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

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.

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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.

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.

An illustration of the Claude Code deeplink vulnerability, showing a malicious URL handler triggering a shell prompt.
Security·

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.

A technician at a server rack with a laptop, standing in for the SQL infrastructure Opexus ran for 45 federal agencies.
Security·

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.'

Stylized illustration of remote code execution attack flow
Security·

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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Security·

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.

Glowing DNS server illustration above a darkened network rack
Security·

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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Security·

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.

Cyera Research disclosure illustration for the Bleeding Llama vulnerability in Ollama's model execution pipeline
Security·

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
Security·

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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Security·

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.

Illustration of students affected by a cybersecurity breach
Security·

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
Security·

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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Security·

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.

Composite image of a PC gaming setup with overlay text suggesting cracked DRM, accompanying a Tom's Hardware report on Denuvo's full bypass.
Gaming·

Denuvo's single-player DRM is fully cracked. 2K is forcing 14-day online check-ins to fight back.

Pirate trackers hit zero uncracked Denuvo titles for the first time in 12 years. 2K's response: a token that expires every fortnight and locks you out offline.