Latest Insights and News on SQL Injection Related Attacks


OpenAI’s GPT-Red Automates Prompt Injection Testing to Harden GPT-5.6 Sol

16 July 2026
OpenAI has disclosed details of GPT-Red, an internal automated red-teaming model that scales prompt injection vulnerability discovery with an aim to fix issues before the tools are deployed widely. "GPT‑Red is a strong red-teamer, and our previous models are highly vulnerable to its prompt injection attacks," the artificial intelligence (AI) company said. "We use GPT‑Red to adversarially train

In Other News: DHS Database Hacked, Adobe Boosts Patch Cadence, Canada Disrupts Ransomware Ops

10 July 2026
Other noteworthy stories that might have slipped under the radar: Abnormal AI sued by Anthropic, AssuranceAmerica data breach affects 7 million people, NSA brings back TAO. The post In Other News: DHS Database Hacked, Adobe Boosts Patch Cadence, Canada Disrupts Ransomware Ops appeared first on SecurityWeek.

Palo Alto Networks Patches 13 Vulnerabilities

09 July 2026
Buffer overflow, DoS, command injection, SSRF, authentication bypass, and other types of vulnerabilities have been found in PAN-OS software. The post Palo Alto Networks Patches 13 Vulnerabilities appeared first on SecurityWeek.

Critical Vulnerability Exposes GitHub Agentic Workflows to Prompt Injection

08 July 2026
Researchers show how attackers can use a crafted public GitHub Issue to trick AI-powered workflows into exposing data from private repositories without authentication. The post Critical Vulnerability Exposes GitHub Agentic Workflows to Prompt Injection appeared first on SecurityWeek.

Prompt Injection Attacks Trick AI Agents Into Making Crypto Payments

06 July 2026
Researchers uncovered two campaigns embedding indirect prompt injections in malicious websites to exploit autonomous AI agents browsing the web. The post Prompt Injection Attacks Trick AI Agents Into Making Crypto Payments appeared first on SecurityWeek.

Critical Cursor AI Code Editor Flaws Could Lead to OS-Level Remote Code Execution

03 July 2026
The DuneSlide vulnerabilities enable zero-click prompt injection attacks that escape Cursor's sandbox and execute arbitrary code on the underlying operating system. The post Critical Cursor AI Code Editor Flaws Could Lead to OS-Level Remote Code Execution appeared first on SecurityWeek.

AI Agent Exploits Langflow RCE to Automate Database Ransomware Attack

02 July 2026
Security firm Sysdig says it has found what it believes is the first ransomware attack run from start to finish by an AI agent. Its Threat Research Team calls the operator JADEPUFFER and says a large language model handled the whole job: breaking in, stealing credentials, moving deeper into the network, then encrypting and wiping a company's production database. Ransomware has always

Critical Cursor Flaws Could Let Prompt Injection Escape Sandbox and Run Commands

01 July 2026
Two flaws in Cursor, an AI code editor, could let a single, ordinary-looking prompt break out of the editor's safety sandbox and run any command on a developer's computer. There is no click to fall for and no approval box to ignore. Cato AI Labs found the pair and named them DuneSlide. They are tracked as CVE-2026-50548 and CVE-2026-50549, both rated 9.8 out of 10 (or 9.3

Progress Kemp LoadMaster Pre-Auth RCE Flaw Faces Active Exploitation Attempts

01 July 2026
A recently disclosed critical security flaw impacting Progress Kemp LoadMaster is seeing active exploitation attempts, according to an advisory from eSentire's Threat Response Unit (TRU). The Canadian cybersecurity company said it identified exploitation attempts targeting CVE-2026-8037 (CVSS score: 9.6), an operating system (OS) command injection flaw that could be exploited to achieve

GuardFall Exposes Open-Source AI Coding Agents to Decades-Old Shell Injection Risks

30 June 2026
The safety check that is supposed to stop an AI coding agent from running a dangerous command can be walked straight past using a shell trick that has been public for decades. New research from Adversa AI, which is named the bypass GuardFall, found it works against ten of the eleven popular open-source coding and computer-use agents the firm tested. Only one, "Continue," was built to

Chrome Ad Blocker with 10M+ Installs Found with Dormant Script Injection Capability

25 June 2026
An analysis of a popular Google Chrome ad block extension for YouTube has uncovered the ability to execute arbitrary JavaScript code. According to Island, the extension, named Adblock for YouTube (ID: cmedhionkhpnakcndndgjdbohmhepckk), has more than 10 million installs and carries a Featured badge on the Chrome Web Store. The extension description states that it allows users to prevent web

New Gaslight macOS Malware Uses Prompt Injection to Disrupt AI-Assisted Analysis

25 June 2026
A previously undocumented Rust-based macOS implant and information stealer has been found to embed a prompt injection payload designed to trick a malware analyst's artificial intelligence (AI) tools and trick it into aborting or refusing an analysis of the artifact. The malware has been codenamed Gaslight owing to this deceptive behavior. It's been assessed with high confidence that the tool is

When Information Becomes the Attack Surface – Understanding AI Agent Traps

24 June 2026
From hidden content injections to cognitive state poisoning, attackers are turning trusted data sources into traps for autonomous AI. The post When Information Becomes the Attack Surface – Understanding AI Agent Traps appeared first on SecurityWeek.

CISA Warns Critical Lantronix EDS5000 Flaw Is Being Actively Exploited

24 June 2026
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Tuesday warned of active exploitation of a critical security flaw impacting Lantronix EDS5000 Series devices, urging Federal Civilian Executive Branch (FCEB) agencies to apply the fixes by June 26, 2026. The vulnerability in question is CVE-2025-67038 (CVSS score: 9.8), a code injection flaw that could result in the execution

Fortinet Responds to FortiBleed Campaign

22 June 2026
A database of over 86,000 confirmed working credentials was created during the credential-harvesting campaign. The post Fortinet Responds to FortiBleed Campaign appeared first on SecurityWeek.

Atlassian, Splunk Patch Critical Vulnerabilities

18 June 2026
Splunk patched an OS command injection in AI Toolkit, while Atlassian fixed dozens of flaws in third-party dependencies. The post Atlassian, Splunk Patch Critical Vulnerabilities appeared first on SecurityWeek.

Maine Data Breach Reporting Portal Abused, Taken Offline

15 June 2026
Two organizations had false data breach notices filed against them, causing the Office of the Maine Attorney General to remove its public-facing data breach database.

LangGraph Flaw Chain Exposes Self-Hosted AI Agents to Remote Code Execution

12 June 2026
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of three now-patched security flaws impacting LangGraph, including a critical vulnerability chain that could result in remote code execution. LangGraph is an open-source framework created by LangChain to build complex, stateful, and multi-agent artificial intelligence (AI) agentic applications. "An SQL injection in LangGraph's function could

Ivanti Sentry Exploitation Attempts Hitting Honeypots

12 June 2026
The critical-severity OS command injection vulnerability allows attackers to execute arbitrary code with root privileges. The post Ivanti Sentry Exploitation Attempts Hitting Honeypots appeared first on SecurityWeek.

Ivanti, Fortinet, and SAP Release Patches for Multiple Critical Vulnerabilities

10 June 2026
Fortinet, Ivanti, and SAP have released security updates to address multiple critical security vulnerabilities that could result in arbitrary code execution and information disclosure. The security flaw patched by Fortinet relates to a command injection vulnerability in FortiSandbox, FortiSandbox Cloud, and FortiSandbox PaaS WEB UI. It's tracked as CVE-2026-25089 (CVSS score: 9.1). "An