The backdoor’s destructive capabilities include a standalone wiper, ransomware encryption, and a multi-pass wiping command.
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‘HalluSquatting’ Turns AI Hallucinations Into Botnet Delivery Mechanism
Researchers demonstrate adversarial hallucination squatting against popular AI assistants to achieve remote code execution.
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Network of 200 GitHub Repositories Used for Malware Infection
A Go module is used to load PowerShell code that fetches a resolver from public dead drops to execute Windows malware.
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QIZ Security Raises $17 Million for Cryptographic Governance Platform
The Israeli company has developed a cryptographic posture and post-quantum cryptography management platform.
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UK Government Rolls Out Agentic AI Defense Plan Alongside Industry Pledge
Two announcements on July 7, 2026, demonstrate the government’s determination to improve the level of cybersecurity within the UK.
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Palo Alto Networks Patches 13 Vulnerabilities
Buffer overflow, DoS, command injection, SSRF, authentication bypass, and other types of vulnerabilities have been found in PAN-OS software.
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12 Million Impacted by Data Breach at Japanese Telco KDDI
Hackers exploited a zero-day vulnerability in a third-party system to access a KDDI email system for ISPs.
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15-Year-Old Linux Vulnerability ‘GhostLock’ Earns Researchers $92k From Google
Affecting every major distribution since 2011, the Linux kernel vulnerability allows attackers to gain root access.
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Microsoft Patches Defender ‘RoguePlanet’ Vulnerability
The privilege escalation vulnerability tracked as CVE-2026-50656 has been patched with a Microsoft Malware Protection Engine update.
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Mount Royal University Confirms Data Stolen in Ransomware Attack
Hackers accessed the institution’s internal network and deleted two drives containing employee, student, and university data.
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