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Luca Reinhardt

Security reporter focused on supply-chain attacks, package-registry compromises, CVE disclosures, and the slow march toward post-quantum crypto.

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An AI agent found 21 ways to attack FFmpeg, the codec library inside almost everything

DepthFirst's agent surfaced 21 FFmpeg zero-days for about $1,000. One 183-byte packet hits RCE. The deeper story is who pays the volunteers who fix them.

Cargo loader moving freight onto an aircraft, a stand-in for the software supply chain
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Red Hat's npm namespace and Arch's AUR were both backdoored within two weeks of each other

A worm hijacked Red Hat's npm namespace, a rootkit spread through 1,500 Arch AUR packages, and a SOC 2-certified AI gateway shipped malware. Registries are under fire.

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One bad Host header bypassed auth in Starlette, the routing core under millions of AI agents

A flaw in Starlette, downloaded 325M times a week, let a single Host-header character bypass path-based auth across FastAPI, vLLM, and MCP servers.

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VS Code's webview sandbox leaks GitHub tokens that read and write every private repo

A disclosed VS Code zero-day lets one click on a malicious github.dev notebook steal a GitHub OAuth token with full read-write access to every private repo.

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GitHub banned the researcher dropping Windows zero-days. The code was already mirrored everywhere.

GitHub wiped Nightmare-Eclipse's account on May 23 after weeks of unpatched Windows exploits. The ban reopened the oldest fight in security: who decides what research gets hosted?

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Your car logs every hard brake, and the FTC just banned GM from selling it for five years

Connected cars collect location, driving behavior, in-cabin audio, and synced contacts, then route it to automaker clouds, brokers, and insurers. Here's how to stop it.

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ShinyHunters dumped 9.4GB of 7-Eleven franchisee data after a rejected ransom demand

ShinyHunters breached a 7-Eleven Salesforce instance holding franchisee documents, exposing 185,000 people. The 9.4GB archive hit a leak site after 7-Eleven declined to pay.

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Scammers turned a Microsoft notification address into a spam relay. The emails pass SPF, DKIM, and DMARC.

Spammers found a Tenant Name injection in Entra ID that pushes fraud text into Microsoft's own OTP emails. The from-line reads msonlineservicesteam@microsoftonline.com.

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Google's bug tracker auto-published exploit code for an unpatched Chromium flaw. The bug is still live.

Chromium Issue 1396278 went public on May 20 because Google's tracker auto-clears restrictions on stale closed bugs. The flaw, reported in 2022, was never fixed.

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Apple shipped formal proofs for its post-quantum crypto. 2.5 billion devices now run verified code.

Apple's SEAR team published formal verification proofs for corecrypto's ML-KEM and ML-DSA implementations. 50,000 proof steps cover 2.5 billion active devices.

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GitHub's internal repos were breached. The attacker came in through a poisoned VS Code extension.

GitHub detected the intrusion on May 18 after a malicious VS Code extension compromised an employee's device. The attacker claims to have exfiltrated 3,800 internal repositories.

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Microsoft is killing SMS codes on consumer Microsoft accounts. Passkeys take over by December.

Microsoft is phasing out SMS sign-in and recovery on personal Microsoft accounts by December 2026. Replacements: passkeys, Authenticator, or verified email.

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A CISA contractor left GovCloud admin keys on public GitHub. The file was named 'Important AWS Tokens.txt'.

GitGuardian found a public CISA repo with 844 MB of secrets, including AWS GovCloud admin keys. The repo sat open for six months.

An illustration of the Claude Code deeplink vulnerability, showing a malicious URL handler triggering a shell prompt.
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A bad command-line parser turned every claude-cli:// link into a remote shell

Joernchen of 0day.click found a deeplink RCE in Claude Code. Anthropic shipped the fix in 2.1.118 the same week.

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Twin contractors deleted 96 federal databases in 56 minutes. One asked an AI how to clear the logs.

A federal jury convicted Sohaib Akhter on May 7 of wiping 96 government databases at Opexus. His twin Muneeb queried an AI: 'how do I clear system logs from SQL servers.'

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F5 patched an 18-year-old NGINX bug. Attackers can RCE a third of the web with one crafted request.

F5 disclosed CVE-2026-42945 on May 13 after depthfirst's analyzer found a heap overflow in a 2008 commit. NGINX 1.31.0 ships the patch, every Plus tier needs an upgrade.

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A USB stick now opens a BitLocker drive in 60 seconds. The researcher calls it a backdoor.

