DBII, Notepad++, Covenant, Fancy Bear, CTFs, Firefox, AI Slop, Josh Marpet, and More – SWN #552
DBII, Notepad++, Covenant, Fancy Bear, CTFs, Firefox, AI Slop, Josh Marpet, and More on the Security Weekly News.
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Doug White
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- Russian hackers exploit recently patched Microsoft Office bug in attacks
- PDF phishing attack leads to stolen Dropbox credentials
- AI agents solve 9 of 10 web security CTF challenges in recent study
- Mozilla adds AI kill switch to Firefox
- When Cloud Outages Ripple Across the Internet
- AI ‘slop’ is transforming social media – and there’s a backlash
- Is this the biggest exposed database of 2026? – Gigantic 98 gigabyte database of over 149 million unique usernames and password found online
Joshua Marpet
