SkillCloak Lets Malicious AI Agent Skills Evade Static Scanners with Self-Extracting Packing
2026-07-06T07:24:09Z•ce42a822591728bca01bb76648350deffe9b26f2683de18964260cd75f8d09c1
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What happened
This collection of The Hacker News items highlights multiple active and high-impact threats: a new SkillCloak packing technique that evades static scanners for malicious AI agent "skills"; Bad Epoll (CVE-2026-46242), a Linux kernel local privilege-escalation affecting desktops, servers and Android; SharePoint RCE (CVE-2026-45659) added to CISA KEV for active exploitation; seven widespread FatFs filesystem vulnerabilities impacting millions of embedded devices; and an unpatched Argo CD repo-server RCE capable of full Kubernetes cluster takeover. The feed also reports supply-chain and malware-cs
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