Latest news as of 9/28/2026, 4:20:15 PM
The Hacker News
A flaw in four widely used AI coding agents lets someone who controls a plugin's code repository swap the plugin an agent installs for a malicious one, even when the agent locked that plugin to a specific reviewed version, security firm Air Security said on Thursday. The firm said Anthropic has patched the flaw in Claude Code 2.1.179 and OpenAI in Codex 0.146.0, that GitHub Copilot has no
The Hacker News
In July 2025, someone registered a domain that used to belong to a content delivery network. The CDN had been wound down years earlier, and the domain it served assets from was allowed to expire. What it had not lost were its callers. Thousands of websites, code repositories, and documentation pages still carry hard-coded references to hostnames beneath it. The new owner holds
The Hacker News
Microsoft has released fixes for a maximum-severity security flaw in Azure AI Foundry that could be exploited to achieve privilege escalation. No customer action is required. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-85889, carries a CVSS score of 10.0. "Missing authentication for critical function in Azure AI Foundry allows an unauthorized attacker to elevate privileges over a network,"
Bleeping Computer
Fast-growing companies face countless recommendations for securing Google Workspace, but not every control provides the same value. This webinar examines real-world breaches to explore which security controls matter most, which may be overrated, and where lean security teams should focus their resources. [...]
Bleeping Computer
Microsoft has resolved a known issue that causes incorrect alerts warning that Defender Antivirus was turned off after installing recent updates. [...]
The Hacker News
Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a cluster of 13 npm packages that have been found to deliver a previously undocumented JavaScript stealer codenamed WeaselBiscuit. The new malware family, per OpenSourceMalware, exhibits functional overlaps with two malware strains associated with the Democratic People's Republic of Korea's (DPRK) Contagious Interview campaign: BeaverTail and
Bleeping Computer
Check Point Software has released security updates to address a critical vulnerability that can let attackers execute code with root privileges on management systems. [...]
The Hacker News
A financially motivated threat actor has been linked to the development and distribution of a JavaScript (JS)-based information stealer known as PhantomRaven via the npm package registry. "The developer likely wrote the malware using a large language model (LLM), an assessment made with high confidence based on verbose comments, placeholder code, and statistical token-analysis patterns,"
Bleeping Computer
Microsoft has fixed a known issue that causes copy-and-paste failures for some Excel users after installing the September 2026 KB5002914 security update. [...]
Dark Reading
AI-driven cyberattacks used to be exotic. Soon, it'll be odd if threat actors aren't using agents to do all of their bidding.