[Alert] Instagram Photo AI Abuse and 4 New AI Coding Agent Hacks Disclosed

THN Daily Updates Outpacing Mythos: How to Fight Back Against AI-Powered Attacks AI attacks move at machine speed. Join our webinar to learn practical Zero Trust strategies to stop AI threats before they become major incidents. Download Now Sponsored LATEST NEWS Jul 9, 2026 Summer of Clearinghouses Everyone seems to have announced a clearinghouse over the past few weeks. We did too. Ours is called Athena, and the main thing that sets it apart is that it was already real and running when we announced it — built qui... Read More Meta's New AI Image Tool Lets Others Use Your Public Instagram Photos in AI Images Meta has announced that its new artificial intelligence (AI) model Muse Image lets people use public Instagram posts and reels to generate AI content, and it's enabled by default. "You can also @-mention Instagram acco... Read More SANS SEC598: Put Agentic AI to Work Across Red and Blue Teams Detection-as-code, SOAR, RAG agents, and autonomous adversary emulation. 25 labs, GASAE cert. Read More Top AI Agents Built to Catch Malicious Code Can Be Tricked Into Running It Ask an AI coding agent to scan open-source code for security holes, and it might run the attacker's code on your own machine instead. That is the finding in a proof-of-concept published Wednesday by the AI No... Read More GhostApproval Symlink Flaws Could Let Malicious Repos Run Code in AI Coding Agents Researchers at Wiz found that a flaw in six popular AI coding assistants lets a booby-trapped code project quietly take control of a developer's computer. The assistant asks permission to edit one harmless-loo... Read More Breach Transparency Remains Cybersecurity's Toughest Governance Problem Bitdefender's 2026 assessment finds 55.2% of breached respondents were told to stay quiet, exposing a governance gap in incident response. Read More AI Coding Agents Found Triggering Endpoint Security Rules Built to Catch Attackers Sophos looked at a week of its own endpoint data and found that AI coding agents such as Claude Code, Cursor, and OpenAI Codex are setting off detection rules written to catch human intruders. The agents are not malici... Read More New HalluSquatting Attack Could Trick AI Coding Assistants Into Installing Botnet Malware AI coding assistants have a habit of making things up. Ask one to fetch a popular tool, and it will sometimes hand back a real-sounding name for a project that does not exist. New research, which its authors call ... Read More Outpacing Mythos: How to Fight Back Against AI-Powered Attacks AI attacks move at machine speed. Join our webinar to learn practical Zero Trust strategies to stop AI threats before they become major incidents. Download Now Sponsored This email was sent to sikubaycom.s3cr3tz@blogger.com. You are receiving this newsletter because you opted-in to receive relevant communications from THN. To manage your email newsletter preferences, please click here. Contact THN: info@thehackernews.com Unsubscribe THN | K.P BLock, Pitampura, Delhi