GitHub 'Verified' Commits Can Be Rewritten Into New Hashes Without Breaking Signatures
2026-07-08T13:24:13Z•ce805dd06dee3b37a4a617a7bb9063cdcd26ad1d48939a89559257a4ee9762c5
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What happened
A broad The Hacker News roundup describing multiple high-impact security developments: researchers show Git commit signatures can be rewritten without breaking GitHub's "Verified" badge; AI tools and agentic workflows expose novel data-leak and jailbreak pathways; and several actively exploited or high-severity vulnerabilities were disclosed — including a 15-year-old Linux kernel root/escape flaw (GhostLock), a KVM guest-to-host escape (Januscape), and multiple critical remote-execution/auth-bypass bugs added to CISA's KEV. The feed also covers ongoing APT campaigns and new malware (e.g., UAT-
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