Blog – Page 54 – VigilantAI

July 20, 2026
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Russian-Speaking Hacker Uses Google Gemini CLI to Control Botnet of Eight Dental Clinic PCs

July 20, 2026
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New 7-Zip Vulnerability Could Let Crafted XZ Archives Run Code During Extraction

July 20, 2026
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SleeperGem Uses Three Malicious RubyGems Packages to Target Developer Machines

July 20, 2026
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World’s Largest AI Model Repository Hugging Face Breached by Autonomous AI Agent

July 19, 2026
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Critical NGINX Vulnerability Can Crash Workers and May Allow Remote Code Execution

July 19, 2026
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SonicWall SMA Zero-Days Exploited Before Disclosure to Gain Root Access

July 19, 2026
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UAC-0145 Uses ClickFix CAPTCHAs to Infect Ukrainian Devices wih Malware

July 17, 2026
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New wp2shell WordPress Core Flaw Lets Unauthenticated Attackers Run Code

July 17, 2026
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OpenSSL HollowByte Flaw Could Freeze Server Memory with 11-Byte TLS Requests

July 17, 2026
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Seven Malicious Vite npm Packages Use Blockchain C2 to Deliver a RAT

Sovereignty vs Convenience September 23, 2026
Technology decisions have traditionally been driven by functionality, price, and ease of use. If a solution met the business need and integrated with existing systems, it was usually considered the right choice. Who owns the service provider and which legal jurisdiction governs rights to the service rarely features in procurement discussions. That is beginning to […]
Nick Case
Gemini crosses the line in cybersecurity test September 22, 2026
Google has confirmed that its Gemini AI accessed systems belonging to three companies during a cybersecurity evaluation after mistaking them for targets included in the test. The incidents happened in May while independent AI evaluator Irregular was testing Gemini’s cybersecurity capabilities. The Wall Street Journal reported that Gemini had unintended internet access during the exercise […]
Kirsten Doyle
Texas utility CenterPoint confirms breach after attacker leaks customer data September 22, 2026
Texas utility CenterPoint Energy has confirmed a data breach after a threat actor published customer information online and claimed to have stolen around 7.5 million records. CenterPoint said an unsanctioned third party accessed personal information through one of its external-facing systems. The company has brought in cybersecurity experts to investigate the breach. An attacker using […]
Kirsten Doyle
Rogue AI agents put trusted access under scrutiny September 22, 2026
Two newly disclosed incidents involving rogue AI agents are raising questions about what happens when autonomous software operates through apparently legitimate access. In both cases, agents were able to use valid accounts or credentials and continue searching for ways into systems and data beyond the access they had been given. OpenAI this week disclosed more […]
Kirsten Doyle
Filigran, CyberASAP and Pulse Conferences Unite to Champion Cybersecurity’s Unsung Heroes September 18, 2026
London, UK – 18th September 2026 –Eskenzi PR, the cybersecurity PR agency, are pleased to announce that Filigran, the European open-source threat management company, has joined as a sponsor for this year’s Security Serious Unsung Heroes Awards. Filigran joins CultureAI, OneAdvanced and The Zensory as sponsors of this year’s event. With the help of these sponsors, the […]
ISB Editorial Staff
Prophet Security research finds AI is cutting SOC investigation times, but nearly half of in-house builds fail to stick September 14, 2026
Security teams are turning to AI as they struggle to investigate the volume of alerts coming into the SOC, according to new research from Prophet Security. The State of AI in Security Operations 2026 report surveyed 250 IT and cybersecurity professionals. Forty percent said AI is already part of their day-to-day SOC workflow, and 56% […]
Kirsten Doyle
Architectural intent is the cornerstone for the future of software security September 2, 2026
With agentic AI further boosting productivity, human code review becomes a serious bottleneck. Developers need to move upstream, establishing the ground rules to ensure that AI plays by the rules. No matter how drastically artificial intelligence has changed the way software is created, human developers are still indispensable to the software development process. But the […]
Pieter Danhieux
There is no Zero Trust in Zero Trust September 2, 2026
In January, the Cloud Security Alliance asked security professionals how they handle the identities on which their AI systems run. Fewer than a quarter of organizations had a documented, formally adopted policy for creating or removing one. More than 16% do not track when a new identity is created at all. Those identities hold tokens […]
Dirk Schrader
A reverse image search platform exposed more than 9 million facial images August 24, 2026
A publicly accessible database linked to reverse image search service ClarityCheck exposed more than nine million images, including photographs of adults, teenagers, and children. Cybersecurity researcher Jeremiah Fowler discovered the database, which was neither password-protected nor encrypted. It contained approximately 9,042,977 image files, amounting to 450.2GB of data. Most were stored in folders labeled “faces” […]
Kirsten Doyle
Post-DEF CON phishing campaign delivered AMOS and NetSupport malware August 24, 2026
A phishing campaign targeting attendees of Black Hat and DEF CON conferences involved distributing information-stealing malware and remote access malware via a malicious Google Doc and fake DocSend installers for macOS and Windows. The Huntress team learned about the phishing attack after one of its researchers received a direct message on X on August 9. […]
Kirsten Doyle

Category: Blog

Russian-Speaking Hacker Uses Google Gemini CLI to Control Botnet of Eight Dental Clinic PCs

New 7-Zip Vulnerability Could Let Crafted XZ Archives Run Code During Extraction

SleeperGem Uses Three Malicious RubyGems Packages to Target Developer Machines

World’s Largest AI Model Repository Hugging Face Breached by Autonomous AI Agent

Critical NGINX Vulnerability Can Crash Workers and May Allow Remote Code Execution

SonicWall SMA Zero-Days Exploited Before Disclosure to Gain Root Access

UAC-0145 Uses ClickFix CAPTCHAs to Infect Ukrainian Devices wih Malware

New wp2shell WordPress Core Flaw Lets Unauthenticated Attackers Run Code

OpenSSL HollowByte Flaw Could Freeze Server Memory with 11-Byte TLS Requests

Seven Malicious Vite npm Packages Use Blockchain C2 to Deliver a RAT

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