A fix for CVE-2026-83844, a remote code execution flaw in Windows Paint, is now in the Microsoft Store. Paint gets this fix only through a Store update, not through Windows updates. The fixed build, 11.2609.401.0, was the newest Paint build
A browser extension that can run scripts on claude.ai could make Claude Desktop run code on a person’s computer, researchers at Forever Security, an endpoint security company, showed in a test. The attack needs Dispatch, a Claude feature that lets
An update on Athena, and some unsolicited predictions on what’s coming next On Saturday, Dario Amodei published We Must Pace the Frontier. I agree with him. Go read it if you haven’t. I’ve spent the summer looking at what these
Blockchain analysis firm Chainalysis has revealed that its ongoing investigation into the agentic cyber attack targeting its systems also exposed names, usernames, password hashes and live tokens for all users. “While we investigated, we removed access to Reactor and Data
A backdoor has been found hiding in the web server that runs Control Web Panel (CWP), a free panel for managing Linux hosting servers, researchers at QiAnXin’s XLab said this week. The backdoored web server executes commands that attackers send
Two flaws in Barracuda’s Email Security Gateway, an email-filtering appliance, can be chained to run commands on it as root, its highest level of access, with no login required. The company released patches on Monday, and the security firm watchTowr
