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Vulnerabilities, breaches, and defensive-security research across the platforms devs actually use.

DepthFirst research card titled 'Twenty One Zero-Days in FFmpeg' over a dark code-styled background
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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.

Rows of server racks inside a data center, the kind of infrastructure that runs Starlette-based AI agent endpoints
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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.

Visual Studio Code logo on a dark background
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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.

Android robot logo rendered in red, signaling a security alert
Android·

Google is patching an Android flaw that attackers are already exploiting in the wild

Google's June 2026 Android bulletin patches an actively exploited Framework privilege-escalation zero-day plus 123 other flaws. Here's who's at risk and what to do.

A consumer M.2 solid-state drive, the kind of storage the FROST attack times from a browser tab
Web·

A browser SSD timing trick can fingerprint your browsing, and cookies won't stop it

Graz researchers built FROST, a browser side-channel that times SSD activity to guess which sites and apps you're running. Here's how it works and what helps.

Minecraft promotional artwork accompanying coverage of the WeedHack malware campaign
Gaming·

116,000 Minecraft PCs got infected by fake mods. The 'WeedHack' stealer is free to anyone.

McAfee says a free malware-as-a-service stealer called WeedHack has hit 116,000+ Minecraft systems via fake mods and cheats. Here's what it grabs and how to clean up.

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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?

Mozilla *Privacy Not Included graphic illustrating a car as a privacy nightmare, with data flowing out of the vehicle.
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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.

A 7-Eleven storefront, the retail chain whose franchisee document store was breached and leaked.
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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.

Apple's security branding, illustrating the iPhone theft-protection layer the new anti-snatch feature would extend.
Apple·

Apple is testing an anti-snatch feature that locks the iPhone the second it's grabbed

Code seen by 9to5Mac points to an iPhone feature that auto-locks when the accelerometer detects a snatch, then clamps down like Stolen Device Protection.

The Microsoft corporate logo, the brand the scam emails are spoofing through Microsoft's own legitimate notification infrastructure.
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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.

Google Chrome logo on a dark background
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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.

Anthropic Project Glasswing announcement card with glasswing butterfly motif.
AI·

Anthropic's Glasswing logged 10,000 vulnerabilities in a month. Most are still waiting on a patch.

Anthropic says Project Glasswing's first month produced over 10,000 critical-and-high-severity vulns. Verification and patching is the limiting step.

Apple Security Research site banner card.
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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.

GitHub security blog header showing the GitHub Octocat logo on a backdrop of black security blocks.
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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.

Microsoft's World Passkey Day 2026 promo art for passwordless authentication
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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.