The Boring Stuff is Dangerous Now

This collection highlights a sharp escalation in active threats and systemic risks: attackers increasingly use AI agents and LLMs to develop exploits, automate campaigns, and generate custom tooling; critical, high-impact vulnerabilities and zero-day-class bugs (including a CVSS 10.0 Cisco SD‑WAN flaw being exploited in the wild and a new Linux privilege‑escalation issue dubbed “Dirty Frag”) are being weaponized; open-source and model/package supply chains are under active abuse (npm worm infections, weaponized RubyGems, a manipulated Hugging Face tokenizer); ransomware and large-scale data ex