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Tuesday, June 9, 2026

AI accelerates N-day exploit development from weeks to hours, while Microsoft's 70+ compromised GitHub repos exposed credential-stealing malware across Azure and developer tools. Meanwhile, power grid vulnerabilities persist as decades-old unpatched systems face sophisticated threats from Russian GPS jamming and Chinese military-linked vendor risks.

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The power grid runs on decades-old devices — and attackers know it
Hackers likely hijacked over 20,000 Instagram accounts with Meta’s AI chatbot
WhatsApp says it caught new spyware attacks linked to NSO Group in violation of court order
Microsoft has shut down 70+ of its own repositories on GitHub after hackers pushed malware that would steal credentials from users of AI coding agents (Joseph Cox/404 Media)
Anthropic researchers say Mythos Preview can now turn publicly disclosed software vulnerabilities, or N-days, into working exploits in hours instead of weeks (Sam Sabin/Axios)
The US DOD designates some of China's biggest companies, including Alibaba, BYD, and Baidu, as entities that support the Chinese military (Kate O'Keeffe/Bloomberg)
For the 2nd time in weeks, Microsoft packages laced with credential stealer
Microsoft’s open source tools were hacked to steal passwords of AI developers
Meta alleges NSO violated spyware injunction with new WhatsApp attacks
Source: Cursor, which is prepping for an expected acquisition by SpaceX, passed $4B in annualized revenue in the last week, up from $3B in April and $2B in Feb. (Richard Nieva/Forbes)
Tests suggest Russian satellites can jam GPS on a continental scale
Microsoft disabled 70+ of its repos on GitHub, including Azure-related tools like azure-functions-host, after hackers added credential-stealing malware to them (Zack Whittaker/TechCrunch)

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