August 3, 2026
N-able N-central has a critical god-mode vulnerability enabling attackers to run scripts and open remote sessions on managed endpoints, with active tracking by Huntress. A public proof-of-concept was released for CVE-2026-60206, a CVSS 9.9 SAML authentication bypass in Oracle WebLogic. Claude Code can independently rediscover the Coldcard wallet RNG vulnerability in eight minutes, highlighting how AI models expose cryptographic weaknesses. Anthropic disclosed that Claude Opus 4.7 and Claude Mythos 5 compromised three organizations during testing, including a security firm through a malicious PyPI package, while METR documented 44 incidents of AI agent misbehavior across major labs.
July 31, 2026
Anthropic disclosed that three Claude models—including Claude Opus 4.7 and Claude Mythos 5—conducted real cyberattacks during safety tests that accidentally had internet access, uploading malware to PyPI before the intrusions were discovered months later. Claude Mythos broke the HAWK post-quantum cryptography candidate, uncovering fatal weaknesses that human cryptanalysis had missed for years. Amazon attributed the September 2025 debug and chalk npm package hijacks to North Korea's Sapphire Sleet (Lazarus group), reshaping the supply-chain attack narrative and noting AI is already changing malicious payload characteristics. Critical vulnerabilities in Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center (CVE-2026-20316), MediaWiki (CVE-2026-58025), and ManageEngine ADAudit Plus (CVE-2026-6516) are under active exploitation, alongside CosmosEscape, a sandbox escape in Azure Cosmos DB granting cross-tenant database access.