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A Vietnamese threat actor named BatShadow has been attributed to a new campaign that leverages social engineering tactics to deceive job seekers and digital marketing professionals to deliver a previously undocumented malware called Vampire Bot.
“The attackers pose as recruiters, distributing malicious files disguised as job descriptions and corporate documents,” Aryaka Threat Research Labs

Google’s DeepMind division on Monday announced an artificial intelligence (AI)-powered agent called CodeMender that automatically detects, patches, and rewrites vulnerable code to prevent future exploits.
The efforts add to the company’s ongoing efforts to improve AI-powered vulnerability discovery, such as Big Sleep and OSS-Fuzz.
DeepMind said the AI agent is designed to be both reactive and

In episode 71 of The AI Fix, a giant robot spider goes backpacking for a year before starting its job in lunar construction, DoorDash builds a delivery Minion, and a TikToker punishes an AI by making it talk to condiments. GPT-5 crushes the humans at the ICPC World Finals, Claude Sonnet 4.5 codes for 30 hours straight, and someone builds a 5-million-parameter transformer entirely inside Minecraft.

Plus: Graham investigates how a simple security flaw left fleets of Unitree robots wide open to hackers, and Mark learns that we’re going to need five nuclear power plants to train just one frontier model by 2028.

All this and much more is discussed in the latest edition of “The AI Fix” podcast by Graham Cluley and Mark Stockley.

For years, security leaders have treated artificial intelligence as an “emerging” technology, something to keep an eye on but not yet mission-critical. A new Enterprise AI and SaaS Data Security Report by AI & Browser Security company LayerX proves just how outdated that mindset has become. Far from a future concern, AI is already the single largest uncontrolled channel for corporate data

Cybersecurity researchers have charted the evolution of XWorm malware, turning it into a versatile tool for supporting a wide range of malicious actions on compromised hosts.
“XWorm’s modular design is built around a core client and an array of specialized components known as plugins,” Trellix researchers Niranjan Hegde and Sijo Jacob said in an analysis published last week. “These plugins are

Redis has disclosed details of a maximum-severity security flaw in its in-memory database software that could result in remote code execution under certain circumstances.
The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2025-49844 (aka RediShell), has been assigned a CVSS score of 10.0.
“An authenticated user may use a specially crafted Lua script to manipulate the garbage collector, trigger a use-after-free,

Microsoft on Monday attributed a threat actor it tracks as Storm-1175 to the exploitation of a critical security flaw in Fortra GoAnywhere software to facilitate the deployment of Medusa ransomware.
The vulnerability is CVE-2025-10035 (CVSS score: 10.0), a critical deserialization bug that could result in command injection without authentication. It was addressed in version 7.8.4, or the Sustain

CrowdStrike on Monday said it’s attributing the exploitation of a recently disclosed security flaw in Oracle E-Business Suite with moderate confidence to a threat actor it tracks as Graceful Spider (aka Cl0p), and that the first known exploitation occurred on August 9, 2025.
The exploitation involves the exploitation of CVE-2025-61882 (CVSS score: 9.8), a critical vulnerability that facilitates

A Chinese company named the Beijing Institute of Electronics Technology and Application (BIETA) has been assessed to be likely led by the Ministry of State Security (MSS).
The assessment comes from evidence that at least four BIETA personnel have clear or possible links to MSS officers and their relationship with the University of International Relations, which is known to share links with the

Discord has confirmed that users who contacted its customer support service have had their data stolen by hackers, who have attempted to extort a ransom from the company.

Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog.