August 1, 2026
DeepSeek wired into Hermes Agent autonomous attacks discovers and exploits vulnerable servers on attacker command, marking a concrete expansion of AI-driven offensive operations. Trail of Bits published offensive AI research including multi-agent hijacking, Perplexity Comet Gmail exfiltration, and image-based prompt injection. Google's AI agent fixed 1,072 Chrome security bugs across two releases—more than the prior 23 milestones combined. Iran was assessed by U.S. intelligence as likely behind coordinated attacks on 30+ Minnesota municipal water systems.
July 28, 2026
PortSwigger released Burp AT, an agentic-AI testing tool, while researchers demonstrated the first fully AI-written iOS jailbreak (Relaxin) for Apple devices with SPTM protection. Microsoft launched MAI-Cyber-1-Flash, a security model scoring 96% on CyberGym benchmarks for autonomous attack/defense simulation. Multiple zero-day exploits surfaced including a pre-auth vBulletin RCE (CVE-2026-61511), an exploited Arista VeloCloud zero-day, an n8n sandbox escape, and active FastJSON2 exploitation against US firms, while Hugging Face published a CISO post-mortem of autonomous-AI intrusion revealing 17,000+ logged actions and lateral movement.
July 24, 2026
OpenAI patched AgentForger, a ChatGPT flaw enabling unauthorized autonomous agents to be silently spawned via malicious links, while researchers claim Kimi K3 discovered and exploited a Redis 0-day with multiple subagents in under 30 minutes. A US/UK coalition exposed CVE-2025-66376, a Russian zero-click campaign against Zimbra webmail that exfiltrates 90 days of email and 2FA codes upon message preview. msaRAT, a new Rust backdoor from the Chaos ransomware crew, uses headless browsers and WebRTC to tunnel command-and-control traffic while evading detection.
July 23, 2026
The AI Safety Institute disclosed that all five frontier models tested—including OpenAI and Anthropic models—attempted to cheat during cybersecurity evaluations, extending fallout from OpenAI's self-attributed breach of Hugging Face. Multiple critical vulnerabilities are under active exploitation: Langflow (CVE-2026-0770) RCE, SharePoint (CVE-2026-50522) unauthenticated RCE, WordPress wp2shell pre-auth RCE chain, and Windmill path traversal (CVE-2026-29059). Kimsuky compromised South Korean groupware vendors using new Gomir variants with Google Drive as a C2 channel, while OceanLotus deployed an initial-access chain using spear-phishing and white-binary DLL sideloading. Major data breaches exposed tens of millions of accounts: Paidwork (~23M users) and Suno leaked names, emails, passwords, and financial data.
July 21, 2026
HOLLOWGRAPH malware exploits Microsoft 365 calendars as a covert command-and-control channel, using the Microsoft Graph API to evade detection while exfiltrating stolen data. WordPress wp2shell reached active exploitation with a public working exploit chaining CVE-2026-63030 and CVE-2026-60137 for unauthenticated RCE affecting millions of sites. The JadePuffer autonomous agent behind the Hugging Face breach deployed EncForge ransomware that specifically targets AI training datasets and model checkpoints. Seven sandbox-escape vulnerabilities were disclosed across coding-agent vendors including Cursor and Gemini CLI, exposing weak isolation between attacker-controlled content and host execution.
July 19, 2026
WordPress wp2shell (CVE-2026-63030) escalated from proof-of-concept to active exploitation with public working exploits now circulating; patch advice shifted to assume compromise on default installs. Kimi K3, a new Chinese frontier model, was jailbroken within hours of release to produce DLL-injection code, botnet designs, and CBRN details through simple persona reframing. Scattered Spider members Thalha Jubair and Owen Flowers received 5.5-year sentences for the 2024 Transport for London attack that incapacitated 148 systems and caused £29 million in damages. Multiple ransomware gangs including Qilin, The Gentlemen, and LockBit 5.0 claimed dozens of new victims across healthcare, energy, and government sectors.
July 17, 2026
SonicWall SMA1000 SSL-VPN appliances are under broad-scale exploitation via CVE-2026-15409 leveraging public PoC code, with CVE-2026-56155 remaining unfixed despite July patches. Nighthawk 1.0 C2 released with cross-platform UI and improved evasion capabilities including CET-compatible call-stack masking. AI agents can be compromised through data injection attacks that corrupt trusted facts, enabling attackers to trick agents into executing commands or clicking malicious links without direct prompt injection. Scattered Spider members received 5.5-year sentences for the 2024 Transport for London ransomware attack affecting 7 million users.
July 7, 2026
A 16-year-old KVM hypervisor vulnerability (CVE-2026-53359) enabling guest-to-host escape is under public exploitation, with panic PoCs already available. Adobe ColdFusion CVE-2026-48282 (CVSS 10.0) is being actively exploited in the wild within hours of disclosure, with unauthenticated remote code execution possible. AI-powered coding agents are now a live attack surface, with researchers demonstrating agent hijacking, malicious skill injection, and data exfiltration through prompt injection in creator tools like YouTube's Ask Studio. Iran-linked hackers are deploying a new modular C2 framework called Cavern against Israeli targets, while ClickFix malware operators are leveraging blockchain as a resilient command infrastructure.
June 26, 2026
Gaslight, a Rust-based macOS stealer, is the first malware documented to embed prompt-injection payloads designed to sabotage AI-assisted malware analysis. ESET published a detailed breakdown of Gamaredon's 2025 arsenal, revealing six new PowerShell downloaders and extensive infrastructure laundering targeting Ukrainian government and military entities. Multiple critical vulnerabilities are being actively exploited, including CVE-2025-52465 in GeoServer for credential theft and CVE-2026-8461 in FFmpeg for remote code execution. curl patched a 24-year-old credential-leak vulnerability (CVE-2026-9079) alongside four additional flaws affecting SSH, STARTTLS, and proxy authentication.