OpenAI Codex Security Scanned 1.2 Million Commits and Found 10,561 High-Severity Issues
2026-03-09T07:24:08Z•cf246ceab8c8c324f53698d8fda974d7c239371bcf46a3477d431fb9f094a65a
APTCISA-KEVCVERATactive-exploitationai-securityexploit-kitmalwarephishingsupply-chainvulnerabilities
What happened
Roundup of multiple cybersecurity developments: OpenAI launched Codex Security (research preview) after scanning ~1.2M commits and flagging 10,561 high-severity issues; Anthropic used Claude Opus 4.6 to find 22 Firefox vulnerabilities (14 high) fixed in Firefox 148; threat actors (Transparent Tribe, MuddyWater, China-linked groups, APT28/Silver Dragon, Dust Specter) and crimeware operations are actively using AI, new loaders/backdoors, and mass malware delivery (VOID#GEIST delivering XWorm/AsyncRAT/Xeno RAT; ClickFix campaign using Windows Terminal to deploy Lumma Stealer; fake Laravel Packag-
Why it matters
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