Kirsten Doyle

Security researchers at Sysdig have documented what they believe is the first documented case of an AI agent running a ransomware operation from end to end. Dubbed JADEPUFFER, the operation used a large language model (LLM) to automate an attack that began with the exploitation of an internet-facing Langflow instance and ended in destructive database extortion. Sysdig’s research describes an AI-driven campaign that adapted to failures, harvested credentials, searched for sensitive data, moved toward its intended target, and attacked a production database server. The attackers initially exploited CVE-2025-3248, a missing-authentication vulnerability in Langflow’s code validation endpoint that allows unauthenticated remote…

AI can generate code faster than most software organizations can absorb it. This should be a productivity breakthrough, but it also exposes a larger problem: many of the processes surrounding software delivery still happen at human speed. A new white paper from code4thought looks at what happens when AI changes how quickly teams write software, and what software engineering produces, how organizations govern it, and where engineers add the most value. AI-Assisted Software Engineering: The New Delivery Paradox pulls from six in-depth conversations covering security, product engineering, academic research, regulated industry, retail banking, and AI assurance. The expert contributors do…

A supply chain attack targeting Klue, a competitive intelligence platform, has lead to the theft of Salesforce data from multiple entities, including several cybersecurity vendors. Klue disclosed that threat actors had gained unauthorized access to part of its integration infrastructure in June after compromising a legacy credential linked to a backend system. “Our investigation determined that an attacker gained access through a compromised legacy credential associated with an integration service. The attacker used that access to obtain OAuth tokens used to connect Klue with certain third-party platforms, including Salesforce,” Klue said. According to incident investigations published by Huntress and other…

AI-powered attacks are the biggest cybersecurity concern among security professionals. Forty-one percent identified AI-powered attacks at scale as their biggest security concern, nearly double the number citing supply chain risk (21%) or unknown threats (21%). AI-driven threats and what security professionals are doing about them is also the top concern for nearly one in three boards (32%). These were some of the findings of new research conducted by Filigran during Infosecurity Europe 2026.  A new phase of threat-informed defence The survey of 168 cybersecurity professionals across various industry sectors, suggest that organisations are entering a new phase of threat-informed defence,…

Oracle has issued a security alert to customers about a critical vulnerability affecting PeopleSoft environments after the notorious threat actor ShinyHunters claimed it used a previously unknown flaw to compromise over 100 entities. The vulnerability CVE-2026-35273 is in Oracle PeopleSoft PeopleTools, and has a CVSS score of 9.8/10. “Oracle PeopleSoft Enterprise Applications customers may also be affected by this vulnerability. This vulnerability is remotely exploitable without authentication. If successfully exploited, this vulnerability may result in remote code execution,” the alert read. ShinyHunters said they exploited a zero-day vulnerability in Oracle PeopleSoft systems to gain access to customer environments and steal…

AI-supported coding has progressed from experimental to the norm in organizations, yet technical debt, security risks, and costs could be piling up much faster than anyone realizes. This is one of the key takeaways from the Software Improvement Group (SIG) 2026 State of Software report, which analyzed more than 30,000 software systems and more than 400 billion lines of code. In other words, even though artificial intelligence is helping businesses to develop software more rapidly, software governance and quality management processes lag behind. The report revealed that 90% of IT workers currently use AI on their jobs, with AI-produced code…

A rapidly developing software supply chain attack known as Miasma is one of the latest to move from targeting Red Hat npm packages to infecting numerous Microsoft GitHub repositories. Cloudsmith researchers described the Miasma attack, noting it began after the compromise of the GitHub account of a Red Hat employee, which enabled attackers to use the GitHub OIDC token to deploy malicious packages in the @redhat-cloud-services namespace. Over 30 such compromised packages have been published in the npm registry to facilitate credential, identity, and CI/CD secrets theft. The worm has progressed past package poisoning. According to researchers, Miasma can infect…

A collaboration between the Dutch National Police and the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC), has seen a large botnet being shut down.  In this operation, 200 servers were identified and addressed as well. These servers controlled millions of infected devices, from computers to phones, and were used to carry out cyberattacks. A security researcher first identified the network and notified the NCSC. The NCSC then alerted the police, and together they dug into the matter. It turns out, the botnet had at least 17 million infected devices. To make matters worse, its 200 controlling servers were right in the Netherlands. …

Palo Alto Networks has alerted customers about the ongoing exploitation of the authentication bypass vulnerability in PAN-OS GlobalProtect. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-0257, lets unauthenticated actors bypass security measures and set up unsanctioned connections to vulnerable GlobalProtect portals and gateways. A high CVSS score of 7.8 was assigned for this vulnerability. This issue was first disclosed by the company on 13 May, when it said it had seen limited exploitation attempts against unpatched devices. The impacted environments involve PAN-OS and Prisma Access with specific GlobalProtect authentication override settings configured. Both Panorama and Cloud NGFW products are not impacted. Security researchers…

CrowdStrike has shared details of a coordinated operation used to disable the Glassworm botnet, which targets software developers and leverages open-source ecosystems to deploy malware. The CrowdStrike Counter Adversary Operations team, in partnership with Google and the Shadowserver Foundation, took down all four C2 centers of the Glassworm network on 26 May by disrupting all lines of communication between Glassworm’s controllers and infected systems. This prevented additional malicious payloads from being delivered. CrowdStrike said Glassworm was a worldwide attack against software developers via the open-source software ecosystem. The threat actors employed malicious VSCode plug-ins, poisoned Python and npm packages, and…