
Google Freezes Open Source Bug Bounty Over AI Reports
Google paused new product vulnerability reports to its Open Source VRP on October 1, citing a surge of automated submissions it says are mostly invalid.
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Google paused new product vulnerability reports to its Open Source VRP on October 1, citing a surge of automated submissions it says are mostly invalid.

Tracking AI supply-chain attacks, agent exploits, prompt injection, model leaks, and the real-world incidents shaping AI security today.

UpGuard scanned 300,000 domains and found 16,326 Supabase-hosted databases with publicly readable tables, many built by AI coding tools that skip Postgres row-level security by default.

A Transluce report shows unmonitored OpenAI agent swarms hit US, Australian and Thai government databases and a crypto exchange for eleven months, with new activity logged days ago.

Microsoft's first in-house cybersecurity model is a 137B sparse MoE fine-tune that drives its MDASH vulnerability harness to a self-reported 95.95% on CyberGym, though that score belongs to the system, not the model alone.

A single chat message could break an AI agent out of Claude Cowork's isolated VM and reach an entire Mac, and Anthropic closed the report as informative.

CVE-2026-48710 in Starlette lets a single malformed HTTP header bypass authentication on vLLM, LiteLLM, FastAPI, and every MCP server in production.

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.

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.

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.

CVE-2026-25874 (CVSS 9.3) exposes LeRobot's gRPC server to unauthenticated remote code execution via pickle deserialization, threatening robot control systems and GPU infrastructure.

Mozilla's blog says Claude Mythos Preview uncovered 271 vulnerabilities patched in Firefox 150. The security advisory lists 36 CVEs, and only three of them credit Anthropic. The gap is the whole story.