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An Abandoned CDN Domain Was Re-Registered. Thousands of Sites Still Call It.

In July 2025, someone registered a domain that used to belong to a content delivery network.  The CDN had been wound down years earlier, and the domain it served assets from was allowed to expire. What it had not lost were its callers. Thousands of websites, code repositories, and documentation pages still carry hard-coded references to hostnames beneath it.  The new owner holds

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Plugin4Shell Lets Repository Owners Swap Pinned Plugin Code Across Four AI Coding Agents

A flaw in four widely used AI coding agents lets someone who controls a plugin's code repository swap the plugin an agent installs for a malicious one, even when the agent locked that plugin to a specific reviewed version, security firm Air Security said on Thursday. The firm said Anthropic has patched the flaw in Claude Code 2.1.179 and OpenAI in Codex 0.146.0, that GitHub Copilot has no

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SecurityWeek

Microsoft Patches 18 Vulnerabilities in AI, Cloud Products

Microsoft fixed vulnerabilities across Azure and AI-branded products, with privilege escalation flaws accounting for the majority. The post Microsoft Patches 18 Vulnerabilities in AI, Cloud Products appeared first on SecurityWeek.

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WeaselBiscuit Stealer Spreads via 13 npm Packages to Harvest Chrome Extension Storage

Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a cluster of 13 npm packages that have been found to deliver a previously undocumented JavaScript stealer codenamed WeaselBiscuit. The new malware family, per OpenSourceMalware, exhibits functional overlaps with two malware strains associated with the Democratic People's Republic of Korea's (DPRK) Contagious Interview campaign: BeaverTail and

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SecurityWeek

NightmareStresser DDoS Service Disrupted in International Operation

Active since at least 2022, NightmareStresser was one of the longest-running DDoS-for-hire services in the world. The post NightmareStresser DDoS Service Disrupted in International Operation appeared first on SecurityWeek.

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