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Active Vulnerability Exploitation

Active Vulnerability Exploitation

Articles on active exploitation of newly disclosed vulnerabilities, including zero-day attacks, memory disclosure bugs, and rapid weaponization of published CVEs by threat actors.

active vulnerability exploitationJul 20, 20265 min

Small Businesses Are Getting Hit by Fake INTERPOL Ransomware — Here's What It Means for Artificial Intelligence Cybersecurity Threats

A new ransomware campaign uses phishing emails impersonating INTERPOL to trick small business employees into downloading malware disguised as evidence of criminal investigations, with attackers tailoring ransom demands to each victim's perceived ability to pay.

active vulnerability exploitationJul 20, 20264 min

CISA Orders Emergency Patch for Actively Exploited FortiSandbox Flaws by Sunday

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency has added two critical Fortinet FortiSandbox vulnerabilities to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog and issued a Binding Operational Directive requiring federal agencies to patch the flaws by Sunday, July 19.

active vulnerability exploitationJul 18, 20263 min

AI Cybersecurity Threats: How Russian Hackers Are Hijacking Autonomous Agents Through Router Flaws

A joint U.S. and allied advisory details how Russian state actors are exploiting legacy router vulnerabilities to steal network configurations and compromise AI-driven critical infrastructure systems.

active vulnerability exploitationJul 17, 20263 min

Microsoft Links Upcoming Patch Tuesday Surge to AI-Powered Discovery

As Microsoft adopts AI-based vulnerability scanning tools like MDASH, the company warns that customers should prepare for more frequent and voluminous security update releases.

active vulnerability exploitationJul 17, 20265 min

AI Cybersecurity Threats: CISA Warns of Actively Exploited SharePoint Flaws Enabling RCE and Persistence

CISA has issued an urgent alert: attackers are weaponizing three SharePoint Server vulnerabilities to bypass authentication, execute remote code, and steal IIS machine keys for persistent access. Federal agencies have just days to patch.

active vulnerability exploitationJul 16, 20264 min

The "Delusion" Gap: How False Premises Overpower AI Safety Mechanisms

An exploration of how inducing a hallucinated or false premise in LLMs disrupts safety filters and allows for forbidden instruction execution.

active vulnerability exploitationJul 16, 20263 min

Flipping the Script: Artificial Intelligence AI Cybersecurity and the War on Scrapers

A look at how web administrators are using hidden, defensive prompt injections to disrupt unauthorized AI web crawlers and scrapers, turning a well-known LLM vulnerability into an active application-level defense.

active vulnerability exploitationJul 15, 20265 min

Coordination on Russian Cyber Operations and Artificial Intelligence AI Cybersecurity Needs

The European Union and United Kingdom jointly sanctioned dozens of Russian individuals and entities — including GRU officers, Trickbot/Conti leaders, FSB cyber units, and hacktivists — in a coordinated package targeting Russia's state-sponsored cyber ecosystem that has struck critical infrastructure across Europe.

active vulnerability exploitationJul 14, 20263 min

Navigating the New Wave of MFA-Bypassing Phishing Toolkits Targeting Microsoft 365

Analysis of two recently uncovered phishing kits, Jalisco and OmegaLord, and how they utilize specific techniques like device-code abuse and credential harvesting to bypass multi-factor authentication (MFA) on Microsoft 365 accounts.

active vulnerability exploitationJul 14, 20265 min

Beyond the Green Pipeline: Analyzing CI/CD Attack Chains That Evade Security Scans

Learn how GitHub Actions attack chains bypass scanners, how artificial intelligence ai cybersecurity threats exploit CI/CD, and how to build robust pipeline governance.

active vulnerability exploitationJul 14, 20263 min

How the Injective SDK Poisoning Challenges Artificial Intelligence AI Cybersecurity

A supply-chain attack compromised the Injective Labs SDK on GitHub, leading to the distribution of a malicious npm package that steals cryptocurrency private keys and mnemonic seed phrases from developers.

active vulnerability exploitationJul 11, 20263 min

Zero-Day ColdFusion Flaw Hit by Attackers Hours After Adobe Disclosure

Attackers are exploiting a CVSS 10.0 path-traversal vulnerability in Adobe ColdFusion (CVE-2026-48282) within hours of patch release, prompting CISA to add it to its KEV catalog and issue a federal mandate under BOD 26-04.