A pseudonymous researcher dropped two unpatched Windows zero-days on May 12. YellowKey bypasses BitLocker via WinRE; Microsoft has not acknowledged either bug.

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Six new bugs hit dnsmasq, the DNS daemon in every Linux router. One gives a local attacker root.

CERT VU#471747 lists six dnsmasq CVEs disclosed May 11. The DHCPv6 flaw is local-root code execution. Simon Kelley credits 'a revolution in AI-based security research.'

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TanStack published its npm supply-chain postmortem. The attack chained three GitHub Actions flaws.

Attackers compromised 42 TanStack packages through a pull_request_target exploit, cache poisoning, and OIDC token theft. An external researcher caught it in 20 minutes.

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A crafted Ollama model file leaks the whole server's memory. 300,000 instances are exposed.

Cyera disclosed CVE-2026-7482 on May 1, a CVSS 9.1 unauthenticated heap read in Ollama. Three API calls dump prompts, env vars, and API keys from any open instance.

Wiz Research's disclosure page for the Dirty Frag Linux kernel privilege escalation vulnerability
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A nine-year-old Linux kernel bug gives root in one command. No patch exists yet.

Dirty Frag chains two page-cache flaws in the ESP and RxRPC subsystems into a deterministic privilege escalation that hits every major distro. A PoC exploit is public.

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380,000 vibe-coded apps are sitting on the open web. 5,000 of them are leaking real data.

RedAccess found that AI coding tools like Lovable, Base44, and Replit default to public hosting, leaving medical records, bank internals, and corporate secrets indexed by Google.

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ShinyHunters hit Canvas LMS for the second time. 275 million student records, 9,000 schools.

ShinyHunters breached Canvas LMS again, claiming 275 million records from 9,000 schools. Names, emails, student IDs, and private messages exposed.

Abstract Kaspersky illustration of a tampered software disk for the DAEMON Tools supply chain attack writeup
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DAEMON Tools shipped a signed backdoor for almost a month. Kaspersky says one school in Russia got the second stage.

Kaspersky pinned a supply-chain attack on the DAEMON Tools installer dating to April 8. Thousands hit globally, dozens upgraded to a QUIC RAT implant via signed binaries.

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Threads finally added DMs on the web. Group chats and most countries still aren't on the list.

Meta is rolling out one-to-one Threads DMs on desktop web for users 18 and over. Group chats come later, regional availability is staged, and the new sidebar surfaces analytics.

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Reddit started blocking logged-in mobile web users. The popup can't be dismissed.

Reddit is rolling out an undismissible 'get the app' banner on mobile web for a slice of frequent users. Old.reddit.com doesn't fully escape it.

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VS Code shipped 'Co-Authored-by Copilot' on every commit by default. Microsoft is reverting it.

A two-line PR flipped the AI co-author flag from off to all in April. Hand-typed commits started getting Copilot attribution. The maintainer apologized and promised a fix in 1.119.

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Microsoft Edge keeps every saved password in cleartext memory. Microsoft calls it 'by design'.

A researcher showed Edge decrypts the entire password vault at launch and leaves it in process memory. Chrome decrypts on demand. Microsoft says it's intentional.

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Five Eyes intel agencies publish first joint agentic AI security guide. Their advice: slow down.

CISA, NSA, GCHQ, ASD, CSE and NCSC-NZ jointly tell organizations agentic AI isn't ready for fast rollout. The 23-page guide names five risk categories.

Architecture diagram from Cloudflare's Dynamic Workflows launch post, showing a host Worker dispatching durable execution to per-tenant Workers.
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Cloudflare shipped Dynamic Workflows. Multi-tenant agent platforms finally get durable per-tenant code.

A 300-line MIT library lets one Worker route durable execution to every tenant's own workflow. The piece Cloudflare's Agents Week was missing.

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A DDoS knocked Ubuntu's update servers offline. The Copy Fail patch landed in the same 24-hour window.

The 313 Team flooded Canonical's infrastructure starting May 1, blocking apt updates and the Ubuntu security API just as admins needed both.

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Mini Shai-Hulud hit PyTorch Lightning. The 11.6M-download PyPI package shipped a credential stealer.

Two malicious lightning releases hit PyPI on April 30. The 42-minute window was enough to ship an RSA-encrypted infostealer to ML developers worldwide.

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70 million domains had a no-password root bypass. cPanel rushed an emergency patch.

cPanel shipped fixes April 28 for a CVSS 9.8 auth bypass that walks attackers into shared-hosting panels with no password. WatchTowr says exploitation started before the patch.

