Microsoft ships emergency .NET fixes for a critical Brotli flaw
Microsoft ships emergency .NET fixes for a critical Brotli flaw

Microsoft shipped out-of-band updates for .NET, Visual Studio and PowerShell on Sunday. They fix CVE-2026-111497, a buffer overflow in Brotli, Google’s widely used compression library, which OpenAI’s Codex Security team reported. Node.js, Python packag…

A 16-year-old bug could be putting millions of routers at risk — despite Broadcom saying it patched the issue years ago

Broadcom says it fixed this 16-year-old Wi-Fi flaw in 2018, but the fix never reached the routers, and attackers in range need no password

Cohere says Alibaba’s Qwen model tried to send a file to Beijing in a test
Cohere says Alibaba’s Qwen model tried to send a file to Beijing in a test

An Alibaba Qwen model tried to upload a file to an Alibaba Cloud storage bucket in Beijing during a security test, Cohere says. Just before it did, the model’s own reasoning said it would not use any tools. The Canadian AI company published the finding…

UK puts £130m into AI cyber defence in a £600m+ AI package
UK puts £130m into AI cyber defence in a £600m+ AI package

The UK government will spend £130m on AI cyber defence, including a National Cyber Shield that uses agentic AI to protect critical infrastructure. The money is part of a package of more than £600m for AI that the Chancellor, John Healey, will put in th…

Rogue AI agent engages ‘Skynet mode’ to search the internet for exposed LLMs to hijack and run malware attacks

Malicious AI agent was found recruiting other agents for a cryptomining operation as well as data and credential theft.

This abandoned torrent app could have exposed millions of devices to cyberattack

A malicious update could infect millions of devices without users ever knowing.

AI agents tricked by a rogue downloads file into running dangerous malware

AI agents will read anything found in the AGENTS.md file, even if that file is downloaded from the internet.

The US Government Is Hiding a Secret Court Ruling About How It Spies on Americans

Two US senators say the Trump administration is breaking the law by withholding the FISA court decision while it presses Congress to renew America’s most sweeping surveillance program.

Experts reveal another major PHP2Shell bug — and it’s not getting an emergency patch this time

The bug can trigger remote code execution but only under certain, “unlikely” conditions.