as Cybercriminals See More Profits

by Robert Lemos / 6h

The West African country advanced rules to force organizations to disclose cyberattacks, joining other nations in a shift to mandated transparency.

Records Are Made to Be Broken: Patch Tuesday Raises Triage Stakes

Microsoft patches record 570 flaws

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by Jai Vijayan / 16h

Three of the 622 CVEs for which Microsoft issued patches this week are zero-days; there are more than 60 critical vulnerabilities.

6 GHz Wi-Fi Flaws Could Disrupt Critical Systems

by Alexander Culafi / 18h

Automated Frequency Coordination systems by default trust client-side data, which could lead to location spoofing and other attacks that disrupt traffic.

Manage Vendor Risk in a Few Practical Steps

by Daniel Nutkis / 20h

Risk tolerance, exposure visibility, board oversight — handling third-party risk is complicated but achievable with disciplined, precise governance.

ClickFix's Mushrooming Ecosystem Demands New Defense Tactics

by Elizabeth Montalbano / 22h

The attack vector is available for rent at scale, and evades AV and EDR, leaving YARA analysis as the best detection option.

Frontier AI: The Genie's Out of the Bottle, but Where's the Rulebook?

by Arielle Waldman / 22h

Cutting-edge artificial intelligence models are deploying with more independence and less human oversight. Several state governments are trying to legislate transparency in their use.

Cursor IDE Auto-Executes Malicious Code in Poisoned Repos

by Alexander Culafi / 1d

Researchers reported the vulnerability to Cursor in December, but it still remains in the popular AI coding platform and can be exploited in poisoned repository attacks.

Jul 13, 2026

Weak Security Continues to Fuel Russian Cyberattacks

EU UK sanction Russian hackers

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by Jai Vijayan / 1d

In a first, the UK and the EU jointly imposed sanctions on Russian individuals and entities for cyberattacks and disinformation campaigns in the region.

'Yellow Teams' Are Defining the Future of AI Security

by Nate Nelson / 1d

In some companies, engineers are building defense and attack tools to test the potential of artificial intelligence for cybersecurity — and its threat.

GigaWiper Lets Threat Actors Choose Their Own Destructive Attack

by Elizabeth Montalbano / 1d

A modular implant borrows from various malware families to combine both backdoor and wiper activities to maximize impact and minimize operational output.

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