Tag: caution
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Slashdot: Defense Department Reportedly Relies On Utility Written by Russian Dev
Source URL: https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/08/27/2026245/defense-department-reportedly-relies-on-utility-written-by-russian-dev?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Defense Department Reportedly Relies On Utility Written by Russian Dev Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The article highlights concerns over the fast-glob utility, widely used in Node.js applications, particularly within U.S. Department of Defense systems. Maintained by a Russian developer with ties to Yandex, the lack…
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The Register: The intruder is in the house: Storm-0501 attacked Azure, stole data, demanded payment via Teams
Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/27/storm0501_ransomware_azure_teams/ Source: The Register Title: The intruder is in the house: Storm-0501 attacked Azure, stole data, demanded payment via Teams Feedly Summary: Don’t let it happen to you Storm-0501, a financially motivated cybercrime crew, recently broke into a large enterprise’s on-premises and cloud environments, ultimately exfiltrating and destroying data within the org’s Azure…
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Embrace The Red: How Prompt Injection Exposes Manus’ VS Code Server to the Internet
Source URL: https://embracethered.com/blog/posts/2025/manus-ai-kill-chain-expose-port-vs-code-server-on-internet/ Source: Embrace The Red Title: How Prompt Injection Exposes Manus’ VS Code Server to the Internet Feedly Summary: Today we will cover a powerful, easy to use, autonomous agent called Manus. Manus is developed by the Chinese startup Monica, based in Singapore. This post demonstrates an end-to-end indirect prompt injection attack leading…
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The Register: Microsoft reportedly cuts China’s early access to bug disclosures, PoC exploit code
Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/21/microsoft_cuts_chinas_early_access/ Source: The Register Title: Microsoft reportedly cuts China’s early access to bug disclosures, PoC exploit code Feedly Summary: Better late than never after SharePoint assault? Microsoft has reportedly stopped giving Chinese companies proof-of-concept exploit code for soon-to-be-disclosed vulnerabilities following last month’s SharePoint zero-day attacks, which appear to be related to a leak…
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Embrace The Red: Hijacking Windsurf: How Prompt Injection Leaks Developer Secrets
Source URL: https://embracethered.com/blog/posts/2025/windsurf-data-exfiltration-vulnerabilities/ Source: Embrace The Red Title: Hijacking Windsurf: How Prompt Injection Leaks Developer Secrets Feedly Summary: This is the first post in a series exploring security vulnerabilities in Windsurf. If you are unfamiliar with Windsurf, it is a fork of VS Code and the coding agent is called Windsurf Cascade. The attack vectors…
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The Register: Perplexity’s Comet browser naively processed pages with evil instructions
Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/20/perplexity_comet_browser_prompt_injection/ Source: The Register Title: Perplexity’s Comet browser naively processed pages with evil instructions Feedly Summary: Rival Brave flags prompt injection vulnerability, now patched To the surprise of no one in the security industry, processing untrusted, unvalidated input is a bad idea.… AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses a recently…
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Tomasz Tunguz: Explore vs. Exploit in Agentic Coding
Source URL: https://www.tomtunguz.com/explore-vs-exploit-in-agentic-coding/ Source: Tomasz Tunguz Title: Explore vs. Exploit in Agentic Coding Feedly Summary: AI coding assistants like Cursor and Replit have rewritten the rules of software distribution almost overnight. But how do companies like these manage margins? Power users looking to manage as many agents as possible may find themselves at odds with…