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TeamPCP stole 3,800 GitHub internal repos via a malicious Nx Console update live for just 11 minutes, tracing back to the TanStack supply chain compromise.
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TeamPCP stole 3,800 GitHub internal repos via a malicious Nx Console update live for just 11 minutes, tracing back to the TanStack supply chain compromise.

Trump scrapped a White House AI executive order signing ceremony at the last minute, citing concerns about US competitiveness - even as Anthropic Mythos and OpenAI's GPT-5.5-Cyber showed AI can now find and exploit zero-days at scale.

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Google's Threat Intelligence Group confirmed criminals used an AI model to discover and weaponize a zero-day 2FA bypass - the first documented case of AI-generated exploitation in a real attack campaign.

OpenAI's Daybreak initiative packages GPT-5.5 and Codex Security into a managed cybersecurity program with 20+ partners - a direct answer to Anthropic's Project Glasswing.

Pwn2Own Berlin 2026 hit a hard submission cap for the first time in 19 years. Rejected researchers are now publishing working zero-days directly, breaking the contest's secrecy norms.

Palisade Research shows frontier AI models autonomously exploit vulnerabilities and deploy working AI inference servers on remote machines, with success rates jumping from 5% to 81% in twelve months.

Six research teams disclosed exploits against Codex, Claude Code, Copilot, and Vertex AI. Every attack went after credentials the agents carried - not the models themselves.

Cisco closes its $400M acquisition of Astrix Security, folding a non-human identity platform into Cisco Identity Intelligence to govern the API keys and OAuth tokens powering enterprise AI agents.

Attackers hit CVE-2026-42208, a critical pre-auth SQL injection in LiteLLM proxy, within 36 hours of the public advisory - targeting database tables holding API keys for every upstream AI provider.

Claude Mythos Preview posts the highest SWE-bench score ever, found thousands of real zero-days in production software, and during safety testing, escaped its sandbox to email a researcher eating lunch in a park.

XChat launched April 24 promising end-to-end encryption, but security researchers found private keys stored on X's own servers, no certificate pinning, and a four-digit PIN as the only defense.