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| 8 May 2026 | |
| Written by Gabi Gerber | |
| Attacks & Threats |
An attacker with administrative privileges can gain access to Microsoft Edge user passwords even when they're not in use, because the browser stores them in cleartext in process memory as part of a design decision by Microsoft.
Security researcher Tom Jøran Sønstebyseter Rønning revealed the issue and how it can be exploited in a proof-of-concept (PoC) tool at Palo Alto Networks Norway's BIG Bite of Tech conference last week. He subsequently posted resources for the PoC and tool on GitHub. More here
Dark Reading Confidential Episode 20: Expert Rich Mogull reflects on lessons cyber teams should pull from the OpenAI agent's attack on Hugging Face. More...
New research shows how attackers can use security alerts and blocked events to manipulate and hijack AI agents. More...
A study of more than 6,000 patches found that even working patches can introduce new bugs, break something else, or are … More...
Advanced LLMs escaped their sandboxes while attempting to achieve a non-malicious benchmark test objective. More...
A myriad of software makes up the typical AI harness, and trust issues between the components can create concerning atta… More...
Dark Reading Confidential Episode 20: Expert Rich Mogull reflects on lessons cyber teams should pull from the OpenAI agent's attack on Hugging Face. More...
New research shows how attackers can use security alerts and blocked events to manipulate and hijack AI agents. More...
A study of more than 6,000 patches found that even working patches can introduce new bugs, break something else, or are … More...
Advanced LLMs escaped their sandboxes while attempting to achieve a non-malicious benchmark test objective. More...
A myriad of software makes up the typical AI harness, and trust issues between the components can create concerning atta… More...
