Breaking News – Cyber Threats (last 6h)
Generated: 2026-07-09 03:00 PDT
- Police arrests 5,800 suspects in global anti-fraud crackdown
BleepingComputer • 2026-07-09 02:47 • www.bleepingcomputer.com
Law enforcement agencies have arrested 5,811 suspects and seized $293 million in illicit assets in a global anti-fraud operation spanning 97 countries. […]
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/police-arrests-5-800-suspects-in-global-anti-fraud-crackdown/ - AssuranceAmerica data breach exposes records of 6.9 million drivers
BleepingComputer • 2026-07-09 00:47 • www.bleepingcomputer.com
American insurance company AssuranceAmerica has disclosed a data breach impacting nearly 7 million drivers after attackers gained access to its systems earlier this year. […]
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/assuranceamerica-data-breach-exposes-records-of-69-million-drivers/ - Meta's New AI Image Tool Lets Others Use Your Public Instagram Photos in AI Images
The Hacker News • 2026-07-09 00:21 • thehackernews.com
Meta has announced that its new artificial intelligence (AI) model Muse Image lets people use public Instagram posts and reels to generate AI content, and it’s enabled by default.“You can also @-mention Instagram accounts in the Meta AI app to bring specific Instagram profiles right into your images,” the social media giant said in a post.
“Whether you want to design a custom event invitation
https://thehackernews.com/2026/07/metas-new-ai-image-tool-lets-others-use.html - Microsoft patches RoguePlanet Defender zero-day vulnerability
BleepingComputer • 2026-07-08 22:42 • www.bleepingcomputer.com
Microsoft has released a security patch to address a Defender zero-day vulnerability known as “RoguePlanet,” disclosed after the June 2026 Patch Tuesday. […]
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/microsoft-patches-rogueplanet-defender-zero-day-vulnerability/ - Top AI Agents Built to Catch Malicious Code Can Be Tricked Into Running It
The Hacker News • 2026-07-08 22:15 • thehackernews.com
Ask an AI coding agent to scan open-source code for security holes, and it might run the attacker’s code on your own machine instead.That is the finding in a proof-of-concept published Wednesday by the AI Now Institute, an attack it calls “Friendly Fire.” It works against Anthropic’s Claude Code and OpenAI’s Codex when either is running in an autonomous mode that approves its own
https://thehackernews.com/2026/07/friendly-fire-ai-agents-built-to-catch.html - GhostApproval Symlink Flaws Could Let Malicious Repos Run Code in AI Coding Agents
The Hacker News • 2026-07-08 21:27 • thehackernews.com
Researchers at Wiz found that a flaw in six popular AI coding assistants lets a booby-trapped code project quietly take control of a developer’s computer. The assistant asks permission to edit one harmless-looking file, but the write lands on a sensitive one instead.The affected tools are Amazon Q Developer, Anthropic’s Claude Code, Augment, Cursor, Google Antigravity, and Windsurf.
https://thehackernews.com/2026/07/ghostapproval-symlink-flaws-could-let.html - Fake 7-Zip Installers Turn Devices Into Residential Proxy Nodes
The Hacker News • 2026-07-08 21:01 • thehackernews.com
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a new threat actor dubbed Lurking Lizard that has been operating an end-to-end malicious residential proxy business using an infrastructure comprising more than 230 lookalike domains.The activity dates back to at least August 2022, according to DNS threat intelligence firm Infoblox. Once such campaign, observed earlier this year, involved the
https://thehackernews.com/2026/07/fake-7-zip-installers-turn-devices-into.html
Sources: BleepingComputer, The Hacker News, KrebsOnSecurity, SANS ISC, CISA.
