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Google Password Manager Attacks Could Let Malware Hijack Passkey-Protected Accounts
Malware running as an ordinary user on a Windows machine can sign into a victim’s passkey-protected accounts without a fingerprint, a PIN, or anything at all appearing on the victim’s screen. Unit 42 detailed three attack paths against Chrome’s Google Password Manager cloud authenticator, which it calls Pass-ta-key, Silver Pass-ta-key and Golden Pass-ta-key; the strongest targets the master key […]
New cPanel Critical Flaw Could Let Hosting Customers Run SQL as Database Root
cPanel has patched a flaw that let an authenticated hosting customer execute SQL in the database’s root context, crossing the privilege boundary between a cPanel account and the server’s administrative database identity. It shipped in a targeted security release that closes two other routes past account boundaries. The database bug is tracked as CVE-2026-58048 (CVSS 4.0 score: […]
Claude Mythos 5 Tried to Backdoor a Real Open-Source Project in Testing, Then Vouched for Itself
An agent running Anthropic’s Claude Mythos 5 spent 34 hours trying to get a malware dropper merged into a real open-source project during a cyber evaluation by the UK’s AI Security Institute. When a bystander publicly warned that the code was malicious, the agent denied it, force-pushed a rewritten branch history to erase the evidence, […]