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'Copy Fail' lets a 732-byte script grab root on Ubuntu, RHEL, and SUSE. Patched April 29.

CVE-2026-31431 chains AF_ALG and splice() to write into the page cache of /usr/bin/su. Xint Code disclosed it on April 29, nine years after the bug shipped.

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Wiz found an RCE in GitHub's git-push pipeline. The patch shipped in six hours.

CVE-2026-3854 is a CVSS 8.7 RCE in GitHub's git-push pipeline. github.com fixed it within hours. 88% of Enterprise Server installs were still vulnerable at disclosure.

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Another npm worm: CanisterWorm hits 16 Namastex packages and reaches PyPI on the same hop

Socket flagged a self-propagating worm in @automagik/genie, pgserve, and 14 sibling Namastex Labs packages. It steals 40 credential categories and republishes itself.

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Adobe's Acrobat zero-day sat on VirusTotal for 136 days. Patch is APSB26-43.

CVE-2026-34621 is an actively exploited Acrobat and Reader bug that runs attacker JavaScript inside the PDF runtime. The first sample hit VirusTotal in November and went unflagged.

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Toronto Police arrest three behind 'SMS blasters'. Phones lost 911 access for seconds at a time.

Project Lighthouse logged 13 million cellular disruptions from car-mounted IMSI catchers spoofing legitimate towers. Three men face 44 charges in Canada's first SMS-blaster bust.

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Microsoft April 2026 Patch Tuesday: 167 fixes, two zero-days, and a SharePoint bug already in CISA's KEV

Microsoft's April 8 Patch Tuesday closes 167 CVEs. CVE-2026-32201 in SharePoint is being exploited and CISA added it the same day. Here's what to patch first.

A malicious GGUF file owns your SGLang server: CVE-2026-5760 is an unpatched 9.8
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A malicious GGUF file owns your SGLang server: CVE-2026-5760 is an unpatched 9.8

SGLang's reranker renders chat templates without a sandbox. Load a hostile GGUF, hit /v1/rerank, and the attacker has Python on your inference box. No patch yet.

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GnuPG 2.5.19 lands ML-KEM in mainline. Post-quantum OpenPGP is no longer a side branch.

Werner Koch shipped GnuPG 2.5.19 on April 24 with FIPS-203 ML-KEM, the first stable post-quantum encryption algorithm in OpenPGP. Here's what changed and what didn't.

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Malicious npm and PyPI packages turn dev servers into Chinese LLM proxies

Aikido found a stage-2 Go binary inside two health-check-themed packages that runs an OpenAI-compatible router routing Claude, GPT, and Gemini traffic through Chinese aggregators.

Bitwarden CLI compromised by the Shai-Hulud npm worm
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Bitwarden CLI got backdoored for 90 minutes. The worm calls itself 'Shai-Hulud: The Third Coming.'

A malicious @bitwarden/cli@2026.4.0 hit npm on April 22. The payload steals npm tokens, cloud secrets, and Claude Code credentials, then self-replicates.

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Microsoft rushed an out-of-band ASP.NET Core patch. If you shipped between April 14 and April 21, you need to rebuild.

CVE-2026-40372 lets attackers forge auth cookies on .NET 10.0.6 apps on Linux and macOS. The fix is 10.0.7. Here's what broke, who's exposed, and how to patch.

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protobuf.js RCE: a 52M/week npm package was one bad type name from code execution

GHSA-xq3m-2v4x-88gg hits protobuf.js ≤8.0.0 / ≤7.5.4. Attacker-controlled schemas executed arbitrary JS on decode. One-line fix patched it.

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GPUHammer grew up: three new Rowhammer attacks take full control of Nvidia machines

IEEE S&P 2026 papers extend GPUHammer with GeForge, GDDRHammer, and GPUBreach. They flip GDDR6 bits to break out of the GPU and own the host.

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Vercel got breached through a third-party AI tool's OAuth app. Here's what leaked.

A Context.ai compromise let attackers take over a Vercel employee's Google Workspace. Non-sensitive env vars were exposed, and a ShinyHunters persona is asking $2M.

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Trivy got hijacked: 75 of 76 version tags rewrote to drop a CI secret-stealer

Attackers force-pushed 75 of 76 trivy-action tags to a malicious commit. Pinning by tag turned a trusted scanner into an infostealer for CI pipelines.

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Google just moved 'Q-Day' to 2029. Here's what that changes for your crypto stack

Google's security team says cryptographically-relevant quantum computers could arrive by 2029, six years before the NSA's 2031 deadline. What to migrate, and in what order.