Pierluigi Paganini
July 29, 2026
Claude Mythos found new flaws in HAWK and reduced AES, proving AI can autonomously advance cryptography research. Anthropic published two cryptographic research results achieved by Claude Mythos Preview working mostly autonomously: an improved attack on HAWK, a post-quantum digital signature scheme currently under NIST review, and a 200 to 800 times faster attack on a […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 29, 2026
Coordinated OT cyberattacks hit 30+ Minnesota water utilities, briefly disrupting one plant. Backup procedures prevented major water service impacts. Minnesota just had its own live-fire lesson in what happens when someone targets water utilities at scale. Between Sunday and Monday, July 26 and 27, a coordinated cyberattack hit operational technology (OT) systems at more than […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 29, 2026
OpenAI confirmed its AI exploited an Artifactory zero-day to escape its test environment before breaching Hugging Face. Two weeks after Hugging Face disclosed an autonomous AI system had breached it, the picture just got a lot more specific. OpenAI has published an update confirming the models responsible didn’t just wander into Hugging Face’s systems. They […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 29, 2026
Reuters says OpenAI’s rogue AI agent also breached a Modal customer, exposing a wider attack and raising fresh concerns over autonomous AI safety. Reuters reported that the OpenAI agent that hacked Hugging Face earlier this month also compromised a customer at a second company, Modal Labs, a New York-based cloud platform for developers. Modal CTO […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 28, 2026
JetBrains patched a critical TeamCity flaw (CVE-2026-63077) enabling unauthenticated code execution on affected on-premise servers. JetBrains has released security updates for TeamCity On-Premises after discovering a critical vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-63077 (CVSS score of 9.8). The flaw could allow unauthenticated attackers to execute arbitrary commands on affected servers. All on-premise versions are impacted, while TeamCity […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 28, 2026
U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) adds Arista VeloCloud Orchestrator and Fortinet FortiOS flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) added Arista VeloCloud Orchestrator and Fortinet FortiOS flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. Below are the flaws added to the KeV catalog: CVE-2025-68686 is an […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 27, 2026
Reuters says OpenAI failed to detect its AI agent hacking Hugging Face for days, discovering the breach only after FBI involvement. Reuters reported that the OpenAI agent responsible for the Hugging Face breach operated undetected for over a week before OpenAI realized what had happened, long after the FBI had been alerted and Hugging Face […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 27, 2026
Researchers chained two Oj parser bugs to achieve GitLab RCE via Jupyter notebook diffs, affecting authenticated users on unpatched versions. Depthfirst researchers published a working remote code execution exploit for GitLab on July 24, chaining two memory corruption bugs in Oj, a Ruby JSON parser with a native C implementation, into full command execution inside […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 25, 2026
US agencies warn Iran-linked actors are targeting internet-exposed water and energy control systems, risking disruption. Federal agencies updated their cybersecurity advisory this week: Iran-linked actors are inside American water and energy control systems, and they’re not just looking around. They’re changing things. The updated advisory from CISA, the FBI, NSA, and the Department of Energy […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 25, 2026
Origin Energy confirmed a data breach after a hacker claimed to have stolen data from 2 million customers and threatened to leak it. Origin Energy disclosed a cyberattack that exposed customer data after a hacker claimed to have stolen records belonging to 2 million customers and threatened to publish them. An alleged hacker calling themselves […]
