Estée Lauder is notifying people that personal information was stolen after attackers reached the Oracle E-Business Suite environment it uses for human resources. The company says an unauthorized third party gained access on or around August 9, 2025, and that it confirmed on June 19, 2026 that personal information had been taken, a gap of more than ten months between intrusion and confirmation. The notice does not name the vulnerability exploited, though the timing lines up with the mass exploitation campaign against Oracle E-Business Suite that ran through last year. Affected people are being offered two years of identity monitoring.
The JadePuffer operation, documented as the first agentic ransomware campaign, has been upgraded with custom malware that goes after AI assets specifically. The new component, called EncForge, encrypts training datasets, vector databases, and model checkpoints rather than ordinary business files. That shifts the extortion target to the artifacts an AI team cannot easily rebuild and that often sit outside normal backup routines. JadePuffer's original intrusions ran through a critical unauthenticated code execution flaw in Langflow, an open source framework for building AI applications, with an autonomous agent then handling reconnaissance, credential theft, and persistence on its own.
Researchers at Island uncovered FakeGit, a campaign running roughly 7,600 malicious GitHub repositories from about 6,600 lookalike developer profiles, of which more than 800 pose as AI skills or Model Context Protocol servers. The fake projects borrow the names and workflows of familiar tools, covering Gmail and WhatsApp integrations through to Databricks, Jenkins, and Docker tooling, and their convincing README files walk a user or an agent from routine setup into downloading a malicious ZIP. That triggers a loader chain ending in SmartLoader, which establishes persistence and pulls further payloads such as the StealC infostealer.
Group-IB detailed HollowGraph, a Windows implant that uses the calendar of a compromised Microsoft 365 mailbox as a two-way dead drop rather than contacting an attacker-owned server. Authenticating to the Microsoft Graph API with hard-coded tenant, client, and secret values stored in a file named to look like a log, it reads tasking from attachments on calendar events buried at a date in 2050, and exfiltrates by creating its own far-future events with encrypted attachments. A separate DNS tunnel refreshes its credentials. Because the traffic is genuine Graph activity, there is no vulnerability to patch and network controls keyed to attacker infrastructure see nothing.
Public exploit code is now available for wp2shell, a pair of WordPress core flaws that chain into pre-authentication remote code execution against a stock site with no plugins installed. CVE-2026-63030 is a route confusion bug in the REST API batch endpoint, which has shipped enabled by default since 2020, and CVE-2026-60137 is a SQL injection in the author parameter handling of WP_Query. Chained, an anonymous HTTP request can run code on the server. The chain affects WordPress 6.9.0 through 6.9.4 and 7.0.0 through 7.0.1, fixed in 6.9.5 and 7.0.2, and WordPress enabled forced automatic updates given the severity.
F5 patched a critical nginx vulnerability that lets a remote, unauthenticated attacker trigger a heap buffer overflow in the worker process with crafted HTTP requests. CVE-2026-42533 sits in nginx's script engine, the code that builds strings from configuration directives at request time, and only surfaces under a specific configuration: a regex based map whose output is referenced in a string expression after an earlier regex capture. Under that pattern the engine's two pass evaluation disagrees on buffer size. Triggering it crashes or restarts the worker, and F5 says code execution may be possible where address randomization is disabled or bypassed. Fixes shipped July 15.
A critical flaw in the ServiceNow AI Platform is now being exploited in attacks. ServiceNow disclosed CVE-2026-6875 on July 13 in advisory KB3137947, describing it as a sandbox escape that lets an attacker bypass intended platform restrictions and execute code, and noting that exploitation does not require authentication. The AI Platform underpins much of the company's IT service management and workflow tooling, and the flaw affects both hosted and self-hosted deployments. ServiceNow deployed fixes to its hosted instances and released updates for self-hosted customers. Because these instances commonly connect to identity systems, cloud services, and endpoint management tools, a compromised one is a strong pivot point.
7-Zip has released version 26.02 to fix a remote code execution vulnerability that can be triggered when a user opens a specially crafted compressed file. The archiving tool is installed on a very large number of Windows systems and is routinely used to open attachments and downloads, so a flaw that fires on opening an archive is attractive to attackers who rely on phishing. There are no reports of active exploitation so far. Similar archiving tool flaws have been weaponized quickly in the past: a WinRAR vulnerability was used last year by a Russian group in phishing attacks to install malware, so patching early matters.
Hugging Face, the largest public repository of AI models and datasets, disclosed an intrusion into its production infrastructure that it says was driven end to end by an autonomous AI agent system. The attacker used code execution paths in the dataset processing pipeline for initial access, then harvested credentials and reached internal clusters, though the company found no evidence that public models or datasets were tampered with. The campaign ran thousands of actions across short lived sandboxes, with self migrating command and control staged on public services. Hugging Face's own AI assisted anomaly detection flagged it, and it has rotated affected credentials and rebuilt compromised nodes.
Ernst & Young is notifying clients of a breach at a third-party IT service management platform used by staff supporting its tax practice. Support tickets submitted through the platform could include attached documents containing client tax information, and the firm says an unauthorized third party accessed the platform between March 28 and April 12 and downloaded documents belonging to a number of clients. EY detected the activity on April 23, roughly two weeks after it stopped, and filed breach notifications with the California Attorney General in July. The exposed data includes personal and financial information used to prepare tax filings.
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