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

An AMD Ryzen 9 9950X desktop processor, the consumer chip generation affected by the memory-encryption change.
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AMD stripped memory encryption from your Ryzen, then put it back after the backlash

AMD quietly dropped RAM encryption from consumer Ryzen 9000 chips in a firmware update. A Linux hobbyist caught it, the community revolted, and AMD is reinstating it in July.

Close-up of Google's Sycamore quantum processor chip mounted on its gold-plated wiring harness.
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The White House just cut five years off America's quantum crypto deadline

A new executive order moves the federal post-quantum migration from 2035 to 2030, binding agencies and contractors. Here's what changed and what to do now.

The LastPass logo, the password manager that notified customers of a data breach traced to its vendor Klue.
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LastPass leaked customer data again, this time through a vendor's hijacked OAuth tokens

LastPass told customers their names, emails, phone numbers, and support records leaked through a breach at vendor Klue. Vaults stayed locked.

Claude Code branding over a terminal, illustrating the leaked source code on npm
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Claude Code's full source leaked on npm. A stray source-map file gave away every line.

Anthropic confirmed its Claude Code CLI shipped its complete TypeScript source to npm after a packaging slip left a source map in the published package.

A Volkswagen ID.4 electric SUV, the kind of connected car whose companion app stopped working on GrapheneOS
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Volkswagen blocked GrapheneOS from its app. Privacy-focused Android keeps getting locked out

Volkswagen's app stopped working on GrapheneOS, the hardened Android fork. The leading explanation is a Play Integrity attestation check that flags non-Google builds.

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
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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
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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
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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.

GitHub and Windows security composite with a warning overlay
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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.
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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.