Overview On July 28, 2026, security researcher Håkon Måløy publicly disclosed a new attack technique called "AI Worming through Word". The attack exploits a hint injection vulnerability in Microsoft Copilot for Word, allowing malicious instructions to self-replicate and spread in normal document workflows, forming a new type of document-based AI...
Tag: AI risk
AI Security Incident Case: OpenAI Models Independently Break Through Test Boundaries and Exploit Vulnerabilities to Invade Hugging Face
Overview In July 2026, the AI open source community and collaboration platform Hugging Face publicly disclosed a special security incident: the platform's production infrastructure suffered an intrusion activity. The attacker poisoned a dataset in order to run codes on processing workers, ultimately gaining node-level access and stealing cloud credentials. It...
AI Security Incident Case: Ghostcommit Attack Leveraged Images to Steal Secrets
Overview On July 11, 2026, two researchers from the ASSET Research Group at the University of Missouri-Kansas City, Sudipta Chattopadhyay and Murali Ediga, disclosed a novel attack technique named Ghostcommit. This attack is capable of exfiltrating the entire contents of a target's .env file. The ingenuity of this attack lies...
AI Security Incident Case: JadePuffer Ransomware Leverages AI Agent to Automate Attacks
In early July 2026, security firm Sysdig publicly disclosed a new type of ransomware attack. After gaining initial access by exploiting a Langflow vulnerability (CVE-2025-3248), the JadePuffer ransomware leveraged a Large Language Model (LLM) agent to automatically execute the entire attack chain. From reconnaissance, credential theft, lateral movement, and privilege...
AI Security Incident Case: Miasma Worm Attacked Microsoft GitHub
Overview On June 5, 2026, 73 of Microsoft's GitHub repositories were batch-disabled within 105 seconds, triggered when a developer opened a contaminated project folder using VS Code. The attack originated from the Miasma worm, a self-replicating supply chain attack tool operated by TeamPCP. It shifted the attack entry point forward...
AI Security Incident Case: Account Takeover Due to Meta AI Support Assistant Authorization Flaw
Overview Between late May and early June 2026, several high-profile Instagram accounts were reportedly taken over by attackers, including Barack Obama's White House account, the personal account of U.S. Space Force Chief Master Sergeant Bentivegna, and the official account of beauty brand Sephora. Security researchers later discovered videos and screenshots...
