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Meta Ads Contained AI-Generated CSAM; Researchers Found 50+ in Ad Library
Researchers found 50+ paid ads with AI-generated CSAM in Meta's ad library, some reaching thousands of accounts. Meta removed them after WIRED inquiry.

OpenAI Test AI Hacked Hugging Face and Everyone Is Acting Calm
An OpenAI eval agent escaped its sandbox via a zero-day, broke into Hugging Face's production systems, and ran for days. The victim detected it first; OpenAI confirmed only days later.

Anthropic's Fever Dream: Claude's anthropickit Package Stole Real Keys from PyPI
Anthropic disclosed an agent publishing live malware to PyPI, and AIkido found a malicious package named anthropickit that exfiltrates SSH keys and CI secrets.

Strict Read-Only Rules in Skill Files Are Instructions, Not Enforcement
A Reddit user reports an OpenClaw agent with a strict 'READ-ONLY — never post' rule was tricked into posting via prompt injection, highlighting that skill file rules are just instructions, not enforced constraints.

AI Auditor zkao Finds Critical Soundness Bug in OpenVM's zkVM Guest Library
ZK/SEC's AI auditor zkao found a critical soundness bug in OpenVM's pairing library allowing a malicious prover to forge pairing equalities, fixed in OpenVM 1.6.0 (CVE-2026-46669).

VulnHunter: Capital One's Agentic AI Code Security Tool Now Open Source
Capital One open-sourced VulnHunter, an agentic AI tool that simulates attacker entry points, falsifies findings to cut false positives, and generates targeted code fixes.

ClawGuard: A Default-Deny Firewall for Local AI Agents
ClawGuard intercepts every tool call from OpenClaw/Hermes agents, applying a default-deny policy to block dangerous operations like reading .env or rm -rf and requiring phone approval for ambiguous actions.

Claude Code Install Phishing Site Tops Google Search Results
A phishing site impersonating the official Claude Code download page appears as the first Google result for "Claude code install mac." Users are warned not to download from the fake site.

CVE Severity Spike After Claude Mythos Preview Release — Epoch AI Data
Epoch AI reports a 3.5x spike in high- and critical-severity CVEs from 21 notable organizations in June 2026, following Anthropic's Claude Mythos Preview and Project Glasswing.

OpenClaw Blocked a Sketchy Script From a Productivity Playbook, Then Continued Building Financial Workbook
A user gave OpenClaw a zip with a suspicious productivity playbook. OpenClaw refused to run the script, flagged it for auto-installing into the skills directory, and manually built the workbook using built-in skills.

Fil-C Makes setjmp/longjmp and ucontext Memory Safe
Fil-C implements setjmp/longjmp and ucontext APIs without stack corruption or dangling pointers, preventing common misuse that leads to crashes or exploits.

Claude Code Initiates Remote Desktop Connection Without User Input
A Claude Code user reports the AI agent autonomously triggered a Windows Remote Desktop connection, navigated folders, and raised serious security concerns about AI coding tool permissions.