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Spanish regulators say an AI agent chained together a successful login, vulnerability discovery, and access to personal data in a potential milestone for autonomous cyberattacks. The post First Agentic AI Data Breach Reported to Spanish Regulator appeared first on SecurityWeek.

A critical security flaw in Issabel Framework, a web-based framework for the open-source unified communications PBX software, has come under active exploitation. The vulnerability in question is CVE-2026-89026 (CVSS v3.1 score: 9.8/CVSS v4.0 score: 9.3), which can allow an unauthenticated remote attacker to execute arbitrary operating system (OS) commands by taking advantage of a hard-coded

Enterprises in Russia have emerged as the target of three threat activity clusters tracked as NightEagle, Hacking Cat, and Toy Ghouls, according to multiple reports from Kaspersky. The cybersecurity vendor said it has identified attacks mounted by NightEagle (aka APT-Q-95), a threat actor known to be active since at least 2023, that involve new techniques for persistence and lateral movement.

Security researchers at Forever Security have shown that one ordinary browser extension could take control of the AI assistants built into five Chromium-based products: Gemini Live in Chrome, Perplexity Comet, Microsoft Edge, Opera Neon and the Claude in Chrome extension. Once the extension was installed, it could access each product's built-in AI with a single click. On Comet, Edge,

Join SecurityWeek today for a virtual summit exploring the strategies and tools organizations need to discover, prioritize, and defend their expanding attack surfaces. The post Virtual Event Today: Attack Surface Management Summit appeared first on SecurityWeek.

Ursula von der Leyen warns that advanced AI could unleash hacking on an unprecedented scale as Europe prepares new protections against social media’s “capture” of children. The post EU Chief Warns of AI-Powered Hacking, Moves to Rein In Social Media appeared first on SecurityWeek.

The company provides a standard for AI systems, testing them against risks such as jailbreaks, prompt injections, and unauthorized actions. The post AIUC Raises $40 Million to Certify Enterprise AI Agents appeared first on SecurityWeek.

Mandiant says an attacker hijacked an active AI coding-assistant session at an unnamed software-as-a-service provider and later spread Shai-Hulud across about 100 internal code repositories. Before the repository spread, the assistant recommended software that the attacker had poisoned, and the recommendation was accepted. The worm stole repository secrets and source code for the

Parallels Desktop for Mac has a flaw that lets an ordinary local account run code as root, the highest level of access on a Mac, software company JFrog said this week. The attack needs code already running on the machine as a normal user, so it does not work over the network. JFrog says the fix is in Parallels Desktop 27, a version that Intel Macs cannot install. Yuval Moravchick, who leads

Google announced patches for the exploited privilege escalation vulnerability (CVE-2026-58704) on September 15. The post Pixel Modem Zero-Day Exploited in Targeted Attacks appeared first on SecurityWeek.

US, UK, and Dutch government agencies published a report detailing the malware, and the FBI described the abuse of Telegram for C&C. The post US, UK, Dutch Agencies Expose Iranian ‘Chosen Brick’ Surveillance Malware appeared first on SecurityWeek.

N0va is targeting organizations across North America and Europe with phishing campaigns that impersonate trusted services and abuse legitimate authentication flows. Successful attacks can give threat actors access to valid accounts without relying on obvious malware activity. From there, a single compromised identity can open the door to sensitive data, business systems, and additional cloud

Vulnerabilities in The Events Calendar can provide attackers with remote code execution capabilities. The post Unauthenticated RCE Flaws Could Expose 200,000+ WordPress Sites to Takeover appeared first on SecurityWeek.

Google has disclosed that a high-severity security flaw in its Pixel Cellular Modem has come under exploitation in the wild. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-58704 (CVSS score: 8.0), is a privilege escalation flaw. "In Cellular Modem, there is a possible permission bypass due to a logic error in the code," according to a description of the bug in the NIST National Vulnerability Database