Pierluigi Paganini
July 16, 2026
TuxBot v3, an AI-built IoT botnet for 17 architectures, shipped with LLM bugs and safety disclaimers the developer never removed. Palo Alto Networks’ Unit 42 identified a previously undocumented modular IoT botnet framework called TuxBot v3 Evolution, and it comes with an unusual detail: the developer used a large language model to write significant portions […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 16, 2026
Chinese actors used Claude Code and DeepSeek to automate attacks that breached government systems and targeted financial firms. Hunt.io researchers stumbled onto an active intrusion campaign in June 2026 while pivoting on known TencShell command-and-control infrastructure. A single HTTP header fingerprint on port 1111 led them to 13 Hong Kong-based servers and, on one of […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 14, 2026
Huntress found an AI-generated PowerShell script used for AD reconnaissance, showing attackers are using AI to create custom, evasive tools. During an incident response investigation on June 3, 2026, Huntress analyst Jevon Ang recovered a PowerShell script from a compromised Windows Server that the attacker had used to map out the victim’s Active Directory environment. […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 07, 2026
Armored Likho APT uses AI-generated malware, phishing, and BusySnake Stealer to target governments and power grids in Russia, Kazakhstan, and Brazil. Kaspersky’s threat research team has documented a previously unknown APT group they’re calling Armored Likho, also tracked under the name Eagle Werewolf. The group runs two parallel tracks: financially motivated attacks against private individuals […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 06, 2026
Hidden prompts on malicious websites trick AI agents into making payments or trusting fake sites, exposing new risks for autonomous AI workflows. Zscaler ThreatLabz documented two active campaigns that embed hidden instructions in web pages to manipulate AI agents, not human users, though those get caught too. The technique is called indirect prompt injection: malicious […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 03, 2026
Sysdig reports an AI agent ran a full ransomware attack end-to-end, exploiting flaws, stealing creds, moving laterally, and encrypting data without humans. Sysdig’s Threat Research Team has documented what it assesses to be the first ransomware operation driven end-to-end by a large language model. The operator, which Sysdig calls JADEPUFFER, broke into a server, harvested […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 01, 2026
Researchers found a shell injection flaw in 10 of 11 popular open-source AI agents, allowing attackers to bypass command filters. Adversa AI just published a survey, titled “GuardFall: a universal shell injection vulnerability in open-source AI agents,” of eleven open-source AI coding and computer-use agents, and the headline finding is uncomfortable: ten of them leave […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 24, 2026
Frontier AI could drive a 10x surge in vulnerabilities. CTEM helps organizations continuously identify, prioritize, and reduce real cyber risk. Your vulnerability management program was not designed for what is coming next. More than 40,000 CVEs were reported in 2025, breaking yet another record. Today, security experts anticipate that frontier AI-powered systems could drive a […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 23, 2026
Four flaws in Dify exposed cross-tenant data, documents and AI conversations. Two critical bugs enabled unauthenticated access and data theft. Zafran Labs researchers disclosed four vulnerabilities in Dify, the open-source AI platform used by major companies like Volvo and Maersk to run over a million applications across over 60 industries. Two vulnerabilities are of critical […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 16, 2026
Three FortiSandbox flaws, including one patched last week, are being actively exploited, highlighting the shrinking window for defenders. Cybersecurity firm Defused Cyber confirmed it’s seen active exploitation of three vulnerabilities in Fortinet FortiSandbox within a 24-hour window. Two of them had patches sitting available since April. The third got fixed last week, which, apparently, wasn’t […]
