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2026-07-09T13:24:11Z•18e0682079cb89188ce2ad3cdfb6f3252baee5acf2370340d242f6333b7f6b34
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What happened
This collection of The Hacker News stories highlights a sharp rise in fast, AI-enabled threats and multiple high-impact vulnerabilities and malware campaigns. Key items: AI-driven attacks and abuses of AI coding assistants (Friendly Fire, GhostApproval, HalluSquatting) that can trick agents or cause them to execute malicious code; privacy/abuse risks from Meta Muse Image and agentic GitHub workflows; new and active malware and fraud operations including GodDamn ransomware (using the PoisonX kernel driver), Lurking Lizard’s fake 7‑Zip residential proxy infrastructure, RedWing Android MaaS, SCMB
Why it matters
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- the_hacker_news
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- 18e0682079cb89188ce2ad3cdfb6f3252baee5acf2370340d242f6333b7f6b34
- Enrichment time
- 2026-07-09T13:24:11Z
- AI-assisted enrichment
- Yes
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