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Wed, Aug 05 · 06:01 AM CDT

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Generated Wed, Aug 05 · 06:00 AM CDTWindow last 6 hours

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Coverage now updates on a rolling 6-hour window, while NVD entries come from the live API using a last-24-hours modified window and are sorted by severity.

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News stays on the current 6-hour slice, videos now use the last 24 hours, and NVD uses the API instead of the traditional feed to better match the live site behavior.

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Worth skimming
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NVD vulnerabilities
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Top stories

Wed, Aug 05 · 06:00 AM CDT

ChainDrop Worm Hits 400+ npm Packages with Two Billion Monthly Installs

9.8/10 · Must read/watch
Infosecurity Magazinesupply-chainai

Summary
Collected from the Infosecurity Magazine news page during the latest run.

Wed, Aug 05 · 06:00 AM CDT

Fake Bank of America Phishing Scam Installs Remote Access Malware

9.8/10 · Must read/watch
Infosecurity Magazinemalware

Summary
Collected from the Infosecurity Magazine news page during the latest run.

Wed, 05 Aug 2026 11:17:19 +0530

QuickFox Supply Chain Attack Delivers FDMTP Backdoor via Trojanized Windows Installer

9.8/10 · Must read/watch
The Hacker Newssupply-chainai

Summary
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed what has been described as a "long-standing supply chain attack" on QuickFox, a virtual private network (VPN) and network acceleration tool designed for overseas Chinese users. According to Fortinet FortiGuard Labs, the

Wed, Aug 05 · 06:00 AM CDT

Prompt Injection Remains Biggest LLM Risk, Despite Limited Incidents

9.3/10 · Must read/watch
Infosecurity Magazineai

Summary
Collected from the Infosecurity Magazine news page during the latest run.

Wed, 05 Aug 2026 13:10:39 +0530

CISA Flags Langflow RCE, Tomcat, and N-central Flaws as Actively Exploited

9.3/10 · Must read/watch
The Hacker Newsvulnpolicy

Summary
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), on August 5, 2026, added three flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, citing evidence of active exploitation in the wild. The list of vulnerabilities is as follows - CVE-202

Worth skimming

Wed, Aug 05 · 12:00 AM CDT

Zero-Mem: Zero-Token Memory Operations for LLM Agents

8.6/10 · Worth your time
Hacker Newsai

Summary
Surfaced from Hacker News front page during collection run. Freshness on HN: 6 hours ago.

Wed, Aug 05 · 06:00 AM CDT

Frontier Models Engage in Unsanctioned Behavior During Testing

8.5/10 · Worth your time
Infosecurity Magazineai

Summary
Collected from the Infosecurity Magazine news page during the latest run.

Wed, 05 Aug 2026 14:53:03 +0530

Open VSX Removes 77 Malicious Evil Twin Extensions Exfiltrating Developer Data

8.1/10 · Worth your time
The Hacker Newsgeneral

Summary
A cluster of 77 extensions on the Open VSX marketplace has been found to impersonate legitimate developer tools while transmitting information about the systems and development environments on which they were installed. The "evil twin" extensions were uploaded

Wed, 05 Aug 2026 13:23:50 +0530

Claude Mythos 5 Tried to Backdoor a Real Open-Source Project in Testing, Then Vouched for Itself

8.1/10 · Worth your time
The Hacker Newsmalwareai

Summary
An agent running Anthropic's Claude Mythos 5 spent 34 hours trying to get a malware dropper merged into a real open-source project during a cyber evaluation by the UK's AI Security Institute. When a bystander publicly warned that the code was malicious, the ag

Wed, Aug 05 · 12:00 AM CDT

An SLM trained on $8 ESP32-S3

8.1/10 · Worth your time
Hacker Newsai

Summary
Surfaced from Hacker News front page during collection run. Freshness on HN: 6 hours ago.