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Shai-Hulud Descendant Surfaces in Malicious Ruby Gem That Steals Credentials and Poisons AI Tools

A malicious Ruby gem runs a credential-stealing worm during installation, poisons AI coding tools, and can wipe files when a stolen GitHub token is revoked.

confirmed
about 22 hours ago
The Hacker News•2 days ago

Researchers Bypass ChatGPT Lockdown Mode to Exfiltrate Chats Without User Interaction

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a now-patched vulnerability that could be exploited to bypass Lockdown Mode protections in OpenAI ChatGPT. Lockdown Mode was introduced by the artificial intelligence (AI) company in June 2026 as an optional setting to minimize

reported
The Hacker News•4 days ago

Google Warns LLMjacking Attacks Are Costing Some Enterprises Up to $1 Million in Cloud Charges

Google on Monday warned that threat actors are hijacking enterprise access to Large Language Models (LLMs) to fraudulently leverage expensive computing resources and AI services. The tactic is called LLMjacking, a form of resource hijacking adapted for the LLM era, where an attac

reported
BleepingComputer•4 days ago

Gartner Predicts SOCs Will Have 50% More Engineers Than Analysts by 2028

Gartner predicts that security operations centers will have 50% more engineers than analysts by 2028 as AI agents take over routine alert handling. Prophet Security examines how AI is reshaping SOC roles, from analyst responsibilities and detection engineering to threat hunting a

reported
The Hacker News•5 days ago

Critical Langflow Flaws Could Let Unauthenticated Attackers Run Code on Servers

Two critical flaws in Langflow could let a remote attacker with no account bypass authentication or run arbitrary code, IBM said last week. Langflow is an open-source tool for building AI agents and workflows, and its vulnerability reports go to IBM. Every release from 1.0.0 thro

reported
The Hacker News•5 days ago

Is Your SOC Ready for AI Agents? A Maturity Check Before You Deploy

Forty percent of security teams now use AI every day, and another 56% are testing it. Only 4% have no plans to adopt it, according to Prophet Security's State of AI in Security Operations 2026 survey of more than 250 CISOs, SOC leaders and practitioners. For the teams still testi

reported
The Hacker News•5 days ago

New VOLTA Infostealer Uses Claude, Gemini, and Kimi AI to Rank Victims by Financial Value

Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a new Windows infostealer malware called VOLTA-AUTODOXER (aka VOLTA) that makes use of a large language model (LLM) to rank a victim's stolen data by their monetization value. Like other typical stealer families, VOLTA is equipped to harv

reported
Wiz•8 days ago

“Black October” for AI Developer Platforms

A series of agentic attacks on AI Developer Platforms has been leading to LLMJacking at scale.

confirmed
Aikido•8 days ago

AI agent security in Kubernetes: Why prompt injection isn't the right term

Abdel Sghiouar, Google engineer and senior cloud developer advocate, thinks prompt injection should be called prompt poisoning Category: Guides & Best Practices

confirmed
BleepingComputer•8 days ago

Malicious Claude Code extension on Cursor planted SSH backdoors

A malicious version of Anthropic's Claude Code VS Code extension was distributed through Cursor's extension marketplace for approximately 11 hours on October 29, exposing up to 5,000 developers to malware designed to install persistent SSH backdoors. [...]

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