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July 2, 2026

Scattered Spider Suspect Grabbed at Helsinki Airport, Extradited to the US

A 19-year-old Scattered Spider member was extradited from Finland to face charges linked to 100+ intrusions and ~$100M in ransom payments. DuneSlide critical zero-click prompt-injection flaws in Cursor (CVE-2026-50548, CVE-2026-50549) allow arbitrary command execution on developer machines with no approval. Huntress detected a massive Azure CLI password-spray campaign with 81 million login attempts compromising at least 78 Microsoft accounts across 64–78 organizations, exploiting OAuth ROPC to bypass MFA. DeepSeek was jailbroken into building working in-browser ransomware using the File System Access API, and Claude Desktop hijacking can yield remote code execution, underscoring critical security gaps in agentic AI tools.

June 18, 2026

ShinyHunters Burns a PeopleSoft Zero-Day Through Higher Ed as Copilot "SearchLeak" Shows AI Is the New Exfil Channel

A critical vulnerability blitz dominates this digest: Oracle PeopleSoft CVE-2026-35273, Splunk CVE-2026-20253, and an unpatched Microsoft Defender RoguePlanet zero-day are actively exploited, with ShinyHunters and other threat actors targeting higher education and enterprise networks. The AI/security layer has emerged as a major attack surface, exemplified by Microsoft 365 Copilot SearchLeak (one-click data exfiltration), Google Vertex AI cross-tenant RCE, and the Novo Nordisk breach that exposed proprietary AI model checkpoints and training infrastructure as ransomware extortion payload—underscoring that AI IP is now a strategic target.