July 12, 2026
Android 17 users face a public browser-to-kernel exploit chain combining Firefox JIT RCE (CVE-2026-10702) with kernel exploits for full device compromise. U-Boot firmware has six critical signature-verification flaws affecting 50+ stable releases and embedded devices worldwide, enabling arbitrary code execution and root-of-trust bypass. AI coding agents are now targets: Ghostcommit hides prompt-injection payloads in PNG images to steal environment secrets, while HalluSquatting weaponizes AI model hallucinations to register fake package names and deliver botnets to trusting developers. The jscrambler npm package was compromised with a Rust infostealer that executes on installation across Windows, macOS, and Linux.
July 11, 2026
Progress Software is urging ShareFile customers to physically power down Storage Zone Controllers due to active zero-day exploitation tracked by watchTowr. Gitea Docker images are under active exploitation via a critical authentication bypass allowing attacker impersonation. CVE-2026-47291 in Windows HTTP.sys enables kernel code execution through TLS header parsing flaws, and CVE-2026-31431 ("Copy Fail") is a Linux kernel privilege escalation affecting all major distributions since 2017 with no fixed kernels shipped yet. Okta warns of vishing attacks enrolling rogue Entra ID passkeys to hijack Microsoft 365 accounts, while GigaWiper is a modular Golang backdoor bundling wiper, ransomware, and persistence functionality. Qilin leads 2026 ransomware volume with 708 tracked attacks, and Anthropic published the Jacobian lens, an interpretability technique revealing how Claude internally reasons through concepts.